Dmitry Bivol's goal was not only to win but also impress on Friday night during his national television debut. Oh, my, did he do just that.
Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who himself is yet to return to action since earning a career-high purse of £5m against Wladimir Klitschko, believes Brit rival Anthony Joshua must put his love for the sport ahead of any monetary targets.
About two years ago, Banner Promotions boss Artie Pelullo and company vice president Matt Rowland were driving back to their home base in Philadelphia after a business meeting in New York.
Julius Indongo is looking to add Ricky Burns’ WBA strap to the IBF and IBO belts he won in spectacular fashion in December when he travelled to Russia in his first fight outside of his homeland of Namibia and delivered a devastating one-punch KO win over champion Eduard Troyanovsky.
Russian light heavyweight Dmitry Bivol won an interim world title in just his seventh fight but to him that belt is merely an afterthought. He only has eyes for a full title and also believes that putting on a good show for the fans in order to help build his name in the United States is paramount.
In January, featherweight world titleholder Lee Selby walked off the stage at the weigh-in as dejected as a fighter could be.
Take a look into the boxing career of former world champion Shawn Porter in advance of his 12-round welterweight world title eliminator against Andre Berto on Saturday, April 22 at 9:30PM ET/6:30 PT on Showtime.
Ukraine’s cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk (12-0, 10 KOs) defended his WBO cruiserweight title with a 117-110 unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Michael Hunter (12-1, 8 KOs) in the first fight of an HBO TV card and the maiden boxing event on April 8th at the MGM National Harbor. On his arrival to Ukraine Usyk talked about Hunter’s fight, plans for future, crowds in Oxon Hill, his new trainer and all-Ukrainian card near the capital of United States.
The fight Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko will be taking place at Wembley Stadium on April 29 with three versions of the world heavyweight titles on the line. It will be Klitschko’s first fight in 17 months after a shock defeat at the hands of Tyson Fury in 2015. AJ is the bookies firm favourite for the fight but world title challenger, Hughie Fury - Tyson's cousin, believes Klitschko will emerge victorious.
Unified light heavyweight champion Andre “SOG” Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) and former light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) wrapped up their three city press conference tour Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles as they met at the Hollywood Roosevelt in Hollywood, California to announce their much anticipated rematch taking place Saturday, June 17 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas live on HBO Pay-Per-View.
