Bad Left Hook - All PostsGlobal Boxing News and Commentaryhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47131/backingthepack-fave.png2024-03-18T20:27:03-04:00http://www.badlefthook.com/rss/current/2024-03-18T20:27:03-04:002024-03-18T20:27:03-04:00Tszyu vs Fundora for WBO and WBC belts, PPV undercard adds another title fight
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<figcaption>Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora will fight for two world titles | Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora will fight for two world titles.</p> <p id="lNanhS">Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora will fight for Tszyu’s WBO 154 lb title and the vacant WBC belt on March 30, in the new main event of PBC’s first pay-per-view card on Prime Video.</p>
<p id="NiZLwN">The <a href="https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24105112/keith-thurman-out-tim-tszyu-face-sebastian-fundora-on-march-30-boxing-news-2024">fight came together earlier today</a> after Keith Thurman, Tszyu’s original opponent in a 155 lb contract weight bout, withdrew from the fight due to injury. Fundora was originally to face Serhii Bohachuk for the vacant WBC belt on the undercard.</p>
<p id="u6txLg">The pay-per-view undercard has also been amended, as expected. Now added to the card is Julio Cesar Martinez defending his WBC flyweight title against Angelino Cordova in a rescheduled bout, and the show still has Rolly Romero vs Isaac Cruz and Erislandy Lara vs Michael Zerafa for WBA titles at super lightweight and middleweight, respectively.</p>
<aside id="zq3V3c"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Bet on Tszyu vs Fundora and more boxing with DraftKings Sportsbook!","url":"https://dksb.sng.link/As9kz/60sb?_dl=https%3A%2F%2Fsportsbook.draftkings.com%2Fgate[…]pscn%3DBOX&pcid=164089&pscn=BOX&pcrn=Content&psn=Vox&pcrid=BOX"}]}'></div></aside><p id="hP32ks">Bohachuk will also still fight on the card, and still has a good bout. He’ll be facing Brian Mendoza in a WBC interim title fight — realistically, the winner should get an order to face the Tszyu vs Fundora winner, but we’ll see — on the free prelims, along with Elijah Garcia vs Kyrone Davis in a 10-round middleweight bout.</p>
<p id="EC6T9q">All in all, it’s a pretty solid card, and probably about as good as you could reasonably expect PBC to make out of a bad situation, though the bad situation came from their own iffy idea in the first place.</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24105404/tszyu-vs-fundora-wbo-wbc-titles-on-line-ppv-undercard-adds-julio-cesar-martinez-boxing-news-2024Scott Christ2024-03-18T15:18:38-04:002024-03-18T15:18:38-04:00Thurman out, Tszyu to face Fundora on March 30
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<img alt="Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/m86PDnSKK2ydcVwWgDsovGO8zGw=/0x0:1508x1005/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73216101/tszyufundora2024.0.png" />
<figcaption>Tim Tszyu vs Sebastian Fundora will now headline on March 30</figcaption>
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<p>Tszyu will defend his WBO 154 lb title against Fundora in the new main event.</p> <p id="9DAntT">Tim Tszyu will now face Sebastian Fundora on March 30, with Keith Thurman reportedly out of the planned bout with Tszyu, <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeCoppinger/status/1769783978028908710">according to ESPN.com’s Mike Coppinger</a>.</p>
<p id="4KZjRK">It was <a href="https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24104965/keith-thurman-vs-tim-tszyu-may-be-canceled-due-injury-boxing-news-2024">reported earlier today that Thurman had come down with a biceps injury</a>, and it was easy to guess that Fundora would be the most likely replacement if the card was to go on.</p>
<p id="Cj7hYQ">Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KO) was set to face Serhii Bohachuk on the Prime Video pay-per-view undercard for the vacant WBC super welterweight title. Tszyu (24-0, 17 KO) will now defend his WBO title against Fundora; originally, Tszyu was to face Thurman in a non-title, 155 lb contract weight bout.</p>
<aside id="j1rdvT"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Bet on Tszyu vs Fundora and more boxing with DraftKings Sportsbook!","url":"https://dksb.sng.link/As9kz/60sb?_dl=https%3A%2F%2Fsportsbook.draftkings.com%2Fgate[…]pscn%3DBOX&pcid=164089&pscn=BOX&pcrn=Content&psn=Vox&pcrid=BOX"}]}'></div></aside><p id="KIzsdr">The event is to be PBC’s first with Prime Video, and their first at all since Showtime Boxing went under this past December.</p>
