Undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor has reacted to the widespread criticism regarding the scoring of his mandatory defense against Jack Catterall, which took place last Saturday night in Glasgow. Taylor retained his titles with a razor-close twelve round split decision – based on scores of 113-112 and 114-111 in his favor, and a third
Month: February 2022
Posted on 02/28/2022 By: Hans Themistode For the most part, Shakur Stevenson’s career has been on cruise control. The former 2016 Olympic silver medalist and two-division world titlist has made quick and easy work of his 17 career opponents. Yet, even with the relative ease in which he’s picked up his victories, the 24-year-old knows
8:00 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. The result of Saturday’s undisputed junior welterweight championship fight between champion Josh Taylor and challenger Jack Catterall hasn’t sat well with me. The challenger did everything he was supposed to do to win, but the judges handed Taylor a split-decision victory. I watched the fight a second time on
Rankings go up on Mondays. Ranked fights this week: Junior Welterweight: (4) Jose Ramirez vs (6) Jose Pedraza, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (9) Joet Gonzalez vs Jeo Santisima, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (3) Mauricio Lara vs Emilio Sanchez, Mar. 5 Junior Bantamweight: (4) Chocolatito Gonzalez vs Julio Cesar Martinez, Mar. 5 Flyweight: (1) Julio Cesar Martinez vs
Issue • Premium • Reports Lawrence Lustig The Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall result hits both fighters, and British boxing. John Dennen was at the Hydro in Glasgow YOU can’t be perfect every fight. In his 18 previous contests Josh Taylor had been superb. He’d risen quickly as he beat Ivan Baranchyk, Regis Prograis and
Issue • Premium • Reports Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Lawrence Okolie works his way to a unanimous decision victory against Michal Cieslak in the toughest fight of his career so far. Declan Taylor reports from the O2 BENEATH a brand new roof, it was very much back to the old Lawrence Okolie at the O2 Arena
O2 Arena, London – Featherweight contender Jordan Gill pulled off a sensational knockout of Karim Guerfi to capture the EBU title. (photos by Mark Robinson) Gill was being busted up in the second half of the fight and dropped in the seventh. Just when the fight appeared to be on the verge of being over,
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose He goes by the nickname of PrimeTime and he’s one of the most closely watched fighters among today’s top crop of young guns. With an undefeated 16-0 record, the 25 year old Brooklyn native is now in position to move on to big things. In fact, he was supposed
6:01 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Lawrence Okolie successfully defended his WBO world cruiserweight title for a second time by a unanimous points decision, but was made to work for
Earlier this week, we shared the news that former heavyweight champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko committed to defend their country against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has joined the fight as well. A Facebook post from Lomachenko said: The Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Territorial Defense Battalion has been formed and armed. In the
Our own Jamal Niaz spoke with UFC superstar Conor McGregor about his timeline for his UFC return, possible boxing run, Paddy Pimblett and more! Subscribe for updates – http://goo.gl/meA2GB Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/VDYVMP Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondsoutlive SecondsOut is a world leader in boxing entertainment since 1999. Part of the Knockout TV YouTube MCN –
On December 20, ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to regain a sense of normalcy in his life. This Saturday – March 5 – he will return to the ring for Matchroom Boxing’s fight card on DAZN headlined by Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez vs Julio
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose Boxing returned to the Showtime airwaves Saturday night as the cable network aired a card live from the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas featuring Chris “PrimeTime” Colbert versus Hector Garcia. First, however, the IBF super flyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas, 33-1-2, took on the undefeated, 13-0, Fernando Martinez in a scheduled
6:53 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko, ESPN’s No. 8 pound-for-pound boxer, has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine as the country attempts to fend off an invasion from Russia. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is shown armed in military fatigues in an image posted to his Facebook page on Sunday. The 34-year-old traveled
Alberto Puello improved to 20-0 in his U.S. debut following his dominating unanimous decision win over VeShawn Owens in their 10-round super lightweight bout on December 18, 2021, live on FOX from The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. #PuelloOwens Fight Recap: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-121821 #Highlights Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US:
Lawrence Okolie didn’t get the knockout and didn’t have the most exciting fight, to put it mildly, but he retained his WBO cruiserweight title with a decision win over Michal Cieslak in London. Okolie took the cards on scores of 115-112, 116-111, and 117-110. Bad Left Hook had the fight 117-110 for Okolie. It was
Anthony Fowler made an adequate middleweight debut as he beat Lukasz Maciec, of Poland, via a unanimous decision on the Okolie-Cieslak bill at the O2 Arena, London. In his first fight since being stopped by Liam Smith in December, Fowler was on top throughout but was never in danger of stopping Maciec Fowler looked happy
Posted on 02/27/2022 By: Sean Crose Former junior welterweight titlist Viktor Postol, 31-3-0, appeared on Saturday’s Showtime card as he faced the undefeated 14-0 Gary Russell in a scheduled 10 round junior welterweight affair. This fight had a tragic element to it, as Postol’s wife and twin sons are currently stranded in war torn Ukraine.
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