On that note, fights between the best fighters from the Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions stables. Make some trades if necessary but stop depriving the fighters and the fans of many of the best fights. New announcing gigs for the great Jim Lampley and Roy Jones Jr. in the wake of HBO’s sad boxing
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8:38 AM ET Anthony Joshua’s camp have so far had “no response” from Deontay Wilder’s representatives despite renewed efforts to set up a heavyweight unification fight, according to head of Matchroom Sport Barry Hearn. WBA-WBO-IBF champion Joshua has repeatedly stated that WBC titlist Wilder is his No. 1 target for his next fight, which is
8:50 PM ET Steve KimESPN Badou Jack (22-1, 13 KOs) faces Marcus Browne (22-0, 16 KOs) for the WBA interim title on January 19th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as the featured undercard bout on the Manny Pacquiao-Adrien Broner card. Jack and Browne, ranked first and second, respectively, in both the WBC and
11:51 PM ET Two days before Jarrett Hurd and Erislandy Lara were to meet in an April 7 junior middleweight world title unification fight at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, at the prefight press conference, Hurd uttered words that were prophetic. “There’s a storm coming,” said Hurd, predicting an exciting fight.
3:23 PM ET Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, the 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist and one of boxing’s elite prospects, will face Jessie Cris Rosales in a 10-round on Jan. 18, Top Rank announced Thursday. The fight, at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, will serve as the co-feature of the Top Rank Boxing
Jan 3, 2019 Steve KimESPN There’s already a full slate of fights on the boxing schedule as the calendar turns to 2019, but just how many of them are the ones fans are truly yearning for? The reality is that most contemporary matchups are ones that are made out of convenience more than public demand.
9:20 AM ET The start of 2019 in British boxing is amazingly bare with so few confirmed fights, so few actual dates and venues announced and at the same time dozens of crucial fights under secret negotiation. The clandestine deals are rampant and there will be a frantic flurry of announcements in the next two
7:24 AM ET Former IBF super-middleweight champion James DeGale will face British rival Chris Eubank Jr on Feb. 23 at London’s O2 Arena. DeGale (25-2-1, 15 KOs) vacated his IBF belt in June last year in order to pursue bigger fights, rather than facing a mandatory. The pair held talks over a fight in July,
5:05 PM ET Former unified junior featherweight world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux’s first fight in more than a year will come against journeyman Giovanni Delgado on Jan.13, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Wednesday. Rigondeaux will face Delgado in a 10-round junior featherweight bout on the undercard of super middleweight world titlist Jose Uzcategui’s mandatory defense against
1:54 PM ET For many years Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino legend, was one of the most fearsome punchers in boxing. He destroyed quality fighters such as Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera as he moved up the scale to win world titles in a record eight weight