Isaac Cruz, the WBA world super lightweight champion, won his title in emphatic fashion when he defeated Rolly Romero in Las Vegas in March.
Cruz's stock subsequently sky-rocketed, and manager Sean Gibbons said he has not seen anyone’s popularity enhanced as much in a long time.
Cruz makes his first defense on August 3 at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles on a huge event co-promoted by …
Pick It: Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk
When to Watch: Saturday, May 18. Please note the earlier start time, as this show emanates from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia: Top Rank’s press release says the undercard begins at noon Eastern Time / 5 p.m. BST. Other websites, including PPV.com, have the show beginning at 2 p.m. Eastern Time / 7 p.m. BST.
How to watch: Pay-per-view streaming on ESPN+, DAZN…
Vasyl Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) returned to the top table of the lightweight ranks with an impressive 11th-round knockout of George Kambosos (21-3, 10 KOs) in Perth, Australia, to claim the vacant IBF world lightweight title.
Not only did Lomachenko impress in the one-sided affair against his Australian counterpart, but he demonstrated that at 36 he had not succumbed to Father Time as the U…
Australian heavyweight Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne has announced his retirement from professional boxing.
Browne suffered a first-round defeat to New Zealand prospect Hemi Ahio on the undercard of Vasiliy Lomachenko-George Kambosos Jr. at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, leaving his final record at 31-6 (27 KO).
Browne, 45, shocked Junior Fa in a round in 2022, but he has lost his las…
Lightweight titleholder Shakur Stevenson is ready to rejuvenate his career following a forgettable win against Edwin De Los Santos in November and a short-lived retirement in February.
Next on the slate for Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) is a hometown title defense against Artem Harutyunyan (12-1, 7 KOs) on July 6 at the Prudential Center in New Jersey.
And then, the 26-year-old Stevenson will be a fr…
Promoter Bob Arum heralded Vasiliy Lomachenko as one of the all-time greats following his 11th-round stoppage win over George Kambosos Jr. in Australia on Sunday.
Lomachenko claimed the vacant IBF lightweight title to improve to 18-3 (12 KOs) and looked as good as ever, becoming the first man to stop the tough Australian Kambosos.
They fought at the RAC Arena in Perth, and Ukraine’s Lomach…
There is admittedly some irony to pouring cold water on the premise of Naoya Inoue vs. Gervonta “Tank” Davis not long after boxing’s newest powerbroker poured gasoline on a potential fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez.
These kinds of fights — one boxer jumping up well above his best weight to take on another in his more natural habitat — aren’t u…
Don’t forget about him yet.
That was the message Vasiliy Lomachenko delivered Sunday morning in Perth, Australia, with an 11th-round knockout of former lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr. that reunited Lomachenko with a lightweight belt and revived him as a player among a prominent group of younger fellow titleholders.
Capping a punishing display that left Kambosos (21-3, 10 KOs) cut …
All of the championship fighters have made weight in Perth, Western Australia head of Sunday’s Top Rank bill, with headliners Vasiliy Lomachenko and vacant IBF lightweight title co-challenger George Kambosos both came in under the 135lbs limit.
(Vacant IBF Lightweight World Title - 12 Rounds) Vasiliy Lomachenko 134.9lbs. vs. George Kambosos Jr. 134.2 lbs Referee: Ka…
A week after Saul “Canelo” Alvarez retained his undisputed super middleweight championship via a unanimous decision win over Jaime Munguia, a sample of boxing insiders consulted by BoxingScene doubts that the Mexican will face the likes of David Benavidez or Terence Crawford next – unless, perhaps, he is offered a huge amount of Saudi cash to do so. Equally, however, each of the …
Vasiliy Lomachenko doesn’t need to do this, continuing this pursuit to recapture another belt as a lightweight champion.
He’s already won two Olympic gold medals, already become a world champion in his third pro fight, already stopped four consecutive foes on their stools – including rival double gold-medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux – and already won world titles in three di…
Heavyweight great Lennox Lewis has warned unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) to expect the best version of Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) when the pair meet at long-last in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
May 18 will see the long-awaited undisputed heavyweight title encounter finally take place after several delays.
Usyk and his promoter, Alexander Krassyuk, have been crit…
Eddie Hearn says there’s still a chance Canelo Alvarez will fight David Benavidez despite renewed speculation about a fight against pound-for-pound leader Terence Crawford.
Hearn, of Matchroom Promotions, remains skeptical about the Canelo-Crawford possibility, which resurfaced with comments from Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh, who told ESPN he wants to put together the proposed catch…
IBF featherweight world champion Luis Alberto Lopez has relished the role of the spoiler to the hometown hero for most of his career, now he wishes to look to do against “The Monster” Naoya Inoue in Japan.
Inoue knocked out Luis Nery in the sixth round making the first defense of his undisputed junior featherweight titles at the Tokyo Dome, Japan on Monday.
Lopez (30-1, 17 KOs)…
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) on Wednesday announced that it would require Artur Beterbiev to provide a detailed medical explanation of his latest injury.
Top Rank confirmed last Friday that WBO, WBC and IBF light heavyweight titleholder Artur Beterbiev suffered a ruptured meniscus during training, forcing the postponement of his scheduled undisputed light heavyweight championship bout agai…
Vasiliy Lomachenko is heading into Saturday’s world title fight against George Kambosos knowing that his career is approaching the end.
Lomachenko faces Kambosos this weekend (May 12) for the vacant IBF lightweight title, in what will be the Ukrainian’s first fight back after losing to Devin Haney last May for the undisputed championship. Many saw Lomachenko as one of the …
WBO super lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez will fight next on June 29 in Miami.
He will box Calgary’s Steve Claggett, 38-7-2 (26 KOs), in his first fight since an unspectacular outing against Jamaine Ortiz in Las Vegas in February.
The always outspoken Lopez had taken to social media to voice his displeasure at how talks had gone ahead of the Claggett fight being made.
“That…
NEWARK, N.J. (May 7, 2024) — Newark’s three-division king is ready to defend his crown on native turf.
Shakur Stevenson will make the inaugural defense of his WBC lightweight world championship against Armenian-born German Olympian Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday, July 6, at Prudential Center in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey.
In the co-feature, O’Sha…
Robbie Davies Jr (23-4, 15 KOs) and Sergey Lipinets (17-3-1, 13 KOs) have both made the agreed catchweight limit of 142 pounds.
Davies Jr hit the scale at 141.6 pounds, with Lipinets also coming in 141.6 pounds ahead of tomorrow’s 10-round main event from the Whitesands Events Center in Plant City, Florida, live on ProBox TV.
Fernely Feliz Jr (7-0, 6 KOs) weighed in at a slender 204.…
By the time Terence Crawford steps into the ring to face Israil Madrimov in a Los Angeles soccer stadium on Aug. 3, he will have been inactive for 371 days. That’s one year, plus a leap day, plus five ordinary days. That’s 53 weeks.
And it’s a lot to ask of people to keep you in the No. 1 spot on their pound-for-pound lists when you’re off that long. Especially when, on to…
Manny Pacquiao’s advisor Sean Gibbons has said the Filipino legend has given himself a nine-month window to fight again before hanging up his gloves for good.
The 45-year-old has not boxed since a 2021 loss to Cuban Yordenis Ugas, but the 72-fight veteran and future Hall of Famer was close to agreeing a bout with Conor Benn this year.
The two went head-to-head in Saudi Arabia and negotiati…
Talk to enough boxing lifers and they’ll say one of the most revealing elements of a champion’s mettle is how they perform once they’re knocked to the canvas.
Funny, how at the same Tokyo Dome where Mike Tyson thumbed for his mouthpiece and succumbed to James “Buster” Douglas a generation ago, Naoya Inoue absorbed a hard first-round left hand to the head from former …
TOKYO – Luis Nery might have cut a dejected figure this morning.
There was discolouration around his eyes but as he sat in the hotel lobby, he posed for pictures and signed autographs for the fans. He smiled more than he had all week.
Mexican Nery was booed last night in his challenge of Naoya Inoue for the unified super bantamweight titles, and it has been well documented why.
…
Sebastian Fundora pulled off a huge upset when he defeated Tim Tszyu for the WBC and WBO junior middleweight titles last March. That victory started a queue of fighters lining up for a shot at the now-unified 154-pound champion. Fundora has options on the table, with Tszyu seeking a rematch and Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. calling for a shot at the title.
