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  • Wilder and Mbilli Prevail in their Friday Features

    Deontay Wilder and Christian Mbilli headlined two different Friday night main events with contrasting story lines. Wilder, the 39 year-old former WBC heavyweight titlist once headlined cards at The Kingdom Arena, T-Mobile Arena, MGM Grand, Barclay Center and the Staples Center. Last night he fought the unknown Tyrrell Herndon at the obscure Charles Koch Arena…

  • KO of The Year Contender! Plus Other Boxing News and Views

    Brian Norman Jr Scores Stunning KO in Japan Norman made his first defense of the WBO welterweight championship with this brutal fifth round KO in Japan. This is easily a contender for knockout of the year and is a brutal one shot finish. Norman is now likely to be seen as the number one welterweight…

  • Mid June Report: Boxing News, Views, and Stories

    Fabio Wardley Scores Stunning Come From Behind KO Wardley continues his undefeated streak through twenty fights reaching 19-0-1 18 KO’s with a tenth round miracle versus Justis Huni. For nine rounds the story was a domination by the Australian heavyweight Huni who led on all three scorecards. The judges agreed that Warldey had only won…

  • Richard Torrez Jr. Will Never Be World Champ?

    No those are not my words or expressed opinion but a comment made on a short posted to the Instagram page for heavyweight prospect Richard Torrez Jr. The comment was met with obvious derision for a guy posing with Doritos and beer in his profile pic. Sure the guy may not be a boxer, may…

  • Jaime Munguia Scores Tenth Round KO!

    From Glendale, Arizona from Top Rank Boxing on ESPN On the comeback trail from his first defeat, Jaime Munguia dropped Erik Bazinyan for the count in the tenth round of what was an entertaining and competitive fight. Led by Mexican legend Erik Morales in his corner the twenty-seven year-old from Tijuana proved to be too…

  • Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou Revisited

    I have decided to come out of my boxing writing hibernation to write about the controversial crossover fight between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou that took place on ESPN PPV last Saturday. For those who have not seen or read anything about the fight, it was a controversial decision. Fury was cut, knocked down in…

  • Wood Dominates Lara & Lopez KO’s Conlan

    Last night the featherweight division was the star attraction with both the IBF and WBA titles on the line in two main events from the UK and Ireland featured on DAZN and ESPN+. Both fights contained interesting match ups and hard punchers who have been consistently putting on terrific fights. The Wood vs Lara fight…

  • Haney vs Lomachenko Scorecard

    1 Haney2 Haney3 Lomachenko4 Haney5 Lomachenko6 Haney7 Lomachenko8 Haney9 Haney10 Lomachenko11 Lomachenko12 HaneyF 115-113 Haney Honestly I feel like this was a very difficult fight to score and I thought that live I watched this again with the sound turned off and I think this fight could really go either way I think the people…

  • Boxing in Media: Michael Montero Previews Devon Haney vs Vasily Lomachenko

    Michael Montero has returned to host Montero on Boxing his YouTube show on the sport doing previews, reviews, interviews and all other videos. I have appreciated his work over the years and after a hiatus he is back. I like this preview video and this is a very intriguing fight. Please take a watch of…

  • Big Bang Zhang Scores the Upset!

    Joe Joyce was stunned this past weekend at the Copper Box Arena in the UK by “Big Bang” Zhang Zhilei. The now 25-1-1 (20) Chinese contender upset the +1,100 favorite in his backyard; the loss drops Joyce to 15-1 (14) and is a massive knee capping. Joyce was highly ranked in the heavyweight division sitting…