Four-division world champion Miguel Cotto (41-5, 33 KOs) hosted a media workout today at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles ahead of the final fight of the future Hall of Famer’s career, which will be against Sadam “World Kid” Ali (25-1, 14 KOs) for Cotto’s WBO World Junior Middleweight Championship. The action will take place at the World’s Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden, and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Tyson Fury wastes no time in calling out Bellew after Haye return is called off
Tyson Fury has wasted zero time in calling out Tony Bellew. In light of how the December 17 return bout between “Bomber” Bellew and David Haye has been called off due to (yet another) injury suffered by Haye (it’s his arm, actually his bicep, this time for those fans who are keeping tab of the body parts Haye has suffered injury to during his amateur and pro career), Fury has offered his considerable services for the new date that is being worked on: May 5.
David Haye has pulled out of Tony Bellew return; Haye suffers arm injury
Just days after being assured by all concerned that David Haye is “100-percent and ready to go” into his December 17 rematch with Tony Bellew, we get another report that says Haye is indeed injured and that the fight is OFF.
As per a man with all the news – almost all of it reliable – Dan Rafael of ESPN.com reports how “a source with direct knowledge of the situation” informs how Haye has pulled out with an arm injury. The ESPN report says Haye is set to undergo surgery on his arm soon.
“Let’s get this party started!” Tyson Fury lists the TEN heavyweights he wants to fight in his ring return
Although it must be pointed out once again, how it means nothing until he successfully obtains a licence to box again, Tyson Fury has been spending more time on social media; this time kindly listing for us the ten heavyweights he wants to fight in his anticipated ring return next year.
It’s an interesting list to be fair; with some obvious choices along with some less obvious names included on the former heavyweight champ’s list.
Veteran former champs Tomasz Adamek, Guillermo Jones pick up wins at the weekend
Once big names who pulled in large crowds and enjoyed big TV coverage, former world champions Tomasz Adamek and Guillermo Jones picked up wins that by and large flew under the radar this past weekend. Fighting in his homeland of Poland, former light-heavyweight and cruiserweight champ Adamek, now aged 40, pulled out a ten-round UD over tricky spoiler Fred Kassi.
David Haye forced out of the rematch with Tony Bellew after tearing his bicep
David Haye has been forced out of the rematch with Tony Bellew after tearing his bicep in training.
Haye and Bellew were set to renew hostilities again at The O2 in London on December 17 following their rollercoaster first meeting in March won by Bellew, but the two teams will now work towards a new date for the rematch early in 2018, with news on that to come this week.
Can Carl Frampton become a world champion again?
Carl Frampton got the job done last night in winning an exciting and hard-fought ten round decision over tough and game Mexican Horacio Garcia. “The Jackal,” having his first fight in a number of months and his first fight under new trainer, former European, British and Commonwealth champ Jamie Moore, overcame some tough spots; even being knocked down (the call proving with the aid of replay to be a bad one – Frampton having slipped in the seventh-round).
Isaac Dogboe ready for WBO interim world title fight against Cesar Juarez January 6
Ghana’s undefeated WBO International super bantamweight champ, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe (17-0, 11 KOs) arrived back in Ghana on Thursday night with a declaration of war on his next opponent, Cesar Juarez of Mexico (20-5, 15 KOs) ahead of their fight for the WBO interim world super bantamweight strap in Accra on January 6, 2018.
De La Hoya says “we’re working for Cinco de Mayo of next year,” Canelo vs GGG II “gonna be huge”
Although Oscar De La Hoya recently said that talks regarding the demanded return fight between middleweight king Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez were “slow going,”it was a more upbeat De La Hoya who spoke with TMZ Sports yesterday. The Golden Boy head said that the fight the whole world wants to see “is definitely gonna happen” and that the rematch will take place at the exact same venue as the first fight: The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Results: Julian Williams defeats Ishe Smith
Former world champion Ishe Smith (29-9, 12 KOs) of Las Vegas showed grit and heart in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce live from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas as he faced hard-hitting contender Julian Williams (24-1-1, 15 KOs) in a thrilling 10-round super welterweight bout. But the young Philadelphian was too much for the 39-year-old Smith as he landed more clean shots despite Smith throwing combination after combination throughout the fight.