Ryan Garcia is promising to return to the ring better in 2022 when he comes back from his hand injury that caused the cancelation of his November 27th fight against Joseph ‘Jo-Jo’ Diaz Jr. on DAZN.
Garcia, 23, was supposed to be getting surgery on Monday, but it’s unclear if he did.
Chris Algieri believes Oleksandr Usyk presents the greatest problems for Tyson Fury than any of the other heavyweights in the division right now.
Algieri says Usyk’s mobility and ability to change rhythms will create problems for WBC heavyweight champion Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) and the other top fighters in the division.
Undefeated super middleweight contender Edgar Berlanga (18-0, 16 KOs) will be having left bicep surgery this Wednesday to repair an injury he sustained in his fight against Marcelo Esteban Coceres on October 9th.
Emanuel "Vaquero" Navarrete and Joet Gonzalez engaged in a border war for the ages.
Navarrete (35-1, 29 KOs) retained his WBO featherweight world title with a bloody unanimous decision (118-110 and 116-112 2x) over Joet Gonzalez (24-2, 14 KOs) on Friday evening at Pechanga Arena San Diego. It was the second successful title defense for Navarrete, who moved up to the featherweight ranks last year after defending his junior featherweight crown five times.
Tim Bradley said he saw genuine hate on display recently for the trilogy match between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder for their recent fight on PPV.
Bradley liked what he saw from Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) with the improvements he made in his game by bulking up to better compete with the 277-lb Fury.
Devin Haney will be fighting on December 3rd on DAZN, possibly against Joseph ‘Jojo’ Diaz Jr. or Viktor Postol.
Haney’s promoter Eddie Hearn will try and put the fight together with former IBF super featherweight champion Diaz Jr. (32-1, 15 KOs), who needs an opponent after his battle with Ryan Garcia fell through. Ryan suffered a hand injury during training camp.
At the Pechanga Arena, in San Diego, CA, Friday over ESPN+ Bob Arum (Top Rank Boxing), in the Main Event former WBO Junior Featherweight and current World Featherweight champion Emanuel ”Vaquero” Navarrete defeated No. 1 ranked WBO International champion Joet Gonzalez in a war over 12 rounds.
Mexico’s young general hopes to make it 20 for 20 in his toughest test to date. David “El General” Cuellar (19-0, 12 KOs) will make the first defense of his WBC Youth Silver 115-pound title in a 10-round main event against former world champion Moises Fuentes this Saturday, Oct. 16 at Oasis Arena in Cancun, Mexico.
Cuellar-Fuentes headlines a bill streaming live and exclusively in the United States on ESPN+ starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
WBC/IBF unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev moved to Montreal nearly a decade ago to embark on his professional journey following a pair of Olympic berths for his native Russia. Sixteen fights into his career, he will return to his adopted hometown for the first time as a world champion.
Promoter Bob Arum was ecstatic about the impressive victory for his fighter WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who had to walk through fire to defeat the unyielding Deontay Wilder to score an 11th round knockout. The fight took place in front of a large crowd at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Arum says it’s one of the most exciting heavyweight fights he’s seen since the Thrilla in Manila between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier on October 1, 1975.
David Haye admits that he got his prediction wrong in picking Deontay Wilder to defeat Tyson Fury last Saturday night in their third and possibly final fight.
Despite getting his prediction wrong, Haye came away impressed with Wilder’s way he stayed on the battlefield, emptying his gun in no man’s land.
Wilder didn’t run for the trenches the way some fighters would when exposed to the superior firepower of Fury. Wilder stayed in there out in the open until Fury blasted him out in the 11th.
Tyson Fury got up from two fourth-round knockdowns and stopped Deontay Wilder in the 11th round Saturday night, retaining his WBC title in a thrilling conclusion to a superlative heavyweight trilogy.
Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) finished Wilder for the second straight time in their three bouts, but only after a wild back-and-forth evening featuring five combined knockdowns.
The longtime WBO welterweight king and pound-for-pound star, Terence Crawford, finally has the super fight he craves. Enter Shawn Porter, the two-time champion who has fought most of this generation’s elite welterweights.
Crawford and Porter will fight Saturday, Nov. 20 at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The two met face-to-face Saturday for a kickoff press conference, alongside their respective trainers and promoters.
