The Takeover 2.0 is 10 days away. Teofimo Lopez (16-1, 12 KOs), the former unified and lineal lightweight champion, will make his junior welterweight debut against Mexican veteran Pedro Campa (34-1-1, 23 KOs) on Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Resorts World Event Center at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Showtime president Stephen Espinoza says he’s not in favor of doing a joint pay-per-view involving DAZN with his company for the Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis vs. Ryan Garcia fight.
Espinoza feels that it will complicate things if he needs to be dual network deal between Tank and Ryan. Unfortunately, Garcia’s promoter Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions, says he wants his broadcast partner, DAZN, to be involved because they helped build Ryan.
Tony Bellew believes Canelo Alvarez would have beaten WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol if he was on his A-game last May.
It appeared that Canelo was fighting at the same level as he’d been during his fights in 2021.
As far as Sean Jones is concerned, the former four-division world champion Canelo looked the same against Bivol as he had last year when he beat 168-lb champions Billy Joe Saunders, Caleb Plant, and Callum Smith to become the undisputed super middleweight champ.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Ryan Garcia says Floyd Mayweather Jr. can’t stop him from talking about Canelo Alvarez in the beef that the two fighters have.
During Wednesday’s media day, Ryan (22-0, 18 KOs) says Mayweather won’t keep him from speaking his mind about Canelo, and that they can bring in all GOAT [greatest of all time] fighters, and he’ll continue to talk.
