Over the past few months, the UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman tried to test the waters for a boxing match with a world champion in four weight categories Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Usman believes this fight will be bigger than the 2017 bout between the UFC superstar Conor McGregor and champion of five divisions Floyd Mayweather.
Promotional organization Golden Boy Promotions confirmed that despite health problems Virgil Ortiz, Saturday night of boxing in Los Angeles will take place. Its main event will now be a welterweight bout between Alexis Rocha (18-1, 12 KOs) and Blair Cobbs (15-0-1, 10 KOs).
Tervel Pulev (16-0, 13 KOs) and Sergey Kovalev (34-4-1, 29 KOs) started promotion of the boxing evening from Triller Fight Club, which will be held on May 14 in Inglewood, USA. This will be the official debut of the Russian in the first heavyweight division. On the same evening, the former contender for the world heavyweight title Kubrat Pulev (28-2, 14 KOs) will face Andrey Fedosov (32-3, 26 KOs). For the Bulgarian, this will be the first official boxing match since losing to Anthony Joshua.
First ranked WBO junior middleweight Australian Tim Tszyu (20-0, 15 KOs) arrived in the USA in preparation for the upcoming fight with the 2012 American Olympian Terrell Gouche (22-2-1, 11 KOs). The 12-round Tszyu-Gushe fight will be the main event of the boxing evening from Premier Boxing Champions on Showtime on March 26, which will be held in Minneapolis.
Former two-time Mexican super featherweight world title holder Juan Carlos Salgado is a prime candidate to replace his last opponent almost four years ago to face the Englishman Michael Mackinson. The need for such a replacement arose after Virgil Ortiz Jr. (18-0, 18 KOs) was forced to pull out of the DAZN fight on March 19 after being hospitalized on Monday due to rhabdomyolysis.
Vasily Lomachenko (16-2, 11 KOs) back in mid-February signed a preliminary contract for two fights with George Kambosos (20-0, 10 KOs). Then, due to the Russian attack on Ukraine, the situation became more complicated, but the P4P star still does not lose hope for the June fight in Australia.
Former World Heavyweight Champion Vladimir Klichko, who remains in Kyiv with his brother Vitaly, the mayor of the capital, issued a dramatic appeal to the people who do business with Putin's Russia, destroying Ukraine in a criminal and ever-expanding war.
Virgil Ortiz Jr. due to illness, he was forced to abandon Saturday's fight and has already begun the recovery process. Thus, Ortiz's debut this year is delayed even longer.
Showtime has confirmed its boxing calendar for the coming months. Events announced include a fight for the undisputed light middleweight championship and two fights that will be shown on a pay-per-view.
Virgil Ortiz Jr. will have to wait to launch their 2022 ring campaign. Ortiz fell ill and was forced to withdraw from the upcoming fight with the Englishman Michael Mackinson just a few days before the duel scheduled for March 19 on the DAZN platform in Los Angeles. The organizers are making efforts to save the show and find a new opponent for McKinson (21-0, 2 KOs), who was supposed to make his US debut this weekend.
