Sentences with phrase «featherweight world»

Four - Time World Champion Mares Rematches Featherweight World Champion Leo Santa Cruz Saturday, June 9 Live on Showtime

Showtime Boxing: Gary Russell Jr. had a successful homecoming in front of a nearly sold out crowd as he defended his WBC Featherweight World title with a seventh - round stoppage against the very tough, strong - willed Columbian Oscar Escandon.

Plus, Gary Russell Jr. (28 - 1, 17 KOs) goes head to head with Joseph Diaz (26 - 0, 14 KOs) for the featherweight world championship.

Leo Santa Cruz (34 -1-1, 19 KOs) and Abner Mares (31 -2-1, 15 KOs) square off in a world title rematch between featherweight world champions and SoCal rivals.

Showtime Boxing: Highlights from Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton's possible Fight of the Year candidate as Frampton became the new WBA Featherweight World Champion in the main event of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING.

Showtime Boxing: Leo Santa Cruz will get a chance to regain his WBA Featherweight World title in a highly anticipated rematch against undefeated Irish star Carl Frampton on Saturday, January 28, 2017.

In the co-feature, featherweight world champion Jesus Cuellar (27 - 1, 21 KOs) takes on exciting Puerto Rican contender Jonathan «Polvo» Oquendo (26 - 4, 16 KOs).

Showtime Boxing: Exclusive look into WBA Featherweight World Champion Jesus Cuellar and former three - division world titlist Abner Mares as they prepare for their highly anticipated featherweight championship showdown.

Russell defends his WBC Featherweight World Championship belt against Oscar Escandon - Saturday, November 14th at 10:45 PM ET / PT on SHOWTIME.

Showtime Boxing: SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING presents a night of three world title fights headlined by a featherweight world championship showdown between WBA titleholder Jesus Cuellar and former three - division world champion Abner Mares.

Josh Warrington is looking to become IBF Featherweight World Champion when he takes on Lee Selby, in what is set to be one of the biggest sporting events of the summer.

Not exact matches

But, Ali aside, boxing is in a parlous state: no work for fighters, small purses when they do fight, empty gyms and fewer licensed fighters than ever before; only two American world champions (Ali and featherweight Danny Lopez)-- a long fall from a time when U.S. fighters held most of the world titles.

Davey Moore, world featherweight champion, won the decision, if not the foot race, by beating Fili Nava, former Mexican national champion, in a 10 - round bout in San Antonio.

Frampton is attempting to re-establish his world title credentials after losing the WBA featherweight title against Leo Santa Cruz in January 2017 as the Mexican avenged his defeat by the Northern Irishman six months ago.

In the cycling world, the name «Calfee» evokes images of upscale, featherweight carbon - fiber road bikes, produced by California designer - manufacturer Craig Calfee.

A SHOWTIME Championship Boxing tripleheader featuring six of the world's best fighters in three high - stakes showdowns: champion featherweight Jesus Cuellar (28 - 1, 21 KOs) takes on Mexican superstar Abner Mares (29 -2-1, 15 KOs) and junior middleweight champion Jermall Charlo (24 - 0, 18 KOs) faces undefeated challenger Julian «J - Rock» Williams (22 -0-1, 14 KOs), live from USC's Galen Center.

A SHOWTIME championship doubleheader featuring undefeated featherweight Carl «The Jackal» Frampton (23 - 0, 14 KOs) in a world title rematch against three - division world champion Leo «El Terremoto» Santa Cruz (32 -1-1, 18 KOs).

Showtime Boxing: Abner Mares dethrones Jesus Cuellar via split decision and is new WBA Featherweight Champion of the world.

Three - division champ and current world featherweight titleholder Leo «El Terremoto» Santa Cruz (32 -0-1, 18 KOs) puts his belt on the line against one of the UK's toughest fighters: undefeated Irishman Carl «The Jackal» Frampton (22 - 0, 14 KOs).

Plus, unbeaten Gary Russell Jr. (24 - 0, 14 KOs) faces Ukrainian southpaw Vasyl Lomachenko (1 - 1, 1 KO) for the world featherweight title in a 12 - round showdown and Devon Alexander «The Great» (25 - 2, 14 KOs) meets Jesus Soto Karass (28 -9-3, 18 KOs) in a 10 - round super welterweight match up.

Showtime Boxing: Frampton vs. Santa Cruz 2 is world championship rematch of the 2016 Fight of the Year candidate featherweight showdown.

After unifying the super bantamweight division, Frampton moved up to featherweight and became a two - division world champion.

Showtime Boxing: Undefeated 3 - division world champion Leo Santa Cruz gets to work in the 5th round and defeats Kiko Martinez via TKO in their featherweight bout on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING.

Based on the events surrounding a 1962 world featherweight match in Helsinki between Mäki, the unlikely Finnish contender, and Davey Moore, the U.S defending champion, Kuosmanen's film works simultaneously with and against the tropes of the boxing picture.

Though Mäki (Jarkko Lahti) is a respected former athlete in his home country, Kuosmanen's film focuses on one of his failures: his unsuccessful bid for the World Featherweight Title in 1962.

As part of the lead - up to the World Featherweight Title match, a documentary crew is hired to capture Mäki during training sessions and in his personal life.

Colin Chapman never decreed that Lotus would sell only featherweight cars; you Lotus fans and all the world's journalists have got it wrong — most of all, the founder wanted to make money.

But this particular car has a different sporting story, having been owned from new by British boxer and former World Featherweight champion «Prince» Naseem Hamed.

Rendall makes the argument that boxing is based on the disposability of its only commodity (the fighters) and the invincibility of its most unsavory element (the promoters) by exploring the career of Colin McMillan, then the world featherweight champion.

The cover will be revealed immediately after the undisputed world featherweight championship at UFC 194: ALDO vs. McGREGOR on Saturday, December 12 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

«Aldo and McGregor are two of the biggest stars in the world and it's fitting that next Saturday night the winner not only becomes the undisputed UFC featherweight champion, but also the second global cover athlete of EA SPORTS UFC 2.»

At a press event atop One World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday, the philanthropic initiative «Breakthrough Starshot» was unveiled that will test the savoir - faire and technologies needed to send featherweight interstellar devices, «robotic probes» to th...