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.
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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.
&l…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
Mark Heffron has been handed the opportunity to change the entire course of his career.
On May 25, the big-punching super middleweight will travel to Canada and fight the unbeaten Christian Mbilli, 26-0 (22 KOs), at the Gervais Auto Centre in Quebec. The WBC continental and the WBA international belts will be on the line.
The heavy-handed Frenchman is in a rich vein of form and has recently reco…
The latest installment of ProBox TV’s Wednesday Night Fights is on March 27, and the promotion is headlined by an interesting crossroads battle between two lightweights.
Joseph Adorno (18-3-2, 15 KOs) came in at 135lbs. His opponent, the former featherweight world champion Nicholas Walters (28-1-1, 22 KOs) was also 135lbs. The two will battle in a 10-round main event.
Adorno recently respo…
ProBox TV returns this week with a new installment of “Wednesday Night Fights.”
The card is headlined by an interesting crossroads battle at lightweight. Joseph Adorno (18-3-2, 15 KOs) and former featherweight titleholder Nicholas Walters (28-1-1, 22 KOs) will square off in a 10-round main event, with the WBA Continental-Americas belt on the line.
How Does Joseph Adorno Rat…
The undercard is starting to take shape for the Cinco de Mayo weekend showdown headlined by the undisputed super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and the undefeated Jaime Munguia.
Super welterweight contender Vito Mielnicki (17-1, 12 KOs) will take on Ronald Cruz (19-3-1, 12 KOs) in a 10-round fight on May 4 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, said Mielnicki.
The Pre…
The stakes have just gotten higher.
When Oscar Valdez and Liam Wilson face off this Friday at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, the vacant WBO Interim junior lightweight world title will now be on the line. The Interim title became available after the current champion, Emanuel Navarrete, elected to fight Denys Berinchyk for the vacant WBO lightweight world title on Saturday, May 18 in Sa…
Callum Walsh will return to action on Friday, June 7 at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California.
Walsh, who stopped Dauren Yeleussinov in the ninth round March 15 in New York, will headline the upcoming California show, to be broadcast live on UFC Fight Pass. No opponent for Walsh has yet been announced.
Guided by Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, Walsh, a 23-year-old native of …
Joe Gallagher has praised the “desire” Lawrence Okolie has shown in their short time together ahead of their preparations for Poland’s Lukasz Rozanski.
Okolie travels to the Podpromie Arena in Rzeszow, Poland on April 24 to challenge for the WBC bridgerweight title and will fight for the first time with the respected Gallagher in his corner, having split from Sugarhill Steward a…
Consider this the equivalent of a new restaurant's "soft opening."
So while Amazon’s Prime Video makes its U.S. debut Saturday with a pay-per-view card headlined by Tim Tszyu’s pursuit of a second world-title belt against Sebastian Fundora at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the rest of the world will have to access the bout by their own means.
A Prime Video spokesperson confir…
No man is invincible. That’s just reality.
But if ever there was a valid time to question that reality, it was on March 26, 1974. Fifty years ago today, the world heavyweight champion George Foreman ran his record to 40-0 (37 KOs) by annihilating Ken Norton in Caracas, Venezuela, in exactly five minutes of ring time, reaching peak invincibility — or at least peak aura thereof.
Forema…
A report that Saudi Arabia’s most powerful boxing broker would like to stage a David Benavidez bout in December against the winner of the June 1 undisputed light heavyweight title match between Russians Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol is compelling leverage.
Make no mistake, Benavidez’s manager told Boxing Scene on Monday, his fighter’s preference is still to press Saul “…
Viddal Riley is at the beginning of a long journey that he hopes will culminate in a shot at a cruiserweight world title. But don’t expect him to look for any shortcuts.
