Francisco Valcarcel, President of the WBO, announced on social media that the World Boxing Organization will make a decision on the super middleweight championship belt next week.
Former super middleweight world champion Gilberto Ramirez (44-1, 30 KOs) is preparing to return to the ring in the first heavyweight division. The next professional duel of the Mexican should take place in the fall.
Devin Haney (30-0, 15 KOs) announced that he would donate to help Ukraine the money that was frozen from his fee for pushing Vasily Lomachenko (17-3, 11 KOs) at the official weigh-in ceremony before their fight.
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (25-3, 22 KOs) said that he still sets the highest goals for himself in professional boxing.
Former World Heavyweight Champion Mairis Briedis (28-2, 20 KOs) will return to the ring on July 21 at a boxing evening organized in Edinburgh, UK, where he will face John McCallum (13-2, 0 KOs).
Keith Thurman (30-1, 22 KOs) and Yordenis Ugas (27-5, 12 KOs) will fight for the interim WBC welterweight title in August. Negotiations on the duel have not yet been completed, but the parties are close to concluding a contract.
“Sparring is sparring, and fighting is fighting,” goes the old boxing proverb, but sometimes the course of a sparring match between two fighters gives a certain picture of what a real fight might look like. Errol Spence Jr. (28-0, 22 KOs) and Terence Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs), who will fight for four welterweight belts on July 29, have met each other in a boxing gym in the past, and according to Shayna Moseley, the first one was much better at the time.
Tyson Fury (33-0-1, 24 KOs) is preparing to return to the ring in September. The opponent of the WBC world heavyweight champion has not yet been announced. Meanwhile, Fury is posting new videos of his workouts on social media.
On Instagram profile Oleksandr Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs) there was a photo from the training session of the WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion, preparing to defend titles with Daniel Dubois (19-1, 18 KOs).
Legendary Mike Tyson answered the question of who is currently the best boxer on the planet. The former world champion did not even hesitate to name the current WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
