Mikey Garcia-Sergey Lipinets fight postponed due to injury

Mikey Garcia-Sergey Lipinets fight postponed due to injury

The first big fight postponement due to injury has come about here in 2018. Unfortunately, Mikey Garcia’s bid to become a four-weight world champ will have to wait just a little while longer. According to a breaking news piece from Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, reigning IBF 140 pound champ Sergey Lipinets, who would have defended his belt against Garcia on February 10, has suffered a hand injury. The fight, and the whole card, will now take place at a new, as yet undetermined date later this year.

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Super Fly 2 Los Angeles Press Conference Photos & Quotes

Super Fly 2 Los Angeles Press Conference Photos & Quotes

A huge crowd of local media was on hand in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon to attend the Press Conference for SUPERFLY 2. The event takes place Saturday, February 24 from the Forum in Los Angeles and will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark® beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.

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Manny Pacquiao says negotiations are underway for possible super-fight with Vasyl Lomachenko

Manny Pacquiao says negotiations are underway for possible super-fight with Vasyl Lomachenko

There has been some talk of the possibility, no matter how small, of a fight between all-time great Manny Pacquiao and current and reigning pound-for-pound king Vasyl Lomachenko before – and there is more talk on the subject currently taking place. According to Pacquiao his team are discussing a fight between he and the current WBO 130 pound champion, and that the main obstacle to be overcome is weight, as in what weight the fight – really a modern day Dream Fight if ever there was one – would take place at.

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Oscar Valdez vs Scott Quigg on March 10 in Carson, Calif

Oscar Valdez vs Scott Quigg on March 10 in Carson, Calif

WBO featherweight world champion ÓSCAR VALDEZ, the man who swims with a fully-grown pet alligator, will begin the third year of his championship reign by defending his title against former World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight world champion and current No. 2 world-rated featherweight contender SCOTT QUIGG. For Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs), of Nogales, Mexico, this will be his fourth title defense since winning it in 2016. Quigg (34-1-2, 25 KOs), of Lancashire, England, will be making his U.S. debut. The Valdez vs. Quigg world championship fight will take place Saturday, March 10, under the stars at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. It will be televised live and exclusively at 10:30 p.m. EST on ESPN and ESPN Deportes and stream live on the ESPN App. Additional fights on the live telecast will be announced shortly.

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Tyson Fury: I’ll make a fight between me and Joshua a Hagler-Hearns remake at heavyweight!

Tyson Fury: I'll make a fight between me and Joshua a Hagler-Hearns remake at heavyweight!

Has there ever been a heavyweight slugfest where the action was so intense, so fast and relentless that the fight could be compared to the epic middleweight showdown between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns? Probably the closest we’ve seen to it is the classic Foreman-Lyle war, where, like Marv and Tommy, the two combatants went at in a a real hell for leather manner; caring nothing defence.

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Who will emerge as THE man at heavyweight at the end of 2018?

Who will emerge as THE man at heavyweight at the end of 2018?

In an ideal world, the winners of the fast-approaching world heavyweight title fights – between defending WBA/IBF champ Anthony Joshua and WBO ruler Joseph Parker, and between WBC king Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz – will meet up and fight before the year is out. And it is this ideal world Wilder hopes he lives in.

Wilder, who has given Cuban dangerman Ortiz a second chance (the big southpaw’s November 2017 shot at the WBC belt ruined by his own failed drugs test) has told Sky Sports how he aims to face the Joshua-Parker winner in a Mega-Fight once he has dealt with Ortiz.

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Tyson Fury says he’s picking Parker to beat Joshua

Tyson Fury says he's picking Parker to beat Joshua

WBO heavyweight champ Joseph Parker is the underdog going into his March 31 unification battle with WBA/IBF champ Anthony Joshua – via the betting odds and in the opinion of most fight fans – but the unbeaten New Zealander is not without his his supporters. In fact, potential rival Tyson Fury, who still holds the linear crown, is one of them.

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