The fighters were all business on the press conference dais. The best triple-header of the 2019 boxing calendar didn’t need any pomp and circumstance. Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET), Terence “Bud” Crawford (35-0, 26 KOs) will defend his WBO welterweight world title against Egidijus “Mean Machine” Kavaliauskas (21-0-1, 17…
America’s best amateur boxers will compete for spots on the USA Olympic Team at the Lake Charles Civic Center beginning today at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte has officially had his status with the WBC reinstated. The heavyweight, who outpointed Oscar Rivas back in July to claim the sanctioning body’s interim title, was provisionally suspended of his status after an adverse finding in one of his June drug tests with UK Anti-Doping. Last Friday, Whyte was…
Last Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, Anthony Joshua reclaimed the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles with a lopsided twelve round unanimous decision over Andy Ruiz in their anticipated rematch.
For all 15 minutes of his post-fight press conference, Andy Ruiz was saying sorry. He apologised to his father, his apologised to trainer, Manny Robles, he apologised for being overweight. This was not the time to try to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes, this was the time to admit you were wrong.
With the belts now back in Anthony Joshua’s possession following his win in the ring, comes the fights beyond the ropes to get next in line for the two-time heavyweight titlist. England’s Joshua (23-1, 21KOs) was able to avenge the lone loss of his pro career in style, cleanly outboxing California’s Andy Ruiz (33-2,…
Undefeated WBC Middleweight World Champion Jermall Charlo (30-0, 22 KOs) successfully defended his title for the second time, stopping highly-ranked Irish contender Dennis Hogan (28-3-1, 7 KOs) with a showstopping one-punch knockout in the seventh round Saturday night live on SHOWTIME from Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING™, in an event presented by Premier…
Heavyweights Alexander Povetkin and Michael Hunter battled to a fierce draw in a world title elimination bout in the co-feature of the Andy Ruiz Jr.-Anthony Joshua rematch on Saturday at Diriyah Stadium in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. They were fighting to become one of the mandatory challengers for the winner of Saturday’s main event, but…
South Africa pins its hopes on 37-year-old ring veteran Moruti Mthalane for representation among the best fighters in the world now that Zolani Tete’s world crumbled when he lost the WBO bantamweight belt last weekend.
Former IBF strawweight titleholder DeeJay Kriel stopped veteran Fernando Alatorre in the first round Saturday night at the Big Punch Arena in Tijuana, Mexico.