SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 7, 2020 – Missing your boxing fix? As the sports world resorts to creative ways to fill time, Top Rank Boxing has opened up its video vault to present a night of classic fights featuring heavyweight legends on ESPN2 including vintage Muhammad Ali moments. Starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 27, 2020 – As boxing fans wander the sports desert desperate to find a fight oasis, Showtime Boxing goes to its video vault of outstanding bouts to bring fans one of the best fight series of the 21st century on Saturday, March 28. Showtime Boxing re-airs the trilogy of fights between ...
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SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 13, 2020 – Sports fans needing a live event fix had one place to go on Friday night following cancellations due to coronavirus social distancing: Showtime Boxing. Courtesy of Showtime Boxing’s long-running series “Shobox: The New Generation” and Salita Promotions, the show went on from the Grand Casino Hinckley in Hinckley, ...
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. March 6, 2020 – “Helenius upsets Kownacki” wasn’t the headline anyone expected from Saturday’s main event in the heavyweight division. But here came Robert Helenius straight outta Scandanavia (30-3, 19 KOs) to stop Brooklyn’s Adam Kownacki (20-1, 15 KOs) for the first time in Kownacki’s professional career, ruining the home town favorite’s ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 5, 2020 – Brooklyn’s Adam Kownacki (20-0, 15 KOs) returns to his home turf on Saturday at the Barclays Center hopeful that a showcase win over Robert Helenius of Sweden (29-3, 18 KOs) achieves his immediate goal to join the current heavyweight division sweepstakes. Kownacki vs Helenius headlines a trio of ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 29, 2020 – Mikey Garcia insisted on continuing his campaign in the welterweight division despite a sound defeat in 2019 at the hands of Errol Spence, Jr. Garcia’s single-mindedness paid off with a unanimous decision victory over Jessie Vargas of Las Vegas (29-3-2, 11 KOs), winning the WBC World Diamond Welterweight ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 29, 2020 – Boxing has its lead candidate for Comeback Fight of the Year in 2020 – the Chocolatito comeback. Check your calendar. You’d be forgiven if you thought it was 2015, or even 2009. Four-division champion and pound-for-pound top fighter Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez of Nicaragua achieved every honor and accolade, ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. February 28, 2020 – Four-division champion Mikey Garcia is a little stubborn. Despite losing his welterweight in a blowout on the scorecards by Errol Spence, Jr., he’s not giving up so easily at winning a fifth division title. Garcia (39-1, 30 KOs) gives things another go right back where he was a ...
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada., February 22, 2020 – God Save The Gypsy King. In the biggest heavyweight championship fight since Lennox Lewis defeated Mike Tyson in 2002, Great Britain’s Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) dominated American Deontay Wilder (42-1-1, 42 KOs) in their rematch, delivering the improbable power-punching clinic he promised en route to a seventh-round ...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Feb. 22, 2020 – Prospects and aspiring champions on the WilderFury2 undercard had a golden opportunity to impress boxing fans Saturday. They became part of a record-setting gate total for a Las Vegas fight card, $17 million, which breaks the 1999 record set by Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson. See who delivered ...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada., February 22, 2020 – The rematch between heavyweights Deontay Wilder of the U.S. (42-0-1, 42 KOs) and Tyson Fury of the UK (29-0-1, 20 KOs) is hours away. It’s plenty of time to place your bets on the fight. Whether it’s a friendly wager with your friends watching the Fox/ESPN pay per ...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada., February 21, 2020 – The faceoff-less weigh-in is now in the books. The boxing world sits in the eye of the storm, awaiting the arrival of the rematch between American Deontay Wilder (42-0-1, 42 KOs) and Great Britain’s Tyson Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs). No faceoff took place between the main event fighters. ...
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Feb. 20, 2020 – Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum has famously said he doesn’t think undercard fights matter all that much to fans. “People are eating, talking to each other, having a drink, having fun, and they don’t give a [expletive] about the undercard,” Arum was once quoted saying in 2014. This ...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 19. 2020 – Round 13 nearly got underway before the opening bell at Wednesday’s final pre-fight news conference featuring WBC World Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder and challenger Tyson Fury. At the conclusion of the news conference when the pair posed in a traditional faceoff, temperatures rose. Wilder and Fury launched into ...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 19, 2020 – In one of boxing’s modern Fight Week traditions, WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury made their grand arrival in Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon at the MGM Grand Hotel. They greeted fans eager to see the famous ...
Promoters and boxing fans are counting on WilderFury 2 Fight Week to get fans interested in the sport again - and generate more big matchups.