By Mike Smith: WBA Super World featherweight champion Leo ‘El Terremoto’ Santa Cruz is expecting … read more
By Dan Ambrose: WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. (35-1-1, 17 KOs) has been ordered … read more
By Jim Dower: A dream undercard being talked about for the December 1st Deontay Wilder … read more
By Tim Royner: Carl Frampton is already looking past his opponent Luke Jackson for this Saturday towards bigger matches against WBA Super World featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz and WBO champion Oscar Valdez. But before interim World Boxing Organization featherweight champion Frampton (25-1, 14 KOs) can think of facing those two guys, he needs to defeat the unbeaten #5 WBO Jackson (16-0, 7 KOs) this Saturday night on August 18 at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
By Dan Ambrose: Leo Santa Cruz (35-1-1, 19 KOs) defeated Abner Mares (31-2-1, 15 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision in their rematch on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The scores were 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111. Boxing News 24 scored it for Santa Cruz 116-112. Mares landed a lot of shots, but he lacked the power.
By Gerardo Granados: A great boxing weekend nears, so we the fight fans should get ready to enjoy fights that fit all type of fans and boxing taste. This upcoming weekend has it all, be it brawlers, punchers, boxers and boxer punchers or title fights, paper belts, champions, former champions and young hungry lions on the rise.
SHOWTIME Sports will provide live streams of official fight week events in advance of this Saturday’s SHOWTIME doubleheader that is headlined by a highly anticipated rematch between WBA Featherweight World Champion Leo Santa Cruz and former world champion Abner Mares. The fight will be televised Saturday, June 9 on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m. ET/PT from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
By Allan Fox: Terence Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs), Jermell Charlo (30-0, 15 KOs) and Leo Santa Cruz (34-1-1, 19 KOs) are favored to win their fights this Saturday night. Crawford will be fighting on ESPN against WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (18-0-1, 12 KOs) in a fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Featherweight world champions Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares met face to face at a press conference in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday and discussed their world championship rematch taking place Saturday, June 9 live on SHOWTIME from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions.
By Dan Ambrose: Featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz believes that Saul Canelo Alvarez can’t beat middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin if their rematch takes place in New York on May 5th rather than in Las Vegas, Nevada like the first fight.