VIDEO Behind the scenes with Danny Jacobs at Canelo press conference

Martin Bakole questions why Eddie Hearn changed his tune about the wisdom of him taking the fight with Joseph Parker as the replacement opponent on two days’ notice after initially saying he was an upgrade over Daniel Dubois for last Saturday night. Hearn’s Flip-Flop Bakole says Hearn still backed his fighter Anthony Joshua to come…

Promoter Eddie Hearn predicts that the April 12th unification fight between welterweight champions Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Eimantas Stanionis will be the “biggest fight in the U.S this year” when they headline at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hearn says this fight will show whether Ennis (33-0, 29 KOs) is a “true…

Turki Alalshikh says Martin Bakole will still be fighting in May on one of his cards despite his second-round knockout defeat against Joseph Parker last Saturday night in Riyadh. Hopefully, Bakole comes into his next fight in better condition because he looked unfit at 310 lbs in his loss to Parker. The sad part is…

Israil Madrimov came in two lbs under the junior middleweight limit at 152.1 lbs, while WBC interim champion Vergil Ortiz Jr. weighed in a pound under at 153.1 lbs at Friday’s weigh-in for their fight this Saturday, February 22nd at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Surprisingly, both fighters came in well below the…

Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero doesn’t feel insulted that Turki Alalshikh has already planned for Ryan Garcia to face Devin Haney in a rematch in October. Rolly (16-2, 13 KOs) says they can go ahead and fight after he beats the “s***” out of Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) on May 2nd at Times Square in New York…

WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson has a lot of pressure on him to look impressive tonight in beating Josh Padley at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. This is not someone that Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) can afford to struggle against if he doesn’t want to be ridiculed by fans more than he already is. If…