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AEW’s tentpole PPV event, Double or Nothing, was live from Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York, New York, headlined by the “Title vs Hair” match between AEW World Champion Darby Allin and challenger MJF. The twelve-match card, including the 3 ‘Buy In’ matches, acts as the lead into ALL IN, the biggest PPV in AEW, […]
Saturday Night’s Main Event was live from Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. It was a four-match fight card featuring 3 separate title matches; aside from the IC title, both men’s and women’s tag titles were on the line. There are several high-profile events in this very busy run for the
Oleksandr Usyk escaped what could have been one of boxing’s biggest upsets, scoring an 11th-round TKO over Rico Verhoeven (1-1, 1 KOs) live from Cairo, Egypt, on DAZN PPV. Usyk (25-0, 16 KOs) was down in the fight and needed something big, which came in the 11th round after the referee made a very questionable
Middleweight Amari Jones is making 2026 the year he checks off bucket list items. On Friday, he stopped the former IBF belt holder, Vincenzo Gualtieri, in the third round at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. The time of the stoppage was 2:29. Jones, 17-0 (15 KOs), who has stopped his last three opponents
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Heavyweight Frank Sanchez entered his fight with Richard Torrez Jr. as the slight underdog, but that changed quickly on Saturday night during their live DAZN PPV bout, when he scored a huge second-round knockout. Sanchez (26-1, 19 KOs) was a little slow to catch up to Torrez’s speed in the first round. When he went
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Fresh off a title defence and with a brand-new belt in hand, Jai Opetaia (30-0, 23 KOs) is eyeing the undisputed throne. However, this can only happen “in a perfect world”, or so he says. In conversation with talkSPORT Boxing, Opetaia opened up about the path that he wishes his career to take in the
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PALM DESERT, California- Jamel Herring did what he has done for years, boxing his way to a unanimous decision victory (50-44 x3) in the main event of BKFC 89 (Bare-Knuckle Fighting Championship), becoming the new BKFC bantamweight champion. Although the crowd was conditioned throughout the night for an all-out, reckless show of fighting for their
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Rico Verhoeven (1-0, 1 KOs) and Oleksandr Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) are all set to fight it out among the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. But promoter, Eddie Hearn, has a warning for the former: be ready to conquer an “impossible mountain”. Talking at their recent presser, the Matchroom boss admitted that Verhoeven has a gargantuan
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Author Jack Hirsch is the kind of journalist one would call a boxing “lifer,” and not be talking out of turn. A former amateur boxer (and sparring partner of middleweight champion Vito Antuofermo) who competed in New York’s Golden Gloves in 1973 and 1976, Hirsch took off his gloves in the ‘70s, picked up a
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In the curious case of Oleksandr Usyk defending his WBC heavyweight world title against Rico Verhoeven in front of the Pyramids of Giza this Saturday, spectacle has replaced competition. Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) has built his reputation into one of the greatest fighters on the planet by continuously fighting in away territory to become a
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