One man Fundora didn’t exp…
WBA junior lightweight titleholder Lamont Roach Jr. is set to make his first world title defense in his hometown of Washington D.C., on June 28 to be aired live on ProBox TV.
Roach (24-1-1, 9 KOs) impressed in his most recent outing, capturing the title from Hector Luis Garcia, and now turns his attention to his first defense, against undefeated Northern Irishman Feargal McCrory (16-0, 8 KOs).
&…
Tyson Fury doesn’t believe that size will play a factor when he faces Oleksandr Usyk on May 18 for the undisputed heavyweight championship.
Fury stands six inches taller than his rival Usyk and normally weighs in around 50 pounds heavier than the former undisputed cruiserweight champion. The 6ft 9ins heavyweight is known for using his size to break his opponents down, using it effectively i…
Michel Rivera is chomping at the bit to get his hands on Ryan Garcia. The super lightweight contender recently signed with Salita Promotions and would like to face Garcia in his next fight.
When Garcia will be able to fight isn’t yet known as the 25-year-old tested positive for a banned substance after his April 20 victory over Devin Haney at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. His case is…
TOKYO – The story had already been written before it was played out in front of more than 40,000 frenzied fans at the Tokyo Dome.
The stage had been set. We had seen the commercial.
Japan’s leading man, the boyish wrecking machine that is Naoya Inoue, was fighting for the honor of his country against the villain of the piece, Luis Nery.
Mexico's Nery had been banned from fighting in…
TOKYO – Naoya Inoue survived a scare and a first-round knockdown on Monday to drop Mexican challenger Luis Nery three times on his way to a spectacular sixth-round knockout.
Inoue was dropped by a wide southpaw left hook in the first and then floored Nery with a wondrous counter left hook in the second.
A further stunning left hook put Nery over again in the fifth, and in the sixth a…
Dmitrii Bivol will remain on the June 1 bill after Artur Beterbiev withdrew with a knee injury, facing Malik Zinad instead.
The light heavyweight unification clash between WBA champion Bivol and Beterbiev, holder of the WBC, IBF and WBO belts, was one of the most-anticipated of the year and it is hoped the contest will be rescheduled for later in the year.
Beterbiev, 39, tore his meniscus.
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TOKYO – Ahead of what has been called the biggest event in the history of Japanese boxing, International Boxing Hall of Fame historian Joe Koizumi has rated Naoya Inoue as Japan’s greatest boxer.
Koizumi first started writing for The Ring in the 1960s, aged just 17, and he is a boxing encyclopaedia who was enshrined in Canastota in 2008.
Koizumi first held a license with the Jap…
Jaime Munguia recognised that he was out-thought by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez throughout what proved his first defeat.
After an encouraging start to their undisputed super-middleweight title fight at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, the 27-year-old Munguia was knocked down in the fourth round – and for the first time in his career – and rarely looked capable of victory on…
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez insisted he could have stopped Jaime Munguia after knocking him down in the fourth round – and he then backed his fellow Mexican to learn valuable lessons from his first defeat.
Alvarez defended his undisputed super-middleweight title by earning a unanimous decision at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, having not only become the first to defeat Munguia, but …
Muhammad Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard. Roberto Duran. Marvin Hagler. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Manny Pacquiao. Oscar De La Hoya. Those are just a select few of the top fighters Top Rank boss Bob Arum has promoted throughout his Hall of Fame career.
You can also put pound-for-pound top star Naoya Inoue on Arum’s list of the most prolific and preeminent fighters the 92-year-old has presided over.…
Robert Diaz believes that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s superior experience will prove the key to victory on Saturday over Jaime Munguia.
The Mexican rivals contest Alvarez’s undisputed super-middleweight title at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, on the occasion of Cinco de Mayo weekend, at a time when it is increasingly being suggested that Alvarez’s 33 years and 64 fight…
Let’s start off with these brief and indisputable statements:
Canelo Alvarez and Naoya Inoue are the kings of their weight classes. Canelo is the undisputed super middleweight champion, the owner of all four major world titles. The same can be said of Inoue in the junior featherweight division. They are two of the best fighters of today. They are two of the best fighters of this gener…
LAS VEGAS – Despite the knee injury that forced three-belt light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev to withdraw from his planned June 1 undisputed title fight in Saudi Arabia, WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol wants to keep the date and his main event.
“We have no reason to not fight. We have been in camp for two months now,” Bivol’s manager, Vadim Kornilov, to…
Ryan Garcia has taken to social media to protest his innocence after news broke that he’d twice tested positive for banned substances on April 19 and 20, the day before and the day of his fight with Devin Haney in Brooklyn, New York.
Garcia tested positive for two substances, ostarine and 19-norandrosterone, with the latter set to be analysed further by Carbon Isotope Ratio testing. I…
If it can’t be David Benavidez, Jaime Munguia’s a solid challenger to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on Saturday – he’s a top five super middleweight.
The all-Mexican element of Canelo-Munguia, in Las Vegas on Cinco de Mayo weekend, also gives it another element – not least because Mexican fans are the most vocal in this part of the world.
The timing of Saturday&…
LAS VEGAS – Ryan Garcia tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance known as ostarine on the day of and the day before his stunning three-knockdown victory over Devin Haney last month in New York, sources reported Wednesday.
The testing was performed by the Las Vegas-based Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA), and an individual familiar with the process reports a second…
LAS VEGAS – Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has encouraged Jaime Munguia to attempt to draw him into a physical fight on Saturday evening.
At Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, against his fellow Mexican and on the occasion of Cinco de Mayo weekend, Alvarez makes the latest defense of his undisputed super middleweight title.
During Tuesday’s grand arrivals, the typically aggressive M…
LAS VEGAS – Jaime Munguia has vowed to knock out Saul “Canelo” Alvarez after hearing the undisputed super middleweight champion predict that he will stop him inside eight rounds.
At Tuesday’s grand arrivals at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand – on Saturday they will contest Alvarez’s title at T-Mobile Arena – Alvarez insisted that he will earn his first stoppag…
The animosity between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Oscar De La Hoya became so intense at the final press conference to promote Saturday’s fight between Alvarez and Jaime Munguia that they had to be kept apart.
Alvarez defends his undisputed super middleweight title against his fellow Mexican Munguia at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, but if Munguia poses the greater threat to his …
LAS VEGAS – For the better part of two decades, three men have served as main-event fixtures on boxing’s highest-profile Cinco de Mayo and Mexican Independence Day weekend fight cards.
They shared rings, and they shared a bond: The obligation to wage battle on those thrilling Saturday nights against the most deserving and qualified opponent.
Oscar De La Hoya first inherited the mantl…
Jaime Munguia is expecting a “mentally” challenging fight when on Saturday he contests the undisputed super-middleweight title with the reigning champion, Saul Alvarez.
The Mexican rivals fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on the occasion of Cinco de Mayo weekend, when Munguia will become the fourth challenger to “Canelo” Alvarez’s crown.
Munguia, 27, is consi…
Robert Diaz considers the timing “perfect” for Jaime Munguia to be challenging Saul Alvarez.
The Mexican rivals, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, on Saturday contest “Canelo” Alvarez’s undisputed super-middleweight title on the occasion of Cinco de Mayo weekend.
Diaz left Golden Boy Promotions after 15 years at the start of 2023, and therefore remained an influen…
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has predicted that he will win Saturday’s undisputed super-middleweight title fight with Jaime Munguia inside eight rounds.
The Mexican rivals fight at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on the occasion of Cinco de Mayo weekend, when the 27-year-old Munguia enters what, by a considerable distance, represents both his toughest and most significant fight.
If Alvarez remains the stron…
Ryan Garcia’s majority decision win over Devin Haney on Saturday, April 20 in New York has many wondering who he will fight next.
Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) has options. He could rematch Devin Haney, he could fight in-house Golden Boy fighters like Jose Ramirez, or he could attempt to fight WBO and WBC junior middleweight world champion Sebastian Fundora – something he has brought up. …
Tony Sims believes that the decline he has observed in Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Jaime Munguia’s consistent improvement makes Saturday’s fight between them increasingly competitive.
Sims oversaw John Ryder’s fights with both during the past 12 months, and has therefore followed their progress into their undisputed super-middleweight title fight at Las Vegas’ T-…
Now that Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul is a real fight, let the debates begin.
