Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua was left with no other choice but to defend his heavyweight titles against Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller on June 1 after coming up empty in trying to get fights with Deontay Wilder, Tyon Fury and Dillian Whyte.
PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 13, 2019) — The Nail and the Mean Machine are ready for their South Philly close-up.
WBC and lineal light heavyweight champion Oleksandr “The Nail” Gvozdyk will make the first defense of his world title against Doudou Ngumbu on Saturday, March 30 at the 2300 Arena. In the 10-round co-feature, Gvozdyk’s stablemate, top welterweight contender Egidijus “Mean Machine” Kavaliauskas, will take on Philadelphia native Ray Robinson.
HINCKLEY, Minn. (Feb. 13, 2019) — Rob "Bravo" Brant hails from St. Paul, Minn., but his professional boxing home is the Grand Casino Hinckley. He fought there 11 times as an up-and-coming pro, and for his world first title defense, he'll make his triumphant return.
The current WBA “super” welterweight champion Keith Thurman is motivated to face off against the WBA’s “regular” champion, Manny Pacquiao, later this year in his third fight in two years.
Smoking hot Keith Thurman spent 22 months on the shelf due to an elbow injury and then a hand injury, both of which required surgery and rehab. In his first fight back in January, Thurman would shake off the ring-rust in a 12-round unanimous decision win over Josesito Lopez.
Former WBO light middleweight champion Liam ‘Beefy’ Smith (26-2-1, 14 KOs) is throwing his name into the hat to let the boxing fans know that he’s interested in facing Kell Brook (38-2, 26 KOs) in his next fight once he takes care of business against domestic level 154 lb fighter Sam Eggington (24-5, 15 KOs) next month on March 30.
WBA bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue (17-0, 15 KOs) will be meeting up with unbeaten IBF 118 lb champion Emmanuel Rodriguez (17-0, 12 KOs) on May 18 in the semifinal of the World Boxing Super Series [WBSS] tournament on the same card as the WBSS light welterweight semifinal fight between Josh Taylor and Ivan Baranchyk at the SSE Hydro Arena, Glasgow, Scotland.
Anthony Joshua and American Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller are said to have agreed to terms for a fight on June 1 in New York, according to the Metrol. Joshua’s purse for the fight is expected to be £19.3million [$24.83 million dollars). That’s a lot of money for what amounts to be a glorified mismatch for Joshua. Miller, 30, is said to be getting a purse of £5.41m [$6.96 million]. That number is hard to believe.
Junior middleweight contender Erickson Lubin says that Errol Spence Jr. is going to have too much size for Mikey Garcia in their fight on March 16, and he sees him easily winning the fight based on his size.
The main event of the night Reymart Gaballo weighed in the scales at 118.5 lbs while Japanese foe Yuya Nakamura came in slightly heavier at 119 lbs.
In the co-main event for the coveted WBA Asia Lightweight Title, Romero Duno weighed 134 lbs while Indian opponent came at 135 lbs.
Unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Jose Carlos Ramirez (23-0, 16 KOs) weighed in at 138.6 pounds on Saturday for his title defense this Sunday, February 10 against #14 WBC fringe contender Jose Zepeda (30-1, 25 KOs) at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates— Up against “Barangay Ginebra” of Lebanon, Mighty Sports gave everything it can but its best was not enough, absorbing an 89-84 loss to Al Riyadi in their knockout semis duel Friday showdown in the 30th Dubai International Basketball Championship at the Shabab Al Ahli Club here.
Trainer Joe Gallagher says unbeaten WBA Super World super middleweight champion Callum Smith (25-0, 18 KOs) might move up to light heavyweight to challenge WBO champion Sergey Kovalev (33-3-1, 28 KOs) if he can’t get the other champions at 168 to fight him.
Saul Canelo Alvarez says he’s “already training” for his May 4 unification fight against IBF middleweight champion Danny Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) on Cinco de Mayo on DAZN. There’s almost three months to before the Jacobs fight, and Canelo (51-1-2, 35 KOs) is getting a jump on his competition in preparing for their fight.
