By Jon Uddin✏
A grudge match four years in the making will take place Saturday night when Ireland’s 🥉🇮🇪Michael Conlan (12-0-0, 7KO) takes on Russia’s 🥉🇷🇺Vladimir Nikitin (3-0-0, 0KO) in a ten round Featherweight bout in New York City at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City. Continue reading “Michael Conlan and Vladimir Nikitin Ready to Settle Score”
By Jon Uddin✏
Undefeated Welterweight prospect 🇺🇸Vergil Ortiz Jr. (14-0-0, 14KO) looks to close out the year strong as he takes on 🇺🇸Brad Solomon (28-1-0, 9KO) in a 12 round headliner Friday night at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. Continue reading “Prospect Watch: Vergil Ortiz Jr. Looks to Close Out the Year Strong Against Brad Solomon”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
The co-headliner coming in is without a doubt the most intriguing match-up of the MSG fight card, and may produce 50/50 type of results. The unofficial Lightweight tournament continues Saturday as knockout artist/IBF Lightweight Titlist 🇬🇭Richard “RC” Commey (29-2-0, 26KO👊) and entertaining young unbeaten world contender 🇺🇸Teofimo Lopez (14-0-0, 11KO👊) will fight for a berth to the final round of their tournament, with both focused on making a strong imprint in their division, and throughout all of boxing. Continue reading “Battle of New York, in New York – Richard Commey & Teofimo Lopez to Clash for IBF Title”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
Saturday, 🗓️December 14th marks the return of the great undefeated former 2-division Lineal Champion & current WBO Welterweight Titlist ♛🇺🇸Terence “Bud” Crawford (35-0-0, 26KO👊), and he will return once again to 🏟️Madison Square Garden in New York City to combat against unbeaten Lithuanian #1 WBO contender 🇱🇹Egidijus Kavaliauskas (21-0-1, 17KO👊). If you are scared to mention Kavaliauskas full name more than 3 times with fear of your furniture levitating and floating around in your house – then he arguably has the best nickname in the sport of boxing today to make it much easier to refer to him as – that nickname being “The Mean Machine”. Continue reading “The Mean Machine Meets the Menacing Champion – Crawford and Kavaliauskas to Headline the Garden”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
Consistency is paramount in the sport of boxing, and in life throughout. There are very few fighters today that come as consistent as IBF Super-Flyweight Titlist 🇵🇭Jerwin “Pretty Boy” Ancajas (32-1-2, 22KO👊), and he performed well up to his usual standard to take care of and dominate Chilean challenger 🇨🇱Miguel “Aguja” Gonzalez (31-3-0, 8KO👊), delivering to him his 3rd loss and knocking him out in the 6th frame to make his 8th Title defense. Continue reading “Ancajas Beats Gonzalez in Mexico to Defend IBF Super-Flyweight Title”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
Undefeated WBC Middleweight Titlist 🇺🇸Jermall “Hitman” Charlo (30-0-0, 22KO👊) and Irish Australian-based world contender 🇮🇪Dennis “Hurricane” Hogan (28-3-1, 7KO👊) headlined the card that occupied the 🏟️Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY last night. There is where Charlo racked up the 30th victory of his career by dominating Hogan and securing a 7th round knockout, for what was Charlo’s second defense of the green strap. Continue reading “Jermall Charlo Brings the Storm to Dennis Hogan, Ices Him in 7”
By Jon Uddin✏
The homecoming fight for 🇲🇽 Emanuel Navarette went as planned as he successfully defended his WBO Super-Bantamweight title for the fourth time this year, stopping countryman 🇲🇽Francisco Horta in the fourth round at Auditorio GNP Seguros in Puebla, Mexico Saturday night. Continue reading “Emanuel Navarette Closes the Year with Hometown Knockout”
By Jon Uddin✏
