Eddie Hearn, the promoter of WBA, IBF and IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says that his client's battle with the WBO champion Joseph Parker is possible in the spring of 2018.
WBC silver heavyweight champion Dillian Whyte next fight will have on March 24 at the O2 Arena in London. His opponent could be the Australian Lucas Brown .
January 20 in New York two promising heavyweights, undefeated Polish Adam Kownacki (16-0, 13 KOs) and once beaten Iago Kiladze (26-1, 18 KOs) from Ukraine will have a 10-round duel. This meeting will take place on the undercard of the IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. against Lamont Peterson fight at the Barclays Center arena.
According to unconfirmed information, former world champion in two weight classes Danny Garcia (33-1, 19 KOs) on February 17 in Las Vegas will meet former lightweight champion Brandon Rios (34-3-1, 25 KOs) . Their welterweight battle will become the main event of the evening at Showtime.
Russian Alexander Povetkin paid $250 thousand to World Boxing Council (WBC) as a fine. These funds will go to development of the anti-doping program "Clean Boxing". This was reported by WBC President Mauricio Suleiman.
Jay Deas, manager and coach of WBC heavyweight champion Deonthey Wilder, has outlined his boxer's plans for the new year. According to Deas, on March 3 Wilder will meet Cuban Luis Ortiz, and in summer will unite with the winner of the pair Anthony Joshua - Joseph Parker.
World Boxing Council (WBC) has appointed a period of free negotiations between the teams of Regis Prograis and former world champion Viktor Postol, who will meet in the battle for the vacant interim super lightweight title. If the parties fail to reach an agreement before January 12 at the headquarters of the Council in Mexico City there will be a promotional bids, and each of the opponents will receive 50% of the proposed purse.
The dialogue between the social pages of Floyd Mayweather and Vasily Lomachenko continues. Today on Twitter Lomachenko published a post in which Mayweather was asked not to hide his boxer Gervonta "The Tank" Davis and Floyd gave his answer.
Nielsen Media Research has published a list of the 20 most rated boxing events that took place on cable channels. This list did not include battles that took place as part of paid broadcasts )PPV) or nationwide channels.
Swedish super middleweight Erik Skoglund was woken from his medically-induced coma by doctors and is now conscious. Skoglund continues to remain in the intensive care unit, but the threat to his life is no longer there. The former boxer breathes on his own and responds to instructions. The next few days he will have a series of tests that will determine what health consequences will be of his injury, which he received on one of the sparring in December.
