Liam Walsh is ready to remind everyone exactly what he is capable of when he … read more
By Chris Williams: Terence Crawford vs. Felix Diaz brought in good ratings last Saturday night on HBO Championship Boxing in pulling in an average of 961,000 viewers with a peak of 1.036 million viewers for their fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. That was an increase of 19% for the 29-year-old Crawford from his previous fight on HBO against John Molina Jr., which averaged 806,000 viewers last December.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko is going to need to wait patiently before he can face IBF champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis (18-0, 17 KOs) in a unification fight, because the match is not going to happen yet, says his promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr. Davis is only 22-year-old and still growing as a fighter.
By Scott Gilfoid: As I had predicted earlier, IBF World super featherweight champion Gervonta Davis (18-0, 17 KOs) effortlessly knocked out a badly over-matched #1 IBF Liam Walsh (21-1, 14 KOs) in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Copper Box Arena in London, England. Davis, 22, dropped Walsh with a powerful left hand to the head in the 3rd round.
By Gav Duthie: One boxing name has popped up a couple of times in articles this week that I had not thought of in a while, Jeff Lacy. ‘Left Hook’ Lacy last fought in 2015 finishing with a modest boxing record of 27-6 (18). In 2006 however he was ‘The next big thing’. He was 21-0 (17) and heading over to the UK to smash the overconfident, over-hyped and overrated Joe Calzaghe, or so we were told. Lacy was a big favorite much like Gervonta Davis (v Liam Walsh) and Errol Spence Jne (v Kell Brook). Calzaghe dominated Lacy over 12 rounds and the great hope was never the same since. Frank Warren has compared the Davis situation to this
By William Mackay: Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 KOs) has a big opportunity on Saturday night against IBF World super featherweight champion Gervonta Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) at the Copper Box Arena in London, England. Walsh is the underdog, but he believes he’s got more than enough to send the American down to his first defeat of his career.
By Scott Gilfoid: #1 IBF mandatory challenger Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 KOs) will be challenging for the title this Saturday night against the younger, stronger and faster IBF World super featherweight champion Gervonta Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) at the Copper Box Arena in London, England. Walsh, 30, has the deck stacked against him in terms of the talent in this fight against the 22-year-old Davis. What Walsh does have going for him is the home country advantage with the fight taking place in the UK.
By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) and Liam Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) can feel proud that the two of them have produced over 40,000 ticket sales for their match this Saturday at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The number of ticket sales for the Canelo-Smith fight thus far has surpassed the ticket sales for the Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito fight six years ago in 2010.
This is great news Canelo, Smith and for Golden Boy Promotions. CEO Oscar De La Hoya had predicted that the Canelo-Smith fight would bring in more ticket sales than the Pacquiao vs. Margarito fight, and he’s turned out to be right. Also, De La Hoya predicted that the Canelo-Smith fight would bring in more pay-per-view buys on HBO than the Pacquiao-Margarito fight, which brought in 1.15 million buys.