Arum said HBO has given him April 15 for a card to be headlined by junior lightweight world titleholder Vasyl Lomachenko, of Ukraine, with up-and-coming Ukrainian light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk ticketed for the co-feature.
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao will retire from the sport on the back of a globetrotting final year, according to long-time promoter and Top Rank supremo Bob Arum. The 38 year-old is currently finalizing a deal to face Australian Jeff Horn in what Arum hopes will be the first of four bouts in 2017 - which will culminate in a massive in-house clash with Terence Crawford. "We plan to have Manny fight four times this year,” Arum explained. “There’s an offer to fight in Russia in July, another offer in Europe for September and in the U.S. against (super-lightweight king) Terence Crawford in November or December.
Former two-division world champion “Mikey” Garcia (35-0, 29 KOs) of Oxnard, California will look to add another world title as he returns to the ring against WBC lightweight champion Dejan Zlaticanin (22-0, 15 KOs) of Montenegro. Garcia and Zlaticanin will square off January 28th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas live on Showtime Championship Boxing. Fightnews.com caught up with “Mikey” as he talked about his upcoming fight.
Former four-division world champion Adrien Broner hosted a press conference in his hometown of Cincinnati Tuesday as he prepares to return home to face hard-hitting contender Adrian Granados on Saturday, February 18 from the Cintas Center at Xavier University and live on Showtime.
WBC super flyweight champion Roman «Chocolatito» Gonzalez will defend his world title against former world champion and mandatory challenger Srisaket Sor Rungvisai on the March 18 Golovkin-Jacobs PPV at Madison Square Garden in New York. K2 Promotions manager Tom Loeffler made the announcement Tuesday. The deal for Gonzalez-Sor Rungvisai was finalized over the weekend and the winner is obligated to face Carlos Cuadras.
In what Top Rank chairman Bob Arum told ESPN on Tuesday night could be the first in a series of overseas fights for Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino legend will defend his welterweight world title against Australia’s Jeff Horn on April 22.
"Camp was great. It was a lot of hard work and I'm looking forward to Friday. I feel ready, today was my last hard workout. What to expect is for me to be more aggressive and see how it goes, but I'm going to be careful while in the moment,” Yuri Foreman said who is planning to take matters into his own hands by blasting out WBA/IBO junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara.
Unified middleweight world champion (WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO) Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) and WBA middleweight beltholder and mandatory challenger Daniel “The Miracle Man” Jacobs (32-1, 29 KO’s) met at center court during the New York Knicks/New Orleans Pelicans NBA game Monday night at Madison Square Garden. They were introduced to the packed house by Hall of Fame ring announcer Michael Buffer. They will meet again tomorrow at the kickoff press conference to formally announce their PPV showdown at MSG on March 18.
“If all goes well with this fight I have in February, I have no injuries and my hand is healed and can take 100 per cent impact on it as well, then I want that fight (Parker) next,” WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder told. “They are talking about fighting in April and I’d love to come back and fight again in April!”
WBO jr middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) could make an optional defense on May 6 against Kanat Islam (22-0, 18 KOs) from Kazakhstan, possibly at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium. Islam is currently the #5 challenger in the WBO rankings.