<p id="PWKQJG">Tszyu, 29, won the interim WBO title in 2023 by beating Tony Harrison, and was elevated to full titlist status last fall, ahead of a defense against Brian Mendoza. Fundora, 26, has not fought since a seventh round knockout loss to Mendoza for the WBC interim title last April.</p>
<p id="So0VHT">The show will still feature Rolando “Rolly” Romero defend his WBA 140 lb title against Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz, plus Erislandy Lara defending the WBA middleweight title against Michael Zerafa. No word yet if Bohachuk will be able to face someone else for the vacant WBC title at 154 on the show, or if that opportunity will be held for a later date.</p>
<p id="pHz8GI">In theory, there’s really nothing stopping PBC and Prime from selling a three-fight PPV instead of the more standard four-fight event, but you can probably expect a fourth fight, whether it be Bohachuk facing someone else, or something else entirely.</p>
<p id="OKJpjg">For serious boxing fans, Tszyu vs Fundora is really a better matchup than Tszyu facing Thurman, who is in his mid-30s and has basically been retired, fighting once in the last five years and last in the ring over two years ago. It’s not as marketable — Thurman is not exactly Canelo Alvarez as a draw, but he’s got more name value than Fundora — but purely as a fight, this is better on paper in 2024.</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24105112/keith-thurman-out-tim-tszyu-face-sebastian-fundora-on-march-30-boxing-news-2024Scott Christ2024-03-18T13:07:27-04:002024-03-18T13:07:27-04:00Keith Thurman vs Tim Tszyu may be canceled due to injury
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<figcaption>Keith Thurman vs Tim Tszyu might be off | Kohjiro Kinno/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Keith Thurman vs Tim Tszyu might be off for March 30.</p> <p id="DnduA4">An injury to Keith Thurman may cancel or at least postpone his scheduled March 30 fight with Tim Tszyu, according to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_PcG7HfkU">Tha Boxing Voice</a>, a report backed later by <a href="https://x.com/DanRafael1/status/1769764156343787835?s=20">Dan Rafael</a>.</p>
<p id="hB3qQH">The injury is reportedly to Thurman’s biceps, and he’s awaiting MRI results.</p>
<p id="rrQBaN">This, of course, does not mean it’s off just yet, but we’re talking about a fight that’s less than two weeks away. It’s also a fight meant to headline Premier Boxing Champions’ first pay-per-view of their association with Amazon’s Prime Video — and the company’s first show since last December, period.</p>
<aside id="wvaZjb"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Bet on Fury vs Usyk and more boxing with DraftKings Sportsbook!","url":"https://dksb.sng.link/As9kz/60sb?_dl=https%3A%2F%2Fsportsbook.draftkings.com%2Fgate[…]pscn%3DBOX&pcid=164089&pscn=BOX&pcrn=Content&psn=Vox&pcrid=BOX"}]}'></div></aside><p id="wYcgnL">The 35-year-old Thurman (30-1, 22 KO) has fought just once this decade, a win two years ago over Mario Barrios. His last fight before that was a loss to Manny Pacquiao in the summer of 2019, and he’s had just three fights total in the last seven years.</p>
<p id="LomLyi">It would also be really hard for PBC and Prime to sell any reasonable replacement opponent for Tszyu (24-0, 17 KO), who was already seen and marketed as the fight’s B-side.</p>
<p id="qWxTe7">They do have the potential to put either Sebastian Fundora or Serhii Bohachuk, who are scheduled to fight for the vacant WBC 154 lb title on the undercard, into the main event. Thurman vs Tszyu was supposed to be a 155 lb catchweight bout, but Tszyu does still hold the WBC super welterweight title, and if he agreed to a one-lb drop for the weigh-in, you could do a title fight.</p>
<p id="baSQ0n">Erickson Lubin (26-2, 18 KO) is also a PBC fighter, and if in shape could be a late call, too. 12 days isn’t much time, but a fight with Tszyu could be too good for the 28-year-old Lubin to pass up, though asking Tszyu to accept a naturally bigger southpaw after preparing for an undersized, orthodox Thurman might be a tough sell, too.</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24104965/keith-thurman-vs-tim-tszyu-may-be-canceled-due-injury-boxing-news-2024Scott Christ2024-03-18T11:39:42-04:002024-03-18T11:39:42-04:00‘I expected to be able to cope better than that’: Hughes reacts to stoppage loss to Zepeda
