American super lightweight (up to 63.5 kg) Richardson Hitchins (16-0, 7 KOs) will not get such a desired fight with compatriot Montana Love (18-1-1, 9 KOs). The fighter’s manager, Keith Connolly, claims that Love turned down the offer. Hitchins will fight next in June.
Terrible news from Italy. Local super middleweight (up to 76.2 kg) Daniele Scardina (20-1, 16 KOs) was taken to a hospital in Milan (Italy) in serious condition. The fighter passed out after today’s sparring session, he has already undergone brain surgery. Doctors assess his condition as “serious but stable.”
March 24, he was supposed to enter the ring against the Belgian
Cedric Spera (17-9, 5 KOs).
The ex-world champion of the American lightweight (up to 61.2 kg) Joseph Diaz (32-3-1, 15 KOs) has problems with the law again. Details of the incident are not yet available, but it is known that he was arrested on Monday and released on Tuesday. The official accusation failure to comply with parental responsibilities.
Last year, Diaz was accused of seducing and molesting minors. Allegedly there are 4 victims.
The IBF did not wait until their light flyweight champion (up to 49 kg) Sivenati Nontshinga (11-0, 9 KOs) from South Africa announced the name of his debut defense opponent, and ordered a fight with the mandatory challenger Filipino Reggie Suganob (13-0 , 4 KOs).
He won his title right at the weekend and, to be honest, his boxing was impressive.
Promoter Eddie HearnMatchroom Boxing) does not advise US boxing YouTuber cruiser (up to 90.7 kg) Jake Paul (6-1, 4 KOs) to insist on a rematch with Briton Tommy Fury (9-0, 4 KOs), to whom he lost on Sunday in Saudi Arabia.
According to the businessman, “revenge will be watched in any case. But what’s the point? The reality is that against a boxer who has at least minimal skills, Paul will get hit in the head and lose. It would be better if he fought for huge money with the British YouTuber KSI. To be honest, in the fight with Fury, it was obvious that both of them are extremely low-level fighters and are approximately equal in terms of skills.
British welterweight (up to 66.7 kg) Conor Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) still won’t calm down. The WBC acquitted the boxer despite a recent failed doping test. But this is not enough for him: “I feel that the WBC statement did me a disservice. After all, in my document there was not a word that the problem was in the excessive use of eggs. The document refers to a number of violations that were made in the process of working with my sample.
One of the violations is that the first three tests of my sample showed a negative result. Without explanation, the sample was tested again 9 days after the results of the first analysis. We turned to an expert. He considers the violations so egregious that he does not exclude that this laboratory will be completely closed or deprived of its accreditation. I asked the expert to participate in the concealment of the B sample (which I have the right to), but he was never allowed to the process.
The fight for the IBF featherweight title (up to 57.2 kg) between the champion of the organization Mexican Luis Alberto Lopez (27-2, 15 KOs) and the contender from Ireland Michael Conlan (18-1, 9 KOs) may take place as part of the Devin Haney show vs Vasily Lomachenko.
This is told by the manager of the Irishman – brother and ex-challenger Jamie Conlan. According to him, the main problem is that the Haney vs Lomachenko event has not yet been announced. So they are looking for other options. The priority date for the fight is May 27.