Heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois (9-0, 8 KOs) fights this Saturday night against 31-year-old former world title challenger Razvan Cojanu (16-4, 9 KOs) in a 12 round fight live on ESPN+ in the U.S and BT Sport in the UK from the Brentwood Centre, in Brentwood, UK. Dubois vs. Cojanu will be streamed at 3:00 p.m ET on ESPN+ in the States.
FRISCO, Texas (Dec. 8, 2018) —Their first fight ended with a dramatic knockout that shook up the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The rematch between Eleider “Storm” Alvarez and Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev will bring two of the light heavyweight division’s biggest names to The Star.
Alvarez will defend his WBO light heavyweight world title against former unified light heavyweight world champion Kovalev on Saturday, Feb. 2 at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility.
NEW YORK CITY (Dec. 6, 2018) – WBA lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and WBO lightweight world champion Jose Pedraza exchanged pleasantries on a brisk New York afternoon two days before their title unification tilt, Saturday evening at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET).
In the co-feature, Isaac "Royal Storm" Dogboe will make the second defense of his WBO junior featherweight world title against Emanuel "Vaquero" Navarrete. Dogboe snatched the title from Jessie Magdaleno back in April and defended it Aug. 25 with a first-round knockout over Hidenori Otake.
Vasyl Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs) says he’s not interested in fighting 39-year-old Manny Pacquiao at this point because of his advanced age, and he says he doesn’t want to become a legend by beating him now. The fans still want Lomachenko to fight Pacquiao, but he doesn’t see it as a good career move for him.
Lomachenko vs. Pedraza LIVE on Saturday at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden and broadcast on ESPN at 9 p.m. ET
Undercard broadcast begins at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN+
Vasiliy Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs) weighed in at 134.4 lbs on Friday for his title defense of his WBA lightweight title against former IBF super featherweight champion Jose Pedraza (25-1, 12 KOs) this Saturday night on ESPN on December 8 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Watch the undercard live on ESPN+ – Pedraza weighed in at 134.2 lbs.
(Dec. 5, 2018) — Top Rank is proud to announce that Lee Samuels, the company’s chief publicist for nearly four decades, will be inducted as part of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) Class of 2019 in Canastota, N.Y.
Samuels is only the second publicist to receive this honor following his mentor and former Top Rank public relations chief, Irving Rudd, who was inducted as part of the Class of 1999. Samuels is the fifth member of the Top Rank family to receive boxing’s highest honor, joining Rudd, Founder and CEO Bob Arum (1999), longtime matchmaker Bruce Trampler (2010), and the late matchmaker Teddy Brenner (1993).
Strength and conditioning trainer Justin Fortune said that reigning World Boxing Association welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has trained patiently in his first week of sparring session with Australian George Kambosos Jr.
Andre Ward says he doesn’t think a rematch will ever happen between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury after last Saturday’s fight between the two giant heavyweights in Los Angeles, California. Ward believes that that WBC heavyweight champion Deontay (40-0-1, 39 KOs) won’t want to fight Fury (27-0-1, 19 KOs) again due to the problems he gave him in the fight.
