Anthony Yarde headlined the first Queensbury Promotions card of 2019 and secured a “xxx” victory over Travis Reeves to round of a thrilling night at the Royal Albert Hall. Topping the card in his 18th professional fight, Yarde has promised to gatecrash the world scene throughout the calendar year. The …
Read More »All Eyes on Shawn Porter
By: LV Boxing The consensus around boxing circles is that the Welterweight division is among the most talented and deepest in the entire sport. It’s not hard to see why. Not only is that weight class filled with numerous contenders but the current belt holders all have a reasonable claim …
Read More »Yordenis Ugas Fighting For Respect
By: LV Boxing It’s been a long road for Yordenis Ugas. Following a 2014 split decision loss to Emmanuel Robles, Ugas followed that up with another loss. This time at the hands of Amir Imam. It was a one sided beating that plummeted the stock of Ugas. It was at …
Read More »With Golovkin Signing, DAZN Becomes Unofficial Home Of Middleweight Division
By: Sean Crose DAZN streaming service announced early Friday morning that it had signed “Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin will fight the rest of his career on DAZN, the world’s largest sports streaming platform.” By signing the former middleweight champion, DAZN has effectively rounded up some of the biggest names in the …
Read More »Paging John L: Paulie Malignaggi To Take Up Bare Knuckle Fighting
By: Sean Crose There’s old school fighters, and then there’s really old school fighters. Brooklyn’s own Paulie Malignaggi is now a really old school fighter. For the retired two division belt holder has signed on with an organization called the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, the nature of whose business can …
Read More »Boxing Insider Interview: Maurice Hooker: Laying Claim as the Boogey Man at 140?
By: Kirk Jackson “I’m here to show the world that I am ‘The Boogeyman’ and that I’m one of the best at 140.” Apparently, Errol Spence isn’t the only ‘Boogeyman’ wandering around the landscape of boxing. Fellow Dallas native Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker 25-0-3 (17 KO’s) believes he holds the …
Read More »PBC Boxing Preview: Porter vs. Ugas, Ramos vs. Santana
By: LV Boxing With all of the hype that is surrounding the big showdown between Errol Spence Jr and Mikey Garcia, it is easy to overlook this weekends matchup between current WBC Welterweight champion Shawn Porter (29-2-1, 17 KOs) and Yordenis Ugas (23-3, 11 KOs) but make no mistake about …
Read More »Dmitry Bivol: The New Man to Beat
By: LV Boxing The Light Heavyweight division is one of the very best in all of boxing. It just doesn’t receive the fanfare that many of the other divisions do. Why is that? From top to bottom the division is stacked. Artur Beterbiev, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Sergey Kovalev and Dmitry Bivol …
Read More »DAZN signs GGG To Long Term Deal
DAZN Group Executive Chairman John Skipper announced today that Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will fight the rest of his career on DAZN, the world’s largest sports streaming platform. The six-fight global partnership between GGG Promotions and DAZN will see Golovkin fight twice a year on the platform for the next three …
Read More »Boxing Insider Interview: Maurice Hooker: Boxing’s Road Warrior Striving for Greatness
By: Kirk Jackson Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker defends his WBO World Super Lightweight title for the second time against undefeated Mikkel LesPierre 21-0-1 (10 KO’s) at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York on Saturday March 9, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in …
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