Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis will be taking a big step up in class in taking on former light welterweight world champion Sergey Lipinets next May on Showtime Boxing.
The unbeaten 147-pound contender Ennis (26-0, 24 KOs) is getting a chance to show that he belongs at the top either the other welterweights in the division.… read full article “Jaron Ennis vs. Sergey Lipinets agreed for May on Showtime”
Unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez isn’t too worried about what Devin Haney brings to the table. Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs) says WBC lightweight champion Haney (25-0, 15 KOs) is a guy that “easy” to figure out, unlike VasilyLomachenko, who Teo says wasn’t easy to break down.… read full article “Teofimo Lopez: It’s very simple to beat Devin Haney”
Bernard Hopkins says nobody beats Teofimo Lopez right now at 135, and he believes he’s going to keep winning for a long, long time.
Indeed, Hopkins believes he’ll be an older man by the time the undisputed lightweight champion Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs) suffers his first defeat.… read full article “Bernard Hopkins: Nobody beats Teofimo Lopez”
Promoter Bob Arum doesn’t understand where Keith Thurman is coming from with him calling him ‘cheap’ and saying that he can’t afford to pay him his asking price to challenge Terence Crawford for his WBO welterweight title.… read full article “Arum reacts to Keith Thurman’s comments”
Bob Arum says he’s confident that Teofimo Lopez beats Devin Haney easily if the two of them ever fight.
IBF/WBA/WBC Franchise/WBO lightweight champion Teofimo (16-0, 12 KOs) recently said that he plans on sending out offers to Haney and his IBF mandatory George Kambosos Jr for his next fight in April or May.… read full article “Teofimo Lopez beats Devin Haney easy says Bob Arum”
Bob Arum says a representative for Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman reached out to him to see if he’s interested in seeing up a fight with WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford. Arum said he’s waiting to hear back from him to see if he can put the fight together.… read full article “Thurman reached out to Arum for Crawford fight”
Undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez wants to give the fans the fight they want in Devin Haney, so he says he’s going to try and get his IBF mandatory George Kambosos Jr. to step aside to make that match happen.… read full article “Teofimo Lopez wants Kambosos to step aside for Haney fight next”
WBC lightweight champion Devin ‘The Dream’ Haney (25-0, 15 KOs) will be receiving a contract offer IBF/WBA/WBC Franchise/WBO champion Teofimo Lopez for his next fight in April or May.
Haney, 22, is the backup insurance plan if Teofimo is unable to get the fight made with his main target, George Kambosos.… read full article “Teofimo Lopez sending contract to Devin Haney for next fight”
Teofimo Lopez Sr wasn’t impressed at all with lightweight contender Ryan Garcia’s big seventh-round knockout win over Luke Campbell last Saturday night on DAZN.
In what amounted to be the coming-out party for Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs), who showed that he belongs among the elite at 135.… read full article “Teofimo Lopez Sr not wowed by Ryan Garcia’s win over Luke Campbell”
Canelo Alvarez says he’ll knock out Gennadiy Golovkin and hurt him if they battle for a third time. DAZN would be overjoyed if Canelo were to substitute one of his fights against super middleweights Avni Yildirim and Billy Joe Saunders to fight against Golovkin.… read full article “Canelo Alvarez says he’d hurt Gennady Golovkin if they fight now”