(March 11, 2019) — Top Rank and MTK Global are proud to announce an exclusive multi-year licensing agreement that will bring MTK Global events to fans in the United States on ESPN platforms, including ESPN+ — the direct-to-consumer sports streaming service from The Walt Disney Company’s Direct-to-Consumer & International segment and ESPN.
Last Saturday night, WBC welterweight champion Shawn Porter (30-2-1, 17 KOs) won a grueling 12 round split decision over Yordenis Ugas (23-4, 11 KOs) at the Dignity Health Sports Park, in Carson, California. It wasn’t one of the better performance’s we’ve seen from ‘Showtime’ Shawn Porter. He barely scraped by in winning a close decision.
Vasyl Lomachenko says Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) cannot beat Errol Spence Jr. when they face each other next Saturday night due to his lack of size. Lomachenko feels that Garcia is too small to be taking on the 5’9 1/2″ IBF welterweight champion Spence, who he rates as one of the best at 147.
WBC welterweight champion Shawn Porter (29-2-1, 17 KOs) weighed in a whooping 148.8 pounds on his first weigh-in attempt for his maiden title defense against Yorgenis Ugas (23-3, 11 KOs) at Friday’s weigh-in for their fight this Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on FOX & FOX Deportes at the Dignity Health Sports Park, in Carson, California.
(March 7, 2019) — Two of the biggest punchers in British boxing — light heavyweight Anthony Yarde and heavyweight Daniel Dubois — are ready to put on a Friday afternoon show for American fight fans.
In the main event, Yarde will defend his WBO Intercontinental belt in a 10-rounder against Baltimore native Travis “Seveer” Reeves at the historic Royal Albert Hall in London. In one of the co-features, Dubois will battle former world title challenger Razvan Cojanu in a 10-rounder for the vacant WBO Global belt.
WBO/WBA lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and longtime WBO super middleweight world champion Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez will work out for the media this MONDAY (March 11) at Fortune Gym as they prepare for their respective Staples Center debuts on Friday, April 12.
LOS ANGELES (March 6, 2019) — Indian boxing sensation and undefeated super middleweight contender Vijender Singh is set to begin the next phase of his career with a new trainer — Hall of Famer Freddie Roach — in his corner.
The 33-year-old Singh recently relocated his training base to Southern California to work with Roach, a 2012 International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) inductee.
Alexander Povetkin (32-2, 24 KOs) won’t be facing Oleksander Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs) in his heavyweight debut after all, according to latest boxing news. Povetkin, 39, will taking another fight instead of facing Usyk on May 18.
A rematch between Saul Canelo Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather Jr. could be a $1.5 billion fight, according to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya. Canelo wants the rematch to avenge his loss to Mayweather. Obviously the huge money the fight would pull in certainly helps.
Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) says he’s not worried about being the smaller guy in his upcoming March 16 fight against IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21 KOs), because he knows what he’s capable of doing to a fighter like him.
After her meeting with China’s “The Panda” Xiong Jing Nan was postponed due to an unfortunate disk injury, Singapore’s “Unstoppable” Angela Lee is even more determined to claim her second golden strap on 31 March in Tokyo at ONE: A NEW ERA.
Lee was supposed to challenge for the ONE Women’s Strawweight World Title last November, but was ruled her out of the contest.
NEW YORK CITY (March 4, 2019) — Vladimir Nikitin and Irish sensation Michael “Mick” Conlan are on a collision course for a rematch of their quarterfinal bout from the 2016 Rio Olympics, won by Nikitin via highly controversial decision. Nikitin will fight Juan Tapia (8-2, 3 KOs) in a six-round featherweight bout on the undercard of Conlan’s 10-round featherweight tilt against Ruben Garcia Hernandez on Sunday, March 17 at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Saul Canelo Alvarez (51-1-2, 35 KOs) surprised a lot of boxing fans recently when he said he has no interest in fighting other Mexican fighters during his career. This might have come to a shock to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya, who is interested in matching Canelo against WBO junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia (32-0, 26 KOs) in the near future after the unbeaten 154 lb champion moves up in weight in a year or two.