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<figcaption>Maxi Hughes was unable to withstand the early and consistent pressure applied by William Zepeda. | Photo by Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Maxi Hughes credits William Zepedea’s relentless attacking style after TKO loss. </p> <p id="FMj3P7">Immediately following his <a href="https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/16/24103498/william-zepeda-overwhelms-maxi-hughes-for-tko-4-highlights-and-results-boxing-news-2024">knockout loss to William Zepeda</a> over the weekend, Maxi Hughes takes time to talk to media members about his experience in the ring and why Zepeda proved to be too much. Here’s some of what he had to say down below. </p>
<h3 id="TkBp6N">Hughes on the fight with Zepeda</h3>
<p id="nhOnnZ">“He was chipping away, chipping away, and I thought ‘I could check these off, I could check these off,’ and he caught me with one up the middle right in the solar plexus, and that were the one that just sapped it, like drained me and I tried to land a couple back but there were nothing there. So I tip my hat to him. We came ready, I got a good team around me you know, and I respect their decision to pull me out ‘cause I was struggling.”</p>
<h3 id="X40u1R">On how he rates Zepeda after now having faced him</h3>
<p id="ggUw9w">“What impressed me was his work rate. I faced a lot of styles, I faced similar people to him, it was just, you know, it just come down to his boxing. Unfortunately I could’ve caught him with one but he caught me with one of them shots before I had the chance to do it to him.”</p>
<h3 id="ejMj6Z">On if he could’ve done anything differently</h3>
<p id="CRPh8n">“I tried to create the space and maybe there were times after one or two rounds my corner was saying ‘keep the space, keep him off to me, off to my left.’...I did my best and I come up short.”</p>
<h3 id="UAO7LN">On how he thinks Shakur Stevenson would matchup against Zepeda</h3>
<p id="XPlC4E">“It would be good to see if Shakur could keep the distance and keep him off him. Zepeda is — obviously we’ve studied a lot of his fights, they all go that way, he sort of comes forward relentlessly so it would be interesting to see him in with somebody like Shakur or a Lomachenko or Haney.”</p>
<h3 id="JbKYfW">On if Zepeda surprised him with anything in their fight</h3>
<p id="LHnbv3">“We expected that, but I just expected to be able to cope with it better than that but as I say, it didn’t go my way. So it was what we expected and it didn’t go my way.”</p>
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https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24104846/maxi-hughes-reacts-to-stoppage-loss-to-william-zepeda-boxing-news-2024Wil Esco2024-03-18T11:14:12-04:002024-03-18T11:14:12-04:00‘Hard boxing fans know that Bud can beat Canelo’: McIntyre says Crawford not overmatched
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<img alt="Brian McIntyre says there’s no truth to rumors of Terence Crawford fighting Chris Eubank Jr." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-p-JxxAh7yroVlh3Eh507rWJGlc=/0x0:5505x3670/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73215263/1648958918.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Brian McIntyre says there’s no truth to rumors of Terence Crawford fighting Chris Eubank Jr. | Photo by Matt McNulty/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Trainer Brian McIntyre believes Terence Crawford has all the tools necessary to overcome the weight disparity against Canelo Alvarez.</p> <p id="e7i3NW">Over the weekend boxing media members caught up with Terence Crawford’s trainer Brian McIntyre and asked him about the upcoming Canelo vs Munguia fight as well as Crawford still wanting the opportunity to fight Canelo himself. Check out some of what he had to say below. </p>
<h3 id="T98Q3y">BoMac on Canelo vs Munguia</h3>
<p id="6hYuug">“Canelo gonna stop him. I say in 10. It’s a decent fight but Munguia ain’t ready for that level yet, he ain’t been on that level yet.”</p>
<h3 id="uKmXsm">On reports of Crawford considering a fight with Chris Eubank Jr</h3>
<p id="2aD9xp">“Fake news.”</p>