Britain’s top cruiserweights have been involved in an unofficial round robin for years. The busy, underrated division has provided an entertaining series of fights between ambitious boxers who haven’t been afrai…
Nicholas Walters’ continues his return from his near seven-year vanishing act from boxing this Wednesday when he collides with Joseph Adorno on ProBox TV’s Wednesday Night Fights in Plant City, Florida.
The Jamaican disappeared from the sport after retiring on his stool against Vasiliy Lomachenko for the WBO super featherweight world title in November 2016.
“Ho…
Albert Bell is the No. 1 contender for the WBO super featherweight title and hopes his next fight is for championship.
Bell stopped Jonathan Romero (35-3, 19 KOs) in the first-round of their scheduled 10-round fight in Toledo, Ohio.
Now Bell, (26-0, 9 KOs), is not celebrating, but rather getting ready to board a plane. Bell is going to be in Arizona, ringside for the Oscar Valdez vers…
Trainer, analyst and Hall of Famer Teddy Atlas believes that for Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to secure his legacy among the best Mexicans or the best 168-pounders he must fight leading contender David Benavidez.
The Mexican icon is heading into a May 4 PPV date in Las Vegas against Jaime Munguia, at the T-Mobile Arena, but the opponent many want him to face is Benavidez.
“I sai…
In victory over Maxi Hughes, a fighter who moves well and is capable of testing contenders, William Zepeda was impressive. By this point he's showed enough to suggest he can be competitive with Shakur Stevenson and Gervonta "Tank" Davis at the top of the lightweight division.
He's effective with his pressure, which makes him exciting and the type of fighter people want to watch. He's an…
Carlos Adames (23-1) has been very vocal in his desire to move up to 168 pounds and face any of the top fighters in the division. He previously called out Canelo Alvarez, David Benavidez and Caleb Plant.
The WBC interim middleweight champion is also interested in moving up to the super middleweight division to take on Brooklyn’s Edgar Berlanga (22-0).
Adames, who is from the Dominican Repu…
Many believe a scheduled Serhii Bohachuk-Sebastian Fundora matchup might have been a fight of the year contender. But due to a turn of fate, Fundora is now in for the fight of his life.
Serving as a replacement for injured Keith Thurman, Fundora will face junior middleweight titleholder Tim Tszyu in the lead bout of a March 30 pay-per-view card in Las Vegas.
Stopped by Brian Mendoza last April, …
When Tim Tszyu steps into the ring against late replacement Sebastian Fundora at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30, he will do so not only as one of the hottest young boxers in the sport but also with a goal of cementing himself as one of the very best pugilists ever to emerge from Australia. With due respect to the likes of George Kambosos Jr., Tszyu is almost certainly already the No. 1 ac…
Liam Cameron returns to the big stage tonight on the undercard of Dalton Smith-Jose Zepeda in his native Sheffield.
Cameron (22-5, 9 KOs) was riding high in 2017 after winning the Commonwealth title against local rival Sam Sheedy. He defended his title with a knockout over Nicky Jenman six months later, but the result was changed to a No Contest after Cameron failed a drug test for cocaine. He wo…
Boxing in war-torn Ukraine continues to press ahead despite the ongoing Russian invasion that has accelerated this past week.
Twenty nine Russian missiles were launched on Kyiv just nine days ahead of Vlad Eliseev’s next promotion. All missiles were successfully intercepted but the debris resulted in 13 residents being wounded. One day later Russia launched its largest attack on Ukraine wit…
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez kicked off the promotional tour for his May 4 fight against Jaime Munguia this week, but it was the fight that isn’t happening against David Benavidez that continued to dominate the storylines surrounding his upcoming fight.
The undisputed super middleweight champion Alvarez stated that his team never offered Benavidez a fight for $5 million, it would…
British lightweight champion Sam Noakes will defend his four title belts at York Hall on Saturday April 20, live on TNT Sports.
Tickets for the show on Saturday, 20 April are on sale now available from ticketmaster.co.uk.
