The promoter of Alexandro Santiago has had quite a week and believes it will continue.
Santiago makes the first defense of his WBC bantamweight title on Saturday, February 24, in Japan against the No. 1 ranked challenger for his belt Junto Nakatani.
Santiago won that title last summer against future Hall of Famer Nonito Donaire on the Errol Spence vs. Terence Crawford undercard.
Nakatani is …
Teofimo Lopez Jr. appears to be zeroing in on a potential clash against Terence Crawford with each passing day.
With “Bud” on a break and a rematch against Errol Spence Jr. nowhere in sight, the 140-pound WBO champion Lopez could leverage his “super champion” status to force the issue against the undisputed welterweight king.
The WBO’s rules indicate that …
LONDON, UK (February 20, 2024) - Viddal Riley has signed a long-term contract extension to commit his future to BOXXER and Sky Sports.
The rising cruiserweight star joined BOXXER in 2021 and has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting talents in a thriving domestic division.
The 26-year-old captured the English Cruiserweight Title with a shut-out points vic…
Conor Benn has hit out at Gervonta Davis for rejecting an offer from Matchroom for Baltimore’s WBA lightweight title holder to move up in weight and fight him.
Promoter Eddie Hearn was in Edinburgh today to kick-off proceedings for the April 27 bout between rivals Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall, revealing to Pro Boxing Fans that Davis had refused the offer to fight Benn.
Davis initiall…
O’Shaquie Foster made the second defense of his WBC super featherweight title, winning a split-decision over Abraham Nova in his Top Rank debut on Friday, February 16.
The bout was closer than expected and a tactical affair, one that showed off a trait that coach Bobby Benton has grown accustomed to with Foster; a flair for the dramatic.
Foster stopped Eduardo ‘Rocky’ Herna…
Promoter Eddie Hearn has attempted to call the bluff of promotional rival Ben Shalom in an effort to make one of Britain's best domestic fights.
Earlier this month, the EBU ordered their European super-lightweight champion, Adam Azim, to defend his title against British and Commonwealth champion Dalton Smith, following the former’s successful title defense at the SSE Arena against Enock Poul…
Charlie Sheehy sees himself as similar to the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Brock Purdy.
Sheehy recently picked up an eight-round unanimous decision over Abdel Sauceda on the Teofimo Lopez-Jamaine Ortiz undercard.
Sheehy is 25-years-old and a native of Brisbane, California, one town over from San Francisco and not far from where the Niners used to play at Candlestick Park.
With a re…
Roy Jones Jr has described as “very unfair” suggestions that Jared Anderson showed he lacked the heart to fulfil his potential when they were filmed having an emotional conversation.
He has also predicted his fellow American will one day reign as a world heavyweight champion.
The great Jones Jr established himself, in his prime, as one of the finest fighters in history. As a consequenc…
Vasiliy Lomachenko travels to Perth, Australia to challenge George Kambosos Jr for the vacant IBF lightweight world title on May 12.
The event is being funded, in part, by the Western Australian Government and continues the good times for Australian boxing. The nation invited Manny Pacquiao to Brisbane to face Jeff Horn in 2017 and the country has since produced world champions such as Kambosos, T…
When Sivetheni Nontshinga stopped Adrien Curiel in the tenth round in Oaxaca on Friday night, he did more than reclaim the 108 lb. belt that Curiel had ripped from him in November. He also placed his name, as commentator Corey Erdman noted, in select company as one of relatively few boxers to stop opponents who previously knocked them out.
Knockout victims gaining revenge is, of course…
O’Shaquie Foster voiced displeasure with his performance against Abraham Nova, having made the second defense of his WBC super featherweight title via a split-decision over the 30-year-old Abraham Nova.
The lead voice in Foster’s corner, Bobby Benton, outlined one of the key factors that contributed to the close fight.
“We had a tough weight cut,” Benton explained. &l…
Last July, Ryszard Lewicki and Bahadur Karami engaged in a small-hall war in a leisure centre in Oldham. After six rounds of carnage, their fight was declared a draw.
A rematch was inevitable, and the two middleweights renewed hostilities on Saturday night’s Black Flash Promotions' card in Manchester.
As so often happens, their rematch didn’t catch fire in the same way as their first m…
Popular American heavyweight Jared ‘The Real Big Baby’ Anderson will make his 2024 debut in April.
Anderson boxes on April 13 in Corpus Christi, Texas, when he meets Ryad Merhy, as first reported by Mike Coppinger of ESPN.
Anderson fought three times last year, twice as a main eventer. The Merhy fight will make it his third appearance at the top of the bill.
