Filip Hrgovic’s co-promoter Kalle Sauerland says that the next fight for the Croatian heavyweight will finally be an IBF final eliminator. Sauerland and Eddie Hearn, who also co-promotes Hrgovic, went public recently stating that offers had been made to the IBF top 15 to face their number four contender but that they had hit a […]
While a fight with George Kambosos Jr is around the corner, lightweight king Teofimo Lopez says his future lies at 140lbs. The undisputed lightweight champion has had a frustrating time since his stunning victory over Vasyl Lomachenko just under a year ago. And while he enjoyed the fruits of his labours, it has been a […]
Even though they have still to face one another in a boxing ring WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he has encountered the “real” Anthony Joshua. Fury was speaking to Queensbury Promotions YouTube segment The Lowdown and host Dev Sahni asked the unbeaten star to explain what he meant. “He phoned me up one day […]
Evander Holyfield may have been in magnificent shape for a man of his vintage, but ‘The Real Deal’ should have been thinking about pensions and not punching. In a deeply sad and grim spectacle, a 58-year-old Holyfield was dropped and stopped in the opening round by former UFC champion Vitor Belfort at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel […]
The returning David Haye floored and handily outscored friend and nightclub entrepreneur Joe Fournier before calling out old rival and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on Saturday night. Haye and Fury were originally supposed to meet in September 2013 and then February 2014 but the […]
Bilbao battler Kerman Lejarraga became a two-weight European champion with a wafer-thin, majority technical decision over flashy Frenchman Dylan Charrat in an absorbing encounter at the Pabellón de la Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona on Saturday night. Scores were 96-94, 96-95 (Lejarraga) and 95-95 (even) in the vacant EBU 154lbs title fight. With the fight in the […]
Undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez is plotting an immediate jump to 140lbs should he come through his bout with IBF No.1 contender George Kambosos in New York on October 4. That move would put the Honduran-American on a collision course with undisputed super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor who, like Lopez, is promoted by Top Rank. “I […]
Buboy Fernandez, the long-time friend and co-trainer of Manny Pacquiao, hopes the Filipino legend can leave the sport with a win following his points loss to Cuban Yordenis Ugas in Las Vegas last month. After a two-year break, eight-division champion Pacquiao was outfoxed by late sub Ugas who stepped in after WBC and IBF welterweight […]
Oscar Valdez needed a late rally to eke past Brazilian Robson Conceição and retain his WBC super-featherweight crown at the Casino Del Sol in Tucson on Friday night. After a controversial run-up to the fight where Valdez somehow negotiated a failed drug test for phentermine under VADA testing to hold on to his title (deemed ‘out of […]
Sam Eggington doesn’t do dull. The Birmingham warrior, noted for his endless rumbles and all-action style, produced arguably his most exciting display yet in outpointing rock hard Frenchman Bilel Jkitou in a war for the ages at the Coventry Skydome on Friday night. Scores were split – 117-111 and 117-112 for Eggington against a dissenting […]
Rising heavyweight star Filip Hrgovic predictably bashed up gutsy Montenegrin outsider Marko Radonjic for three rounds in a painfully one-sided DAZN main event at the Worthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria on Friday night. Croatian Hrgovic (13-0, 11 KOs) scored four knockdowns in the second and another in the third with a body shot before the referee’s […]
Businessman-turned-fighter Joe Fournier feels he has the power to trouble two-division champion David Haye as the two friends battle in an improbable Pay-Per-View attraction in Florida on Saturday night. Fournier (9-0, 9 KOs & 1 NC) talked his way into a clash with the former WBA heavyweight champion during a holiday in Mykonos and found […]