In co-headline action, the undefeated super lightweight Henry Turner (12-0, 4 KOs) will make a fourth defence of his WBC International Silver title against fellow unbeaten chal…
Sampson Boxing proudly announces the signing of streaking welterweight prospect Nicklaus “La Bestia” Flaz to a promotional contract.
Since suffering his second career defeat, a shock first-round knockout in October 2020, Flaz (12-2, 8 KOs), from Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, has gone on a tear, scoring three impressive upset victories; knocking out an established durable veteran and taking …
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s request for $150 million to $200 million to fight David Benavidez has triggered a rich response from the younger unbeaten former champion.
At his Tuesday news conference, Alvarez said that Benavidez brings nothing to the table except 25 extra pounds (of rehydration), and that he’ll only fight Benavidez for $150 million to $200 million.
That’s…
Walking in the footsteps of a boxing great such as Kostya Tszyu is a hard job to follow, but Tim Tszyu has taken the challenge in stride. At 29, Tszyu already has emerged from his father's shadow and quickly gained a reputation as one of the sport’s most feared punchers.
Having made a name for himself in his Australian homeland, Tszyu is now growing into a known and respected figure worldwi…
Jimmy Joe Flint believes that fans could be in for a “barnstormer” when he defends his Central Area super lightweight title against Campbell Hatton on Saturday.
The fighters will meet in Sheffield, U.K., on the undercard of Dalton Smith’s intriguing 140-pound bout with big-punching Jose Zepeda. Flint (13-1-2, 3 KOs), however, thinks his fight with Hatton (14-0, 5 KOs) could stea…
Two of boxing’s best knockout artists will likely be paired for showdowns in separate fights on the same night.
Lightweight knockout artist Gervonta “Tank” Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) is set to fight Frank Martin (18-0, 12 KOs) on June 15, headlining a PBC pay-per-view event on Prime Video; and in a co-main event still in the works, David Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) would make his light h…
Undefeated rising star Tim Tszyu will take on all-action contender Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora for Tszyu’s WBO title (pending approval), and the vacant WBC 154-pound world title, headlining a PBC Pay-Per-View event available on Prime Video Saturday, March 30 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Tszyu had originally been scheduled to face …
As Saul “Canelo” Alvarez prepares to face fellow Mexican countryman Jaime Munguia on May 4, the undisputed super middleweight champion is increasingly fielding questions about a future fight with David Benavidez.
Alvarez was front and center for a media throng at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on Tuesday, and one of the event’s hot-button topics was his potential pitting…
Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz will be hoping to steal the show and claim Rolly Romero’s WBA super lightweight title on March 30 in Las Vegas.
They co-headline a rejigged card at the T-Mobile Arena that has seen Sebastian Fundora elevated into the main event against Tim Tszyu, following Keith Thurman’s arm injury, and Fundora has – in turn – been replaced by Brian Mendoz…
Should Jaime Munguia pull off the upset and beat Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 4, an immediate rematch will likely follow in September, around Mexican Independence Day weekend, Zanfer Promotions head and Munguia co-promoter Fernando Beltran told Boxing Scene.
Alvarez’s manager, trainer and lifelong confidant Eddy Reynoso told Boxing Scene in a recent interview that Canelo previou…
Jaime Munguia has won the golden ticket and gets his chance to dethrone undisputed super middleweight king Canelo Alvarez this Cinco de Mayo weekend (May 4). Munguia may have won the raffle, but it is not the fight we all wanted to see.
David Benavidez secured his status as the No. 1 challenger with wins over Caleb Plant and Demetrius Andrade last year, but this was not enough to give him a…
SAN DIEGO (March 19, 2024) — Emanuel “El Vaquero” Navarrete hopes to join an elite circle of his Mexican countrymen, but he’ll have to venture into a new weight class against one of its top contenders.
Navarrete will take on Ukraine’s Denys Berinchyk for the vacant WBO lightweight world championship on Saturday, May 18 at Pechanga…
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez insisted that Jaime Munguia “earned” being the latest challenger to his undisputed super middleweight title on May 4.
After months of speculation surrounding the identity of his next opponent, Alvarez’s fellow Mexican Munguia was confirmed for the date at the T-Mobile Arena on Cinco de Mayo weekend.
Alvarez’s status as the world’s l…
Beverly Hills, Calif. – Canelo Alvarez might be bypassing the opponent that most fervent fight fans want for him on Cinco de Mayo weekend, but he certainly embraced the widespread interest in the ongoing rivalry with his former promoter, Oscar De La Hoya.
During his opening comments onstage Tuesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, undisputed super-middleweight champion Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) c…
Joseph Adorno (18-3-2, 15KOs) and Nicholas Walters (28-1-1, 22KOs) get set to leave it all on the line on the March 27 edition of ProBox TV's Wednesday Night Fights.
The pair meet in what can only be described as a crossroads fight for the WBA Continental Americas Lightweight title, with the winner looking to gatecrash the world ratings and the loser having a rebuilding job on their han…
Japanese prospect Kanamu Sakama passed away at just 20 years of age after being forced to withdraw from his scheduled March 18 contest at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall against Hiroki Oki.
On March 16, Sakama pulled out of the competition due to ill health, according to World Sports Gym Chairman Tatsuya Saita.
Neither the Japanese Boxing Commission nor local health authorities have disclosed the ci…
Timothy Bradley is one of many who feels like the new March 30 main event in Las Vegas is a short-notice upgrade.
This week, Keith Thurman withdrew from his scheduled headliner against Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora stepped up from his slot on the undercard to deputise.
While Fundora said strategically not much changes in his final stages of preparations, Tszyu now faces a tall, southpaw,…
Trainer Don Charles is hoping the future might hold a rematch from the 2016 Olympic super heavyweight final.
Charles coaches French heavyweight contender Tony Yoka, who won a controversial decision over Joe Joyce at the Rio Games, with many believing Joyce unlucky on the scorecards.
Yoka is 11-3 (9 KOs) and has lost his last three fights, to Martin Bakole, Carlos Takam, and Ryad Merhy. Bakole be…
As small hall venues go, the Leeds Banqueting Suite at Elland Road is extremely plush but after boxing there nine times, Ishmael Davis, 12-0 (6 KOs), needed a change of scenery.
Last November the relatively unknown 28-year-old super welterweight made the two-hour journey north on the A1 to Newcastle for a fight with the undefeated Ewan Mackenzie with the opportunity to alter the course of his car…
Rolando Romero is one of boxing’s most divisive figures, but he thinks people might have got it wrong about him.
The WBA super lightweight champion, 15-1 (13 KOs), defends his title against Isaac Cruz at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30, on the first boxing pay-per-view carried by Amazon Prime.
“I’m kicking off Amazon Prime, people don’t actually understand how…
Sebastian Fundora took a call on Sunday to see if he would be open to replacing Keith Thurman in the main event in Las Vegas against Tim Tszyu on march 30.
The rangy super welterweight contender had little hesitation in upgrading his slot on the bill from facing Serhii Bohachuk on the card to headlining in a fight for Tszyu’s WBO title and now the vacant WBC belt.
The 26-year-old “To…
Josh Taylor expects the postponement of his fight with Jack Catterall to be to his advantage.
Their date of April 27 at Leeds’ First Direct Arena has been moved to May 25 to give him additional time to recover from the squint surgery he had in February, but he is relishing the prospect of additional time to prepare for the rematch with his greatest rival.
Taylor was awarded a controversial…
Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora has emerged as the replacement for injured Keith Thurman to meet WBO 154-pound champion Tim Tszyu March 30 in the debut Amazon Prime Video pay-per-view card in Las Vegas, BoxingScene has learned.
Two officials with knowledge of the negotiations said Premier Boxing Champions product Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) will move up from his spot opening the…
Before assessing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Jaime Munguia, it’s important to recognise that David Benavidez is the fighter who most deserved the opportunity Munguia has been presented with.
That’s one of the fights the world most deserves – so much so it’d be a shame if it doesn’t materialise in the near future.
But as an alternative to that, Canelo-Munguia i…
Keith Thurman has been declared out Monday for the March 30 pay-per-view main event versus unbeaten WBO 154-pound champion Tim Tszyu because of a training camp injury, BoxingScene has learned from two officials.
The card will remain an Amazon Prime Video pay-per-view from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and Premier Boxing Champions officials have worked Monday to replace Thurman, with Sebastian Fundo…
“The Towering Inferno” Sebastian Fundora promises to reignite his flame when he steps back in the ring for a firefight against Serhii Bohachuk on March 30 for the vacant WBC super welterweight title.
Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) was on the wrong end of the 2023 Knockout of the Year, in which Brian Mendoza shocked him in the seventh round of a fight Fundora was comfortably winning via near…
Bill Haney has no idea what Ryan Garcia is doing with his Instagram account or in the gym.
What Haney is most focused on is preparing his son, world 140-pound champion Devin Haney, for an April 20 title defense at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and to avoid behavior that could compromise the Garcia showdown.
So when unbeaten lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson posted on X Saturday that he “…
Issac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz might be best known for his close fight with Gervonta Davis, but that doesn’t mean that he is going out of his way to advocate for that fight in the prelude to his March 30 WBA title fight.
Cruz faces WBA junior welterweight world champion Rolando Romero in a bout that serves as the co-feature for Keith Thurman versus Tim Tszyu on Amazon Prime pay-per-view.&…
Calvin Ford thinks that if Keith Thurman beats Tim Tszyu, he could have a chance at fighting Terence Crawford.
Thurman will face Tszyu on March 30 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout will be broadcast on Amazon Prime pay-per-view.
Ford is a high-profile coach and serves as the lead voice along with his co-trainer Kenny Ellis in the career of Gervonta Davis.
The elep…
As manager of Mexico’s Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz, Sean Gibbons has marveled at how the popularity of his 25-year-old former lightweight title challenger has shot upward since Cruz fought Gervonta Davis three years ago.
Gibbons reports Cruz’s Instagram followers have nearly tripled, reaching 825,000 now and poised to eclipse 1 million by the time he completes his scheduled March…
A boxing ring is flat – level from one side to another. So why does it always seem like William Zepeda is rolling downhill over his helpless opponents?
Maxi Hughes was just such an opponent, unable to provide resistance in the face of Zepeda’s pressure atop a DAZN card Saturday night from The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. At the end of four increasingly lopsided rounds, and seeing their …
Feargal McCrory (16-0, 8 KOs) defeated Carlos Carlson (25-8, 16 KOs) by third-round technical knockout in the co-main event of Friday's Callum Walsh-Dauren Yeleussinov card at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City.
Ireland's McCrory earned the WBA Continental Americas super featherweight title with the win.
McCrory dropped Carlson in the third with a vicious left to the body that fo…
Subriel Matias will face Liam Paro in June in Puerto Rico.
IBF super lightweight champion Matias recently made the switch from PBC to Matchroom, and he will make his Matchroom debut against Paro, who is coming off a destructive knockout of countryman Brock Jarvis in 2022 and a six-round stoppage of Montana Love in December.
Paro (24-0, 15 KOs), of Australia, was the frontrunner to face Mat…
We know the who, the when and the where:
Mike Tyson will take on Jake Paul on July 20, fighting in AT&T Stadium outside of Dallas, Texas, broadcast live on Netflix.
We even know the why.
This is going to earn more money for Tyson and Paul than anything else could for them in this era, all for a main event that will last an hour or less, and for the four or so months of training and promotio…
William Zepeda came under his contracted weight for his bout against Maxi Hughes.
