Lucas Brown (31-3, 27 KOs) disagrees with the decision of the British Boxing Council to block his fight against Daniel Dubois (18-1, 17 KOs), who plans his first defense of the WBA heavyweight belt in November. The Australian, the former holder of this title, was to play the ...
The Swedish and Finnish boxing federations have announced that they will boycott boxing competitions to which Russian and Belarusian athletes will be admitted. This was their response to the decision of the IBA, which yesterday announced the lifting of the ban on the participation of boxers from Russia and Belarus ...
The most important news of the day is the cancellation of Saturday's fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. due to Benn's doping and the unsuccessful interference of his promoter.
Conor Benn's fight against Chris Eubank Jr, scheduled for Saturday in London, has been officially cancelled. Benn's doping test set off a chain of events that eventually ended with the aforementioned decision, which promoters from Matchroom and Wasserman Boxing commented as follows.
After the banned clomiphene was found in Conor Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) ahead of his scheduled fight with Chris Eubank Jr. (32-2, 23 KOs) on Saturday, Matchroom boss Eddie Hearn, with the help of lawyers, fought to save this duel. However, in the end, Hearn's efforts were unsuccessful, and the ...
Top Rank head Bob Arum, who is one of the promoters of the WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, remains optimistic that his boxer will face the unified champion Oleksandr Usyk in the fight for the absolute title in the first months of 2023. Fury's handlers were recently ...
Tonight, according to promoter Kalle Sauerland, we will find out for sure whether Chris Eubank Jr. (32-2, 23 KOs) fight with Conor Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) next Saturday. So far, the press conference, due to take place at 13:00 local time, has been postponed by three hours.
“Wilder hides his right hand well and knows how to take it by surprise. This is his best weapon, but I am ready for it, ”says Robert Helenius (31-3, 20 KOs), frequent sparring partner Deontay Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs), who will meet him on October 15 in the ...
Fights are usually announced by promoters, but this time the next fight Daniel Dubois (18-1, 17 KOs) was announced by his coach Shane McGuigan. The holder of the "regular" WBA heavyweight championship belt will return to the ring one weekend in November. This will be his first defense of ...
The International Boxing Federation (IBA) has decided to return boxers from Russia and Belarus to competitions organized under its auspices, which will certainly exacerbate the crisis with the IOC. Vladimir Klichko commented on this step as follows:
