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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Taylor vs Essuman: Live updates and results, 2 pm ET
Josh Taylor looks to get his career rolling again, now as a welterweight, as he moves up to the 147 lb division to face Ekow Essuman in a main event from Glasgow. Live coverage on DAZN starts at 2 pm ET, as will our live updates. Advertisement Taylor, 34, is coming in off of two straight losses to Teofimo Lopez and Jack Catterall, while the 36-year-old Essuman has won back-to-back fights following a 2023 loss to Harry Scarff. The undercard will feature the return of top heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma, plus more. Main Card (DAZN, 2:00 pm ET) Josh Taylor (19-2, 13 KO) vs Ekow Essuman (21-1, 8 KO), welterweights, 12 rounds Moses Itauma (11-0, 9 KO) vs Mike Balogun (21-1, 16 KO), heavyweights, 10 rounds Nathaniel Collins (16-0, 7 KO) vs Lee McGregor (15-1-1, 11 KO), featherweights, 12 rounds Aloys Junior (9-1, 8 KO) vs David Jamieson (13-3, 10 KO), cruiserweights, 12 rounds Aston Brown (7-0, 2 KO) vs Reece Porter (5-0, 3 KO), middleweights, 10 rounds More from
Forbes
6 days ago
- Sport
- Forbes
Richardson Hitchins Vs. George Kambosos Jr: When Does It Start?
In a matter of hours, IBF super lightweight champion Richardson Hitchins will defend his title against former undisputed lightweight champion, George Kambosos Jr. The fight takes place inside the Madison Square Garden Hulu Theater in New York. Here are the particulars for this anticipated matchup. Here's what boxing fans and those watching the lightweight division need to know about the card and how to watch: Full Fight Card Hitchins is coming off a masterful performance in a unanimous decision win over Liam Paro in Puerto Rico in December 2024 to win the title. Saturday's fight will be his first title defense as he eyes an even bigger fight down the road—perhaps with WBO champion, Teofimo Lopez. I spoke to Hitchins after his win over Paro in an exclusive interview and he discussed prospects of fighting Kambosos and Lopez. Well, it looks like he got his wish—at least the first part. Things are up in the air as it pertains to Lopez whose relationship with Turki Alalshikh may not be in the best place. As for Kambosos, after shocking the world when he defeated Lopez via split decision in 2021, Kambosos has gone 2-3 with his wins coming over less-than-thrilling opposition (Jake Wylie in March and he won another world title with a win over the punch-less Maxi Hughes in July 2023). Kambosos was dominated twice by Devin Haney and he lost the IBF title to Vasyl Lomachenko via 11th-round TKO in what proved to be the legend's last fight in May 2024. If Hitchins cannot beat Kambosos, it will be a bad look for the 27-year-old looking to join the ranks of true needle-movers in the sport. If Kambosos loses, there will be little doubt that the 32-year-old is done competing at the highest level of the sport.
ABC News
13-06-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
George Kambosos told he 'won't make it out' of New York ahead of title fight against Richardson Hitchins
George Kambosos Jr has been warned he "won't make it out of this city" in a chaotic prelude to his New York world title shot. The plucky Australian and former unified lightweight champion will look to go 3-0 at Madison Square Garden Theatre on Sunday (AEST) against IBF super lightweight strap-holder Richardson Hitchins. The pair were due to face-off after their press conference on Friday but that never happened after a series of altercations, including Hitchins's trainer lifting his stool and threatening to charge at Team Kambosos. Hitchins had earlier flashed what he claimed was $50,000 in Kambosos's face and urged him to match the all-or-nothing bet, the Australian pushing him away and ripping open his shirt as security swarmed. Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn cancelled the face-off as Devin Haney's father Bill piped up from the crowd to spark another slanging match with the American. Kambosos Jr's father George Sr later claimed he had a physical altercation trying to protect himself from Hitchins's trainer, Lenny Wilson. "F*** around and you won't make it out of this city," Brooklyn native Hitchins told Kambosos. "F***ing bum, you (are) going to get it." Kambosos claims he's already bet that much on himself at $7 odds to upset the American, who beat Australian champion Liam Paro in December to snatch the title. The drama plays into the hands of underdog Kambosos, who is returning to the site of his famous 2021 defeat of Teofimo Lopez. Kambosos is 2-0 at MSG and 5-0 in the United States. "This