After back-to-back fight-of-the-year contenders, Cyrus Pattinson has his next fight date. Pattinson will rematch Conah Walker, who stopped the former Team GB star after eight rounds in a huge upset this August. The bout will feature on Matchroom’s NXT GEN card at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle, England on Saturday, February 10 live on DAZN. Walker…
Devin Haney dominated Regis Prograis to a 120-107 (X3) shutout on the scorecards to win the WBC Super Lightweight title and in the process became a two-division world champion. Haney dropped Prograis in the third and boxed brilliantly with lots of movement and counter-punching, proving too sharp and agile for the flat-footed former 140-pound champion….
JOSH KELLY is back before the year’s out and he’s back on DAZN. The WBO’s #1 154-pounder headlines a Wasserman card this Saturday, December 16 at the Beacon of Light in his hometown of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom. ALSO THIS WEEKEND: Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs Kevin Gonzalez Set To Feature On Rodriguez vs Edwards Undercard Kelly (14-1-1, 7 KOs) returns…
Rodriguez vs Edwards Undercard set for the Flyweight unification blockbuster at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday, December 16, live worldwide on DAZN. Murodjon Akhmadaliev will face Kevin Gonzalez in an eliminator for the WBA World Super-Bantamweight title as the chief support bout. Akhmadaliev (11-1 8 KOs) is gunning to get a shot at winning the WBA…
Uzbekistan’s Murodjon Akhmadaliev (11-1, 8 KOs) and Mexico’s Kevin Gonzalez (26-0-1, 13 KOs) have a date for their WBA final eliminator. The pair will clash on the undercard of one of the most-anticipated matchups in the boxing calendar on December 16 between Sunny Edwards and Jesse Rodriguez. The WBO/IBF Flyweight unification bout between the undefeated…
Regis Prograis will defend his WBC Super Lightweight title against the Undisputed Lightweight king, Devin Haney, at the Golden State Warriors Chase Center in San Francisco, California this Saturday, Dec 9. Haney (30-0 15 KOs) returns to his Bay Area roots in his quest to become a two-weight World champion, moving up from 135lbs having become undisputed after beating George Kambosos…
Chris Billam-Smith defends his WBO Cruiserweight title against Poland’s Mateusz Masternak this Sunday, December 10 at Bournemouth’s 3,500-capacity Bournemouth International Centre, Live on Sky Sports in the UK and Peacock in the US. Billam-Smith (18-1, 12 KOs) decisioned Lawrence Okolie at the Vitality Stadium in May to claim the world title in a significant upset. The pair were…
Australia’s IBF Cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia has been left with an ultimatum The International Boxing Federation (IBF) rejected the division number one’s request for a voluntary defence against Ellis Zorro on December 23 in Saudi Arabia. The DAZN PPV card, which features eight fights including Anthony Joshua vs Otto Wallin and Deontay Wilder vs Joseph…
Matchroom Boxing announced in August that Dillian Whyte had returned adverse analytical findings as part of a random anti-doping protocol by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA). His DAZN PPV fight with Anthony Joshua at London’s O2 Arena was cancelled, as a result, just seven days out. NoSmokeSport.com revealed a few weeks later that Whyte returned an…
HEISMAN NIGHT – Robeisy Ramirez (13-1, 8 KOs) puts his WBO Featherweight world championship on the line against Mexico’s unbeaten Rafael Espinoza (21-0, 18 KOs). Ramirez won the strap with a wide decision over England’s Isaac Dogboe and has made the one defence since, a fifth-round TKO on the Stephen Fulton-Naoya Inoue undercard against Japan’s Satoshi Shimizu. Ramirez…
Emerging super middleweight star Diego Pacheco scored a stunning 9th-round knockout of Argentine Marcelo Coceres last month. The American was outboxing Coceres easily through four rounds but the former title challenger had a good spell from rounds 5-7 catching Pacheco numerous times with the left hook and exposing a real flaw in Pacheco’s defence – the most…
In a recent interview with Boxing News, Bozy Ennis, the father and trainer of newly elevated IBF world champion Jaron Ennis, shared his candid thoughts on the potential contenders in the welterweight division. While the boxing world scrambles with talks of matchups with top-tier fighters like Terence Crawford and Errol Spence, Bozy Ennis had a…
In a remarkable shift of perspective, Talksport pundit Simon Jordan shared insights from his recent, extensive 90-minute conversation with boxer Conor Benn, which has notably altered his view on the athlete’s ongoing controversy. Jordan, who had been vocally critical of Benn in the wake of adverse drug tests and the anticipated fight with Chris Eubank…
Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing has been one of the most successful boxing promoters in the last few years, but sometimes even they get it very wrong. The company’s ‘Golden Goose’, Anthony Joshua, lost for the first time on his US debut in June 2019. It was one of the biggest upsets of all time and…