Such was the mood on Monday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” when former world champions Timothy Bradley Jr., Paulie Malignaggi and Chris Algieri discussed the decision by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to sanction Tyson-Paul as a legitimate pro bout.
“They want (be…
John Ryder expects Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to have to come from behind to win Saturday’s fight against Jaime Munguia.
The 33-year-old Alvarez will defend his undisputed super middleweight title against his fellow Mexican on Cinco de Mayo weekend at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, in what Munguia’s co-promoter Oscar De La Hoya has already promised will prove a “changin…
With a week’s worth of consideration, Bill Haney – Devin Haney’s father and trainer – says his ultimate regret is “not enforcing the three pounds” that Ryan Garcia came in overweight before dealing Haney his first loss April 20.
“That’s calculated. That’s cheating,” the elder Haney told BoxingScene Monday in an extended telephone intervi…
Promoter Eddie Hearn expects Canelo Alvarez to stop Jaime Munguia this Saturday, but admitted the Mexican veteran’s age could come into play the longer the fight lasts.
Canelo defends his undisputed title against fellow Mexican Munguia this Cinco de Mayo weekend (May 4), in what has been billed as the old champion versus the hungry challenger.
The four-weight world champion has boxed 64 ti…
Oscar De La Hoya has predicted a “changing of the guard” when on Saturday Jaime Munguia challenges Saul Alvarez for the undisputed super-middleweight title.
“Canelo” Alvarez enters the all-Mexican showdown, at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on Cinco de Mayo weekend, as the significant favourite against Munguia – a proven fighter but one who, unlike David Benavidez, …
Mike Tyson has confirmed that his fight with Jake Paul on July 20 has been “sanctioned as a pro fight.”
“I wasn’t joking when I said this would be a real fight. See you in July @jakepaul,” was posted on Tyson’s Instagram.
The outcome of the bout will be added to their professional records, and the fight will be contested over eight-two-minute rounds. They will…
Super middleweight Jaime Munguia is looking to continue a strong, and sometimes under-appreciated, run as a pro.
Munguia (43-0, 34 KOs) will face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
On April 20, Ryan Garcia transitioned from a star to a superstar following his victory over Devin Haney. Golden Boy Promotions, which guides Garcia, now has …
It was a short night of work for Vergil Ortiz on Saturday.
The junior middleweight who fought at a catchweight of 156 pounds stopped former world title challenger Thomas Dulorme in the first round in a co-feature in Fresno, California. It was Ortiz’s second first-round knockout of the year, after he stopped Fredrick Lawson in a matter of moments back in January.
The fight was overshadowed …
Jason Moloney believes former opponent Naoya Inoue will continue his impressive knockout run when he takes on Luis Nery, but the Australian also thinks that Nery will bring “an exciting fight to the table” on May 6.
Inoue, the Japanese superstar, will defend his undisputed junior featherweight title at the 55,000-capacity Tokyo Dome, a historic venue that hasn’t been used for bo…
“His legacy is secure.”
We’ve heard that ad nauseam just about every time someone talks about Saul “Canelo” Alvarez refusing to fight David Benavidez. And it’s true: Canelo has spent the best part of 15 years taking on tough opposition in a variety of weight classes, almost always coming out on top. He is already a lock for the International Boxing Hall of Fame…
Pick It: Canelo Alvarez vs. Jaime Munguia
When to Watch: Saturday, May 4. The prelims, free for everyone, begin at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on Amazon’s website; the pay-per-view broadcast begins at 8 p.m. Eastern Time
How to watch: Pay-per-view streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video, DAZN, and PPV.com, and also available for purchase via traditional cable and satellite outlets.
Why to Watch: …
Super middleweight contender Christian Mbilli has previously told BoxingScene that Saul Canelo Alvarez’s undisputed title defense with Jaime Munguia is an “easy fight”.
Canelo’s showdown with fellow Mexican Munguia hits the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on May 4 to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
“I think Munguia will need to use a lot of pressure,” Mbilli …
A new chapter will be added to the saga of Saul "Canelo" Alvarez’s complicated relationship with Oscar De La Hoya when the undisputed super middleweight champion faces Jaime Munguia on May 4.
The Cinco de Mayo weekend showdown will mark the first time Alvarez and De La Hoya have been directly involved in a fight together since Alvarez sued Golden Boy and DAZN in 2020 and started a…
It makes a lot of sense for Terence Crawford to move up to 154lbs to challenge the WBA champion Israil Madrimov.
In the wake of Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora, it seems natural for Crawford to fight for a title in a fourth weight class – and to put him on course to unify all four titles in a third.
Though talented, Madrimov doesn’t have Crawford’s profile or experience…
Whether or not Oscar De La Hoya’s building up for a U.S. version of the “5 vs. 5” tournament that Eddie Hearn has lined up for June 1 in Saudi Arabia with rival British promoter Frank Warren, the gloves are off because of Hearn taking the lead role in the stacked Aug. 3 card in Los Angeles.
“No promoter is coming into my territory and think they can take over ‘my&rsq…
No one expected Ryan Garcia to beat Devin Haney at the weekend.
Not because he didn’t have the physical gifts or the talent – but because in the build-up to the fight he looked a mess, and because a year earlier he quit against Gervonta “Tank” Davis and looked far from spectacular when beating Oscar Duarte. It was right to question whether he should even have been fighting…
The money Katie Taylor was offered to have a rematch with Amanda Serrano was too good for Taylor to turn down, according to her promoter Eddie Hearn.
Taylor, 37, will defend her undisputed super lightweight title on July 20 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, when she perhaps would once have expected to next be fighting Chantelle Cameron instead.
It was in November when she earned a maj…
Jaron “Boots” Ennis was persuaded to sign for Matchroom on the promise of fighting regularly in his home city of Philadelphia.
The IBF welterweight champion’s first fight under his new promoters is scheduled to be against his mandatory challenger Canada’s 31-year-old Cody Crowley, and in Philadelphia, where he last fought when he stopped Raymond Serrano in November 2018.
…
Devin Haney (31-1, 15 KOs) has called for a rematch between himself and Ryan Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) after suffering the first defeat of his professional career at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Garcia scored three knockdowns, claiming a majority decision and while his antics marred the lead-up to the all-Californian WBC super-lightweight title affair, Garcia was a worthy winner.&…
LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA – Hall of Fame boxing promoter Don King and Kris Lawrence’s The Heavyweight Factory will host Adrien “The Problem” Broner (35-4-1, 24 KOs) and Blair “The Flair” Cobbs (16-1-1 with 10 KOs) on Friday, June 7 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
The featured fight of the night will see Cincinnati’s Broner st…
Ryan Garcia has backed Devin Haney to beat Gervonta Davis if the pair were to meet in the ring. Garcia’s comments come in response to Davis’s now-deleted comments after Garcia defeated Haney in New York last weekend.
Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) silenced his critics and won by majority decision at the Barclays Center, dropping the WBC champion three times over 12 rounds.
Davis h…
Trainer Joel Diaz was not happy with anything about Ramon Cardenas’ performance against Eduardo Ramirez through the first eight rounds Wednesday night, excoriating him and urging him to “wake your ass up.” It seemed overly harsh – Cardenas was boxing reasonably well and appeared to be winning the majority of the rounds.
Fair or not, it worked.
Between rounds eight and nin…
Undefeated junior middleweight prospect Marques Valle took a major step up against Damian Sosa in his first scheduled 10-rounder Wednesday night, and although Valle handled the two extra rounds just fine, he couldn’t quite cope with his experienced, relentless Mexican opponent.
At the end of 10 tremendously entertaining, hard-fought rounds at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Flori…
Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz didn’t seem impressed with Ryan Garcia’s entertaining three-knockdown victory over previously undefeated Devin Haney on April 20. Instead, Cruz, the popular WBA 140-pound champion, was more focused on Garcia blowing the weight by 3.2 pounds at the weigh-in than what he did the next day, labeling him as frivolous and unserious.
“Ryan Garcia …
New York: His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), announced a blockbuster World title clash as pound-for-pound superstar Terence Crawford challenges Israil Madrimov for the WBA and WBO interim World Super-Welterweight title on August 3rd sponsored by Visit Saudi, MDL Beast and Red Sea Global at BMO St…
Is it an exaggeration to say that a left hook 40 seconds into Round 1 of Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney changed the previously all-but-destined outcome of the fight – a Haney win?