is the trifecta," said Kambosos, 22-3 (10 KOs), before the question-and-answer format of the event broke down. "I'm coming here as the underdog. "I'm coming to win this fight. You've seen it before, you've seen it in his eyes, whatever it takes, by any means. There is no Plan B." Hitchins, 19-0 (7 KOs), was in the stadium the night Kambosos upset Lopez. "This is what I've worked for my whole life," he said. "I remember coming to The Garden and watching Teofimo and Kambosos compete. "I said, 'I can beat both of them guys. As soon as I get my opportunity, I'll be a world champion. I'll bring the championship back to the city'. "New York had a lot of big fights through the years, but New York hasn't had their own since eight, 10 years ago." AAP
The Independent
11-06-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
The Best Fighters to Come… From Ukraine
If the world has learned anything of note in the past three years, it may be that the Ukrainians are not a people to be messed with. Catch all the latest boxing action on DAZN Given what has been seen of Ukrainian bravery, fortitude, and resistance in that time, it is no surprise that the nation has given the world some tremendous boxers and fighters over the last twenty-five years. Vasyl Lomachenko, 18-3 (12) Newly retired, 'Loma' may have been the most preternaturally gifted boxer of his generation. As an amateur, he won 396 of 397 amateur fights and picked up Olympic medals in 2008 and 2012. Bizarrely, his debut fight was for a title, albeit a largely meaningless one in the form of the WBO international featherweight belt. But Lomachenko won by stoppage in four rounds, then promptly lost a split decision five months later for the WBO world featherweight title. Not to be deterred, Lomachenko won that title just three months later with a majority decision against Gary Allen Russell Jr and then went on a run of twelve victories, moving like a scythe through the likes of Anthony Crolla, Luke Campbell, Jorge Linares, and Guillermo Rigondeaux. In 2020, Lomachenko attempted to unify the world lightweight title but dropped a unanimous decision to Teofimo Lopez. He moved back to winning ways with three wins on the trot, before losing a decision to the then-undefeated Devin Haney in another world lightweight unification bout. There was, however, one last hurrah when Lomachenko went to Australia just over a year ago where he stopped George Kambosos Jr in eleven rounds. Retiring this week at the age of 37, Lomachenko said that he was moving in a new direction in life. Wladimir Klitschko, 64-5 (53) The former undisputed heavyweight king was actually born within the borders of Kazakhstan in 1976, but is proudly and firmly Ukrainian. After winning gold in the super-heavyweight division in the 1996 Olympics, the younger of the Klitschko brothers turned professional in 1996 and fought mainly in Germany before US fighter Ross Puritty stopped him in eleven rounds in Kyiv in 1998. Returning in Germany, this Klitschko steadily rebuilt, fighting across the world, until WBO champion Chris Byrd was persuaded to go to Cologne in 2000. A twelve-round decision gave Klitschko his first world title, which he then defended against the likes of Charles Shufford, 17-1; Frans Both, 44-3-1; Ray Mercer, 30-4-1; and Jameel McCline, 28-2-3. The wheels coming off with losses in the second and fifth rounds to Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster in 2003 and 2004 seemed to spell the end, but Klitschko outscored dangerman Samuel Peter before steadily collecting all the belts (apart from the WBC, which was owned by brother Vitali). A close loss to Tyson Fury in Dusseldorf in 2015 spelled the end of one of the longest heavyweight runs. But there was still some fire left – a 2017 match against Anthony Joshua, when Klitschko was 41, became a heavyweight classic and proved as good a time as any for the Ukrainian to finally retire. Vitali Klitschko, 45-2 (41) If Wladimir was the boxer, then elder brother Vitali was the fighter. Currently Mayor of Kyiv, this Klitschko was originally supposed to be Ukraine's super-heavyweight in the 1996 Olympics but lost out on a berth due to a failed drugs test. Instead, the senior Klitschko turned professional later that year and, fighting largely out of Germany like his brother, worked his way up to the European title within two years. After defending the European title twice, Klitschko went to London and knocked out the heavy-punching Herbie Hide in two rounds for the WBO title. Two defences of the WBO title followed before a shoulder injury forced Klitschko to retire after nine rounds against Chris Byrd. If Vitali's standing had been diminished