A couple takeaways from
#WilderFury
1. Fury is the best heavyweight boxer in the division.
2. Wilder has the eraser and it's the most devastating we have seen in recent years.
3. Anthony Joshua doesn't want either one of them.
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Spence and Crawford are both calling out a Manny Pacquiao that will turn 42 years of age next month.
They need to fight each other. End of story.
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The WBC removed Conor Benn from their rankings in January for not enrolling in VADA. Well, now Benn has reportedly failed a VADA test. Dun dun duuuuun.
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#EubankBenn
Sources: Former unified and current middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin is in a dispute with DAZN over opponents. The streaming service is trying to force a title unification between GGG and Demetrius Andrade.
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If Haney didn’t agree to fight Kambosos in Australia twice, 135 would probably be one of those weight classes where the top guys are fighting everyone but the top dogs.
Haney opened the floodgates to all of these big fights.
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Is Canelo-Makabu a cherry pick? By definition, it is. But I don’t care. It’s one thing if Canelo does this frequently, but he has been carrying the sport.
We should be more outraged that other fighters aren’t fighting one another and waiting for the lottery ticket.
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Sources: I’m told that Canelo-Plant negotiations have been difficult. DAZN is looking into Canelo-GGG III.
@pugboxing
first to report. I’m told Canelo more likely to pick GGG trilogy over Andrade as a result of press conference confrontation in May.
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Errol Spence total PPV buys: 910,000
Bud total PPV buys: 200,000
Total buys between the both of them: 1,110,000
Percentage of total buys for Spence: 82%
Percentage for total buys for Bud: 18%
It’s not rocket science as to who the A-side is.
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Demetrius Andrade's father and trainer, Paul, informed The Ring this afternoon that his son is willing to step in to face Canelo Alvarez if the Mexican superstar is still looking for an opponent.
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Conor Benn's legal team was looking into whether chicken eggs caused his two failed tests.
The argument wouldn't have worked either way because clomifene isn't authorised for use in animals in the UK.
That's why they're backpedaling from the egg argument.
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Wilder is the biggest puncher of this generation. History is a stretch.
Joe Louis, Earnie Shavers, Rocky Marciano, Mike Tyson, etc.
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existed before 2008, folks.
Stylistically speaking, Bivol is going to be a challenging fight for Canelo. It's simply ludicrous to say Canelo is taking the easy route when all these other fighters aren't even active.
Everyone wants the lottery ticket, then throws a fit when Canelo goes the other way.
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I like Canelo he's a great fighter but Bivol is not the best champion in his weight class. Secondly GGG (40) old ass will be moving up in weight for the trilogy. Then he might fight John Ryder in December. I think it's safe to say Canelo picked the easy route.
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Honestly an apology from Serrano’s trainer does not suffice, IMO. Taunting someone who is being placed into an ambulance is as low as it gets. That’s not something that, “Oops, my bad,” is going to fix.
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Judge Alejandro Rochin gave Wilder the first four rounds.
This doesn't warrant an investigation. No, really. It doesn't. Just fire him because there's no way that Wilder won the first four rounds, let alone seven rounds of the fight.
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#WilderFury
Just got admitted into the Boxing Writers Association as a full member!!!!!!!!
So stoked!!!! Been dreaming of this moment for a long, long time.
I would scream but I am in a grocery store.. 😂😂😂
Sources: I’m being told that IBF middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin is training hard as if he is fighting Canelo Alvarez in September. Canelo-Plant negotiations are still ongoing as we speak.
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We should have gotten Joshua-Wilder six years ago. And this is what happens when you over marinate. We, the
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fans, get screwed over, as always.
#DayofReckoning
Honestly if Anthony Joshua doesn’t win the rematch with Ruiz, I see him retiring.
He already has enough money and he can go out without fighting Wilder. Why not? Don’t blame him one bit if he does.
I'm hearing that barring unforeseen circumstances, Naoya Inoue's next fight should be a rematch against Nonito Donaire.
No date. Nothing like that to report, but that is the plan.
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If you don't see anything special in Lomachenko, you're either a hater, ignorant, blind, or on drugs.
At this point, it could be a combination of everything. Gotta respect the man.
Bivol has stated for the last year-and-a-half that he would be willing to fight Canelo at 168 or 175. So if they fight at 172, whoop dee freaking do.
Y’all act like this is the first time a catch weight has ever been mentioned. Even Sugar Ray Leonard had CWs.
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Did Eddie Hearn expect Deontay Wilder to show class to the team that offered him a 10 percent cut of a significant fight?
I don't think any of us would be particularly pleased if we were in Wilder's position.
It's time
@BronzeBomber
got his respect.
Per my sources, Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins missed the post-fight press conference because they had dinner reservations with a person who wasn’t at the fight. They expected the main event to start later. As for Goossen, different story.
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#DavisGarcia
One Errol Spence PPV has generated more than all of Crawford’s PPVs combined, with the exception of the Danny Garcia fight. That’s what it boils down to. Spence is the unquestionable draw, but I believe Crawford is the better fighter.
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Javier Fortuna tells The Ring that he looked to God after his fight with Ryan Garcia was canceled and prayed for him.
After seeing Garcia in Hawaii and training soon after their bout was cancelled, Fortuna said he was upset more than anything but has moved on.
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Sources: Welterweight prospect Rashidi Ellis was offered a fight with
@VergilOrtiz
but turned it down. Last November, Ellis told The Ring that he was ready to fight Vergil. But when it came down to signing the contract, he balked.
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@GoldenBoyBoxing
Sources:
@VergilOrtiz
to make his 154-pound debut against Fredrick Lawson on January 6, 2024, at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Solid matchup. The unbeaten Ortiz will come off a 17-month layoff, while Lawson enters the ring with two straight wins.
Lawson's last loss came via KO to…
People showing Benavidez-Medina highlights and saying he’s going to beat Canelo is the equivalent of showing highlights of Dillian Whyte beating up Lucas Browne and saying he’s going to wipe out Tyson Fury.
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Credit to the doctors for discovering Spence’s injury though. Imagine had that not been discovered and Pacquiao blitzed him. Would have been ugly.
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I see some folks are saying Jermell Charlo is full of himself because his good deed went public
Enough. Charlo reached out to me and did not ask for this to go public, he asked for me to find contact information for Day’s family.
It was my decision to publish the story.
People legitimately picking Wilder to win by knockout over a guy he hasn't been able to knockout across two fights and who has his weaknesses all figured out. Extraordinary.
Tonight was one to forget. Had a severe allergic reaction to nuts and was 20 minutes away from death.
My voice is working again and my throat is still a mess. Hope everyone else had a better day. First time in my life I was legitimately scared of anything.
Jake Paul has fought more times in the last nine months than Terence Crawford and Gennadiy Golovkin combined. Let’s be honest. This is the LEAST of the sport’s ongoing struggles.
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Woodley lost. He’s wasn’t busy enough. Caught a lot of shots on his gloves but was not countering enough.
However, the shots he caught Jake with made Jake decide “to take some time away”. Bro you 4 fights in and already need a hiatus? But you wanna fight Canelo?
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If I were Ruiz, don't even think about fighting Joshua in the UK. Huge risk of falling victim to the British stoppage.
Make him come back to America and make the rematch in Los Angeles. Just a thought.
According to lab report obtained by
@NYFights
, Alycia Baumgardner came up clean in a hair follicle steroid panel that was conducted on 10/24 and completed on 10/26. As previously reported, the exam took place at Cansford Laboratories Limited in Cardiff.
She was tested for 17…
That's
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for you. O'Sullivan landed a left hook that wobbled Lemieux.
And Lemieux was like...."Alright, let's see if you can take mine."
We got the answer.
First-round KO
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Call me crazy, but I'll take Pacquiao by 11th-round TKO on Saturday. One final solid performance and walks off into the sunset.
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#PacUgas
#PacquiaoUgas
Just spoke with Vergil Ortiz Jr. He revealed that he tested positive for COVID in February and suffered from horrible symptoms and nearly pulled out.
Added that there’s no point in a rematch. “To be honest, I was at 70 percent tonight. And look at what I did.”
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Canelo is right. Masvidal doesn’t actually believe anything he is saying.
He wants a payday and Canelo is right not to entertain that. Maybe Dana White should pay his fighters better...
‼️ Artur Beterbiev had an “atypical finding” for raised levels of HGH and testosterone metabolite 5D-androstanediol in a Dec 6th VADA drugs test ahead of his fight vs Callum Smith on Saturday. However, both substances occur naturally in the body and an “atypical finding” is not a…
Max Kellerman is 💯 wrong when he says weigh-ins should be the day of the fight. This would make the mortality rate 1000 times worse.
Boxers would have less time to rehydrate and recover. Kellerman is no scientist...