Lucas Browne

WBA orders Lucas Browne vs. Shannon Briggs

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By Eric Baldwin: The World Boxing Association has reportedly ordered a fight between #3 WBA Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne (24-0, 21 KOs) and #5 WBA Shannon “The Cannon” Briggs (60-6-1, 53 KOs) to fight for their ‘regular’ with a deadline at the end of this year on December 31.

The two aging heavyweights must face each other by that time frame if they want to fight for the WBA belt. The 37-year-old Browne was going to be fighting Fres Oquendo, but he still reportedly isn’t ready to fight due to a shoulder problem. Oquendo will get a title shot against the winner of the Briggs vs. Browne fight.

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Shannon Briggs says he’s facing Lucas Browne for WBA belt

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By Scott Gilfoid: Shannon Briggs (60-6-1, 53 KOs) is saying that he’ll be fighting former WBA heavyweight champion Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne (24-0, 21 KOs) for the vacant World Boxing Association title next. This is the WBA title that Tyson Fury recently vacated along with his WBO strap.

If the news turns out to be true, it would be pretty shocking considering how many arguably more talented heavyweights there are in the WBA’s top 15 rankings than those two guys. The 44-year-old Briggs is ranked is ranked #8 by the WBA despite the fact that he’s not beaten anyone remotely close to being a contender since launching his two-year comeback to the sport in 2014.

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Hearn: Why wouldn’t WBA sanction Joshua-Klitschko?

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By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Association is expected to make their decision today whether to sanction the December 10 fight between IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn is bellyaching something fierce about the rumors of the 40-year-old Wladimir facing Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne on December 10 in Hamburg, Germany.

Hearn has been talking about Wladimir taking on a “soft touch” instead of facing the 27-year-old Joshua. However, Wladimir appears to be making sure that he has a good Plan-B opponent in case the WBA chooses not to sanction the fight, which is clearly a very smart thing for the talented Ukrainian to do.

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WBA to decide on Joshua-Klitschko fight on Thursday

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By Scott Gilfoid: The good news for IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn is they won’t have to wait too much longer to fight out if the World Boxing Association will sanction their fight against Wladimir Klitschko for their fight on December 10 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. WBA president Gilberto Mendez Jr. says the WBA committee has a deadline of Wednesday to make a decision.

Mendoza said to ESPN.com this about whether the WBA will sanction the Klitschko vs. Joshua fight this week:

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Wladimir Klitschko vs. Lucas Browne possible for December 10

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By Eric Baldwin: Former WBA heavyweight champion Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne (24-0, 21 KOs) vs. Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) is a possibility for the vacant World Boxing Association heavyweight title on December 10 if the WBA fails to sanction the Klitschko vs. Anthony Joshua fight for the title.

This is news from Dan Rafael. Browne, 37, would be at a huge disadvantage against Klitschko if that fight gets made. Browne is a good puncher, but he’s never fought anyone in the class of Klitschko before. Even if Wladimir chooses to throw only jabs against Browne and hold him all night long, he would likely easily beat him.

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WBA: Lucas Browne will be reinstated in top five rankings

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HATTON PROMOTIONS has welcomed the World Boxing Association’s resolution regarding Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne’s failed drug test following his title victory over Ruslan Chagaev in Grozny, Russia on March 5 this year.

In a document released on Tuesday (September 6), the world sanctioning body stated that Browne will be reinstated in its top five rankings and has ordered that he face leading contender Fres Oquendo for the vacant WBA heavyweight title within 120 days.

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Lucas Browne Stripped of WBA World Heavyweight Title

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browne54By Brant Burke: In a shock revelation, Lucas Browne has been stripped of his WBA title after his B test was analyzed by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) and came back positive.

World Boxing Association have stripped Browne of is heavyweight title and suspended him for six months.

Browne won the WBA heavyweight title after stopping Ruslan Chagaev in the 10th round in March of this year in Chechnya. This now means Chagaev can now fight for the title he lost to Browne, however after the defeat, he retired from boxing.

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Lucas Browne – The other heavyweight champion of the world

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browne4333By Brant Burke: As the heavyweight division heats up with the names of Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, Joseph Parker, Tyson Fury, Wladimir Klitschko, David Haye, Luis Ortiz, even veteran hard hitter Shannon Briggs. Another well-deserved name rarely gets a mention. That name is Lucas Browne – The WBA ‘regular’ Heavyweight Champion of the world.

Lucas Browne (24-0 – 21KO) against all odds defeated Ruslan Chagaev in Chechnya in March of this year to become Australia’s first ever Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the world.
Browne, a former bouncer from Sydney’s kings cross had a stint in MMA before turning to boxing.

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Lucas Browne passes lie detector test; what’s next?

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browne54By Patrick McHugh: WBA heavyweight champion Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne took a big step towards potentially clearing his name from the positive drug test from his last fight against Ruslan Chagaev on March 5 of last month.

Browne, 36, and his promoters at Hatton Promotions are saying that he passed a polygraph [lie detector] test about whether he knowingly took the banned substance clenbuterol before his contest with the 37-year-old Chagaev last month on Grozny, Russia. Browne suspects he ingested some tainted meat at a restaurant in Russia while he was there for the fight.

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Lucas Browne / Hatton Promotions Statement

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Statement by Lucas Browne: I made clear to the public last week that I intended to do all that I can to clear my name after the devastating news of the positive drug test following my successful defeat of Ruslan Chagaev for the WBA Heavyweight World Championship.

I am now able to report to you that on February 29th shortly after having arrived in Chechnya I was subjected to a randomly timed drug test by VADA. This was a test of blood and urine. The post fight test was a urine only test. I would like to again stress it was myself and my team who requested the bout be subject to VADA testing.

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