Editor’s note: This article was originally published at MMAJunkie.com.
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Francis Ngannou is happy to prove the naysayers wrong – including UFC president Dana White.
Ngannou is set to face Tyson Fury in a 10-round heavyweight boxing match Oct. 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prior to the booking being, White tried to make a UFC fight between...
Team Combat League (TCL) returns
MOHEGAN SUN, CT (May 25, 2023) – Team Combat League (TCL) returns tonight, live from the Mohegan Sun Expo Center in Connecticut, with another action-packed night of brawling.
The first match of the night will feature a clash between the two hottest teams in the league, the Atlanta Attack (4-1)...
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Deejay Kriel believes he can still win a world title belt.
The former world titleholder at 105 pounds returns to action Saturday night, facing Jafet Amukwa at the Booysens Boxing Club in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The 10-round flyweight fight will headline a Boxing 5 Promotions card that will...
Frank ‘The Ghost’ Martin scaled in at 135 pounds, and Artem Harutyunyan weighed in at 134.5 lbs at the weigh-in today. Martin (17-0, 12 KOs) and Harutyunyan (12-0, 7 KOs) will do battle in a WBC 135-lb title eliminator this Saturday night on Showtime at The Chelsea at...
WHETHER in a physical sense or a sense more figurative, the idea of the little man being overlooked is hardly anything new. It has been this way since the beginning of time and therefore it is perhaps only fitting that boxing reflects this, with the big men, those...
By Charles Brun: Eddie Hearn let Tyson Fury have it on Thursday, slamming him for cherry-picking “debutant” Francis Ngannou for a payday of $30-40 million in a guaranteed win while walking away from a bigger $60-80 million to fight Oleksandr Usyk in a fight he could lose.
Fury is...
Combat sports are as varied as they are fascinating, with each discipline boasting unique techniques, strategies, and philosophies. In this blog post, we’re taking a deep dive into three of the most popular and exciting combat sports – MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), Muay Thai and Boxing. We’ll decode...
I provide the exact same warning every time a “fight” like Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou is announced.
When we learned Floyd Mayweather would face Conor McGregor, I wrote that there was nothing wrong with buying into the mismatch as long as you understood what it was. If you...
Team Combat League Returns to Connecticut Jockeying for Playoff Positioning Moves Into High Gear
MOHEGAN SUN, CT (June 2, 2023) – Tonight, live from the Mohegan Sun Expo Center in Connecticut, Team Combat League (TCL) returns with its version of Friday Night Fights. Boxers will battle all out one round at a...
Heavyweight world champions Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have not yet been able to negotiate terms for an undisputed fightThere has always been a degree of pantomime attached to heavyweight boxing, but over these past six months, it has been seemingly endless - and relentlessly boring. This period...
