WBO International and WBA Intercontinental title holder Alexander Povetkin (32-1, 23 KOs) and Christian Hammer (22-4, 12 KOs) passed the official weigh-in procedure on the eve of the boxing event in Yekaterinburg on December 15. Povetkin showed on the scales 101.15 kg, the weight of his rival Hammer ...
Denis Berinchyk, his rival Allan Wallespin, as well as Oleg Malinovsky held a joint open training on the eve of their fights. Traditionally, the boxers started with a warm-up, shadow boxing, worked on their mitts, and also had exercises with a skipping rope and medicine balls.
On December 13, the official weighing procedure for participants of the WWFC 9 international mixed martial arts tournament took place in the Presidential box of the NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kiev, Ukraine, which will be held on December 14 at the Kiev Sports Palace. Martial arts masters from Ukraine, Czech Republic, Moldova, ...
WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (18-0-1, 12 KOs) scored a stoppage victory in the 11th round over Gary Corcoran (17-2, 7 KOs). In general, the equal fight was stopped when, in the opinion of the referee Benji Esteves Jr., the Briton began to get too many punches. At ...
Superlightweight Mikey Garcia, whom many call one of the few who can give a competitive fight to Vasily Lomachenko, in an interview with well-known video blogger Elli Sekbach shared his impressions of the Ukrainian fight against Guillermo Rigondeaux, which took place on December 9 in New York, ...
WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares (42-3, 27 KOs) through his Twitter account called out Ukrainian Vasiliy Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) for a fight. The bout may take place in April 2018. Earlier it was reported that Golden Boy Promotion Linares’ promoters is ready to begin negotiations on the fight.
Showtime Sports looks back at a banner year for boxing which featured 29 world title fights including 2017 Fight of the Year front-runner Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko, the most watched bout of the year Keith Thurman vs. Danny Garcia on CBS and the unprecedented Mayweather vs. McGregor event from ...
Ukrainian light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk (14-0, 12 KOs) commented on the victory of Vasily Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) over Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) on December 9 and noted that he was confident in the victory of his compatriot.
Christian Hammer (22-4, 12 KOs) arrived to Ekaterinburg, Russia, for a fight against Alexander Povetkin (32-1, 23 KOs) for WBO International and WBA Intercontinental heavyweight titles. Now Alexander Povetkin occupies the second position in WBA rankings, sixth in the WBO, and IBF places him on the twelfth place. Hammer is ...
Russian cruiserweight Alexei Papin (9-0, 8 KOs) will come to Kiev on December 24 as a sparring partner of WBO cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk.