<h3 id="20pocc">On how he thinks Crawford matches up against Canelo</h3>
<p id="SvgKLl">“Bud beat his ass, out-box his ass. (Weight) don’t matter, Bud been fighting big people all day, all his fuckin’ life.”</p>
<h3 id="VSdSA7">On how dominant Crawford would look against Canelo</h3>
<p id="A5oSzu">“It’d be a Errol vs Crawford 2.”</p>
<h3 id="8s93s8">On Canelo saying there’s nothing for him to gain by fighting Crawford</h3>
<p id="9mkJCf">“I respect that. I respect that because, you know what I’m saying, if you get beat by the smaller man, now you look like an asshole.</p>
<p id="1lBxwc">“Hard boxing fans know that Bud can beat Canelo. He might be bigger, but he don’t got the height, he don’t got the reach. I mean, he got a good boxing IQ but he don’t have that crazy IQ that Terence has.”</p>
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https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/18/24104820/brian-mcintyre-convinced-terence-crawford-not-overmatched-against-canelo-alvarez-boxing-news-2024Wil Esco2024-03-17T08:10:36-04:002024-03-17T08:10:36-04:00‘I’ll fight you for free’: Carl Froch rips Jake Paul for fighting ‘old man’ Tyson
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<figcaption>Carl Froch says he’s willing to fight Jake Paul for free to stop his ‘fake’ boxing career | Alex Livesey/Getty Images and Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Carl Froch says he’s willing to fight Jake Paul for free to stop his ‘fake’ boxing career</p> <p id="z045US">Carl Froch has had plenty of back-and-forth with Jake Paul over the last few years, and he’s no fan of the announced Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight which is going to happen on July 20.</p>
<p id="tLvjx5">Froch, now 46, says he doesn’t see what the 27-year-old Paul can really gain by fighting the 57-year-old Tyson.</p>
<p id="UvmAIT">“A young kid being a bully — what’s he getting out of fighting Mike Tyson? What, exactly, does Jake Paul feel that he’s achieving by beating a guy who’s nearly 60 years old?” Froch asked in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBx-GrrzJ4">latest episode of his Froch on Fighting YouTube series</a>.</p>
<aside id="14Mtb0"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Bet on Fury vs Usyk and more boxing with DraftKings Sportsbook!","url":"https://dksb.sng.link/As9kz/60sb?_dl=https%3A%2F%2Fsportsbook.draftkings.com%2Fgate[…]pscn%3DBOX&pcid=164089&pscn=BOX&pcrn=Content&psn=Vox&pcrid=BOX"}]}'></div></aside><p id="DxUuPV">“There’s nothing to prove. The guy’s well past his best. Finished. Pipe and slippers long, long ago. I mean, he was probably peaking in the early 90s. It’s now 30 years on and he’s not a boxer anymore. He’s settled down, he’s finished in the game.</p>
<p id="AjLW5u">“Has Jake Paul been badly advised, actually? I mean, whoever’s telling Jake Paul that it’s a good idea to fight Mike Tyson — Jake Paul’s fighting an old man, so if he wins, he’s beaten an old man. People are gonna say, ‘What have you proved there?’ If he loses, he’s lost to an old man.”</p>
<p id="zfz299">“The people who don’t understand boxing might get excited about it. ‘It’s still Iron Mike Tyson, the big bad man,’ and he still has got a punch. The punch power is the last thing to leave a professional fighter. Your reflexes go, your fitness goes, your punch resistance goes. If that’s gone, imagine Jake Paul knocking out Mike Tyson.</p>
<p id="y7ovvL">“To me, that just sounds disgusting. You’re beating up an old man. It’s wrong in every single way possible.”</p>
<h4 id="bqioPV">On Jake Paul’s boxing career</h4>
<p id="ClQMwy">“Jake Paul’s got a teenybopper demographic, a TikTok audience, and I’m not giving them stick, but they’re all very young. They’re the ones that are stupid enough to follow this shit career that he’s involved in, this fake boxing career he’s been wrapped up in for a while.</p>
<p id="pHQIdz">“He got exposed by Tommy Fury, and I thought that’d be the end of him. Tommy Fury I don’t think is good enough to win a British title. I’m not giving him any stick, he’s a novice professional and Jake Paul lost to him.</p>
<p id="ZLZwf4">“Who’s he fought? He’s fought an old man, Anderson Silva, and that looked like a fix, a shot that missed and Anderson Silva jumped on the floor. Then he’s fought two bums, I don’t even know who the guys are but they looked like a right mess, looked like they did not belong in a boxing ring, and Jake Paul hits them with one shot and they’re chucking themselves on the floor.”</p>