Besides that left hook, Garcia didn’t have many moments in the first five rounds. All three judges gave “KingRy” the first round and Haney the next four. Haney even staggered an off-balance Garcia with …
According to ESPN, a clash between super-welterweights Vergil Ortiz (20-0, 20 KOs) and Tim Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) is reportedly planned for August 3 in Los Angeles, California.
Terence Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) will face WBA world super-welterweight champion Israil Madrimov (10-0-1, 7KOs) on the to-be-announced card at the BMO Stadium. Ortiz-Tszyu could also be added to the highly anticipated event.
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Gervonta Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) has taken to social media and urged Ryan Garcia to retire from the sport following his emphatic victory over Devin Haney.
Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) dropped former WBC world super-lightweight titleholder Haney (31-1, 15 KOs) three times at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, before claiming a majority decision points verdict to defeat his Californian rival.
Garica…
Keyshawn Davis is wasting little time getting back into the ring following his one-sided stoppage win against former world titleholder Jose Pedraza in February.
The lightweight sensation Davis (10-0, 7 KOs), a 2020 Olympic silver medalist, will be taking on Miguel Madueno (31-2, 28 KOs) on July 6 as the co-main event of a Top Rank on ESPN show. In the main event, WBC lightweight titleholder Shaku…
Regis Prograis and Dalton Smith are ready to fight this summer, according to Eddie Hearn.
The 35-year-old Prograis has one date remaining of his three-fight promotional agreement with Matchroom, following the unconvincing victory over Danielito Zorrilla and defeat by Devin Haney that undermined his prospects.
When he lost to Haney, Prograis also sacrificed his WBC super-lightweight title, and wh…
Jaime Munguia grew up admiring Canelo Alvarez, and now he’s looking to snatch the mantle out of his countryman’s hands to become the new face of boxing for Mexican fans.
Munguia (43-0, 34 KOs) and the undisputed super middleweight champion
Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) will square off on May 4 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The 27-year-old Munguia is thankful to be…
ProBox TV returns tomorrow with Wednesday Night Fights.
The card takes place at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida and sees the return of super bantamweight Ramon Cardenas.
Cardenas (24-1, 13 KOs), of San Antonio, Texas, came in under the super bantamweight limit weighing 121.2 lbs. His opponent, Eduardo Ramirez, better known as Jesus Ramirez Rubio (22-2-3, 16 KOs) – …
EL PASO, Texas (April 23, 2024) — Mexican former two-division world champion Luis Nery is aware that the odds are stacked against him, but a major upset in Tokyo wouldn't be the first of its kind.
Nery will challenge pound-for-pound king Naoya "Monster" Inoue for the undisputed junior featherweight world championship on Monday, May 6 at the Tokyo Dome.
Th…
Junior middleweight Marques Valle hopes to one day fight for every Puerto Rican when he steps foot in the ring.
Valle returns in a 10-rounder as the co-feature of ProBox TV’s Wednesday Night Fights, on April 24 when he faces Damian Sosa from the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida.
Valle (10-0, 7 KOs), 25, is a hard-charging power puncher and a pr…
Devin Haney’s lost night was out of character, out of sorts, out of hope.
All the things that happen when several stiff punches land to the face.
On Monday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” the crew including former world champions Chris Algieri and Paulie Malignaggi reflected upon former undisputed lightweight champion Haney’s first loss, at age 25.
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ProBox TV analyst Shawn Porter’s recent comments on Naoya Inoue – that the Japanese star would need to conquer America to become a global superstar – have been roundly criticized.
It’s an age-old debate, whether a fighter needs to crack America to make it big, but as it stands, Inoue is huge in Japan and highly regarded around the globe.
The 31-year-old Inoue (26-0,…
Smaller venue, bigger card.
Upon further review, those promoting Terence Crawford’s Aug. 3 pursuit of a fourth division title have decided to make the venue more intimate than the massive Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum by shifting their focus next door to BMO Stadium, officials with knowledge of the change told BoxingScene on Monday.
While downsizing from the historic 75,000-plus-seat to th…
A few years ago, as Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, Teofimo Lopez, and Gervonta Davis were making noise as undefeated 135 pound contenders, I somewhat rashly and publicly dubbed them the “Four Princes.” It was deliberately evocative and provocative, bestowed in the hope that this talented quartet would cross each other's paths with the frequency of Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, …
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman believes David Benavidez is content to play the waiting game before getting his opportunity to face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
Benavidez is moving up in weight to face Ukraine’s Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June for a light heavyweight title, having missed out – this time, at least – on the sweepstakes to meet boxing’s franchise player, Cane…
Ryan Garcia trainer Derrick James feels vindicated following Garcia’s upset win against Devin Haney on Saturday night.
The 2022 trainer of the year had a forgettable 2023 campaign due to Errol Spence Jr. suffering a one-sided stoppage loss to Terence Crawford and Jermell Charlo losing a landslide unanimous decision to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
James also guided Frank Martin …
Ryan Garcia shockingly dealt Devin Haney the first loss of his career Saturday night, knocking him down three times en route to a majority decision win.
Garcia set the tone of the fight early, tagging Haney with his patented left hook in the opening minute of the fight, and later used the same punch to drop Haney in the seventh, 10th, and 11th rounds.
Haney (31-1, 15 KOs) won rounds two through …
Ryan Garcia has picked up from where he left off last night on social media and has come out swinging against Conor Benn.
The two have traded social insults through the day, and Benn admitted it has surprised him.
“Ryan hasn’t been on my radar,” Benn said. “If he wants it, he can come here. I ain’t no Luke Campbell either, so it’s a fight I’d definitely …
Oscar Valdez is fresh off a resounding seventh-round knockout win against Liam Wilson.
The WBO’s interim 130-pound titleholder Valdez is already anticipating fights against a group headlined by Luis Alberto Lopez and O'Shaquie Foster.
But before Valdez (32-2, 24 KOs) begins the rigors of another training camp, the two-time Mexican Olympian is looking forward to the Cinco de Mayo weekend sh…
Devin Haney recognised he “fell asleep” on Ryan Garcia’s left hook and spoke of his desire for a rematch.
At the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, he lost his undefeated status and WBC super-lightweight title after Garcia became the first to knock him down when his explosive power recorded knockdowns in the seventh, 10th and 11th rounds
Haney was also repeatedly hurt…
Ryan Garcia insisted his victory over Devin Haney proved there was no cause for concern about his mental health.
At the conclusion of 12 dramatic rounds at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, he was confirmed as the victor via majority decision over one of the world’s finest fighters.
Haney was dethroned as the WBC super-lightweight champion and though Garcia failing to make weight …
Ryan Garcia revived his career by recording one of the most remarkable of all victories to dethrone Devin Haney as the WBC super-lightweight champion.
He will not leave the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York with the title, because his being overweight made him ineligible to win it, but he enhanced his reputation by earning the most unlikely of majority decisions, via scores of 112-112, 114-11…
After watching all of “the madness” that transpired at Friday’s Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney press conference, there was one takeaway.
“We’re heading to the finish line,” former 140-pound champion Chris Algieri said from Barclays Center, where he watched Garcia come in a staggering 3.2 points overweight for his second title fight in a year, with unbeaten champion Ha…
Ryan Garcia might be about to feature in a blockbuster pay-per-view event, but he has behaved more like a celebrity diva than an active fighter in the build-up to his fight with Devin Haney.
Garcia has gone viral in recent weeks – although not in a good way – as conspiracy theories, odd live streams with fans and ridiculous videos have surfaced.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) will b…
David Morrell (10-0, 9 KOs), the WBA’s secondary super middleweight titleholder, is reportedly set to move up in weight and challenge for a secondary WBA light heavyweight title against Radivoje Kalajdzic (29-2, 21 KOs) on June 22.
Morrell’s move up to 175 pounds follows that of David Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs), who will fight on the same card as Morrell against Oleksandr Gvodzyk (20-1,…
Last-minute negotiations are taking place ahead of Ryan Garcia’s weigh-in before his Saturday bout at Barclays Center in Brooklyn with Devin Haney.
Garcia, according to Dan Rafael, has weighed in at 143.2lbs, 3.2lbs above the super lightweight title limit, ahead of the ceremonial weigh-in due to take place at 2pm ET.
