While newly-crowned heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk shut out three-belt king Anthony Joshua in London, TV channels in his homeland dealt a low blow to boxing fans by failing to broadcast the thrilling scrap. That meant that Usyk’s compatriots could not join the huge crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – …
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WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO champion Joshua could not find the answers to outsmart Usky in an epic clash, finding himself troubled throughout by the tricky, unorthodox style of the tenacious visiting fighter. Usyk put on a classy display, looking unintimidated from the off after Joshua made a traditionally memorable entrance in …
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Appearing in front of a raucous home crowd, knockout king Lewis looked fired up as he pounded his chest on the scales for the ceremonial weigh-in before marching aggressively towards Gane. UFC boss Dana White struggled to hold back ‘The Black Beast’ before the pair eventually settled into a staredown, …
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Lewis, the second-ranked fighter in the UFC’s heavyweight fold, is widely expected to fight Francis Ngannou later this year in what will be his second bid to claim a world title. But according to footage posted to his Instagram account Tuesday, he came close to getting some early sparring in …
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Jones and Ngannou have been going back and forth in recent days despite UFC chief Dana White stating that a potential superfight between the pair is all but dead due to Jones’ financial demands. That has not stopped the former longtime 205lbs champion from talking up his chances against Ngannou …
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Ortiz, 41, has suffered just two professional defeats in his career – both of them to Deontay Wilder – and questions had been asked in the lead-in to his first fight since being beaten in the seventh round by the ‘Bronze Bomber’ a year ago as to whether the wily, …
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Belarusian heavyweight Andrew Orlowski, acting in Absolute fighting championship (UFC), shared his opinion about the Russian Fedor Emelianenko. The athlete expressed his Instagram account. 40-year-old Orlovsky admitted that he believes Emelianenko “fake”. He also added that the team of the Russian fighter “was a bit tacky.” Probably, Orlovsky has in …
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Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KO’s) forced to postpone the date of his next fight. The tendril may 25 in Oxon hill debut fight in the heavyweight division had to meet with Carlos takama (36-5-1, 28 KO’s). Manager Egis Klimas Ukrainian on his page on Twitter reported that the fight is …
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The absolute world champion in heavy weight Ukrainian Alexander Usik (15-0, 11 KO’s) plans in the near future to replace weight category. On the eve of the Mustache in Moscow by unanimous decision underclass Murata Gassieva (26-1, 19 KO’s) and became the third absolute world champion in heavy weight. Along …
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The boxer punched his opponent. British heavyweight Hughie fury, who is the brother of controversial former world champion Tyson fury, made a dirty provocation in front of his title fight with Joseph Parker. The Englishman pushed the new Zealander, who owns a championship belt WBO. The incident occurred during the …
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