<h4 id="GlKKHp">On the Paul vs Tyson odds</h4>
<p id="KT8q14">“I think rightly so, Mike Tyson’s the underdog. Jake Paul’s a massive favorite, but the guy’s in his mid-20s and he’s fighting someone 30 years older than him.</p>
<p id="hg5afX">“Do I see a world in which Mike Tyson could potentially beat Jake Paul? The last thing to go is your punching power, but he’s probably got a 15-20 second burst in him, and then when he runs out of steam because Jake Paul keeps out of his way early on, he’s gonna be blowing out of his ass, Mike Tyson, and he’s going to be a sitting duck. It’s going to be target practice. So I don’t think Mike Tyson <em>has </em>got a puncher’s chance.</p>
<p id="gnPUT1">“Obviously if he lands flush on Jake Paul’s chin — I mean, how fucking good would that be? I would absolutely love it if Mike Tyson got in the ring and connected on Jake Paul’s chin and flattened him. That would mean all his bullshit and hype and all this talk, all this being a greedy bully fighting Mike Tyson would backfire, but I just can’t see that happening.</p>
<p id="1DoCUt">“I just don’t see how a guy who’s nearly 60 years old and hasn’t been anywhere near a gym — obviously, we’re seeing clips of him looking decent on the pads for two, three seconds that have been chopped in, but he’s not an athlete anymore. He’s a retired, old man, and I’m not saying that in a disrespectful way, that’s just where he is.</p>
<p id="pSnXfX">“You’ve got Jake Paul who’s actually in the gym a lot. He’s not a professional boxer, he never will be, because he’s fucking crap, he can’t fight. If you’ve seen him fight, he’s useless. He’s just a bully. But he’s going to beat Mike Tyson because he’s in his 20s. Time waits for no man. Mike Tyson is just too old.”</p>
<h4 id="rpJj5A">Froch’s message to Jake Paul</h4>
<div class="c-float-right"><aside id="KvMBD3"><q>“I’ll fight you for free, because you need to stop doing what you’re doing.”</q></aside></div>
<p id="hbZmh7">“Jake Paul, you are an absolute bitch. I’ve seen you fight. I watched you lose against Tommy Fury, what a crap fight that was, I’ve never seen anything so crap in my life. Why are you still gloving up and lacing up the boots and calling yourself a professional boxer? You’re a performing clown, you’re a fucking embarrassment, and you should be ashamed of yourself.</p>
<p id="KM87tj">“I’ve never had a personal beef with Jake Paul. He’s the one who called me out. He mentioned my name in some stupid interview he did, because he don’t like the fact that I don’t give him any credit or any praise in the boxing world, because he doesn’t deserve it, because he can’t box.</p>
<p id="cxFd2L">“You had the opportunity to fight me because you talked, you used my name in some bullshit, then you chucked Anderson Silva in the mix. You said, ‘Fight Anderson Silva and prove yourself and I’ll take you on.’ Well I put you straight in your box, didn’t I? I said, ‘Come on then, let’s do it.’ I threatened to put him into orbit and he went quiet. Totally silent. Didn’t want to know.</p>
<p id="J5QBka">“Because you know, even though I’m 10 years retired and I’m 20 years older than you, you know you can’t risk fighting somebody like me. ... You won’t fight me, will you? You ain’t got the bollocks. You’re just a fucking bully. It’s pissing me off, because Mike Tyson is such an icon, he’s such a legend in the boxing world, and you’re gonna disrespect him, and you’re disrespecting yourself, actually.</p>
<p id="DSdU2o">“You’re an embarrassment. It just shows what you are. You’ve got a guy here who’s 20 years your senior, who’s not in the gym, and you went silent. You filled your nappy as soon as I called you out. ... All these excuses — ‘Oh, Carl Froch must need the money, he must want a payday,’ and he laughs it off and brushes it to one side. He’s got no intention of coming anywhere near me.</p>
<p id="L4YJ0S">“He’s ran his mouth, I’ve put it on him and said, ‘Let’s go,’ and I’m not trying to make money. I’ll fight you for the pure love of it, I’ll fight you for fun, and you can mark these words down in the contract, I’ll fight you for free, because you need to stop doing what you’re doing.”</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/17/24103703/ill-fight-jake-paul-free-carl-froch-blasts-fighting-old-man-mike-tyson-boxing-news-2024Scott Christ2024-03-17T08:00:00-04:002024-03-17T08:00:00-04:00Boxing streaming and TV schedule for March 21-24
