Billy Joe Saunders not frontrunner for Canelo Alvarez bout in May says De La Hoya
Billy Joe Saunders is seemingly out of the running for the May 2 fight against WBA ‘regular’ super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez fight.
Billy Joe Saunders is seemingly out of the running for the May 2 fight against WBA ‘regular’ super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez fight.
Huge underdog Jeison Rosario (20-1-1, 14 KOs) used his superior power, speed and youth to destroy IBF/IBO/WBA junor middleweight champion Julian ‘J-Rock-Williams (27-2-1, 16 KOs) by a 5th round knockout on Daturday night in front of J-Rock’s own fans at the Liacouras Center, in Philadelphia.
After a 10-day trial period of training at Victor Conte’s SNAC facility in beautiful San Carlos, California, Gennadiy Golovkin (40-1-1, 35 KOs) plans on training for his full camp there for his next title defense of his IBF middleweight belt against unbeaten mandatory Kamil Szeremeta (21-0, 5 KOs) on March 28.
Oscar De La Hoya is excited at what he saw from Jaime Munguia (35-0, 28 KOs) with his 11th round technical knockout win over war-horse Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan (30-4, 21 KOs) last Saturday night in his debut.
Oleksandr Usyk fired back at Tyson Fury on social media in response to him complaining to the WBO about his #1 ranking being given to him after he moved up from cruiserweight.
IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua isn’t worried in the slightest if he’s forced to give up his IBF or WBO titles, since he believes it’ll be worth it if he can get a bigger fight that the boxing public wants to see.
Bob Arum says he just now heard the news on trainer Kenny Porter wanting to get in touch with him to setup a fight between his son Shawn Porter and Terence Crawford.
Andre ‘SOG’ Ward and Tim Bradley are excited about the rematch between WBC champion Deontay ‘The Bronze Bomber’ Wilder and lineal champ Tyson ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury that was announced earlier on Friday for February 22.
WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford says he doesn’t want the fight with ‘Showtime’ Shawn Porter (30-3-1, 17 KOs) because it doesn’t make sense for him right now.
Danny Garcia doesn’t like British fighter Tyson Fury’s chances when he shares the ring with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay ‘The Bronze Bomber’ Wilder in their rematch in 8 weeks from now on February 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada.