Leo Santa Cruz spoke with World Boxing Association (WBA) President, Gilberto Jesús Mendoza, on Instagram Live. Mendoza talked to the WBA Featherweight and Super Featherweight Super Champion about many interesting points, including his plan to face Gervonta Davis in his next fight.

“We’re focused on the fight against Gervonta Davis. The negotiation was very advanced, but with this situation it has slowed down. We thought it could be in May or June but now we are waiting for a new date”, said Santa Cruz.

Mendoza announced that the request for the Santa Cruz-Davis fight has already arrived at his office, which means that negotiations are already well underway. About the weight, Leo assured that the information he has is that it will be in 130 pounds but he did not discard to go up to Lightweight if the American could not meet the weight in Super Featherweight. Continue reading “Santa Cruz focused on Gervonta fight”

By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing

Hall of Famer Mike Tyson had to control his fear when he stepped into the ring and still works out each day to stay in shape. “I never thought I could handle being a fighter. It just was. I’ve never been able to handle it. You always get nervous. I’m nervous now. That’s just part of life. I believe from my experience that the feeling is a natural defense mechanism. You rise to the occasion or you freeze. You learn to deal with that,” Tyson said to actor Kenan Thompson.

“What is a normal person? It has nothing to do with being an athletic person, it’s about your morale. Fighting has a lot to do with morality too. It’s not about taking it, it’s the willingness to die, that’s what life is. When you stand up to it you no longer have to fear it,” Tyson said. Continue reading “Mike Tyson: I still work out every day”

An agreement was recently announced between VADA and BSCG (Banned Substances Control Group), an international leader in supplement testing and certification, team in favor of sport to offer nutritional supplement testing for performance-enhancing substances to all boxers enrolled in VADA.

This BSCG “Certificate of Drug-Free Product” is essential for all boxers who want to ensure that the products they consume on a regular basis are not contaminated with substances prohibited in sport. Continue reading “VADA and BSCG reach agreement”

Panel:
Mike Mazzulli, Mohegan Sun Commission
Andy Foster, California State Athletic Commission
Gregory Sirb, Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission
Mauricio Sulaimán, WBC President
Víctor Silva, Moderator

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The WBC has reinstated champion in recess Devin Haney as WBC lightweight champion and granted him a voluntary defense. Javier Fortuna and Luke Campbell willmeet for the WBC interim lightweight championship and mandatory challenger. The winner of Haney’s voluntary defense must then fight the winner of Fortuna-Campbell without any intervening bout. Continue reading “WBC reinstates Haney as lightweight champion”

Saturday night was supposed to be make or break for Sullivan Barrera.  The former world title challenger was supposed to face Sergey Kovalev on April 25th in a DAZN streamed main event that would have been contested at a catchweight of 180 pounds.

Of course the coronavirus halted all professional sports in the United States from the middle of March through at least the end of April. Despite the uncertainty of when the fight will take place, the 38-year-old light heavyweight continues to train in hopes that the fight is rescheduled for a summer date. Continue reading “Barrera still training for Kovalev fight”

By Joe Koizumi

The hard-working liaison conference of the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) and the JPBA (Japan Professional Boxing Association, the union of 282 club owners including newly licensed) has decided today (Wednesday) that all shows scheduled through June will be completely canceled due to the still growing coronavirus outbreak here. The conference previously called off all cards through May, but again extended the cancellation for another month through June.

The Japanese government, on April 7, declared a state of emergency until May 6 and recommended the closure of sports training facilities, including boxing gyms. A couple of professional boxers in Aichi Prefecture, however, were found virus-infected yesterday, and the JPBA today asked all the gyms nationwide to take more care of the prevention against the outbreak. The cumulative number of coronavirus infection exceeded 10,000 here in Japan on Saturday, having doubled in just nine days from April 9. The deaths therefrom now topped 280 today. Continue reading “Japan extends cancellation again through June”

By Mauricio Sulaimán
Son of José Sulaimán / President WBC

Last week was great, and I would like to share a summary of the most interesting of our WBC Talks.

These video conferences we do every day, in English and Spanish, help to keep the boxing community interacting, engaged, learning and having fun, with the many anecdotes, laughter and wonderful stories.

I remind you that if you want to see them live you can do so by accessing: https://www.facebook.com/wbcuniversity/ from Monday to Friday at 11 am in Spanish, or from 13:00 in English.

You can even see them already on the WBC website:
English: https://wbcboxing.com/en/wbc-talks-videos-eng/
Spanish: https://wbcboxing.com/wbc-talks-videos-esp/

Continue reading “Memorable week of WBC Talks”

Finally! Bufalo Boxing Promotions, headed by former two-division world champion Rosendo “Bufalo” Alvarez, has announced a live boxing card scheduled for Saturday at the Alexis Arguello Sports Center in Managua, Nicaragua. The main event will feature super featherweight Robin Zamora (15-7, 8 KOs) against Ramiro Blanco (18-7-3, 10 KOs). They previously fought last October with Zamora winning by TKO2. ESPN Knockout will televise the card, but only in Latin America.

Safety measures will be in place as recommended by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health. Fans will have to have their temperatures taken before entering the arena to make sure they don’t have a fever and they must clean their hands and the soles of their shoes with alcohol. They also must remain one meter apart. Cornermen must wear masks and latex gloves. Boxers will also wear masks when not fighting.