By Jim Dower: Light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (21-0, 16 KOs) appears to have decided not to take an IBF ordered fight against IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (12-0, 12 KOs), and instead use his #1 ranking with the World Boxing Organization to face WBO 175 lb. champion Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev (32-2-1, 28 KOs) instead. Browne, 27, is in negotiations with Kovalev’s promoters at Main Events for a fight on June.
By Jim Dower: IBF World light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (12-0, 12 KOs) has been ordered by the International Boxing Federation to defend against #3 IBF Marcus Browne (21-0, 16 KOs).
By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (21-0, 16 KOs) made easy work of super middleweight Francy Ntetu (17-2, 4 KOs) in stopping him in the 1st round knockout on Saturday night in a scheduled 10 round fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (20-0, 15 KOs) obliterated previously unbeaten #6 WBO Sean Monaghan (28-1, 17 KOs) by a 2 round knockout on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox FSI at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.
By Ian Aldous: On Saturday July 15th, WBA, WBC and IBF top-ten ranked, Marcus Browne (19-0), faces Sean Monaghan (28-0) in a battle of undefeated New Yorkers closing in a world title fight. The fight will serve as co-main event of the Premier Boxing Champions broadcast from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, live on Fox in the U.S. Last week, the 2012 Olympian took some time to talk with me over the phone ahead of this pivotal fight.
By Eric Baldwin: Unbeaten #11 WBC, #11 WBO, #13 IBF light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (19-0, 14 KOs) destroyed former world title challenger Thomas Williams Jr. (20-3, 14 KOs) by a 6th round knockout on Saturday night on Showtime Championship Boxing from the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
By Jim Dower: The purses are a little lopsided in favor of former four division world champion Adrien Broner for his fight tonight against Adrian Granados at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Broner (32-2, 24 KOs) will be receiving a purse of $1 million compared to just $250,000 for Granados (18-4-2, 12 KOs), according to Dan Rafael.
The million purse for the 27-year-old Broner isn’t what many in the boxing world thought he would be making at this point in his career. Years earlier before Broner was beaten by Marcos Maidana and Shawn Porter, he was seen as a future pay-per-view star, and a fighter that would someday take over for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to carry the sport on his back.
By Dan Ambrose: #11 IBF light heavyweight contender Radivoje Kalajdzic (21-1, 14 Kos) wants a rematch against undefeated U.S. 2012 Olympian Marcus Browne (18-0, 13 KOs) after losing a controversial 8 round split decision last Saturday night on the undercard of the Errol Spence Jr. vs. Chris Algieri card at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Kalajdzic’s promoter Lou Dibella says he’ll eventually get a rematch against the 25-year-old Browne down the line at some point. Dibella told Kalajdzic that he should have done more in the first four rounds of the fight so that the judges couldn’t take the decision away from him. However, Kalajdzic would have won the fight if not for a mistake on the part of the referee Tony Chiarantano, who blew a call in the 1st round when he saw Kalajdzic hit the deck and gave Browne credit for a knockdown on what was really a slip on Kalajdzic’s part.
(Photo credit: Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment) By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated #7 WBA, #13 WBC light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (18-0, 13 KOs) won a highly controversial 8 round split decision win over previously unbeaten Radivoje Kalajdzic (21-1, 14 KOs) on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Sevak Sarkisian: When I attended the Victor Otiz v Luis Collazo fight, I got the opportunity to chat and interview some of the fighters who fought on the undercard including former Olympian and light heavyweight prospect Marcus Browne.
S.S. First of all, congratulations on the win. What was your game plan going into this fight and how do u feel like you executed it?
M.B. uh, my game plan was to test him out in the beginning, test that chin. We saw he came out in the 2nd round with the same thing, 3rd round same thing. Today I don’t know, he came to fight, his chin is steel I guess. So we just switched the game plan to boxing and pot shotting and throwing combinations and just doing what we had to do.