By Boxing News – 12/15/2024 – Comments Ryan Garcia has suffered a wrist injury while preparing for his December 30th exhibition fight against Rukiya Anpo, resulting in the match needing to be postponed. The FANMIO and RIZIn promoted event will be given a new date in the first half of 2025. Dr. Steven Shin of…
Jaime Munguia’s promoters at Zanfer are planning to activate the rematch clause to force a second fight against Bruno Surace for the first half of 2025 following the super middleweight contender Jaime’s sixth-round knockout loss last Saturday night at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico. Taking an immediate rematch with Surace is not without risk…
Journeyman Dillian Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs) scored a seventh-round stoppage of an out-of-shape looking Ebenezer Tetteh (23-2, 20 KOs) on Sunday night at the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar. The referee halted the fight after the seventh round because 36-year-old Tetteh had been severely punished. Dillian sported a sizeable gut and looked like he’d…
Tevin Farmer says Shakur Stevenson will have to actually “fight” William Zepeda to win because he throws too many punches for him to avoid all of them. WBC lightweight champion Shakur will fight #1 ranked Zepeda (32-0, 27 KOs) in 2025, provided he wins his title defense against Floyd Schofield on February 22nd in Riyadh….
Turki Alalshikh wants former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to “do the job” against unified champ Oleksander Usyk in their rematch this Saturday, December 21st. He wants to set up a trilogy match between them in 2025. Unless he takes it easy on Fury on purpose, it doesn’t look good for him. Turki needs to see…
Jaime Munguia’s decision to fight four times in 2024 may have cost him with his sixth-round knockout loss to Bruno Surace last Saturday night at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico. This was a perfect example of a cherry-pick gone wrong. Overconfidence The former super middleweight world title challenger Munguia (44-2, 35 KOs) got greedy,…
Naoya Inoue fired back at promoter Eddie Hearn and the fans that he’s running from his #1 WBA contender, Murodjon Akhmadaliev. The Japanese star Naoya feels there’s no pressing need for him to defend his four super bantamweight titles against Murodjon, especially with his loss a year ago against one of his victims, Marlon Tapales,…
Jaime Munguia was surprisingly knocked out by Bruno Surace, a fighter with only four knockouts, on Saturday night in the sixth round of their clash at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico. (Credit: Mikey Williams/Top Rank) Canelo Comparison What made this knockout by Surace (26-0-2, 5 KOs) more impressive was that he had to get…
Former WBO Light middleweight champion Jaime Munguia (44-2, 35 KOs) was upset and stopped by EBU Silver middleweight champ Bruno Surace (26-0-2, 5 KOs) at 2:36 of the sixth round in a scheduled 10-round fight on Saturday night in Tijuana, Mexico. (Credit: Mikey Williams/Top Rank) In the first round, Munguia had a slight edge with…
Alexis ‘Rocha (25-2-1, 16 KOs) fought to a non-stop slugfest to a twelve-round draw ending in a draw with Rocha getting one of the scores against Raul Curiel (15-0-1, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. Rocha drew with Curiel, 15-0-1 (13) in a 12-round contest. In the first four…
