By Gary Cromie: Under the shimmering desert skies of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol are poised to collide once more on February 22, 2025. The rematch, set to headline Turki Al-Sheikh’s blockbuster card in Riyadh, carries all the gravitas of unfinished business. In a city where ancient traditions meet modern … Read more
Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya says it was a little “too ambitious” for his fighter, Floyd ‘Kid Austin’ Schofield Jr., to take the fight with WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson this early in his four-year pro career. De La Hoya says Schofield’s dad, Floyd Sr, was “adamant” that his son must fight Shakur … Read more
And so the fight for Trent Alexander-Arnold has started in earnest. As the first day of the New Year approaches, with the prospect of one of the best players in the game about to be able to sign a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club, it was always going to be that way. It is … Read more
On December 23rd, the undefeated WBA world lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis published a post on social media stating his scheduled title defense against WBA super-featherweight champion Lamont Roach Jr (25-1-1, 10 KOs) has been canceled. In early October, Gervonta Davis initially announced that the world title fight between him and Lamont Roach would take … Read more
‘The Krusher’ Sergey Kovalev is leaning toward Tyson Fury defeating Anthony Joshua in the ‘Battle of Britain’ when the two former heavyweight world champions meet in 2025. “Fragile” Chin Kovalev says Joshua is “fragile” in the chin department, and that’s why he thinks Fury can win. Sergey doesn’t say that Fury’s power isn’t at the … Read more
For many years, Nottingham Forest fans have suffered through a seemingly never-ending rollercoaster of promotion chances and relegation battles. Now they are a chance in the Premier League title chase. It took 23 years, 1000 league and play-off matches and a total of 20 different managers for Forest to make their much-anticipated return to the … Read more
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya says Ryan Garcia will take a tune-up fight in late April or May when his suspension expires. He says it’ll be just a warmup-level opponent and not a world champion, given that Kingry will have been out of the ring for a year. Targeting Teofimo & Ennis After Garcia (24-1, … Read more
Oleksandr Usyk will fight in July or August 2025 to defend his unified heavyweight title. He beat former WBC champion Tyson Fury by a 12-round unanimous decision in their rematch last Saturday night in Riyadh. The fight was an easier one for Usyk than their previous match due to Fury choosing to bulk up 281 … Read more
As we stretch into the strange period between Christmas and New Year, there’s still plenty of festive football to gorge on. There were no Premier League matches today (Saturday) but the action resumes on Sunday with six games, followed by three on Monday and one on New Year’s Day (Wednesday). But unlike the last round … Read more
David Nyika has been using daily affirmations to stay focused on his task of destroying IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia in their fight on January 8th. Psychological War Nyika (10-0, 9 KOs) is committed to physically breaking Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) and knocking him out in their headliner, live on DAZN at the Gold Coast … Read more