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WBA, IBF, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua says everyone wants Deontay Wilder to beat Tyson Fury to set up a Joshua-Wilder showdown. “We had a meeting about that,” Joshua told Sky Sports. “It has great potential. I heard [Wilder and Fury] have a third fight lined up towards the end of the year but we have to throw a curveball in there. Something that gets Wilder’s attention providing he wins so that he thinks to himself: ‘Even though I have a rematch clause, I’ll see how I can manipulate my contract, get out of it, and fight for the undisputed championship’.”

By Miguel Maravilla

WBC Silver lightweight Champion Ryan Garcia (19-0, 16 KOs) is ready to begin his 2020 campaign as he takes on Nicaragua’s Francisco Fonseca (25-2-2, 19 KOs). Garcia will either break some hearts or his opponent’s nose as he returns to the ring on Valentine’s Day, Friday February 14 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California live on DAZN.

“We thought February 14 would be a perfect date for Ryan,” Promoter Oscar De La Hoya told Fighnews.com®. “This is his coming-out party.”

2019 was not the best year for Garcia as the 21-year-old had been wrapped up in some drama and was the subject of fighter contract breach with Mayweather Promotions and De la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. The highly touted lightweight was also seen partying with Floyd Mayweather early last year. It is said that there were discussions of fights with Mayweather Promotions prospect Rolando Romero and champion Gervonta Davis. Continue reading “Kingry: I want Gervonta Davis this year”

The February 29 Dee Lee Promotions “Leap Year” show has been moved to the Hockessin PAL Center in Hockessin, Delaware. Welterweight ‘Hammerin’ Hank Lundy (30-8-1, 14 KOs) will headline. Either Lundy or his soon to be named opponent will receive a $500 cash prize in addition to their contracted payment the moment their hand is raised in victory at ring center. The prize fight is a Delaware first and Dee Lee hopes it will be the first of many.

The co-main spotlights up and coming jr. middleweight Ismael “Tito” Garcia (11-0-1, 4 KOs) vs. TBA. Continue reading “Change of location for Delaware ‘Leap Year’ card”

By Miguel Maravilla

WBC Silver lightweight champion Ryan Garcia (19-0, 16 KOs) of Victorville, California held a media day workout Monday afternoon at the Westside Boxing Gym in Los Angeles ahead of his next fight against Francisco Fonseca (25-2-2, 19 KOs) of Nicaragua. Garcia squares off against Fonseca next month on Friday, February 14, Valentines Day at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California live on DAZN.

Ryan Garcia: “It’s a big moment for me. I can’t have a bad performance. I’m taking this opponent serious. I plan on having a good performance. I feel good, camp has been great just like any other fight. This is the first step for good things to come in 2020. I want 4 fights in 2020. Fonseca, Jorge Linares, Luke Campbell, and Gervonta Davis. That’s the fight I’ve been pushing for.”

Oscar De La Hoya: “We thought February 14 would be a perfect date for Ryan. This is his coming out party. I believe he will be world champ. He will fight for a world title by the end of the year. This will be a huge year for Ryan Garcia. If all goes well February 14th. We’ll see what’s up for his next fight. Ryan’s ready for the best!”

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Unbeaten super middleweight terror Anthony Sims Jr (20-0, 18 KOs) will fight for his first pro title against WBO #9 Roamer Angulo (25-1, 22 KOs) for the WBO Latino belt on Thursday, January 30 at the Meridian in Island Gardens in Miami, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK. The event will take place a few days prior to Super Bowl LIV (54), taking place at Hard Rock Stadium in the same city.

Angulo represents a stiff test for Sims Jr’s aspirations with the only blemish on his record being against Gilberto Ramirez when he challenged for the WBO world title in June 2018.

The card is topped by WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade (28-0, 17 KOs) defending his crown against Luke Keeler (17-2-1, 5 KOs), plus IBF super featherweight champion Tevin Farmer (30-4-1, 6 KOs) against JoJo Diaz (30-1, 15 KOs), WBA/IBF super bantamweight champion Daniel Roman (27-2-1, 10 KOs) against Murodjon Akhmadaliev (7-0, 6 KOs) and YouTube stars Jake Paul and AnEsonGib clashing in their pro debuts.

IBF minimumweight champion Pedro Taduran (14-2, 11 KOs) of the Philippines will defend his title in hostile territory against Daniel “Cejitas” Valladares (22-1, 13 KOs) on February 1 at the Gimnasio Cedereg in in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico. Valladares, who is rated IBF #1 at junior flyweight, is dropping to minimumweight to fight Taduran. The two losses on Taduran’s record came in title fights in Thailand against record-breaking WBC champion Wanheng Menayothin (a.k.a. Chayophon Moonsri), who is currently 54-0.

By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda

Unbeaten Japanese middleweight champ Kazuto Takesako (12-0-1, 11 KOs), 159.75, dethroned OPBF 160-pound ruler Shinobu Charlie Hosokawa (12-5-1, 11 KOs), 159.5, as he pounded out a nearly shutout decision (120-108, 119-109 twice) over twelve lopsided rounds on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan.

The hard-punching national titlist Kazuto swarmed over the taller slow starter from the outset, battering him from all angles. After the eighth, the open scoring system read 80-72 for all the judges since what Charlie could do was to repeatedly grab the by far more aggressive foe. The durable Charlie, the younger brother of former national 140-pound champ Valentine Hosokawa, attempted to demonstrate his last surge from the tenth, but couldn’t overcome his huge deficits on points against the monotonous but more powerful challenger.

The victor Takesako now holds both the OPBF and national belts.

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By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda

The semi-windup on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan, saw WBO Asia Pacific junior middleweight titleholder Takeshi Inoue (16-1-1, 10 KOs), 153, easily kept his regional belt with his TKO victory over Chinese Cheng Su (14-3-1, 8 KOs), a 5’11” hard-hitting southpaw at 153.75, at the end of the second session as the loser gave up fighting in the corner after hitting the deck each once in the first two sessions.

WBO#10/IBF#14 Takeshi previously failed to win the WBO belt in Houston, where he lopsidedly lost to Jaime Munguia on points but admirably refused to go down in January of the previous year.

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