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Boxing’s early days looked nothing like the sport does today, including its confusing and hard to remember division designations that incrementally increase from 105 pounds to 201 pounds and up. Back in the day, weights didn’t really matter when making a fight. Guys just slugged it out without any mind paid to size differentials. That changed starting […]
On the latest episode of Hotboxin with Mike Tyson, the boxing legend sat down with Eminem to discuss a wide range of topics, including family life, their love for hip-hop, and the rapper’s latest album Music to Be Murdered By. However, the most viral moment came toward the end of the interview, when Tyson praised the Detroit rapper for […]
TMZ reports Floyd Mayweather‘s uncle Roger has passed away at the age of 58. In 2000, Roger started training Floyd for over a decade after retiring from the sport of boxing in 1999. In a 2015 interview, Floyd spoke candidly about how his uncle’s near two-decade career contributed to his deteriorating physical health. “My uncle Roger Mayweather has lost […]
Adrien Broner was reportedly arrested for DUI in Miami Beach, Florida. According to TMZ, Broner was stopped by police at around 8:45 p.m. local time Friday night. When officers believed he was under the influence, they arrested Broner for DUI. TMZ reports Broner was awake enough to take a mugshot at a nearby station. Broner’s […]
Deontay Wilder is already preparing to redeem his loss against Tyson Fury. On Friday, Wilder and his team officially expressed their desire to exercised the boxer’s rematch clause. Top Rank Boxing president, Todd duBoef, then confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that Fury and Wilder will face off for a third bout later this year. Wilder suffered the first loss of […]
Deontay Wilder is still confused by his corner’s decision to throw in the towel during his fight against Tyson Fury, and he thinks the decision was influenced by a rival boxer. During an interview with BoxingScene.com, Wilder explains that he’s always instructed his assistant trainer, Mark Breland, and head trainer, Jay Deas, to never throw in the […]
Less than 48 hours after getting pounded into oblivion, Deontay Wilder will reportedly exercise a clause that will get him a rematch against the man who delivered that pounding, Tyson Fury. This clause, which is “definitely” going to be invoked, according to Athletic senior boxing writer Lance Pugmire, will mark the third time that the […]
It wasn’t a just beating. Tyson Fury dominated, dismantled, and did what nobody has ever done to Deontay Wilder. With constant aggression and power—not to mention nearly 43-pound weight advantage—Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) bullied, brawled, and battered his way to become the new WBC heavyweight champion of the world, handing the previously unbeaten Wilder his […]
Tyson Fury is now the WBC heavyweight champion of the world after defeating Deontay Wilder on Saturday night. Prior to the ref calling a seventh round TKO, Fury did the extremely weird thing of licking the blood off Wilder’s neck. Or, it at least looked like he licked the blood. Check it out for yourself below. […]
Deontay Wilder likes to joke around that he gave Tyson Fury a concussion in their first fight since Fury has struggled to explain how he got up from the vicious combination that dropped him in the 12th round. Whether it was divine intervention that lifted Fury from the canvas or not, he got up from […]
