BoxNation: Five Live Shows including James DeGale and Joe Joyce next week!
FORMER World Super-Middleweight champion James DeGale and Olympic Super-Heavyweight Silver Medalist Joe Joyce head a boxing bonanza on BoxNation next week.
FORMER World Super-Middleweight champion James DeGale and Olympic Super-Heavyweight Silver Medalist Joe Joyce head a boxing bonanza on BoxNation next week.
…as he targets “massive fights that will really leave a legacy”
In a move that has come as quite a surprise, James DeGale has vacated the IBF super-middleweight title he fought so hard to regain from Caleb Truax back in April.
Twice now, super-middleweight warriors James DeGale and Caleb Truax have battled it out. Upset king Truax scored first blood, winning a wholly unexpected decision back in December, while last night in the return, a bloody DeGale scored a revenge win.
James DeGale MBE came to Las Vegas with his career on the line, but emerged victorious to became a Two-Time World Champion when he reclaimed his IBF World Super-Middleweight title from Caleb Truax at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino this morning.
The badly shopworn James “Chunky” DeGale (24-2-1, 14 KOs) showed that he still has a little left of his old boxing skills in spoiling his way to a 12 round unanimous decision win over Caleb Truax (29-4-2, 18 KOs) on Saturday night to regain his IBF 168 lb.
In his most famous essay, “Ahab and Nemesis”, legendary journalist A.J. Liebling chronicled the classic encounter between Archie Moore, a technically adept and tactically brilliant ring general, and Rocky Marciano, an awkward but ultra-aggressive power-house.
WBA and IBF 154-Pound World Championship Unification
Erislandy Lara – 153 ½
Jarrett Hurd – 153 .
Referee: Kenny Bayless; Judges: Burt Clements (Nev.),
The “real” James DeGale is ready to stand up on Saturday night and reclaim his super-middleweight world title, according to the man himself.
A classic boxer versus puncher style matchup headlines a loaded tripleheader on Showtime this Saturday night. Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd engage in a junior middleweight unification bout, a division the network has focused on for a better part of two years.
World champions Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd went face-to-face Thursday at the final press conference for their 154-pound world title unification this Saturday, April 7 live on SHOWTIME® from Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions.