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BROOKLYN — Adam Kownacki’s immediate reaction to Andy Ruiz Jr.’s stunning upset of Anthony Joshua was a lot different than the reaction most boxers had. “‘Yes, the daddy body is going to be the look for the 2019 summer,’” the heavyweight contender said, laughing at the podium of the Barclays Center on Tuesday when asked about it during a… [Read More]

European junior middleweight champion Sergio Garcia puts his title on the line for the second time when he faces the usually sturdy former titleholder Siarhei Rabchanka at the Polideportivo Vicente Trueba, Torrelavega, Spain, on Saturday. Garcia (29-0, 13 knockouts) won the vacant belt last September when he outpointed Maxime Beaussire before making his first defense… [Read More]

World rated junior middleweight Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna will be back in action on July 20th at The brand new Carousel Room inside the Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City. LaManna (27-2-1, 9 KOs) who is ranked #11 by the WBA and #12 by the WBO, will be making his 1st start in 2019. This will be… [Read More]

By: Hans Themistode The Heavyweight division is unpredictable at this moment. Just a few short weeks ago, former unified Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was thought to be ahead of everyone else. It was an understandable thought process. He was after all, the owner of the IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO titles. On June 1st, 2019,… [Read More]

By: Sean Crose Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller, the 23-0-1 heavyweight contender who was supposed to face Anthony Joshua on the night the heavyweight kingpin lost his titles to Andy Ruiz, has finally spoken out. As was reported by Boxing Insider at the time of the Joshua fight falling through: “The Joshua fight fell apart after… [Read More]

By Robert Coster Ex title contender Victoriano “Santico” Sosa was shot in a robbery attempt yesterday in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Sosa is recuperating from his wounds. A talented boxer-puncher Victoriano, a former Olympian and Latin American champion, fought 3 times for world titles – for the IBF lightweight against Paul  Spadafora in 2000, for the… [Read More]

Dr. Margaret Goodman, the Las Vegas-based neurologist and former chief ringside physician for the Nevada State Athletic Commission, has never seen the tape of the first of three Floyd Patterson-Ingemar Johansson bouts, which took place on June 26, 1959, in Yankee Stadium. But she has heard the details of the remarkable third round of that… [Read More]

Unbeaten interim WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo hosted a media workout Wednesday as he prepares for his title defense against Brandon Adams on Showtime June 29 from NRG Arena in Charlo’s hometown of Houston. Charlo last fought in Houston in 2012 in just his ninth professional fight and will be headlining in his hometown for… [Read More]

Once upon a time, boxing writer Ian Probert got to know Kirkland Laing as well as almost anyone got to know Kirkland Laing. They would meet several times over the next few years, share spliffs and sink plenty of beer before Laing disappeared from view The post Whatever happened to Kirkland Laing? appeared first on… [Read More]

Great to see this back up on YouTube. A real fight of two halves.