Devin Haney returns on ShoBox January 11th in Louisiana
Top lightweight prospect Devin Haney will face fellow-undefeated Xolisani Ndongeni in the first ShoBox: The New Generation telecast of 2019 on Friday, January 11 live on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m. ET/PT from StageWorks of Louisiana in Shreveport. The 20-year-old Haney (20-0, 13 KOs) returns in a 10-round bout for his third consecutive test on the prospect
Lomachenko, Pedraza make weight for ESPN world title clash
Tomorrow from Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, WBA lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko will take on WBO lightweight world champion as well as in the co-main event WBO super bantamweight world champion Isaac Dogboe will look to defend his title against Emmanuel Navarrete, on ESPN. blue-chip
Cecilia Braekhus last headliner for HBO Boxing, Saturday
Unified women’s welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus will look to put all four of her major world title on the line the WBO/WBA/WBC/IBF on the line against lesser-known Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes in a 10-round main event to conclude HBO’s 45 year tenure with boxing, at the StubHub Center in Carson, Ca. Women’s
Demetrius Andrade arrested with gun in Rhode Island
Reports surfaced yesterday at 4 PM from a report in the Providence Journal, three-time world champion in two weight divisions and current WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade was arrested Thursday after Providence police caught the world champion with an unregistered gun at 2:30 AM in the morning. Andrade told officers
Floyd Mayweather’s return to be exhibition match
Floyd Mayweather’s New Year’s Eve bout with Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa will have no consequences towards either fighters record as the judges will not be needed for this one, literally. The nine-minute bout will have no official winner or loser if it goes the full duration and is meant as pure
Claressa Shields, the forgotten pound-for-pound fighter
Claressa Shields is the pound-for-pound fighter that doesn’t get mentioned amongst pound-for-pound fighter based on her gender, rightfully or wrongly, as some writers feel uncomfortable adding a female fighter to an all male pound-for-pound list. Shields, a 2012 and 2016 women’s Olympic gold medalist, has seen her stature as a
Vanes Martirosyan to fight in newly formed “Cage Boxing”
As first reported by BoxingScene.com, Former super welterweight and middleweight world title contender Vanes Martirosyan of Glendale, Calif., is the first standout to join International Championship Boxing, which will bring a cage instead of ropes to the support of boxing, mirror the look and feel of MMA. Martirosyan was last seen
Boxing might not make Olympics in 2020 says IOC
The Olympic dreams of many young boxers might be on life-support as with less than two years to go before Tokyo 2020, Olympic boxing was frozen in its tracks on Friday. The International Olympic Committee, affectionately called the IOC, announced that it is launching an investigation into AIBA, the governing body
Katie Taylor added to Canelo vs. Rocky card on Dec.15th
IBF and WBA women’s world lightweight champion Katie Taylor will put both of her titles on the line against Eva Wahlstrom at Madison Square Garden, New York on December 15, on the undercard of Canelo Alvarez challenging Rocky Fielding, live on DAZN. Taylor won gold in 2012, the first year
Xavier Martinez of Sacramento, CA, fights Friday on Mayweather Promotions
Undefeated featherweight prospect Xavier Martinez (12-0, 8 KOs) is more than likely the best Northern California that hasn’t been introduced largely to the region let alone the world, will face Arturo Santos-Reyes (19-10, 5 KOs) in the co-main event of the Sin City Showdown from Sam’s Town Live in Las