Ryan Garcia is the megastar that boxing deserves: as American as apple pie, and automatic weapons for sale at Walmart.
The freakshow fights keep on coming: Adrien Broner-Blair “The Flair” Cobbs topping a Don King card, Rampage Jackson-Shannon Briggs in Qatar and Jake Paul-Mike Tyson on Netflix.
Briggs is 52 and hasn’t fought since 2016, but I remain surprised, failed drug test aside, that his social media antics in that phase of his career never landed him a big fight.
ICYMI, former 2 division titlist and heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek, inactive since a 2018 loss to Jarrell Miller, returned in February to stop a MMA fighter in 3 rounds of a boxing contest staged inside a cage.
What a time to be alive.
The WBA are bringing regular titles back, baby.
David Morrell moves to 175lbs. to pick up a second regular belt so that Gilberto Mendoza can double dip on Riyadh $eason once Beterbiev-Bivol is over.
The wait for Manny Charr’s first defence of the WBA regular heavyweight title he won in 2017 continues.
Only in boxing would you see someone conducting an interview to promote a fight they know is already called off:
We are closer than ever to the return of pro boxing to Kerry:
I must end on a somber note by mentioning the tragic death in February of bantamweight Kazuki Anaguchi.
I highlighted his December fight with Seiya Tsutsumi as one of the best of 2023 in a recent post:
January 14th’s Random Boxing Rants
Rest in peace, warrior.
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