Zepeda (29-0, 25 KOs) came in under the lightweight limit at 133.8 pounds for his12-round main event at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
His opponent, Hughes (26-6-2, 5 KOs) came in slightly heavier but still under the limit at 134.6lbs. The fight will be a lightweight eliminator for the WBA and IBF lightweight…
Francis Ngannou gave a peculiar reason to explain his clinical second-round knockout defeat to former unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25KOs).
The Cameroonian MMA star posted a video on his Instagram account, explaining that he felt fatigued on the day of the fight against Joshua but refused to take any credit away from Joshua for his victory over him in the Saudi Ar…
Beyond the beautiful mind Freddie Roach brings to his corner as a seven-time trainer of the year, his wit and mind games truly shine when he’s given time to thoughtfully devise comments and gags to get under the skin of his fighters’ opponents.
Roach, closing preparations with his Irish fighter Callum Walsh (9-0, 7 KOs) for today’s main-event bout versus Dauren Yeleussinov (11-3…
Kevin Cunningham believes that both Keith Thurman and Tim Tszyu’s legacies could be impacted by their upcoming fight.
Thurman and Tszyu face each other on March 30 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Amazon Prime pay-per-view.
Cunningham currently trains junior middleweight contender Erickson Lubin. In the past, he has worked with Adrien Broner and Devon Alexander and during a co…
Callum Walsh is turning into a star, according to his promoter Tom Loeffler.
Walsh (9-0, 7 KOs) fights Dauren Yeleussinov (11-3-1, 10 KOs) on Friday, March 15, at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York City.
Walsh is doing the impossible – bridging the gap between boxing and MMA fans and has become the boxer that the UFC fans know and like.
“I have been in …
Radivoje Kalajdzic produced a knockout of the year contender against Sullivan Barrera on Wednesday in the main event at ProBox Event Center in Plant City, Florida.
After breaking down his opponent in the late rounds, Serbia’s Kalajdzic (29-2, 21 KOs) swarmed Barrera (22-5, 14 KOs) in the 10th, punching him through the ropes in a sensational ending. Kalajdzic’s run at a second wo…
Nicklaus Flaz turned in an aggressive performance in a sixth-round stoppage of Luke Santamaria on Wednesday at the ProBox Event Center in Plant City, Florida.
For Flaz (12-2, 8 KOs), the win marked his third straight – and a notable one in that it was the first career knockout loss for Santamaria (14-4-1, 7 KOs).
“I had fun in the ring,” Flaz said. “It was the tough…
Conor Benn and Manny Pacquiao met face-to-face in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last week, with initial reports that the pair and their representatives were in talks for a proposed fight.
Despite the 45-year-old Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs) not having fought since August 2021, the possibility of a fight with Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) gained traction on social media.
In an interview with BoxingScene.c…
To watch Ryan Garcia’s behavior over the past several weeks has been to peer through the fingers with your sweaty palms facing inwards.
It has not been comfortable watching Garcia yo-yoing from euphoria to distress, from sadness to shock, and for each day to spawn varying emotions and social media posts of unpredictability and chaos.
The overarching feeling, however, has been one of concer…
Vlad Eliseev’s Top Boxing Generation returns to the Stereo Plaza in Kiev on March 30 in association with Balu Fighting League Pro.
The main-event will see Nazri Rahimov (13-3, 7 KOs) lock horns with Colombia’s Jorge Moya (15-4-1, 4 KO) for a WBC youth silver super lightweight title with the bout scheduled for 10 rounds.
Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, Eliseev an…
LAS VEGAS – March 12, 2024 – Mexican superstars will go toe-to-toe as Canelo Promotions presents a Cinco de Mayo weekend blockbuster that will see pound-for-pound great Canelo Álvarez puts his undisputed super middleweight world title on the line against unbeaten all-action former world champion Jaime Munguía headlining a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video on Saturday,…