It was an easy day in the ring for Super-Middleweight prospect 🇺🇸Diego Pacheco, as he dispatched of Tanzania’s 🇧🇪Selemani Saidi at the mark of 1:38 of the first round of their scheduled four round bout at the Diriyah Arena in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Continue reading “Prospect Watch: Diego Pacheco Makes Quick Work of Selemani Saidi”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
The brand new 🏟️stadium built for this event in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia was doused with a heavy dose of 🌧️rain throughout the entire event. Fortunately for 🥇🇬🇧Anthony “AJ” Joshua (23-1-0, 21KO👊), the lingering black cloud hanging over his head from his upset loss to 🇲🇽🇺🇸Andy “Destroyer” Ruiz (33-2-0, 22KO👊) back on June 1st was lifted off him by his most intelligent performance to date, where he methodically picked away at Ruiz’s weaknesses, and picked him apart through the duration of 12 rounds toward a wide Unanimous Decision victory to regain the WBA, WBO & IBF Heavyweight Titles back in his possession. Continue reading “Joshua Puts up a Loud Performance for his Critics as he Fights his Smartest Fight – Regains the Heavyweight Titles”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
As manifested, this was the best fight on the card, and these 2 Heavyweight contenders showed their worth at the top of the contender list as American 🇺🇸Michael “The Bounty” Hunter Jr. (18-1-1, 12KO👊) established himself as a threat early, and Russia’s 🥇🇷🇺Alexander Povetkin (35-2-1, 24KO👊) proved to be able to still perform consistently at the age of 40. While each fighter took turns having their moments, both fighters will have to deal with the reality that their Heavyweight Title eliminator match was rendered a DRAW by the judges. Continue reading “Povetkin & Hunter Live Up to the Bill, Fight to a Credible Draw Verdict”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
A combined record of ✅85 wins – 46 losses❌…interesting, but what record does that pertain to? 🤔that is the cumulative results throughout all of boxing history when 🥇Olympic Gold-Medalists at the professional level fight in rematches against a non-Gold-Medal recipient boxer that they had previously lost to. The “85” represents those Gold-Medalists that won gold, and the “46” represents fights in which those Gold-Medalists couldn’t turn it around, losing yet again to the same boxer – all of that amounting to a solid 64.9% success rate for amateur boxers of that creed. Continue reading “Things We’ve Noticed:🤔 The Resourceful Bounce Back Nature of the 🥇Olympic Gold-Medalist”
By Jon Uddin✏
Recapping Rashidi Ellis’s return against Eddie Gomez, Xu Can’s Featherweight Title defense against undefeated Manny Robles III, and the fallout from the Luis Nery/Emmanuel Rodriguez fight cancellation.
By Tré Berry III🖋️
When you have a 💣bomb in possession, all you need is to conjure a spark to ignite the wick, and it was in a fight where he was in need of it. Losing every round, and every minute of every round, 🥉🇺🇸Deontay “Bronze-Bomber” Wilder (42-0-1, 41KO👊) cautiously calculated the movements of 🦍🇨🇺Luis “King Kong” Ortiz (31-2-0, 26KO👊) and eventually found an opening to land a telephone pole of a right hand to slump Ortiz helplessly by the ropes. Continue reading “All it Takes is One💥 – Trailing Badly Through 6, Wilder Detonates the Bomb on Ortiz with a Single Right Hand for the Knockout in 7th”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
A late recap – On the undercard of Logan Paul/KSI, undefeated young Lightweight super-talent 🇺🇸Devin “The Dream” Haney (24-0-0, 15KO👊) remained undefeated by outpointing previously unbeaten Dominican boxer 🇩🇴Alfredo Santiago (12-1-0, 4KO👊) to a 12 round Unanimous Decision that resulted with complete shutout scores on all 3 official scorecards (120-107 x3). Continue reading “Haney Wins via Shutout Over Santiago, Eyes Mandatory Fortuna Next – Addressing the WBC’s Woes”
