WBC and lineal heavyweight world champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury expects history to repeat itself when he takes on Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder next Saturday, October 9 on ESPN+ PPV and FOX Sports PPV from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. After dethroning Wilder via seventh-round knockout in February 2020, Fury reiterated that he expected the third fight to be a shorter, more dominant affair.
WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney has called out boxing great Oscar De La Hoya for a catchweight fight. Haney (26-0, 15 KOs), who is frustrated by his two mandatory challengers Ryan Ryan Garcia and Joseph ‘Jo Jo’ Diaz Jr., choosing not to fight him, now has turned his attention to 48-year-old De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs).
Jose “Chon” Zepeda wants a third world title shot. Josue “The Prodigy” Vargas, born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, hopes his hometown main event is the ticket to title contention.
Zepeda and Vargas will meet in a 10-round junior welterweight main event Saturday, Oct. 30 at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Zepeda is ranked No. 2 in the world by the WBC, and Vargas, winner of 13 straight bouts, hopes to knock “Chon” off his lofty perch.
Oleksandr Usyk was given a hero’s welcome in arriving back in Ukraine on Monday following his upset of IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua last Saturday night in London, England.
Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) pulled off a tremendous victory in defeating the highly respected champion Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) in front of 70,000 of his faithful fans at the Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium in London.
Pound-for-pound star Terence “Bud” Crawford has called out the welterweight superstars for years. His long wait for a legacy-defining fight is now over. Crawford will defend his WBO welterweight world title and unbeaten record Saturday, Nov. 20 against two-time welterweight champion and WBO No. 1 contender “Showtime” Shawn Porter at the Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.
George Foreman says Anthony Joshua looked confused and afraid in his loss to Oleksandr Usyk last Saturday night in London, England.
The former two-time heavyweight champion Foreman feels that Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) has lost his identity in going from being a puncher to that of a boxer.
Anthony Joshua is ready to walk away from his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk to take on the winner of the October 9th fight between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.
Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) would face the Fury vs. Wilder 3 winner without a world title, fresh off his loss to Oleksandr Usyk last Saturday night.
Former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Joshua’s willingness to walk away from a loss to Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) without attempting to avenge the defeat shows how long his confidence has sunk.
Oleksandr Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) says he wants the rematch with former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to take place in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It would be a nightmare for Joshua to enter the lion’s den to fight Usyk in front of his own fans in Kyiv in the rematch. If Joshua’s self-confidence is shot to pieces from last Saturday’s defeat, he’s going to be a shaken nervous wreck fighting Usyk in Kyiv, Ukraine.
