Your one stop preview of the WBA super-welterweight showdown between Demetrius Andrade and Jack Culcay this Saturday night, live on Sky Sports. Andrade can put a frustrating few years firmly behind him by taking the WBA ‘regular’ belt from Culcay in Germany.
Category: Welterweight Boxing
WBA welterweight champ Keith Thurman wins split decision, adds WBC title
Keith Thurman of Clearwater built a big lead over Danny Garcia and held on to win a split decision Saturday night and add the WBC welterweight title to his WBA championship at Barclays Center. Thurman dropped Garcia to 33-1.
Thurman wins split decision to unify welterweight titles
Keith Thurman built a big lead over Danny Garcia and held on to add the WBC welterweight title to his WBA championship Saturday night. Thurman won his 28th straight fight and handed Garcia his first loss in 34 bouts.
Thurman: Danny Garcia is a Limited Fighter, I Will Expose Him
With less than a month until the colossal welterweight unification bout between Danny Garcia and Keith Thurman, live on BoxNation, the fighting talk between the pair is well underway. Unbeaten WBA ‘super’ world champion Thurman described his next opponent as “limited” and also discussed Angel Garcia’s heated verbal tirade at last month’s press conference.
Lara Willing to Face Jermell Charlo Next in Unification Fight
The odds of Lara landing either of those fights seem slim, though, because Golovkin and Alvarez already have pay-per-view fights scheduled for March 18 and May 6, respectively, and supposedly are on a collision course. That’ll likely leave Lara to fight other 154-pound champions.
WBA Orders Zeuge vs. Ekpo, Denies Paul Smith Request
The Liverpool super-middleweight, who has fought for global honours twice and been in the ring with pound-for-pound star Andre Ward, was last in action last September, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office. Smith stopped Daniel Regi at the O2 Arena, as part of the undercard to Gennady Golovkin’s IBF, WBA Super, WBC and IBO world middleweight title defence against IBF welterweight king Kell Brook.
Bellew Feels Brook and Khan Should Bypass Interims, Fight Next
… Amir and Kell think differently to that, but the truth of the matter is, they both need each other,” Bellew told Sky Sports. “Kell facing Errol Spence Jr is a 50-50 fight for basically a tenth of the amount of money he would get to face Amir. Amir …