Adonis Stevenson vs. Badou Jack face off

04/26/201804/25/2018 Showtime Boxing

WHAT: WBC Light Heavyweight World Champion Adonis Stevenson and former two-division world champion Badou Jack faced off in Toronto on Tuesday to formally announce their … continue

Adonis Stevenson faces Badou Jack on May 19 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto

05/01/201804/24/2018 Showtime Boxing

Undefeated knockout artist Adonis Stevenson, the longest reigning light heavyweight world champion, will defend his title against two-division champion Badou Jack on Saturday, May 19 … continue

Badou Jack says he’ll “beat up” Adonis Stevenson and then look to unify the 175 pound titles

03/23/2018 James Slater

Badou Jack comes across as a young (ish) fighter who simply cannot wait to get into the ring for his upcoming fight, his May 19 … continue

Showtime & PBC boxing schedule for 2018

01/25/201801/24/2018 Showtime Boxing

SHOWTIME Sports and Premier Boxing Champions have announced the television lineup for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® for the first half of the year. Airing 10 live world-class boxing events – featuring 12 world champions and 12 world title fights – PBC and SHOWTIME are establishing an industry standard for a top-flight boxing season and a level of organization never before seen in the sport.

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WBC orders mandatory fights for first quarter of 2018; some interesting bouts coming up

01/03/2018 James Slater

Just three days into the new year, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has released his sanctioning body’s first quarter report on mandatory status for all of its titles: from heavyweight on the way down to strawweight.

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Is Badou Jack the man to end the long reign of WBC light-heavyweight champ Adonis Stevenson? The fight to go ahead early next year

12/17/201712/16/2017 James Slater

The knock on knockout artist and long-reigning WBC light-heavyweight king Adonis Stevenson is the quality of challengers he has faced since winning the title by shocking Chad Dawson in a round back in the summer of 2013. “Superman” has retained his belt eight times – an impressive number on paper – but none of these challengers were what you could call elite-level operators.

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Adonis Stevenson’s mandatory defence against Eleider Alvarez finally getting close

09/28/2017 James Slater

Seemingly a long time ago now, and immediately after scoring an impressive 5th round stoppage win over former champ Lucian Bute, unbeaten light-heavyweight contender Eleider Alvarez called for his earned shot at reigning WBC 175 pound champ Adonis Stevenson. Alvarez, 23-0(11) has fought once since, when he won a close decision over another former champ in Jean Pascal in June, but he has wanted to fight Stevenson, 29-1(24) so, so bad.

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Adonis Stevenson-Badou Jack: A light-heavyweight rumble we need to see

09/04/201709/04/2017 James Slater

Badou Jack: 1-0(1) as a light-heavyweight. Adonis Stevenson: 29-1(24) at 175. It might seem a mismatch, but it could also be viewed as one of the most exciting light-heavyweight fights that could be made today.

Jack, a former super-middleweight champ, jumped up seven-pounds and ripped the WBA light-heavy belt from tough and capable Welshman Nathan Cleverly on the huge Mayweather-McGregor “Money Fight” of August 26. Now, the Swedish-born two-weight champ wants all the gold at 175 – Andre Ward and Adonis Stevenson; but not particularly in that order.

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Badou Jack says he wanted to fight Adonis Stevenson tomorrow night, aims to target him, Andre Ward after Cleverly fight

08/25/2017 James Slater

Arguably the best, most evenly matched fight taking place on tomorrow’s big bill in Las Vegas – topped by you know what – the light-heavyweight clash between Nathan Cleverly and Badou Jack is not actually the fight Jack, who is moving up from 168, thought he’d be fighting.

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No Andre Ward-Adonis Stevenson unification next; Stevenson “headed for an Eleider Alvarez fight early in the fall”

07/11/201707/10/2017 James Slater

Though fight fans would very much like to see a light-heavyweight unification showdown between Andre Ward, recent KO winner over Sergey Kovalev, and Adonis Stevenson, the WBC king, it doesn’t look like happening. Not this year anyway.

Yvon Michel, Stevenson’s promoter, told Radio Canada that Ward “never rushes his decisions,” and that after his win over Kovalev, he “spoke of the possibility of going to cruiserweight or heavyweight.”

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