Daniel Cormier, the former UFC champion in two weight category, named the condition under which Khabib Nurmagomedov will resume his career. According to DC, this will happen when someone manages to defeat Islam Makhachev.
On April 17 Jake Paul (2-0, 2 KOs) will have his next professional fight. This time the American blogger will cross gloves with Ben Askren, the former UFC and One Championship fighter.
Joe Joyce (12-0, 11 KOs) and Alexander Usyk (18-0, 13 KOs) will battle for the interim WBO heavyweight belt in the second half of May. The fight will take place in the UK.
This Saturday night in Los Angeles, IBF Super Middleweight Champion Caleb Plant (20-0, 12 KOs) will have his first fight since the coronavirus pandemic. The 28-year-old boxer's opponent will be Caleb Truex (31-4-2, 19 KOs) who in the past owned a super middleweight championship belt.
On Saturday, The Athletic's Mike Coppinger tweeted about negotiations to arrange a fight of Ryan Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) and Manny Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 KOs). On Sunday, García himself raised this topic by posting a poster on his Instagram "announcing" his meeting with the legendary Filipino.
In early May at the Top Rank event in the US a unification super lightweight bout between WBC and WBO champion Jose Ramirez (26-0, 17 KOs) and WBA and IBF champion Josh Taylor (17-0, 13 KOs) may take place. This was stated by Bob Arum in an interview ...
As part of yesterday's UFC 257, former interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier made a splash with the early killings of the former two-division title holder Conor McGregor. And already today the bookmakers have opened the odds for the potential third fight of these fighters.
Don King petitioned the World Boxing Association to authorize the battle of his boxers Trevor Bryan (20-0, 14 KOs) and Bermane Stiverne (25-4-1, 21 KOs) in a duel for the "regular" heavyweight title.
Tyson Fury's (30-0-1, 21 KOs) promoter Bob Arum told talkSPORT that contracts for his boxer's fight against Anthony Joshua (24-1, 21 KOs) should be signed soon.
UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov ironically commented on the sensational defeat of the former two-division title holder Conor McGregor against Dustin Poirier. The Irishman lost by TKO in the second round.
