Forget, if you can, the bad blood that exists between Saturday night’s headliners – Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. The opening bout on Saturday’s card at an expected sold-out Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has gone into full nasty mode.
Undefeated junior middleweight prospect Anthony “ATV” Velazquez (16-0-1, 14 KOs) takes on Yusuph “Mr. Mwanza” Metu (11-1, 8 KOs) in the main event at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, this Saturday, April 26th, in a scheduled ten-round bout.
If ever a rivalry that was 1-1, crammed full of two-way violence, absolutely screamed for a part three, it is the super-middleweight rivalry that went down between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman, in speaking with Sky Sports, said that the winner of this Saturday night’s heavily hyped British grudge-match between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Junior “is going to be a major player in boxing worldwide.”
Devin Haney says he’s coming back “better than” he was before and will “beat Jose Ramirez on May 2nd in their welterweight co-feature fight at Times Square in New York City.
Ring Magazine announced today that there will be two co-feature bouts, with Edgar Berlanga vs. Hamzah Sheeraz and Shakur Stevenson vs.
Eddie Hearn says he spoke with promoter Lou DiBella about the reports of Shakur Stevenson reportedly leaving Matchroom to sign with him for his next fight against William Zepeda on July 12th in New York.
Genuine bad blood, or hype and nothing much more? The upcoming DAZN PPV fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Junior – do these two really hate each other?
Undefeated super middleweight and current IBF world champion William Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) will take on the biggest challenge of his career on May 3rd: He’s set to fight the biggest name in boxing—Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs)—in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, live on DAZN.
It wasn’t too long ago that Michael Nunn was in prison, sent there for the far too long term of 292 months, this for distributing cocaine.