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.
Boxing superstar Keith “One Time” Thurman says Manny Pacquiao needs to come get some claiming the fact Pacman is ranked above him is a big mistake. The undefeated welterweight champ was out at Madeo when he responded to some trash talk from Manny’s camp telling plain and simple, “I’m ready to put hands on him!”
“The other side is saying I have to prove a lot, I have to show a lot. I don’t need to prove or show anything. I showed and proved everything on November 19. Anybody who hasn’t seen that or doesn’t think that, you’re going to see it on June 17,” said former Unified Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) who will held highly-anticipated rematch against unified Light Heavyweight World Champion Andre “SOG” Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) on Saturday, June 17 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
The 41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko is bidding to win Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title and the WBA belt last held by Tyson Fury in front of what is expected to be a post-war record crowd of 90,000 for a boxing event in the United Kingdom.
“Just want to say thank you, once again, for supporting another one of our fights, and for being here. I am looking forward to do what I always do: train hard, 100 percent focus and ready to give you guys all a great performance.” said Canelo Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) who hosted an international media conference call today ahead of his highly anticipated fight against Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs).
Reigning IBF junior lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis says he’s ready shut Adrien Broner’s mouth with his fists. Broner went off on the undefeated 22-year-old fighter earlier this week in an n-word laden, homophobic tirade and even blasted Floyd Mayweather for allowing Tank on The Money Team.