BoxingScene understands Ryan Garcia is on course to agree to pay $500,000…
Devin Haney is relishing boxing in New York for the first time as one of the world’s leading fighters.
The WBC super-lightweight champion on Saturday makes the first defence of his title against his long-term rival Ryan Garcia at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
He became the undisputed lightweight champion with successive victories over George Kambosos Jr. in Australia in 2022, defended h…
Opinions vary on whether and to what degree Ryan Garcia’s mental health is compromised heading into Saturday night’s fight against Devin Haney. Some feel he’s putting the “act” in “acting out” and take him and promoter Oscar De La Hoya at their words when they say it’s all designed to hype the fight. Some feel he’s in a full-blown mental health…
Ryan Garcia described himself as a “little mental” as he finalised his preparations for what could prove one of his defining fights.
On Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, he challenges his long-term rival Devin Haney for the WBC super lightweight title.
At Wednesday’s media workouts there were again concerns surrounding his weight – he looks on course …
Initial conversations have taken place to stage a World Boxing Association junior-middleweight title fight between champion Israil Madrimov and unbeaten, three-division champion Terence Crawford Aug. 3 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, BoxingScene has learned.
The card would mark the first American foray by Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of the Kingdom’s General Ente…
Oscar De La Hoya has dismissed concerns surrounding Ryan Garcia’s weight.
Garcia is scheduled to challenge Devin Haney for the WBC super lightweight title on Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, but at Tuesday’s face-to-face with the champion and Wednesday’s media workout he appeared a fighter on course to weigh in at 147lbs.
Observers were already concerned a…
Bill Haney – Devin Haney’s father, trainer and manager – is predicting that his son will overtake Gervonta “Tank” Davis to become the unofficial “face of boxing” after, he says, Devin beats Ryan Garcia on Saturday.
Davis and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez have consistently been the top two draws in the United States over the past few years, and they ha…
Boxing’s traditional arenas – in Las Vegas, London, etc. – are now darker more often because of the emergence of major fight cards in Saudi Arabia.
And while few live experiences can rival watching a boxing match in person, the payoff of seeing events like the upcoming undisputed heavyweight and light-heavyweight title fights over a two-week stretch is worth it, the panelists on…
Devin Haney dismissed Oscar De La Hoya’s assertion that Ryan Garcia has unsettled him and insisted that Garcia’s behaviour betrays him as the one unnerved.
The WBC super lightweight champion on Saturday makes the first defence of his title against Garcia at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
After retaining his composure throughout the build-up to perhaps the biggest fight of…
Derrick James has stayed in the background while Ryan Garcia has been the talk of the internet in the build-up to his fight with Devin Haney.
Garcia faces Haney with the WBC junior welterweight title on the line on Saturday, April 20 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
James was one of the most celebrated coaches a few years ago. He led Errol Spence to unify the welterweight di…
Jessie Magdaleno hopes to lean on his experuence as a former world champion to defeat 27-year-old Brandon Figueroa on May 4th.
The interim WBC featherweight world title fight will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on the Canelo Alvarez-Jaime Munguia Prime Video pay-per-view undercard.
Magdaleno (29-2, 18 KOs) has had a slow last few years - in fact, he has only fought thr…
Former light heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk is due to face the division’s newcomer David Benavidez for a mandated WBC interim title despite no formal announcement.
“It’s not even been announced yet because everybody already knows due to inside sources,” Gvozdyk said, in an exclusive interview with BoxingScene. “I don’t know what they are doing, ma…
As Ryad Merhy turned in a narcoleptic performance against Jared “Big Baby” Anderson on Saturday night, securing the No. 3 spot on the leaderboard of shame for fewest punches thrown in a 10-round fight during the CompuBox era, ESPN broadcaster Tim Bradley said he never wanted to see Merhy again.
I felt similarly. Merhy might be a perfectly nice guy, but it was past midnight on a Saturd…
Five of boxing’s worst kept secrets were finally revealed on Monday as the match-ups for the Queensberry vs. Matchroom ‘5 vs. 5’ show were officially announced.
Of all of the fights taking place in Saudi Arabia on June 1, none will divide opinion more than the featherweight contest between Matchroom’s WBA 126lbs champion, Ray Ford, 15-0-1 (8 KOs), and Queensberry fav…
Arriving in New York stopped Bill Haney in his tracks.
He considered he and his champion son Devin Haney’s path from once fighting Ryan Garcia in the amateur ranks with sparse viewership in Southern California to now filling Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for a WBC 140-pound title defense.
“This is like the cherry on top to what Frank Sinatra sang about doing it our way,” sai…
Hall of Fame fighter turned promoter Oscar De La Hoya believes he has boxing’s burgeoning draw in Ryan Garcia.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) will get another crack at proving his star power when he challenges WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) on Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The five-fight pay-per-view card will be presented on DAZN and …
For me, it wasn’t a main event. It was a co-feature, a bout atop a pay-per-view undercard, that made me fall in love with boxing.
I’d been an editor for The Ring magazine for about a month, not yet sure how I felt about this sport I’d stumbled into covering, when I attended my first live event. It was October 4, 1997, Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, a TVKO event — what HB…
Ryan Garcia is not happy with the ticket prices for his upcoming fight, arguing that they are too high for most people to afford and thus likely to affect gate sales.
Garcia fights Devin Haney on Saturday, April 20th for the WBC junior welterweight world title, but with just days remaining, Ticketmaster's seat map shows empty seats in nearly every section.
The news is surprising as Ha…
Devin Haney is targeting the pound-for-pound No.1 spot.
WBC junior welterweight world champion Haney will face Ryan Garcia on Saturday, April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on DAZN pay-per-view.
Haney, 31-0 (15 KOs), is focused on cementing his legacy in the sport and while Garcia, 24-1 (20 KOs), has not achieved as much as a professional, he was an ou…
Irish hero Katie Taylor and Puerto Rican star Amanda Serrano are set for a rematch in Texas on July 20, on Netflix.
Taylor had been looking for an opponent after negotiations stalled and then broke down for a trilogy bout with Chantelle Cameron, and the lure of fighting on Netflix has led the former two-time Olympian onto a bill that also features the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul event.
Taylor, 23-1…
As if a 20-0 start with 20 knockouts and three light-heavyweight belts isn’t enough of a feat, Artur Beterbiev Monday apparently set out to record a world record for fewest words spoken at a press conference by a major boxing headliner.
The beautiful part of the news conference in London to formally introduce the participants in the June 1 battle in Saudi Arabia for the undisputed 175-pound…
Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol came head-to-head in London this afternoon to formalise their fight in Saudi Arabia on June 1.
The Russian light heavyweight champions were respectful, although you could sense an edge in the air between the long-time rivals who meet in one of the best fights that can be made in the sport.
Bivol thanked Beterbiev and his team and his promoters, Top Rank, for tak…
Naoya Inoue, the Japanese boxing star, is one of the best fighters in the world having fought in America three times and in the U.K. once.
The man nicknamed ‘The Monster’, who is the undisputed junior featherweight world champion holding all four widely recognized world titles, returns to Japan on Tuesday, May 6. He will face Luis Nery from the Tokyo Dome, a venue that has a cap…
Devin Haney is done being cordial with Ryan Garcia, and he is now letting the world know he is taking the fight personally after Garcia’s pre-fight antics.
The junior welterweights will fight for Haney’s version of the world title on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. (DAZN PPV).
Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) and Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) have known each other for most of the…
Though Frank Martin versus Gervonta Davis has not been confirmed, Martin last week did nothing to cool the rumors during Ryan Garcia’s public workout in Dallas.
There has been long-term speculation that the WBA lightweight world champion Davis will next fight Martin on Saturday, June 22, on Prime Video PPV.
Martin, 18-0 (12 KOs), a gym-mate of Garcia – who train…
Anthony Joshua joked that he barely had time to enjoy Christmas before fight brokers reminded him ahead of New Year’s Eve that he would soon be turning from his late-December stoppage of Otto Wallin to meet former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in March.
Joshua’s destructive second-round knockout demonstrated that his activity was high and the union with trainer Ben Davison …
Heavyweight Jared Anderson, 17-0, 15 KOs, was disappointed with his performance against Belgian Ryad Merhy, 32-3, 26 KOs, in Corpus Christi, Texas, despite claiming a comprehensive unanimous decision.
Anderson was booed thanks, in part, to Merhy’s lack of ambition and the Toledo-based heavyweight won by a wide margin.
