The California State Athletic Commission provided the official boxers’ purses for the main fights in the Los Angeles this Saturday, on December 1. The main event of this evening will be the fight of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) against Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KOs).
Just one fight into his professional career and welterweight prospect Lee Reeves is already catching the eyes of the right people. In this case, the eyes of the person the world will be watching this weekend.
The Irish standout, who recently signed a promotional deal with Lee Baxter Promotions in Canada, caught the eye of lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury with his scintillating third round knockout victory over Benito Aburto on November 17 in Toronto.
"Looks like Ireland has a new boxing star," said Fury, who has also made stops in Canada throughout his career, defeating Zack Page in 2010 in Quebec City, and holding his training camp for his breakout victory over Steve Cunningham in the nation’s capital of Ottawa.
Reeves is unquestionably one of the best Irish amateurs of his era, having collected eight Limerick championships and eight Munster championships to go along with his pair of Irish national titles. During his years as a competitive boxer, campaigning mostly as a light welterweight, he never failed to appear in the national final at year’s end.
In his first professional contest, he made a seamless transition, looking like the accurate, powerful counterpuncher the scouting report promised he would be. A laser accurate left hand eventually mounted enough punishment for the referee to stop the contest in the third frame, to the delight of the raucous Irish contingent present in Toronto.
"He’s fast, talented and super sexy. Actually He reminds me of someone--me," he said. "I’ll definitely be following his career and tuning in to his next fight December 15th in Toronto."
Reeves will return on the 15th on the LBP event at the Coca-Cola Coliseum, headlined by Samuel Vargas vs. Gabriel Pereiro.
Live broadcast of two boxing evenings, both of which will be broadcast in the USA on Showtime, in the UK on BT Sports, and in Ukraine on Inter TV channel. In the first of these, to be held in Quebec, Canada, WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson will defend his title against the mandatory challenger Olexandr Gvozdyk. In the second, which will be held in Los Angeles, USA, the WBC heavyweight champion and former "linear" world champion Tyson Fury will meet in "fight of the year".
Adonis Stevenson, the longest running world boxing champion and undefeated mandatory challenger for his title, Olexander Gvozdyk met on Thursday at the final press conference before Stevenson’s 10th defense of his WBC light heavyweight title, which will be broadcasted on American television channel Showtime, 1 December at the Videotron Center arena in Quebec, Canada.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has frozen plans for a boxing tournament at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This was informed by the official website of the IOC.
Former world boxing champion in five weight categories Floyd Mayweather was fined $600,000 for promoting crypto currency projects in his instagram.
UFC fighter Aleksandra Albu, who represents Russia, will fight Emily Whitmayer. The bout of two representatives of the minimum weight will be held on January 26 at the UFC 233 tournament in Anaheim, California, USA.
WBA bantamweight champion Artem Dalakian (17-0, 12 KOs) said that after the fight against Gregorio LeBron (21-4, 16 KOs) he wants to unify the belts: “I missed fights. And already a month after the battle, I was constantly in gym. This is all so that not to lose shape. A day later, roughly speaking, we came to the gym in Koncha Zaspa and we had a day of general physical training”.
Interim WBC light heavyweight champion Olexandr Gvozdyk (15-0, 12 KOs) flew to Canada to fight against the WBC title holder Adonis Stevenson (29-1-1, 24 KOs). Fight Stevenson - Gvozdyk will take place on December 1st in Quebec.
Anthony Mundine (48-8, 28 KOs) and Jeff Horn (18-1-1, 12 KOs) showed on the official weighing procedure that they do not feel particularly warm feelings to each other. When the boxers stood face to face, Mundine grabbed his rival by the throat.
