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Light flyweight champion Carlos Canizales got yet another stroke of bad luck this week. After agreeing to return to Thailand to battle former minimumweight champ Knockout CP Freshmart, ESPN’s Renato Bermudez announced yesterday that Canizales had withdrawn. Canizales took to social media to reveal that the recent decision by several major international airlines to stop […]
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Former four-division titlist Kazuto Ioka isn’t done quite yet. After losing his second straight competitive decision to Fernando “Pumita” Martinez in May, he’s now set to fight Maikel Ordosgoitti in a WBA bantamweight eliminator on New Year’s Eve. Ioka (31-4-1, 16 KO) previously claimed belts at 105, 108, and 112 before a lengthy stay at […]
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Boxxer promoter Ben Shalom tells ESPN that he’s honing in on a women’s undisputed welterweight title fight between Mikaela Mayer and Lauren Price that would take place in the coming year. Mayer and Price had previously been in talks for a fight to take place this year but it never materialized as Shalom admits their […]
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Mike Coppinger has an update on Subriel Matias’ failed drug test for ostarine. Per the New York State Athletic Commission, Matias’ (23-2, 22 KO) “adverse finding” revealed a concentration of 0.085 ng/ml. While the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) treats any amount of ostarine as a violation, this was administered by VADA, which has a threshold […]
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Devin Haney just recently appeared on The Ariel Helwani Show to discuss his most recent world title win when he beat Brian Norman Jr last weekend. Here, Haney gives his reaction to what transpired in the fight and explains why he’s satisfied with the performance he put on before reacting to Conor Benn who was […]
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Moses Itauma has his next fight scheduled against Jermaine Franklin, and after spending some time having lamented the difficulty he faced in getting this fight scheduled due to avoidance in the heavyweight division, he explains why he feels Franklin will be a good test for him as he looks to move further up the food […]
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Chris Eubank Jr, 36, may be coming off a dreadful performance against Conor Benn in what was a sequel of their grudge match, but he’s not looking to hang up the gloves just yet. Eubank’s promoter Ben Shalom of Boxxer confirms to ESPN that Eubank wants to carry on his career and is looking for […]
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Queensberry Promotions are the latest to enlist some of Uzbekistan’s best, announcing the signings of amateur light heavyweight world champion Javokhir Ummataliev and 2024 Olympic welterweight gold medalist Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev. Ummataliev, 20, is one of if not the youngest of the Uzbek standouts to turn pro. He’s just over two months removed from that world […]
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Trainer Abel Sanchez weighed in about his thoughts on the recently announced fight between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua and he explains why Paul might’ve put himself in harms way even in spite of all the money he’s due to earn in this matchup. “Jake Paul has done something that few people have been able […]
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Immediately following Devin Haney’s win over Brian Norman Jr, Haney’s main rival Ryan Garcia took to social media to give his immediate reaction to what he saw in the fight as he looks forward to what will be an inevitable rematch between Haney and himself. “Norman looked like what I thought he was going to […]
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Devin Haney is once again a world champion and this time in the welterweight division following a decision win over Brian Norman Jr over the weekend. With Haney’s win the attention immediately turned to where he will look for his next opponent in a rather weak division at the moment, and with Conor Benn being […]
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With Jake Paul set to take on what will obviously be the most dangerous opponent to date in Anthony Joshua, it’s been revealed to ESPN that the fight — despite being a ‘heavyweight fight’ — will have some stipulations for Joshua, with him not being allowed to weigh over 245 lbs for the official weigh-in, […]
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2004 Olympian and longtime super welterweight contender Vanes Martirosyan passed away yesterday at the age of 39 after a “two-year battle with skin cancer.” Though he never managed to claim a world title, Martirosyan spent much of his career giving top fighters everything they could handle. He fought Erislandy Lara to a technical decision in […]
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Takuma Inoue is once again a bantamweight champion, winning the vacant WBC title by hard-fought unanimous decision over Tenshin Nasukawa in Tokyo. Inoue (21-2, 5 KO), spoke openly about considering retirement before accepting this fight. And, fighting for the first time in a year after a loss to Seiya Tsutsumi, he got off to a […]
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Results: Tenshin Nasukawa and Takuma Inoue will meet for the vacant WBC bantamweight title in Tokyo today, and Bad Left Hook will be here with live updates, results, and discussion down in the comments section of this post. The show will stream live for U.S. viewers on Top Rank Classics, starting at 3:45 am ET. […]
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Monday, November 24th Top Rank Classics, 3:30 am ET, Tenshin Nasukawa vs Takuma Inoue. From Tokyo, Japan, for the vacant WBC bantamweight title. Solid main event, and a nice undercard, too. Mikito Nakano vs Ra’eese Aleem at featherweight, plus Tomoya Tsuboi, 29 years old but in just his 3rd pro fight, stepping up big against […]
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David Benavidez says he will move up to cruiserweight next May to challenge Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez for the WBO cruiserweight title. Benavidez announced the plan after his win over Anthony Yarde in Riyadh, and it’s a bit of a curveball, with Benavidez retaining his WBC light heavyweight title, but it may simply be the best […]
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David Benavidez stayed unbeaten overall and went to 3-0 as a light heavyweight, looking like a dangerous potential foe for Dmitry Bivol or anybody else with a dominant win over Anthony Yarde in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Benavidez (31-0, 25 KO) felt it out early on, but once he started turning the screw, as they say, […]
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Devin Haney shut down some skeptics and proved some doubters wrong, taking the WBO welterweight title in his full 147 lb debut. Haney dropped Brian Norman Jr in the second round and otherwise smartly boxed his way to victory, taking scores of 114-113, 116-111, and 117-110 from the judges, winning a world title in a […]
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Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez unified three of the four world titles at super flyweight, having it pretty much all his way en route to a 10th round knockout win over Fernando Martinez. Martinez (18-1, 9 KO) lost the WBA title in the defeat, which Rodriguez added to the WBC and WBO belts he already held coming […]
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Abdullah Mason and Sam Noakes both had questions coming into their fight this evening in Riyadh, and both fighters answered those questions with violent aplomb. Mason (20-0, 17 KO) out-pointed Noakes (17-1, 15 KO) in a fantastic action fight to win the previously-vacant WBO lightweight title, making the Ohio native, at age 21, boxing’s new […]
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Results World titles are on the line in four fights today from Riyadh, and Bad Left Hook will be here with live updates, results, and discussion down in the comments section of this post starting from 3 pm ET. David Benavidez will defend his WBC light heavyweight title against Anthony Yarde, and Devin Haney will […]
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Four world title fights highlight tomorrow’s Ring IV pay-per-view event from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with David Benavidez vs Anthony Yarde and Devin Haney vs Brian Norman Jr headlining the show, and those are arguably the two worst fights of the top four on the bill. A look at the card and some predictions. Who do […]
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All fighters made weight in Riyadh ahead of Saturday’s Ring IV: Night of the Champions card, co-headlined by David Benavidez vs Anthony Yarde and Devin Haney vs Brian Norman Jr. Benavidez (30-0, 24 KO) will defend his WBC light heavyweight title against Yarde (27-3, 24 KO) in the closing fight of the show. Both came […]
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Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua are really going to fight. The two stars made the official announcement for their December 19 bout in Miami, which will stream live on Netflix, going face-to-face and sharing their thoughts at the press conference. “I like to challenge myself. I like to take on the biggest, the best. I […]
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