Malawian boxer Simeon Tcheta, who is set to challenge Namibia’s Lukas ‘The Demolisher’ Ndafoluma for the vacant WBO Africa middleweight title this weekend, yesterday declared his intentions to dismantle Ndafoluma and take the title home.
Teofimo Lopez Jr. received the king’s ransom he feels he deserves, just not from the party with whom such demands were previously made. Triller Fight Club’s Ryan Kavanaugh has secured the promotional rights to Lopez’s mandatory title defense versus Australia’s George Kambosos Jr. The Triller CEO submitted a whopping $6,018,000 during a purse bid…
South African middleweight champion Nkululeko “The Bulldog” Mhlongo meets the No 3 contender for SA middleweight title, John “Section 29” Bopape, in a ten-round non-title fight on Saturday in Durban.
February will have a golden ending this Saturday with the return of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, who faces Avni Yildirim at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. The Mexican superstar will stake his WBA, WBC super middleweight titles. (photos by Ed Muholland)
Highly touted undefeated prospect Michel Rivera takes another step toward world title contention as he faces Anthony Raíces in an 8/10-round super lightweight bout headlining FOX PBC Fight Night Prelims on FS1 and on FOX Deportes Saturday, February 27 from Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles.
As BoxingScene.com previously reported, former world heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz is training hard for a planned return on a date in April, with Chris Arreola as the likely opponent. In June 2019, Ruiz shocked the sport when he stopped Anthony Joshua in seven rounds to capture the WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO heavyweight titles. …
ZIMBABWE Olympic Committee (ZOC) has come to the Zimbabwe Boxing Federation (ZBF)’s rescue, offering to pay airfares for three boxers and two coaches when they travel for the final Tokyo Olympic qualifiers.
Kenya’s boxing team, the hit squad has been in training from December 2020. The team is looking to qualify more boxers to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic game in the next qualifiers to be held in June in Paris France.
Two more Kenyan boxers could be headed to Japan for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics even after the world qualifiers planned for France were called off.
Andy Ruiz’s return to the ring is right around the corner.