Your fight-size boxing update:
- Ak and Barak spoke to rapper and co-host of the "The Breakfast Club" radio show Charlamagne tha God to get his thoughts on the state of boxing today. The full interview can be seen in the video at the top of the page.
- Purses from the January 13 PBC on FS1 card from Los Angeles have been revealed. Below are the purse amounts from the California State Athletic Commission.
- Jose Uzcategui: $280,000
- Caleb Plant: $150,000
- Guillermo Rigondeaux: $25,000
- Moises Flores: $20,000
- Giovanni Delgado: $14,500
- Ahmed Elbiali: $13,000
- Brandon Figueroa: $10,000
- Ryan Karl: $10,000
- Allan Green: $10,000
- Kevin Watts: $10,000
- Lindolfo Delgado: $8,000
- Sergio Lopez: $6,000
- Brandon Harder: $3,600
- Joey Spencer: $2,500
- Plant, who won the IBF super middleweight title on that January 13 card, proposed to his girlfriend Jordan Hardy, who works for PBC as a host of the PBC Jabs show and as a reporter during boxing shows.
Caleb Plant (@SweetHandsPlant) on winning the IBF super middleweight title a few days ago and proposing to @PBCJordanHardy right after #PacquiaoBroner pic.twitter.com/DOhJmRZXr2
— Ryan Songalia (@ryansongalia) January 15, 2019
- Uzcategui, who lost to Plant on that card, sent out a tweet in Spanish thanking fans for their support and that Plant was the better man on that night. Below is the tweet.
Muchas gracias a todos. Hay Bolivita pa' rato pic.twitter.com/FtnyIZx5hw
— Bolivita Uzcategui (@JoseBolivitaU) January 14, 2019
- Three GH3 Promotions fighters, Thomas Mattice, Dominic Wade and Roney Hines are going to be fighting on the non-televised undercard of the February 1 ShoBox: The New Generation show from Rochester, New York.
- Highly-decorated amateur Charles Frankham has signed with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing and will be making his pro debut as a super featherweight on the undercard of the February 2 Matchroom Boxing card at the O2 Arena. The main event is Ted Cheeseman vs. Sergio Garcia for the European junior middleweight title.
