By: Sean Crose The DAZN streaming service presented a live night of Golden Boy Boxing from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California Friday featuring rising lightweight star Ryan Garcia. A power punching 19-0 fighter with a reported five million person Instagram following, Garcia was the man to watch walking in. Meanwhile the 25-2-2 …
Read More »Fight Night in Nashville Preview: Caleb Plant vs. Vincent Feigenbutz
By: Alex Perl This Saturday a fight card will be underway which is in unfamiliar territory for most boxing fans. Nashville, Tennessee will be hosting a card headlined by IBF super middleweight champion and hometown hero Caleb Plant. The night will consist of nine total fights, but this preview is …
Read More »Mairis Briedis: The Unluckiest Man in Boxing
By: Shane Willoughby Mairis Briedis by many is seen as the number 1 fighter in the cruiserweight division. The former WBC champion has an amazing professional record with 26 wins and a single split decision loss to former undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk. At first sight, it may seem as if …
Read More »Wilder Unimpressed With Fury’s Knockout Claims: “He Has Pillows As Fists”
By: LV Boxing When WBC Heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder and Lineal champ Tyson Fury faced each other back on December 1st of 2018, at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles California, the contest was viewed as the puncher vs the boxer. For all intensive purposes, that is exactly how it …
Read More »Tyson Fury: “I’m Ready For War”
By: Sean Crose “I had a good defensive coach in Ben Davis,” Tyson Fury told me on a Thursday conference call to promote his highly anticipated rematch with Deontay Wilder – which goes down a week from Saturday in Las Vegas. “I needed an aggressive trainer.” That aggressive trainer came …
Read More »Ryan Garcia Looks To Impress On Golden Boy Card
“There will be blood,” the LA Times quotes 19-0 Ryan Garcia as saying in the leadup to Friday’s fight against the 25-2-2 Francisco Fonseca. Garcia is clearly a fighter on the rise, one Golden Boy Promotions hopes to showcase for maximum benefit. Just 21 years old, the youthful looking Garcia takes …
Read More »Deontay Wilder Media Conference Call Transcript
I want to thank the media for joining us from wherever you are around the world. We are so excited, we are 11 days away until the highly-awaited rematch with unbeaten Lineal Champion Tyson Fury going head to head against the man who will be talking later on during this …
Read More »Sergey Kovalev is Moving Up To The Cruiserweight Division
By: LV Boxing When a fighter decides to move up or down in weight, almost every single time it is out of necessity. Either he has gotten older and he has filled out his body more which essentially makes cutting weight more difficult, or the competition has simply gotten too …
Read More »Deontay Wilder: “This Is Judgment Day”
By: Sean Crose “This is where we come and settle everything,” Deontay Wilder said on a media conference call on Tuesday to promote his highly publicized February 22nd rematch with TysonFury. “This is judgment day.” The first fight between the two supersized heavyweights went down in December of 2018. The bout …
Read More »Deontay Wilder Warns Tyson Fury: “God May Have Mercy But I Won’t”
By: LV Boxing Trash talking is a common theme in every sport. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of back and forth banter between two competitors, but there’s always a line that many of them choose not to cross. In the sport of boxing, that line is blurred and has …
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