Anderson’s next fight will be in the courtroom. The un…
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has reached the back nine of his career.
With 64 fights already under his belt, Alvarez figures to be in blockbuster bouts for the foreseeable future, but he’s previously stated that he plans to retire at the age of 37.
But first, the 33-year-old Alvarez will headline another Cinco De Mayo weekend fight on May 4, aiming to defend his undisputed super middl…
Ryan Garcia will have many of his loyal social media following tuned in on Saturday, April 20th, as he faces the WBC junior welterweight champion Devin Haney in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
When looking back at boxing at the birth of social media, Garcia will be a chapter. In the post-Floyd Mayweather era, Garcia picked up the ball and went direct to the consumer. The thing th…
In one of televised boxing’s lowest-action fights in recent memory, Jared “Big Baby” Anderson won a unanimous decision over Ryad Merhy on Saturday at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The fight, which went to Anderson on official scores of 100-90 (twice) and 99-91, headlined an ESPN card promoted by Top Rank. Promoters and organizers were likely regretting…
Earlier this week, Fury declared at a news conference to promote the fight that he’s positioned to become the best heavyweight of his era by defeating Oleksandr Usyk, the unbeaten former undisputed cruiserweight champion from Ukraine.
That was the lead discussion point on Friday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters.”
“A focused Tyson Fury might be one of the …
For a heavyweight in the year 2024, the age of 24 is way too young to be in any kind of rush. Heavyweights have historically blossomed later and lasted longer than smaller fighters, and modern advances in science and nutrition have helped athletes in almost all sports extend their peaks.
If we were instead talking about a bantamweight and it was sometime between the first and second World Wars, s…
The countdown has begun for the undisputed heavyweight showdown between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk rescheduled for May 18.
Fury held a press conference at Mazuma Stadium in Morecambe, U.K., alongside promoter Frank Warren on Wednesday, and a full five weeks ahead of his collision with Usyk, a separate media frenzy has begun regarding a long-discussed bout with domestic rival and two-time…
Jared Anderson is being proclaimed as the next great American heavyweight and his promotional teammate Shakur Stevenson has heaped praise on the Top Rank contender.
Anderson faces Ryad Merhy on Saturday at the American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas. The bout will be broadcast on ESPN.
Anderson (16-0, 15 KOs), 24, of Toledo, Ohio, is looking to make a statement.
Last year, he mo…
Naoya Inoue’s May 6 defense of his undisputed junior featherweight titles will be his sixth consecutive bout in his native Japan.
Staying home has been good to Inoue (26-0, 23 KOs), with the 31-year-old becoming undisputed bantamweight king, convincingly defeating Philadelphia’s Stephen Fulton and rising to global pound-for-pound king.
It might be ugly American-ish to suggest this, b…
Jared Anderson has been watching Shakur Stevenson to enhance his preparations for Saturday’s fight with Ryad Merhy.
The 24 year old, at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, fights for the 17th time as a professional, and is the favourite to win for the 17th time.
Anderson has stopped all but one of his previous 16 opponents – he recorded 10 valuable rounds when ou…
Jared Anderson hopes to use Saturday’s fight with Ryad Merhy as a springboard towards a lucrative future date in Saudi Arabia.
The undisputed heavyweight title fight on May 18 in Riyadh, between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, is just the latest demonstration of the extent to which Saudi Arabia’s wealth has allowed them to almost buy the heavyweight division.
Anthony Joshua stopped Fr…
Ryan Garcia is confident heading into his April 20 fight with Devin Haney.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) believes that a win over Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in Brooklyn, New York, will make him the face of boxing. It might not be that simple, but he envisions that as part of the path. Garcia had a slew of predictions and thoughts at his lunchtime media workout on Tuesday in Dallas, Texas, about what fans can e…
Negotiations for a potential fight between Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez have become a weighty issue.
Alvarez is the undisputed king of the super middleweight division, and he will defend his crown once more against Jaime Munguia in an all-Mexican Cinco De Mayo weekend showdown in Las Vegas on May 4.
Munguia is certainly an appealing opponent who will help make the fight a blockbuster…
Oscar De La Hoya is overjoyed at the eagerness of junior welterweight Ryan Garcia and the fighter’s willingness to take on big challenges.
Garcia is set to challenge Devin Haney for a junior welterweight world title on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
De La Hoya, Golden Boy Promotions’ chairman and CEO, says Garcia’s boldness reminds him of the era in…
Former junior featherweight titleholder Angelo Leo continued his march toward a featherweight world-title shot with a dominant performance over Eduardo Baez in a ProBox TV “Wednesday Night Fights” main event at Whitesands Events Center in Plant City, Florida.
All three judges scored the bout widely in favor of Leo, 97-93, 98-92 and 98-92. The win was the third in a row for Leo (24-1, …
Jared Anderson’s future is looking bright.
If the heavyweight phenom can stay committed and dedicated to boxing – and if he can stay out of trouble.
Those are some big “ifs” for a 24-year-old expected to be the next face of heavyweight boxing in the United States.
Anderson had a solid 2023 campaign, fighting three times – most notably beating former heavyweight tit…
Puerto Rican super featherweight prospect Jaycob Gomez (10-0-1, 6 KOs) defeated Jose Arellano (11-2, 6 KOs) in a closely fought co-main event on ProBox TV’s "Wednesday Night Fights."
Gomez remained undefeated with a majority-decision win in a fight that could have gone either way. The judges scored the bout 76-76, 77-75 and 77-75 in his favor.
In a tight opening round, Gomez land…
Despite harboring hopes that Gennady Golovkin might have one more fight before riding off into the sunset, his promoter Tom Loeffler now believes that we have probably seen the last of the Kazakh middleweight in the ring.
“I was always hoping for one more fight, whether it was a farewell fight in Kazakhstan, or one of these matchups you see in the Middle East, that type of thing,” Loe…
Eddie Hearn and Matchroom have won the race to sign one of boxing’s hottest properties, as Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis has signed a multi-fight promotional deal in partnership with Boots Promotions.
Ennis (31-0 28 KOs) is slated to make his much-anticipated return to the ring in the summer where he will make the first defense of his IBF World Welterweight title.
Last time…
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury mocked former unified heavyweight champion and previous foe Wladimir Klitschko for advising his countryman, Oleksandr Usyk, on how to approach his upcoming fight with Fury on May 18 in Saudi Arabia.
Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) and unified champion Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) had been slated to fight in February, but Fury sustained a cut in a sparring session, postponin…
Luis Nery is digging in his heels and embracing his role as the boogeyman who will blast and beat “The Monster.”
Nery (35-1, 27 KOs) will challenge Naoya Inoue (26-0, 23 KOs) for the undisputed junior featherweight championship on May 6 on ESPN+ at the Tokyo Dome in Japan in front of an expected crowd of over 50,000 fans.
The fight marks the first time the Tokyo Dome has hosted…
Ryad Merhy is determined to prove that he is not just making up the numbers when he travels to Texas to face the highly regarded Jared Anderson. He intends to shock Anderson with victory and prove that Tyson Fury, the current WBC titleholder, is wrong.
Last November, Fury told reporters he believes that Anderson is the heir apparent of the heavyweight division.
Belgium’s Merhy (32-2, 26 KO…
Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz’s dynamic, title-winning stoppage of Rolando “Rolly” Romero last month has earned him a requested quick turnaround title defense in August, Cruz’s manager told BoxingScene on Tuesday.
“‘Pitbull’ wants to get back in the ring and stay busy,” Sean Gibbons, Cruz’s manager, said as he and Cruz provided interviews a…
The most valuable point to be made about Saul “Canelo” Alvarez balking now at the most obvious opponent he can fight is a subject the undisputed super middleweight champion knows well:
Boxing history.
In a segment on Monday’s “Deep Waters” episode on ProBox TV, analyst and former welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi said Mexico’s Alvarez is dishonoring the …
Devin Haney versus Ryan Garcia is billed as a game seven – the rare winner-takes-all-all game we see in the NBA, MLB, and other U.S. professional sporting league playoffs.