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<figcaption>Dalton Smith faces Jose Zepeda this week | Photo by Nigel French/PA Images via Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Dalton Smith faces Jose Zepeda this week, plus more on the schedule!</p> <h2 id="0yUow0">Thursday, March 21</h2>
<p id="LFpivH"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a> <strong>and Social Media</strong>, 9:00 am ET, <strong>Smith vs Zepeda press conference</strong>.</p>
<p id="xW3iEf"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a> <strong>and Social Media</strong>, 6:30 pm ET, <strong>X Series 013 press conference</strong>.</p>
<h2 id="NYvy4G">Friday, March 22</h2>
<p id="KkjndE"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a> <strong>and Social Media</strong>, 9:00 am ET, <strong>Smith vs Zepeda weigh-in</strong>.</p>
<p id="UIVMt7"><a href="https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8836606-14017008?sid=BadLeftHook">TrillerTV+</a>, 1:00 pm ET, <strong>BKFC 58 Bulgaria: Toni Markulev vs Kaloyan Kolev</strong>.</p>
<p id="BBAXx8"><strong>TNT Sports (UK)</strong>, 2:00 pm ET, <strong>Chris Bourke vs Ashley Lane</strong>. For the vacant British bantamweight title. This is not one ESPN+ felt the need to add.</p>
<p id="o0KMHM"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a> <strong>and Social Media</strong>, 6:30 pm ET, <strong>X Series 013 weigh-in</strong>.</p>
<h2 id="lsLm3D">Saturday, March 23</h2>
<p id="ya3P9l"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a> <strong>and Social Media</strong>, 12:30 pm ET, <strong>Smith vs Zepeda prelims</strong>.</p>
<p id="SfDX4Y"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a>, 3:00 pm ET, <strong>Dalton Smith vs Jose Zepeda</strong>. Matchroom are giving Smith a test to pass here. Zepeda is past his best days and doesn’t have a genuinely good win since 2020, but he is a Known International Name and all that. If Smith is who Matchroom want him to be, he should win handily here.</p>
<p id="GWumVx"><a href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100l4uKY/pubref:BadLeftHook" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DAZN</a>, 7:30 pm ET, <strong>X Series 013: Fox the G vs Most Evil Tag Team</strong>. That’s right, a 2-on-1 fight. I don’t know how much clearer we can make that this stuff has descended into being pro wrestling, but — actually, that’s unfair. Being pro wrestling would be a step up.</p>
<p id="ACBQc6"><a href="https://www.trillertv.com/watch/fight-night-5-fr/2pekj/">TrillerTV PPV</a>, 8:00 pm ET, <strong>Sebastien Bouchard vs Jan Michael Poulin</strong>. $20! For this! I mean, you can do as you please. We all have our quirks. There are also free prelims an hour earlier on TrillerTV.</p>
<h2 id="ykAwot">Sunday, March 24</h2>
<p id="Lc1YdG"><a href="https://www.trillertv.com/watch/fn-19-celebrity-net-fights/2peki/">TrillerTV PPV</a>, 8:00 pm ET, <strong>“Celebrity” Net Fights Las Vegas</strong>. There are allegedly “celebrities” fighting on this event. It’s $15. For “celebrities.”</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/3/17/24103701/how-watch-smith-vs-zepeda-x-series-013-streaming-tv-schedule-boxing-news-2024Scott Christ2024-03-16T23:03:35-04:002024-03-16T23:03:35-04:00Onslaught! Zepeda overwhelms Hughes for TKO-4: Highlights
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<figcaption>William Zepeda was too much for Maxi Hughes | Photo by Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>William Zepeda’s volume and pressure proved to be too much for Maxi Hughes in DAZN’s main event. </p> <p id="peQ6pJ">William Zepeda performed as most expected tonight in DAZN’s main event, completely overwhelming a game Maxi Hughes for four rounds before Hughes’ corner was forced to stop the fight. </p>
<p id="q1Rf7w">Zepeda (30-0, 26 KO), who’s known for his pressure and accurate volume punching, started quick but Hughes (26-7-2, 5 KO) was expecting as much and started with a quick pace himself, prepared to counter as often as he could while landing some well-timed shots. The problem for Hughes, however, is that the pace was one that Zepeda was completely accustomed to, while that isn’t the case for Hughes and the quickly began to prove itself out.</p>