By Tré Berry III🖊️
What a beautiful fight this was, between two esteemed boxers who openly hoped to face each other in the 🎥World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) Final once the Tournament was set up in the division, and the participants were announced. The Bantamweight Champion of the World and Tournament #2 seed 🏆♛🇯🇵Naoya “Monster” Inoue (19-0-0, 16KO👊👊) through grueling back and forth action in spots became the Unified RING/WBA/IBF Bantamweight Champion, and now has the Muhammad Ali Trophy in his possession as a reward for going through his toughest fight with one of the true legends of the sport in Tournament #8 seed 🇵🇭Nonito “Flash” Donaire (40-6-0, 26KO👊), who proved once again why he is a First-Ballot Hall-of-Fame worthy by making a real contest of it. Continue reading “A Brilliant Fight – Inoue Shows Moxy & Versatility En Route to a Decision Victory, While Donaire Once Again Proves his Legend”
By Tré Berry III🖋️
What a fight this was, living up to the wait as we watched on throughout the Tournaments start, culminating to a Fight-of-the-Year worthy type of finale. By way of Majority decision, the Champion of the Junior-Welterweight division is WBSS #2 seed 🏆♛🏴Josh “Tartan Tornado” Taylor (16-0-0, 12KO👊), winning the biggest fight of his life in London at the O2 Arena, in front of his traveling fanbase. The #1 seed of the tournament 🇺🇸Regis “Rougarou” Prograis (24-1-0, 20KO👊) fought a hell of a fight, and this one could have been voted either way, but it wasn’t in the cards for him this night as Taylor was successful enough in the eyes of judges to win the ♛RING-MAGAZINE World Title, as well as pairing the WBA/IBF Title belts together, and being awarded the coveted 🏆Muhammad Ali Trophy… Continue reading “The Winner of the ♛Ring Junior-Welterweight Title & 🏆Muhammad Ali Trophy is…”
If you were anticipating getting raw all-out ❗Combat as we had been leading up to this week have, then you would be thoroughly pleased with the turnout between two iron-clad tough fighters testing each others mettle. By way of Split-Decision, 🇺🇸Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. (26-0-0, 21KO👊) left the Staples Center as the new unified WBC/IBF Welterweight Champion, adding a feather to his cap, and 🇺🇸“Showtime” Shawn Porter (30-3-1, 19KO👊) definitely made him work for it, giving his all as we all have grown accustomed to witnessing. Continue reading “Spence Jr. Wins the War of Attrition, Porter Came to Bang, and the Staples Center Got Their Moneys Worth”
In front of a packed O2 Arena in London, England, reigning Lightweight King 👑🥇🥇🇺🇦Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko (14-1-0, 10KO👊) adds the vacant WBC Title Belt to the possession of his RING/WBA/WBO World Titles as he defeated the game former Gold-Medalist challenger 🇬🇧🥇“Cool Hand” Luke Campbell (20-3-0, 16KO👊) through a Unanimous Decision. Continue reading “Lomachenko & Campbell Engage in High Speed Chess – Vasiliy Secures the Strong Victory, While Campbell Gains Respect”
“They often say that the impact of a man can be felt, and ultimately reflective of his people”
This shot by Eloisa Lopez captures the excited Filipino fans exploding with joy as they watch 🇵🇭Manny Pacquiao win the WBA Welterweight title Saturday against Keith Thurman at a public viewing in Marikina, Philippines.
He did it…40 year old all-time-great ♛🇵🇭Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39KO👊) overtakes 🇺🇸Keith “One Time” Thurman’s (29-1-0, 22KO👊) claim as WBA World Champion, and becomes a Welterweight Champion for the 4th time in his career, as well as the oldest man to do so (40 years old), out-dueling the younger man of 10 years via Split Decision verdict with historical implications. Continue reading “The Living Legend Does it Once Again, Adds to his Legendary Campaign of a Career 🔥”