Haney will put his WBC junior welterweight world title on the line against his amateur rival Garcia on April 20, from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, which will be telecast on DAZN pay-per…
Terence “Bud” Crawford was six years old when Green Day’s seminal ’90s pop-punk album Dookie came out. Jaron “Boots” Ennis was still three years from being born. I’m going to assume neither is intimately familiar with the album — particularly the non-single deeper cuts. So both welterweights would be well served to download it and have a close listen…
David Benavidez’s slurred words and self-described “drunk” appearance on Saturday night’s DAZN boxing broadcast in Las Vegas was “extremely disturbing” to watch, Hall of Fame fighter Timothy Bradley Jr. said Monday.
“Watching him put his career out there like that … in the public eye … if you want to get plastered, if you want to drink, that&r…
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has big plans in store for Jared Anderson, but “Big Baby” needs to make sure he doesn’t blow them up.
Anderson (16-0, 15 KOs) is set to return for another showcase fight, headlining an ESPN show Saturday against Ryad Merhy (32-2, 26 KOs) at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Anderson, a 24-year-old heavyweight standout, will need to ge…
Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney have been sharing a ring off and on since their teenage years, having competed as amateurs against each other. The rivalry between the pair of Californians is set to continue into the professional ranks on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Questions have been raised about Garcia’s conduct and well-being since the fight’s opening press c…
David Benavidez issued an apology on Instagram for appearing to be inebriated during an interview on Saturday night with DAZN’s Chris Mannix during teammate Diego Pacheco’s bout in Las Vegas.
“I just want to take this time to apologize to all my fans and to the people that seen me last night drunk,” read a screenshot written on Benavidez’s Instagram account. “I…
Pick It: Jared Anderson vs. Ryad Merhy
When to watch: Saturday, April 13. The prelims are expected to begin around 5:40 p.m. Eastern Time, while the main broadcast is scheduled to start at 10 p.m. Eastern Time.
How to watch: ESPN+ for the prelims, and then ESPN and ESPN+ for the main broadcast.
Why to watch: Anderson was once thought to be a future heavyweight contender. He still could be &mda…
Bob Arum insists that the unbeaten Jared Anderson can still fulfil his potential and become the “next great heavyweight”, despite his recent brushes with the law.
In November he was arrested in Ohio – he is from Toledo – and charged with improperly handling firearms in a vehicle while knowingly under the influence and operating a vehicle under the influence…
Promoter Eddie Hearn has indicated that undisputed super lightweight champion Katie Taylor’s next step will be to see the Irishwoman return to the United States in a rematch with Amanda Serrano.
Taylor, 23-1, 6 KOs, and Serrano, 46-2-1, 30 KOs, broke box office and broadcasting records during their first encounter in April 2022 at Madison Square Garden, New York, which saw Taylor and …
Ryan Garcia has been the talk of the internet – and he believes he is the face of boxing.
Garcia will fight the WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney on April 20 live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on DAZN pay-per-view.
His profile has been enhanced further over the past few months by his online activity.
“This is the time, I feel like I …
For Sebastian Fundora and his team, it could come down to what’s more important to him – money, or ethics.
Tim Tszyu rescued the launch of Premier Boxing Champions on Amazon Prime by agreeing to fight him after Keith Thurman, a very different fighter, withdrew through injury. He was also paid less money for the privilege. If he hadn’t done so, the entire card was at risk of bein…
As Saul Canelo Alvarez prepares to defend his undisputed super middleweight crown against Jaime Munguia on May 4, one of the division’s leading contenders, Christian Mbilli, will invite Mark Heffron to Canada on May 25 with the Mexican superstar on his mind.
Mbilli (26-0, 22 KOs) told boxingscene.com that Munguia is “an easy fight” upon the announcement. The Frenchman is ranked …
Less than two weeks out from one of the most-talked about fights of 2024, Devin Haney is focused on the job at hand which is facing Ryan Garcia in New York on April 20.
Haney hosted a media day at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood on Friday, and the WBC super lightweight champion said preparations have been on point.
“Camp has been amazing. I’m in the zone – always,&…
Newly crowned WBC featherweight champion Skye Nicolson (10-0, 1 KO) has called to face Amanda Serrano and challenge for the unified world featherweight titles following the Australian’s successful title tilt against Sarah Mahfoud (14-2, 3 KOs) at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas.
Nicolson dominated Mahfoud over 10 rounds to claim a comfortable points decision win with scorecards of 100-90, 10…
Boxing has struck again. Let the controversy begin.
In a tight, well-matched junior welterweight scrap, Richardson Hitchins won a unanimous but debatable decision over Gustavo Lemos on Saturday at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Hitchins won by scores of 117-111 and 115-113 (twice) in the main event of a DAZN-streamed card, but the final outcome – and especially the outlier score – failed t…
Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia fought six times in the amateurs and split the series.
The 25 year olds declared a dance was inevitable in the pros, and they stayed true to their promise by agreeing to fight April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
But before the deal was official, a back and forth dance by Garcia made it seem as if he was not entirely interested in the bout.…
Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) said he expects to return to action in September – most likely in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In his past outing, Joshua made light work of former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou by stopping him in two rounds.
The former unified world champion is in contention to fight the winner of Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk or to challenge for the IBF title if …
Devin Haney is declaring a demolition job of Ryan Garcia once they fight on April 20.
“I'm going to beat the s*** out of him,” said Haney. “I’m going to beat him so bad we won’t need a rematch. The world won’t want to see a rematch.”
Haney has been on a remarkable run since 2020, beating the likes of Regis Prograis, Vasiliy Lomachenko, George Kambo…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – On March 27, 2024, IOC President Thomas Bach addressed representatives of the 17 National Olympic Committees (NOC) from across the Oceania region at the ONOC Annual General Assembly in Fiji. During his presentation, President Bach highlighted the need for global sport leaders to not only apply good governance at the continental or NOC level, but at the Nationa…
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (April 3, 2023) - Golden Boy has assembled a loaded lineup for the televised Haney vs. Garcia PPV undercard with boxing’s rising world title contenders. The main event features a bad-blood rivalry between undefeated, former undisputed lightweight champion and current WBC Super Lightweight Champion Devin “The Dream” Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) who will defen…
Skye Nicolson is in Las Vegas, winding down preparations for her vacant WBC featherweight title fight with Sarah Mahfoud on Saturday.
The unbeaten Australian, 9-0 (1 KO), scored the first stoppage of her career in her last fight, stopping Lucy Wildheart, winning in the ninth-round in November in Dublin.
In her 10th visit to Vegas, she will box at the new Fontainebleau at the north-end of The Str…
Trainer Robert Garcia has confirmed his interest in training former unified world welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (28-1, 22 KOs) following the fighter’s split with Derick James.
James last week confirmed that he is no longer working with Spence, who suffered a devastating stoppage defeat to Terence Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) last July in an attempt to become the undisputed welterweight …
Mike Tyson says he is “scared to death” ahead of a controversial ring return against Jake Paul at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas, on July 20.
Influencer-turned professional boxer Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) caused controversy when announcing he would take to the ring against the ever-popular former heavyweight legend Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs), despite concerns regarding Tyson’s hea…
Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz became a torrid social media sensation, thanks to his Saturday night destruction of Rolando "Rolly" Romero, which earned him a junior middleweight belt.
Cruz’s Instagram account gained a whopping 250,000 followers to breeze past the 1 million mark, and the highlights from his eighth-round stoppage became the top-trending video on YouTube.
“H…
Mike Tyson, at the age of 58, is planning to enter the ring once again, to face Jake Paul.
The key terms around their boxing engagement haven’t been announced yet.
Many are wondering whether it will be an exhibition match or a professional fight, and if it will be taking place with higher-ounce gloves and at abbreviated rounds.
Regardless of the terms, critics are crying foul that T…
There are those who are looking forward to April 20 so that Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia can finally step in the ring – and then there are the rest of us who want them to fight just so Garcia will finally stop talking and tweeting.
If only we could enjoy silence before then. After then, too.
This has been one of the worst pre-fight builds for a major boxing match — the Hane…
Former world super lightweight champion Chris Algieri believes Tim Tszyu could have been withdrawn in his fight with Sebastian Fundora by his corner, thus saving his WBO super welterweight title.
Tszyu boxed for 10 rounds through a bloody mask after his scalp was sliced open by the tip of Fundora’s elbow, accidentally, in an exchange at the end of round two.
Tszyu had no quit in him,…
There’s plenty of blame to be shelled out following Tim Tszyu’s bloody, belts-relinquishing defeat by Sebastian Fundora Saturday night, and some of it can be delivered by projecting future events.