<p id="Phn1pP">By the second round Hughes was already showing difficulty keeping up with the pace Zepeda was forcing and he couldn’t land anything of significance to keep Zepeda from coming to him without a worry in the world. By the third and fourth round Hughes was essentially spent, and therefore had to spend his time trying to play defense as much as he could in the face of overwhelming offense. </p>
<p id="e9hWG7">By the end of Round 4 Hughes had taken as good of a beating as you see a lot of fighters take over 12, and with it being obvious at that point that he had nothing left to offer by way of resistance, Hughes’ corner mercifully stopped the fight. </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The volume of William Zepeda is unmatched <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZrHFFU7Auv">pic.twitter.com/ZrHFFU7Auv</a></p>— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DAZNBoxing/status/1769196252825329910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<h3 id="aRiDIg">Undercard highlights </h3>
<ul><li id="tWI2iV"><strong>Floyd Schofield (17-0, 12 KOs) DQ-5 Esteuri Suero (13-2, 10 KO) </strong></li></ul>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Suero picks up Schofield in round four <br><br>Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> live on <a href="https://t.co/FoiaUucI53">https://t.co/FoiaUucI53</a> <a href="https://t.co/bNwUxMZnvA">pic.twitter.com/bNwUxMZnvA</a></p>— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DAZNBoxing/status/1769182158483226690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Floyd Schofield beats Esteuri Suero via disqualification <br><br>Main event next <br><br>Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> live on <a href="https://t.co/FoiaUucI53">https://t.co/FoiaUucI53</a> <a href="https://t.co/GrrHtvBKGI">pic.twitter.com/GrrHtvBKGI</a></p>— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DAZNBoxing/status/1769183765237305502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<ul><li id="ZBfXwU"><strong>Eric Priest UD-10 Jose Sanchez (100-90, 99-91, 99-91)</strong></li></ul>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eric Priest is looking sharp ⚔️<br><br>Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> live on <a href="https://t.co/FoiaUucI53">https://t.co/FoiaUucI53</a> <a href="https://t.co/O6qx42OY7Z">pic.twitter.com/O6qx42OY7Z</a></p>— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DAZNBoxing/status/1769166681711182301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<ul><li id="txE1PT"><strong>Tristan Kalkreuth (13-1, 10 KO) TKO-2 Marquice Weston (15-3-1, 8 KO)</strong></li></ul>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tristan Kalkreuth get it done in round 2 <br><br>Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> live on <a href="https://t.co/FoiaUucI53">https://t.co/FoiaUucI53</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ws2Gc4wDvb">pic.twitter.com/Ws2Gc4wDvb</a></p>— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DAZNBoxing/status/1769161754855248049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tristan Kalkreuth left his opponent STUNNED <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> | LIVE on DAZN <a href="https://t.co/megBYilDbH">pic.twitter.com/megBYilDbH</a></p>— Golden Boy (@GoldenBoyBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldenBoyBoxing/status/1769182211738108177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A perfect backflip and landing after a perfect 2nd round stoppage. Let's go Sweet T!!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZepedaHughes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZepedaHughes</a> | LIVE on DAZN <a href="https://t.co/9bVoWzWtO7">pic.twitter.com/9bVoWzWtO7</a></p>— Golden Boy (@GoldenBoyBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldenBoyBoxing/status/1769159240772657219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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<ul><li id="OVYiyM"><strong>Joel Iriarte (1-0, 1 KO) TKO-2 Bryan Carguacundo (3-6-2, 0 KO) </strong></li></ul>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A second round finish in his pro debut - give it up for Joel Iriarte! <a href="https://t.co/IMJhV4Jroa">pic.twitter.com/IMJhV4Jroa</a></p>— Golden Boy (@GoldenBoyBoxing) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldenBoyBoxing/status/1769156024244822492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a>
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