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Lance Pugmire has been a full-time boxing writer for nearly 20 years, serving now as BoxingScene’s U.S. Senior Writer and assistant producer for ProBoxTV’s “BoxingScene Today.” Pugmire capped a near 20-year career at the Los Angeles Times (sports investigations, NHL/MLB beat work, law enforcement/courts and boxing/UFC) to join The Athletic, and then USA Today. Pugmire’s stint at The Times started with the first Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez fight and the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jnr then-record pay-per-view, leading through a slew of ringside assignments at major bouts, including Mayweather-Pacquiao, Mayweather-Canelo and the Canelo-Golovkin trilogy. Lance’s appreciation for boxing is rooted…
As befits a campaign that has gone badly astray, injuries have played a key part.Sale’s England core have nearly all spent significant stretches on the treatment table and been unavailable for selection. Back-row twins Tom and Ben Curry, winger Tom Roebuck, Asher Opoku-Fjordjour, and in recent weeks, fellow front-rowers Bevan Rodd and Luke Cowan-Dickie, have all missed large chunks of action.The coaching front has also been affected. Marco Bortolami left his job as head coach in December after just six months at the club, while defence coach Byron McGuigan started a job share with England in October before leaving Sale…
Raul Jimenez speaks for the first time on making the decision to re-join Wolves, after his contract with Fulham expired. Wolverhampton Wanderers, who were relegated to the Championship in April, have wasted no time on getting a deal done with Jimenez, who signs a two-year contract with an option for a third year. The 35 year old, who scored 57 goals in 166 appearances for Wolves between 2019 and 2023 before moving to Fulham, becomes the second signing of the summer. Kieran Trippier also signed for the club, you can see what he had to say HERE. Find out what…
Wherever she will be playing her club football next season, Weir will also now have her eyes on October and those hazardous World Cup play-offs.As the third best League B winner behind Switzerland and Portugal, and ahead of Wales on goal difference, Scotland are ranked 19th going into the play-off draw on 24 June.It means they avoid Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine, who finished bottom of their League A groups and instead will face one of the League B runners-up or third-placed teams – that means Albania, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Israel, Northern Ireland, Slovakia or Turkey.Win that two-legged play-off…
Eddie Hearn, who co-promotes Catterall, believes the WBA will move to enforce the matchup, even if there remains uncertainty over Romero’s immediate plans. “It’s going to be ordered, but it’s just whether Rolly has a fight in between,” Hearn said during an interview on the Mr. Versace podcast. Hearn also made it clear that Matchroom intends to push for the mandatory title fight to happen. “The order is upon him to fight Jack Catterall, and we’ll be pushing to make that happen,” Hearn said. Romero has been linked to bigger-money opportunities involving the likes of Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia,…
Tuchel moved to Stuttgart to study business administration and found work in a bar.This was not just any bar, however. Tuchel’s new workplace was located in the famous Radio Barth building on Stuttgart’s Rotebuhlplatz.Originally a huge music department store which sold records and instruments, the building had been slated for demolition after the store filed for insolvency in 1995.For a few years before it was torn down, however, the venue was rented out to young artists, who briefly transformed it into an iconic nightlife and culture venue.Located on the ground floor of the building, the Radio Bar where Tuchel worked…
Devin Haney is still seeking an opponent for a first defence of his WBO welterweight world title, but any hopes of it being Shakur Stevenson are dwindling. Haney outpointed Brian Norman Jr. to claim world honours up at welterweight back in November. He is yet to fight since, with targeted unifications against Rolando Romero or former rival Ryan Garcia coming to nothing. That now goes for Shakur Stevenson, too, whose insistence on a rehydration clause or catchweight for the match-up is a step too far for Haney. On social media, he said that a clash with Stevenson would be the…
With more than 100 goals combined across club and country last season, France unleashed four of the game’s best attackers in their final World Cup warm-up on Monday.But while Kylian Mbappe’s bid to match Olivier Giroud’s France goalscoring record fell short and, after winning the Champions League with PSG, Ousmane Demebele and Desire Doue were kept relatively quiet, it was Michael Olise who stole the show against Northern Ireland.The Bayern Munich winger scored his first international hat-trick to give France a winning send off to Boston, Massachusetts.His first goal had a touch of fortune as he latched onto Dembele’s deflected…
Two camps who will get their respective World Cup adventures underway in the early hours of Friday, South Korea and the Czech Republic will meet in Guadalajara. Ahead of what looks set to be a blockbuster summer from North America, there are plenty of intriguing betting promotions and bonuses available. Verdict: Draw Best Odds: 11/4 Bookmaker: BetUS South Korea Starting with South Korea, while the Tigers of Asia might have opened 2026 with consecutive defeats, Hong Myung-bo’s side have certainly claimed some crucial momentum over the past fortnight. Getting the final stint of their pre-tournament preparations underway with an empathic 5-0…
“That dude did not stop me, bro. I wanted more smoke, bro. I’ll take more punches, homie,” Thurman said to MillCity Boxing. “Go watch the film, bro. Tell me which punch he landed in the last 20 seconds. He threw 25 punches, bro. He did not land one.” Thurman maintained that Fundora’s activity was being mistaken for effective punching. “Nothing got through. Nothing got through y’all,” Thurman said. “Y’all don’t even understand boxing. Boxing means you have to score a blow. You don’t just throw a blow, and that’s a blow. You have to land the blow.” The former unified…