Matchroom Boxing
At the tip of March, the 12 months’s boxing calendar continues to return collectively. With that schedule filling up has lastly come the affirmation that Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia will meet on April 22. Though that’s not the one large struggle set for the primary half of the 12 months.
Davis introduced in November that he and Ryan Garcia had agreed to the framework of a deal for a struggle in 2023 with Davis solely needing to get by Hector Luis Garcia on Jan. 7 to make the struggle a actuality. He did precisely that, surviving a tricky early problem earlier than scoring a knockout to safe arguably the largest struggle in boxing by way of public consideration.
A serious pound-for-pound showdown was set for May 7, with former undisputed bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue transferring as much as tremendous bantamweight to problem WBC and WBO tremendous bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton. Unfortunately, Inoue suffered an harm and the struggle has been postponed, with the brand new date not but formally set.
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The schedule additionally took a success with the announcement that the deliberate rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano on May 20 in Dublin had been postponed on account of a Serrano harm. Their first assembly was a Fight of the Year effort in entrance of a wild crowd in Madison Square Garden, making it the largest — and arguably most vital — struggle within the historical past of girls’s boxing.
Taylor will nonetheless head to Dublin on the May 20 date, nevertheless, with affirmation that she would defend her undisputed tremendous light-weight championship in opposition to Chantelle Cameron.
Below is a working listing of boxing predominant occasions for 2023.
Note: This can be up to date continually with adjustments and additions.
April 1LondonAnthony Joshua vs. Jermaine FranklinHeavyweightDAZNApril 1TulsaRobeisy Ramirez vs. Isaac Dogboe
Interim WBO featherweight titleESPN+April 6Indio, CaliforniaAngel Acosta vs. Angelino CordovaFlyweightDAZNApril 7Brooks, CaliforniaShinard Bunch vs. Bryan FloresJunior welterweightShowtimeApril 8Newark, New JerseyShakur Stevenson vs. Shuichiro YoshinoLightweightESPNApril 8San AntonioJesse Rodriguez vs. Cristian Gonzalezvacant WBO flyweight titleDAZNApril 8TokyoKenshiro Teraji (c) vs. Jonathan Gonzalez (c)
WBC, WBO, WBA junior flyweight titlesESPN+April 8Carson, CaliforniaSebastian Fundora vs. Brian Mendoza
Junior middleweightShowtimeApril 15LondonJoe Joyce vs. Zhilei ZhangHeavyweightESPN+April 22Las VegasGervonta Davis vs. Ryan GarciaLightweightShowtime PPVApril 22Cardiff, WalesShavkatdzhon Rakhimov (c) vs. Joe Cordina
IBF tremendous featherweight title
DAZNApril 29Arlington, TexasVergil Ortiz vs. Eimantas StanionisWelterweightDAZNMay 20DublinKatie Taylor (c) vs. Chantelle CameronUndisputed tremendous light-weight titleDAZNJune 10New York CityJosh Taylor (c) vs. Teofimo LopezWBO junior welterweight titleESPN
