Teofimo Lopez Sr. and Jr. with the Ring Magazine lightweight title.
by Joseph Santoliquito |
His eyes welled up. His lower lip quivered. Teofimo Lopez Sr. was fighting back the emotion. He had a striking admission that he had been withholding for some time. It had been gnawing at the...
Heavyweight contender Jared Anderson predicts that he’ll knock out former IBF champion Charles Martin this Saturday, July 1st, to keep his perfect record intact at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.
The 23-year-old Anderson (14-0, 14 KOs) is facing a replacement opponent after his originally scheduled foe Zhan Kossobutskiy.
Martin...
JOHN RYDER sits at the end of his couch in his London flat and scoops up his TV’s remote control. He holds it in his hands, the same ones that went 12 hard rounds with boxing’s franchise Canelo Alvarez a few weeks earlier, and turns the flatscreen on.
The...
By Matt Lieberman: Former IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin (29-3-1, 26 KOs) and the unbeaten Jared Anderson (14-0, 14 KOs) met today for their final press conference to talk about this Saturday’s bout between them at the Huntington Center in Toledo.
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In the “Kickboxing Schedule” you can find the best upcoming kickboxing, k-1 and muay thai fights scheduled for the weekend and some matches already announced for next months. We update the list of the fights weekly (usually on Thursday) choosing the most important kickboxing events from the best...
Teofimo Lopez came full circle on June 10 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The Brooklyn fighter became an overnight sensation when he outpointed Vasiliy Lomachenko to become undisputed 135-pound champion in October 2020, lost his titles to George Kambosos in his first defense and revealed that...
Jim McCourt clinched Commonwealth Games gold in 1966 in Jamaica two years after securing Olympic bronzeBelfast man Jim McCourt, who clinched an Olympic boxing bronze medal in 1964 and a Commonwealth Games gold two years later, has died at the age of 79.McCourt won his Tokyo Olympics medal...
Arnold Gonzalez on the scales. Photo by David Algranati/The Fight Photos
After fighting on the road for most of the past three years, there can be no sight more welcome than home for Arnold Gonzalez.
The 28-year-old welterweight prospect has fought just one of his last seven bouts in...
Fans enjoyed an at times very exciting strawweight title fight earlier today in Thailand, this as defending WBC champ Panya Pradabsri, AKA Petchmanee CP Freshmart stopped Norihito Tanaka in the eighth round of a slugfest. The two little guys, who each have an exciting style where they throw...
ERROL SPENCE JR is confident that his showdown with Terence Crawford will deliver the action that lacked in the last welterweight super-fight.
Eight years ago, Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao lit up the boxing world when it was announced they would finally fight each other. Before a punch...