“I guess it’s all business moves, but it’s not right,” Paulie Malignaggi said of the effort to deprive Tszyu of an instant rematch with Fundora.
On Monday&rsqu…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – APRIL 1, 2024 – Australian boxing star Nikita Tszyu returns to the ring for the first time in 2024 to defend his title against Danilo Creati.
Dubbed Australia’s most entertaining fighter, Tszyu had a breakout 2023 campaign which saw him capture the same Australian title his older brother won four years earlier.
The crafty Creati, whose lone profe…
Last Saturday, Sebastian Fundora won a surprise split decision over Tim Tszyu, after an unintentional Fundora elbow slashed a cut above Tszyu’s forehead. When Tszyu’s corner was unable to get the cut under control, the bleeding clearly affected the fighter’s vision – and very possibly the outcome.
The fight underscored the importance of a quality cutman (or cutwoman). Ofte…
Tim Tszyu’s vision was clouded by bravado before it was obscured by blood.
When they combined, he could no longer see what was coming: An upset loss that left him without two world titles. A setback that took away, for now, the opportunity for a big fight. And a defeat that could’ve been prevented.
Tszyu couldn’t have had the foresight to know he would suffer a cut that w…
I’ve been asked to talk about fights being stopped too soon or too late.
This is an extremely difficult topic to talk about because there are so many ifs and buts but there are black and white situations.
On the whole, fighters don’t get badly hurt in mismatches. If a fighter is allowed to take a prolonged beating in a mismatch, it’s pretty easy to see who is to blame. Ei…
No Limit Boxing promoter George Rose spoke of his pride in watching Tim Tszyu, his star fighter, battle the odds against Sebastian Fundora.
Tszyu lost a narrow split decision Saturday in Las Vegas after being cut terribly on the top of his head at the end of the second round – and then boxing the next 10 through bloody and blurry eyes.
“One of the bravest performances by an Australia…
After his brilliant redemption victory over Adrian Curiel in Mexico in February, South Africa’s IBF junior flyweight champion Sivenathi Nontshinga could find himself in a unification fight.
Nontshinga’s IBF mandatory challenger is Filipino contender Christian Araneta, but sources have told BoxingScene that a unification fight with WBO champion Jonathan “Bomba” Gonzal…
(April 1, 2024) – Unbeaten junior welterweight contender Lindolfo Delgado has signed a multi-year contract extension with Top Rank.
The 2016 Mexican Olympian, who scored an impressive seventh-round stoppage victory over Carlos Sanchez last Friday at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, looks to continue his career momentum as he prepares to target the division&rs…
The World Boxing Organization Monday ordered its new junior-middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora to launch negotiations with unbeaten, three-division champion Terence Crawford, although Fundora clearly has designs on Errol Spence Jr.
Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) positioned himself for this by standing as a WBO “super” champion by virtue of his recent standing as an undisputed welterweig…
LAS VEGAS – Isaac Cruz made Rolando Romero eat his words Saturday night.
Cruz (26-2-1, 18 KOs) started off fast and beat Romero (15-2, 13 KOs) from pillar to post, from the opening bell until the fight was stopped in the eighth round. Romero simply had no answer for the pressure that Cruz applied and only had small moments of success.
With the victory, Cruz captured a junior welterweight t…
Fabio Wardley retained his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles after battling to a draw over 12 bruising rounds with Frazer Clarke at The O2 Arena in London.
After knocking his rival down at the conclusion of the fifth round and watching him deducted a point for a low blow in the seventh, Wardley appeared on course for his biggest victory.
Clarke, 32, instead admirably fought back and to…
LAS VEGAS – A jubilant Sebastian Fundora spoke to the media after his bloody and pulsating 12-round split decision victory over Tim Tszyu at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas tonight and immediately started looking ahead to more big nights.
While Tszyu has a rematch clause in place, and the Australian’s team said their priority would be to secure that, Texan Errol Spence went into …
LAS VEGAS – It was like a horror movie. Sickening. Yet, it kept drawing all the eyes in attendance back to watch.
Sebastian Fundora’s split-decision triumph over Tim Tszyu to capture the WBO and WBC junior-middleweight titles at T-Mobile Arena capped a remarkable card of boxing in the debut Amazon Prime Video show by smearing the ring in a continual flow of red.
The carnage began lat…
Tim Tszyu believes that his fight on Saturday evening with Sebastian Fundora is the latest demonstration of a “golden era” for Australian boxing.
The WBO light-middleweight champion is the main attraction of the promotion that is launching the collaboration between Premier Boxing Champions and Amazon Prime, which takes place 24 hours after his fellow Australian Liam Wil…
The undercard has been set for the May 18 heavyweight unification clash between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia.
Fury-Usyk was due to happen in February, until Fury was cut in sparring with the fight drawing near, and the show was postponed.
Along with the main event fight, the cruiserweight rematch for the vacant IBF belt between former champions Jai Opetaia, of Australia, a…
Former world champion Angelo Leo (23-1, 11KOs) continues his quest back to world titles as he faces action packed world title challenger Eduardo Baez (23-5-2, 9KOs).
Leo has impressed since returning to the ring on ProBox TV, winning twice by way of stoppage against strong competition, as he looks to force a fight with one of the world champions.
Baez on the other hand knows a wi…
Undefeated junior lightweight contender Andres Cortes will attend the Oscar Valdez-Liam Wilson fight on March 29 in Glendale, Arizona, as he angles for a matchup with the winner.
Cortes (21-0, 12 KOs), currently ranked No. 3 by the WBO, will sit ringside at the Desert Diamond Arena as Valdez and Wilson square off for the interim WBO interim junior lightweight title.
"I'll be watching the Va…
Angelino Cordova is looking to get the biggest win of his career.
Cordova faces WBC flyweight world champion Julio Cesar Martinez in the first bout of the Prime Video PPV card on March 30.
Cordova (18-0-1, 12 KOs) is coming off two upset wins. His last one was in Indio, CA on a Golden Boy Promotions card over Angel “Tito” Acosta, but his goal is to win a world title. …
Tim Tszyu appears to be thriving in Las Vegas ahead of Saturday, the biggest night of his boxing life.
Looking relaxed at Wednesday’s Grand Arrivals and public workouts at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Tszyu, whose opponent was changed some 12 days ago when Keith Thurman injured his biceps and was replaced by Sebastian Fundora, Tszyu couldn’t have appeared less fazed by the moment.
&ld…
Former featherweight world champion Nicholas Walters (29-1-1, 22 KOs) scored a commanding unanimous decision victory over Joseph Adorno (18-4-2, 15 KOs) on Wednesday, in his first televised fight in more than seven years.
Walters disappeared from the boxing landscape after suffering a stoppage loss in a challenge of junior lightweight titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko in 2016. He resurfaced last yea…
Junior welterweight Starling Castillo (19-1-1, 13 KOs) snatched a split decision win over Jesus Saracho (13-2-1, 11 KOs) Wednesday in a close co-main event on ProBox TV’s “Wednesday Night Fights” in Plant City, Florida.
Two of the ringside officials scored the fight in favor of Castillo (98-92 and 99-91), while one saw it for Saracho (96-94).
In the first round, Saracho landed …
Omar Juarez (15-2, 5 KOs) scored two knockdowns over Clarence Booth (21-10, 13 KOs) in the dying moments of his junior welterweight clash to score a wide points win on ProBox TV’s “Wednesday Night Fights” in Plant City, Florida.
The scorecards came in at 98-90, 98-90 and 99-89 for Juarez, earning him a unanimous decision in his ProBox TV debut.
A reasonably even opening round s…
Subriel Matías makes a homecoming return to Puerto Rico when he defends his IBF World Jr. Welterweight title against Liam Paro at the Coliseo Juan Aubín Cruz Abreu in Manatí on Saturday June 15, live worldwide on DAZN.
Matías (20-1 20 KOs) landed the vacant IBF Super-Lightweight title last February, forcing Jeremias Ponce to retire a…
Eduardo ‘Rocky’ Hernandez makes his return to the ring against Daniel Lugo at Palenque de la Féria National de San Marcos in Aguascalientes, Mexico on Saturday May 11, live worldwide on DAZN, with Erika Cruz defending her WBA World Super-Bantamweight title against Nazarena Romero.
Hernandez (34-2 31 KOs) was part of one of the fights of the year in October when he took on O&rsq…