COSTA MESA (March 23, 2019)— Kubrat Pulev wanted to send a resounding message to the big names of the heavyweight division, and he did so by scoring an emphatic knockout victory in front of a sold-out crowd at The Hangar.
After recovering from a flurry of punches that caused a dangerous cut on his left eyebrow in the fourth episode, the Bulgarian contender blasted Bogdan Dinu by technical knockout at 2:40 of the seventh round.
Heavyweight contender Kubrat Pulev (27-1, 14 KOs) had to dig deep to defeat Bogdan Dinu (18-2, 14 KOs) by a seventh round knockout on Saturday night in a scheduled 10 round fight on ESPN at The Hangar, in Costa Mesa, California. Pulev, 37, suffered a bad cut over his left eye in the third round.
After 16 years as a pro, former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute has officially retired from boxing. Bute, 39, made it official that he retiring from the sport in a news conference on Wednesday in Montreal, Canada at the Bell Centre, one of his favorite venues during his long career in boxing.
After three years out of the ring, former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Briggs says he’s going to be making a comeback on June 15. Briggs, 46, didn’t go into details, but he’s saying he’s going to be back on the 15th of June. Briggs claims that Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has been trying to keep him out of the game, and he says he sees him as a “chump.”
In an interview with IFL TV that turned into a big rant, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn spend 40 minutes yakking about how WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s co-manager Shelly Finkel recently said that once Deontay knockouts out Anthony Joshua, his Matchroom empire be over.
Gennady Golovkin has started up his training camp in Big Bear, California with trainer Abel Sanchez to ready for his next fight on DAZN in June against an opponent still to be determined. The former IBF/WBA/WBO middleweight champion Golovkin (38-1-1 34 KOs) will be making his debut with his new contract with DAZN in June.
STOCKTON, Calif. (March 19, 2019) — IBF light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev, the only current world champion with a 100 percent knockout ratio, will take his iron fists to California for the second defense of his title.
Former super middleweight champion Carl ‘Cobra’ Froch came out of the woodwork on Friday to tell the retiring Lucian Bute “good luck” with his retirement, and then then made a snide comment about how it was a pleasure for him to “Cobra him” in their fight in 2012.
Danny Garcia says he knew Errol Spence Jr. was going to beat Mikey Garcia the moment the fight was put together. It was a no-brainer in Danny’s mind that IBF welterweight champion Spence (25-0, 21 KOs) would hand Mikey (39-1, 30 KOs) his first career defeat last Saturday night due to him being so much bigger than the 5’6″ lightweight.
