12:06 PM ET Jamie Braidwood George Groves has predicted a comfortable night when he takes on Callum Smith in the World Boxing Super Series final on Sept. 28. The WBA super middleweight champion beat Jamie Cox and Chris Eubank Jr to reach the final of the eight-man elimination tournament and will defend his title against
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10:19 PM ET Former world title challenger Oscar Negrete and Joshua Franco, each one fight removed from his only loss, will look to hang a second on each other. Winning that elusive title was a dream come true for Raymundo Beltran, and his life is better now because of that. On Saturday he defends it
11:42 AM ET [embedded content] Raymundo Beltran stood in the boxing ring in Reno, Nevada, on Feb. 16 following a grueling, grinding fight with Paulus Moses as they waited for ring announcer Michael Buffer to read the scorecards. Looking to watch the Raymundo Beltran-Jose Pedraza 12-round bout for Beltran’s WBO lightweight title and the rest
3:19 PM ET [embedded content] Raymundo Beltran stood in the boxing ring in Reno, Nevada, on Feb. 16 following a grueling, grinding fight with Paulus Moses as they waited for ring announcer Michael Buffer to read the scorecards. Looking to watch the Raymundo Beltran-Jose Pedraza 12-round bout for Beltran’s WBO lightweight title and the rest
6:19 PM ET Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has been busy lining up bouts for the undercard of the fight between middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders and mandatory challenger Demetrius Andrade that will take place on Oct. 20 at the TD Garden in Boston. Hearn and the fighters will appear at a news conference
2:50 PM ET Because of visa issues for multiple fighters, the semifinals for the Jose Sulaiman World Invitational welterweight tournament was postponed on Wednesday, promoters Real Deal Boxing and Lee Baxter Promotions announced. The fights were scheduled to take place on Saturday on the Budweiser Stage in Toronto, but have been postponed along with the
Jul 11, 2018 There was a change of plans on Tuesday for lightweight world titleholder Raymundo Beltran’s first defense. He will face Jose Pedraza instead of Roman Andreev. Last week, Top Rank was the only bidder with an offer of $252,000 to win the purse bid for Beltran’s mandatory defense against Russian contender Andreev. The
10:50 PM ET Fast and flashy blue-chip lightweight prospect Devin Haney will fight former three-time world title challenger Juan Carlos Burgos on Sept. 28 at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California. The scheduled 10-round fight will headline a tripleheader on “ShoBox: The New Generation” (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET/PT), the network has announced. Haney (19-0,
2:49 PM ET Comosa AG, the company that owns the World Boxing Super Series tournaments, announced on Tuesday that the second season will also include a tournament in the cruiserweight division. Eight-man, single-elimination tournaments for the second season have already been announced for the bantamweight and junior welterweight divisions, which kick off this fall. But
5:29 PM ET Unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez are the stars of the show for their much-anticipated rematch, but they’ll have a strong supporting cast on the undercard of their Sept. 15 fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia, former middleweight world titleholder David