Pound-for-pound star Terence “Bud” Crawford has called out the welterweight superstars for years. His long wait for a legacy-defining fight is now over. Crawford will defend his WBO welterweight world title and unbeaten record Saturday, Nov. 20 against two-time welterweight champion and WBO No. 1 contender “Showtime” Shawn Porter at the Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.
Anthony Joshua is ready to walk away from his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk to take on the winner of the October 9th fight between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.
Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) would face the Fury vs. Wilder 3 winner without a world title, fresh off his loss to Oleksandr Usyk last Saturday night.
Former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Joshua’s willingness to walk away from a loss to Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) without attempting to avenge the defeat shows how long his confidence has sunk.
WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney has called out boxing great Oscar De La Hoya for a catchweight fight. Haney (26-0, 15 KOs), who is frustrated by his two mandatory challengers Ryan Ryan Garcia and Joseph ‘Jo Jo’ Diaz Jr., choosing not to fight him, now has turned his attention to 48-year-old De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs).
Oleksandr Usyk was given a hero’s welcome in arriving back in Ukraine on Monday following his upset of IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua last Saturday night in London, England.
Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) pulled off a tremendous victory in defeating the highly respected champion Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) in front of 70,000 of his faithful fans at the Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium in London.
George Foreman says Anthony Joshua looked confused and afraid in his loss to Oleksandr Usyk last Saturday night in London, England.
The former two-time heavyweight champion Foreman feels that Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) has lost his identity in going from being a puncher to that of a boxer.
Oleksandr Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) says he wants the rematch with former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to take place in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It would be a nightmare for Joshua to enter the lion’s den to fight Usyk in front of his own fans in Kyiv in the rematch. If Joshua’s self-confidence is shot to pieces from last Saturday’s defeat, he’s going to be a shaken nervous wreck fighting Usyk in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Caleb Plant revealed that Andre Ward told him to stay locked in and focused for his November 6th fight against Canelo Alvarez.
Plant had an interesting week in angering Canelo to the point where the Mexican star got physical in shoving him at their press conference in Los Angeles, California last Tuesday.
Tyson Fury is pulling for IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to win his fight this Saturday against the always crafty Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury wants the massive $100 million paydays from fighting Joshua (24-1, 22 KOs) in the undisputed championship in early 2022.
Teofimo Lopez says he’s NOT going to fight a rematch with Vasily Lomachenko because he still believes that he wouldn’t have been given a second fight with the Ukrainian fighter if he’d have lost to him.
Fans have been calling for Teofimo to fight Lomachenko in a rematch, as there’s a lot of questions about the scoring of their fight last October.
Anthony Dirrell isn’t giving Caleb Plant much of any chance of beating Canelo Alvarez on November 6th in their undisputed 168-lb championship fight.
Dirrell says IBF super middleweight champion Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) showed fatigue problems in his last fight against Caleb Truax, and he can ill afford to get tired against Canelo Alvarez.
David Benavidez says IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant is lucky that he’s fighting Canelo Alvarez because if it were him, he’d put him in the hospital.
The former two-time WBC super middleweight champion Benavidez (24-0, 21 KOs0 is facing Jose Uzcategui in an IBF 168-lb title eliminator on November 13th. If Benavidez wins, he’ll be the IBF mandatory to Plant.
Antonio “El Gigante” Mireles is about to take a giant step in his boxing career. The 6-foot-9, 265-pound heavyweight from Des Moines, Iowa, has signed a multi-year promotional contract with Top Rank and will make his professional debut in a four-rounder live on ESPN+ Friday, Oct. 15 on the Emanuel Navarrete-Joet Gonzalez undercard at Pechanga Arena San Diego.
Brooklyn’s newest young knockout prodigy and a former unified world champion from Philadelphia will see action Saturday, Oct. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in preliminary bouts before the highly anticipated heavyweight trilogy grudge match between WBC and lineal heavyweight world champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury and former heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder.
