Tyson Fury will be fighting an exhibition match against strong man, weight lifter, and boxer Hafthor ‘Thor’ Bjornsson in November in a stadium fight in London.
WBC heavyweight champion Fury (32-0-, 23 KOs) told the Telegraph that he hopes 70,000 fans will turn up to watch him fight the 33-year-old Thor Bjornsson. That’s an ambitious number for a fight that is a mismatch, and it’s unclear if it’ll do even 15,000.
Anthony Joshua says he’ll “dash” [throw away] the three titles he wins off of IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on August 20th.
Joshua states that he wants people to “respect” him “as a person,” and the best way to achieve that is not to hold onto the three titles that he hopes to win from unified champion Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) in their rematch next month in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum doesn’t see how the Terence Crawford vs. Errol ‘The Truth’ Spence fight can be made this year without somebody subsidizing it.
It’s too risky to put the fight on because of the purse requirements for IBF/WBA/WBC welterweight champion Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) and WBO champ Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs).
Brick City’s boxing superstar, Shakur Stevenson, is the junior lightweight king. He’ll soon return home to defend his throne.
Stevenson, the WBC, WBO and Ring Magazine champion, puts his hardware on the line against Brazilian standout Robson Conceição on Friday, Sept. 23, at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. In the eight-round lightweight co-feature, Tokyo 2020 U.S. Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis returns against an opponent to be named.
Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz wants to knockout former unified heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. on September 4th and cut short his vision of becoming a 2-time world champion at his expense.
Ortiz (33-2, 28 KOs) has been waiting for this opportunity to fight former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Ruiz (34-2, 22 KOs) since 2020, and now he’s getting his chance.
Tim Bradley says Ryan Garcia shouldn’t take the fight with Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis right now at this stage in his career because it’s not worth the risk of going against the dangerous Baltimore slugger.
Bradley feels that the famous undefeated Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) is too valuable of an “investment” to be fighting a slugger that is in the “zenith” of his career like WBA ‘regular’ lightweight champion Tank (27-0, 25 KOs.
Troy Williamson has told Josh Kelly to agree to a mouth-watering British title showdown instead of chasing “easy” fights like his rivals have.
The British Boxing Board of Control have ordered Williamson to defend his super welterweight crown against Kelly, after James Metcalf pulled out of a fight with the champion.
Frazer Clarke says the plan of action for Anthony Joshua to defeat the unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is to outhustle him on August 20th in the same way that Derek Chisora and Chazz Witherspoon did.
Donnie Nietes will shake off the disappointment of his world title defeat to Kazuto Ioka and rebuild towards another shot at the super flyweight crown.
Nietes was trying to reclaim the WBO world junior bantamweight title in Tokyo on Wednesday night but was defeated on the scorecards, with all three ringside judges awarding the fight to Ioka.