by the loss to Byrd, he regained it by losing on cuts against Lennox Lewis, coming in on short notice. There was no rematch, however, as Lewis retired and Klitschko, after defeating Kirk Johnson in two rounds, slugged it out against Corrie Sanders to win the vacant WBC title. After one defence and citing injuries, Klitschko retired. Only to come back four years later, stopping Samuel Peter in eight rounds in Berlin. Reinvigorated, Klitschko made nine defences of the WBC title before retiring after a technical knockout over Mahmoud Charr. Oleksandr Usyk, 23-0 (14) Current heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is the only fighter on this list to still be undefeated, although many have tried. The problem is that there may be no heavyweight on the planet capable of doing so while only in possession of two arms. While Usyk has remained undefeated against Fury (twice), Joshua (twice), and Dubois in what has been one of the richest seams in heavyweight history, he also does so as a cruiserweight who has moved up. It is a rare occurrence, too, that Usyk fights at home in Ukraine. But this is a man who has spent the majority of his career on the road. Usyk won his first world title against the Polish Krzysztof Glowacki in Gdansk, Poland, in 2016. From there, he defended his title twice in the US, before travelling to Germany to beat Marco Huck in the inaugural World Boxing Super Series. Usyk then travelled on foreign soil three times, to beat Mairis Briedis, Murat Gassiev, and Tony Bellew on home territory before going to Chicago to beat Chazz Witherspoon in Usyk's first heavyweight fight. He then came back to the UK to beat Derek Chisora and Anthony Joshua, the latter for the heavyweight titles. Decamping to Saudi Arabia, Usyk rematched Joshua – and won. Then he went to Poland to fight Daniel Dubois (the city was brimmed that night with Ukrainians – the closest to a home crowd Usyk had had in years), before returning to Riyadh to face Tyson Fury twice – winning both bouts. And in a few weeks, live and exclusive on DAZN, Usyk will face Daniel Dubois again – this time at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London. Watch the very best boxing with a DAZN subscription DAZN is the home of combat sports, broadcasting over 185 fights a year from the world's best promoters, including Matchroom, Queensberry, Golden Boy, Misfits, PFL, BKFC, GLORY and more. An Annual Saver subscription is a one-off cost of £119.99 / $224.99 (for 12 months access), that's just 64p / $1.21 per fight. There is also a Monthly Flex Pass option (cancel any time) at £24.99 / $29.99 per month.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Teofimo Lopez Abandons Devin Haney Fight, Leaving Fans With Questions
Teofimo Lopez Abandons Devin Haney Fight, Leaving Fans With Questions originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Devin Haney was looking forward to clashing with Teofimo in August, but despite him signing his part of the deal, Lopez has had a sudden change of mind. Advertisement A few days ago, when Teofimo Lopez fell out with Turki Alalshikh, a Saudi Arabian-based boxing promoter, he took to his social media page to announce that he was fired and that he was looking for a new job. Hours later, he apologized to Turki and showed regret about his actions. 'To His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, I take full responsibility for my inappropriate words on the X app; I publicly apologize to HE; I will conduct myself with greater respect, humility, and professionalism. Sending love and light to all,' said Lopez on X. Hours ago, a bout for Lopez and Haney was confirmed and scheduled for August 16 in Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, Lopez has had a change of heart. 'Dear John, Haney's! This is to gently advise you that Teofimo Lopez has withdrawn from the fight, as we'd like to thank you for your efforts and professionalism throughout the process,' said Bill Haney on an X repost. Devin went further and clarified that he was the one who had signed his part; Lopez's was still pending. 'The fight with Teo is not signed! I signed my part, and Teo has been stalling. As of today, he has decided he doesn't want to fight me; he's officially the biggest duck with a thumbs down emoji,' said Devin on X. Lopez hasn't given an explanation why he doesn't want to fight Haney. 'I'm looking to work with a company in the retail industry to launch and expand my 'make boxing great again' brand and other ideas I am working on. Tag a retail company you'd like to see in collaboration and wear as your own,' said Lopez on X. This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
