19 Aug 2022

What Boxing You Should Watch On TV: Joshua vs. Usyk II Edition.

If you want the more extensive verison of this, please sign up for my newsletter here. Saturday night (or afternoon) The big bout is Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk with three of the major heavyweight world titles o the line, as well as The Ring Magazine heavyweight title as well.

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15 Sep 2021

Not Much Boxing On Again, This Weekend

Fulton vs. Figueroa Not Happening The fight most hardcore fight fans had circled as the most meaningful fight of the week is now off as WBO super bantamweight world champion Stephen Fulton was set to face WBA & WBC super bantamweight champion, Brandon Figueroa, with the winner of the contest

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20 Jul 2019

Yordenis Ugas outlasts Omar Figueroa Jr.

Welterweight Yordenis Ugas (16-1 11KOs) picked up the biggest win of his career defeating former lightweight world champion Omar Figueroa Jr. (18-3 12KOs) in the second bout of the FOX pay-per-view from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout started as an all-action affair with Figueroa

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16 Feb 2019

Santa Cruz, Figueora Jr. win on FOX

Three division world champion Leo Santa Cruz had to work for it to make his third defense of his WBA featherweight title against a game and tough Rafael Rivera. The bout was all action as Rivera started very fast forcing Santa Cruz to adjust and fight. The bout showed two

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24 Jan 2018

Showtime Announces Boxing Schedule until June [Premier Boxing Champions]

SHOWTIME Sports and Premier Boxing Champions have announced the television lineup for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® for the first half of the year. Airing 10 live world-class boxing events – featuring 12 world champions and 12 world title fights – PBC and SHOWTIME are establishing an industry standard for a top-flight

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14 Jul 2017

Figueroa Jr, Robert Guerrero make weight ahead of Fox clash

by Kevin Horn Tomorrow night in the newly re-opened Nassau Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Long Island, New York, boxing returns to Long Island with a stacked night of action. The card headlined by undefeated Omar Figueroa, a former lightweight champion moving up to welterweight after a series of missed weight

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13 Jul 2017

Omar Figueroa vs. Robert Guerrero: Full Fight Preview

By Sevak Sarkisian  On Saturday, July 15th fight fans around the world will be getting a major treat with action fighter and former WBC world lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (26-0-1 18KO’s) making his long-awaited return to the ring to face former multi-division title holder and veteran Robert Guerrero (33-5-1 18KO’s).

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05 Jul 2017

Robert Guerrero training camp notes for Omar Figueroa Jr.

Contributed by Kevin Horn, a correspondent of ITRBoxing.com Former world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero is hard at work preparing for his main event showdown with unbeaten Omar Figueroa that headlines Premier Boxing Champions on FOX and FOX Deportes Saturday, July 15 in the first boxing event at the newly

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29 Jun 2017

Omar Figueroa training camp notes (Premier Boxing Champions)

South Texas’s Omar “El Panterita” Figueroa, the former Lightweight World Champion, heads into training camp on a balmy 118-degree day in Indio, CA, home to his trainer Joel Diaz and his new boxing home-base since January. Figueroa re-enters the boxing ring after a 18-month hiatus on Saturday, July 15 when

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24 May 2017

Robert Guerrero vs. Omar Figueroa set for July 15th in New York

A match-up between exciting former world champions Omar “El Panterita” Figueroa (26-0-1, 18 KOs) and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-5-1, 18 KOs) headlines an action-packed night of Premier Boxing Champions on FOX and FOX Deportes on Saturday, July 15 in the first boxing event at the newly-renovated NYCB LIVE, home

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