This Saturday Michel Rivera and Frank Martin will step into the ring in a World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight eliminator fight, which will take place at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas. The bout is very special for boxing because it pits two young, talented and undefeated fighters, who are both looking for a title shot in…
Mythical boxing gym The Kronk, sent congratulations to the World Boxing Association (WBA) on the celebration of its Centennial Convention this week. Legendary representatives such as Sugar Hill Steward and Hilmer Kenty of the Detroit gym sent their best wishes to the pioneer organization during the celebration that took place from December 11-14. Hill, who…
Four days of activities, hundreds of guests and a century of history completed the World Boxing Association (WBA) Centennial Convention, which was held from December 11 to 14 in Orlando, Florida. It was a great celebration at the Caribe Royale Hotel, which served to talk about different WBA current issues, review the history and serve…
Fight fans are getting an early Holiday gift in the form of one of the best matchups of 2022 as unbeaten lightweights Michel Rivera and Frank Martin throw down Saturday night in a PBC main event on SHOWTIME. This Saturday, December 17, at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, unbeaten 135-pound contenders Michel…
The unbeaten lightweight contender will lay it all on the line when he faces fellow unbeaten 135-pounder Michel Rivera in a highly anticipated PBC main event Saturday night on SHOWTIME. There is a slender line separating hopeful from confident, and another separating confident from arrogant. How any fighter on the rise proceeds past those invisible…
The Judges and Referees Committee of the World Boxing Association (WBA) fulfilled the first part of their seminar on Tuesday at the Centennial Convention of the World Boxing Association (WBA) at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The WBA team, led by Luis Pabon, with top officials like Raul Caiz Jr., Octavio Rodriguez, Gustavo…
Dec 14, 2022 By PBC Editor The Dallas-based trainer breaks down Saturday night’s PBC headliner on SHOWTIME and much more. Michel Rivera vs Frank Martin PREVIEW: December 17, 2022 | PBC on SHOWTIME Derrick James, arguably the best trainer in boxing today, joins The PBC Podcast this week to break down his fighter Frank Martin…
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Medical Seminar at the Centennial Convention was one of the most significant in recent years because it addressed the present and urgent issue of mental health. Specialists Nina Radcliff, Shivana Inalsigh, Adriana Valbuena and Joseph Estwanik, were accompanied by the testimony of the great Bernard Hopkins in a series of…
THE WBA WORLD flyweight championship clash between the champion Artem Dalakian from Ukraine and Costa Rican challenger David Jiminez will take place in support of the forthcoming Artur Beterbiev-Anthony Yarde blockbuster at the OVO Arena, Wembley on January 28, live on BT Sport. Ilford man Yarde challenges for the WBC, WBO and IBF world light…
The World Boxing Association (WBA), through its Championships Committee and Ratings Committee, issued a statement in which it decided to reinstate Russian and Belarusian boxers to their place in the rankings. The athletes from this country are not soldiers or part of the government, so they have nothing to do with the war against Ukraine…
The World Boxing Association (WBA), through its Championships Committee, ordered the mandatory heavyweight bout between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dibois during the Centennial Convention in Orlando, this Monday. The Championships Committee had its customary meeting, in which it made several important decisions, and one of them was just this showdown between the two heavyweight champions…
Petchyindee Boxing Promotions won the bidding for the fight between World Boxing Association (WBA) Minimum Weight Super Champion Thammanoon Niyomtrong and champion Erick Rosa. The team representing Niyomtrong put on the table a bid of US$ 140,000, which exceeded the US$ 122,000 of Shuan Boxing, Rosa’s promotion company, and now the fight will take place…