Joe Joyce suffered his fourth career defeat last night in Manchester, this as Filip Hrgovic, who was also drinking at the Last-Chance Saloon, beat him over the course of ten exciting but at the same tome sometimes tough to watch rounds.
Janibek Alimkhanuly Wipes Out Anauel Ngamissengue To Retain WBO/IBF Middleweight Titles
Today in a glorious homecoming in Kazakhstan, unified middle champ Janibek Alimkhanuly – who just might be the best 160 pounder in the world today, and for sure wants the big-fight (s) opportunity to prove it – smashed an over-matched challenger as he scored a 5th round stoppage win.
Unbeaten Heavyweight Bakhodir Jalolov Taken The Distance For the First Time As A Pro; Pounds Out 10 Round Decision Over “Hulk” Shevadzutskyi
Today in Kazakhstan, unbeaten Uzbekistan heavyweight Bakhodir Jalolov was taken the distance for the first time in his pro career, this as Ukrainian giant Ihor “Hulk” Shevadzutskyi survived an early knockdown to go all the way to final bell, this after 10 less than pulsating rounds.
While some of us, quite a few in fact, are intrigued and excited about the September fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford, famed trainer Abel Sanchez is no fan of the fight.
Big in the UK, less so, by quite a margin, in the US and around the rest of the world: the Conor Benn Vs.
According to Mike Coppinger – who has recently started working for Turki Alalshikh, who now of course owns The Ring – a quite interesting heavyweight match-up is heading towards Ipswich in the UK.
After yesterday’s eventful press conference – during which tomorrow night’s British heavyweight title challenger Jeamie TKV (real surname Tshikeva) flipped over the top table in anger due to the verbal back and forths between he and David Adeleye, and with headliners Joe Joyce and Filip Hrgovic both having vowed to knock the other man out when they collide in Manchester – came today’s official weigh-in.
Daniel Dubois says a fight between himself and Oleksandr Usyk at Wembley is “the biggest fight in the world ” Dubois, speaking with The Ring, said negotiations are currently underway for the fight – a rematch of a 2023 fight between Usyk and Dubois – to indeed take place at Wembley in the month of July.
If ever a fight absolutely called for a rematch, and for a number of reasons – controversy, debate with the official scoring, a knockdown that absolutely was a knockdown but wasn’t ruled as such – we need look no further than the recent Gervonta “Tank” Davis-Lamont Roach fight.
There were some fun and games, and a whole lot of apparently very real bad blood at today’s final press conference ahead of Saturday night’s card in Manchester, live on DAZN.