Новости за 31.03.2024

Frazer Clarke understood the public disappointment. There was an opportunity for the Olympic Bronze medalist to have challenged for Fabio Wardley’s British title last spring. Instead, promoter Ben Shalom informed the British board that Clarke was no longer proceeding with the mandatory title challenge. The fans were quick with its criticism. Clarke took it on […]

An Olympic Bronze medal to cap a stellar amateur career. A lucrative contract to begin his pro career. The well-credentialed Frazer Clarke would normally represent a huge step-up in class for someone with Fabio Wardley’s background. Yet, the guy with no traditional amateur experience enters as the proven commodity ahead of their domestic-level title fight. […]

Florian Marku can envision a 2024 campaign where he silences all the fighters who rub him the wrong way. At least two are on his radar, including the one directly in his path. Marku and Chris Kongo get to see their long-brewing rivalry finally make its way to the ring. They meet this Sunday on […]

LAS VEGAS — The fight took on a ghoulish tone. It was a living horror show unfolding before 14,726 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions’ inaugural Amazon Prime event. There was nothing, however, that would wipe away the smile underneath the crusted blood on Sebastian Fundora’s face. […]

LAS VEGAS — It had been almost two years since Erislandy Lara last fought. It was hard to tell the way he dispatched Michael Zerafa on the Premier Boxing Champions’ inaugural Amazon Prime event on Saturday from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Lara (30-3-3, 18 knockouts) is 40, the oldest world titlist, which he […]

Gilberto Ramirez made boxing history by lifting the WBA cruiserweight title from the bruising Arsen Goulamirian with a hard-fought unanimous decision on Saturday at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. The former super middleweight beltholder became the first Mexican to win a major world title at cruiserweight (weight limit of 200 pounds), turning in the best […]

So much for words. So much for glitz and showmanship. Isaac “Pit Bull” Cruz is an anachronism, a throwback to the basic times of boxing, to the days of grainy black-and-white celluloid showing plodding guys who shuffled along in a seek-and-destroy mode. That’s Cruz. It certainly was Saturday night before 14,726 at the T-Mobile Arena […]

LAS VEGAS — They were like two tiny rock’em, sock’em robots. WBC flyweight titlist Julio Cesar Martinez and Angelino Cordova could not get out of each other’s way on the Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora undercard Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions’ inaugural Amazon Prime event from the T-Mobile Arena. Martinez (21-3, 15 knockouts) made his seventh […]