WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko will meet the media for an open workout on Tuesday, October 23 at 1 p.m. at the Boxing Laboratory in Oxnard, California (1451 Pacific Ave). Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion, will fight WBO champion Jose Pedraza in a unification bout on Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
(Oct. 18, 2018) — One of the heaviest hitters in the light heavyweight division, Anthony Yarde, will play the role of headliner on Saturday when he defends the WBO Intercontinental title against Walter Gabriel Sequeira at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England. Yarde-Sequeira highlights a stacked card of boxing that will stream live in the United States beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN + — the new multi-sport, direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service from The Walt Disney Company’s Direct-to-Consumer & International segment in conjunction with ESPN.
NEW YORK CITY (Oct. 17, 2018) - The Royal Storm is in a New York state of mind.
Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe will make the second defense of his WBO junior featherweight title against the hard-hitting Emanuel Navarrete as the co-feature to the previously announced Vasiliy Lomachenko-Jose Pedraza lightweight unification bout at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Former middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and WBC interim champion Jermall Charlo will both need to come to DAZN if they want to further their careers, says Matchroom Boxing USA promoter Eddie Hearn.
This morning, Wednesday 17TH October 2018, David Haye, in a move that no one will have seen coming has officially signed an exclusive management deal with none other than old foe, Dereck ‘WAR’ Chisora, who will join the Hayemaker boxing stable.
Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez has a potential fight date on December 8 against an opponent still to be determined on what is expected to be HBO’s final boxing telecast, according to ESPN. This would be a double-header.
Adonis Stevenson (29-1-1, 24 KOs) says he’s going to knockout mandatory challenger Oleksandr Gvozdyk (15-0, 12 KOs) on December 1 in their fight at the Centre Videotron, in Quebec City, in Quebec, Canada.
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 17, 2018) – Ryota Murata, one of Japan's most revered sporting heroes, is ready to make his debut as a Las Vegas headliner.
Murata (14-1, 11 KOs), a 2012 Olympic gold medalist, will defend his WBA middleweight title against Rob "Bravo" Brant (23-1, 16 KOs), Saturday at MGM's Park Theater. In the co-feature, Maxim "Mad Max" Dadashev (11-0, 10 KOs) will defend the NABF super lightweight belt in a 10-rounder versus former world champion Antonio DeMarco (33-6-1, 24 KOs).
Terence Crawford defeated Jose Benavidez by a 12th round knockout last Saturday night in a fight that showed that the WBO welterweight champion isn’t going to be the same dominant force at 147 as he was at 135 and 140. For the first time in a long time, Crawford looked vulnerable.