Anderson was taken to…
Bobby Benton has seen a few dramatic finishes.
Trainer Benton was the lead voice in the corner of WBC super featherweight O’Shaquie Foster, as the duo picked up a split-decision over the northeastern based Abraham Nova.
The bout was close. Foster seemed to land the cleaner punches, Nova was busier.
CompuBox stats said the same. Foster landed 139 punches out of 429. Nova landed 12…
Tonight, the eyes of the sporting world were supposed to be focused on Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, with Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk fighting to unify the heavyweight titles.
But after Fury was cut in sparring three weeks ago, the fight was postponed and will now take place on May 18.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has been in London this weekend, lamenting what might have been while visiting Repton…
Trainer Colin Nathan has screamed himself hoarse in the corner last night.
His fighter Sivenathi Nontshinga had won a thrilling rematch, reclaiming the IBF light-flyweight title from Mexican Adrian Curiel – In Mexico.
They topped a Matchroom and DAZN show in Oaxaca.
Last November, Curiel knocked out the South African with one of the best right hands of 2023 in Monte Carlo, winning the title …
MONTREAL, Friday, February 16, 2024 — Today at 11:00 a.m. marked the first press conference leading up to the gala on April 11th at the Montreal Casino, during which Eye of the Tiger unveiled the main event of the evening between two locally beloved boxers, Erik Bazinyan (32-0, 23 KOs) and Shakeel Phinn (26-3-1, 17 KOs). On this occasion, the Laval-born boxer and current …
Joeshon James was tested.
The Sacramento, California middleweight had to dig down deep to beat veteran Vaughn Alexander.
James (9-0-2, 5 KOs), who is coached by Dre Martinez, punches a lot early and he didn’t allow Alexander (18-9-1, 11 KOs) to get going in the opening round.
Alexander pushed forward but was not effective, although he began to have some success towards the end of the f…
Golden Boy Promotions announced today the signing of 26-year-old, former U.S. Olympian and No.1 WBC-ranked super welterweight Charles “Bad News” Conwell (18-0, 13 KOs) to a multi-fight deal. Representing Cleveland, Ohio, the undefeated fighter has held several regional super welterweight titles across his 15 years in professional boxing including the IBF USBA Title and the WBC USA Titl…
The undisputed heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk was scheduled for February 17 until a cut suffered by Fury while sparring forced its postponement until May.
There has been significant interest in a fight between them since Usyk’s masterful victories over Anthony Joshua, but after the second postponement – after numerous rounds of talks that ende…
O’Shaquie Foster believes his departure from Matchroom to Top Rank has ended his hopes of a unification with IBF super featherweight champion Joe Cordina.
Foster on Friday at New York’s Madison Square Garden Theater fights for the first time since signing for Top Rank in the aftermath of October’s dramatic stoppage of Eduardo Hernandez.
He defends his WBC title against fellow 30 …
Cortes will face Bryan Chevalier in a super-featherweight fight on Friday, February 16 at Madison Square Garden Theater, as part of the ESPN telecast.
The Las Vegas resident, with a record 20-0 (11 KOs), is looking for his big moment of glory. Boxing often sees father-son relationships, and recently there was a new wrinkle with the grandfather-grandson relationship between Shakur Stevenson and Wal…
A fight card featuring Golden Boy’s brightest, elite fighters is what fans can expect on the undercard of Zepeda vs. Hughes, which will take place on Saturday, March 16. The 12-round IBF and WBA Lightweight World Championship Eliminator main event featuring undefeated knockout machine William “El Camarón” Zepeda (29-0, 25 KOs) of San Mateo Atenco, Mexico and English fighte…
On Friday, February 16, Top Rank invades New York City as WBC super-featherweight world champion O’Shaquie Foster (21-2, 12 KOs) looks to make his second title defense against Abraham Nova (21-1, 16 KOs). The match-up could determine who is the best super-featherweight in the division.
The bout is taking place at Madison Square Garden Theater.
O’SHAQUIE FOSTER VS ABRAHAM NOVA BET…
O’Shaquie Foster is optimistic about the prospect of fighting Emanuel Navarrete if on Friday he successfully defends his WBC super featherweight title against Abraham Nova.
On the occasion of his first fight since leaving Matchroom for Top Rank, at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York he hopes to move nearer to the unification fight that has so far eluded him.
Foster won the vacant …
After more than two years of waiting, bitter rivals Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall will finally meet in a hugely anticipated rematch at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on Saturday April 27, shown live on DAZN in the UK and around the world and exclusively on ESPN+ in the U.S. The enemies have been embroiled in a heated war of words since February 2022 when they m…
Frank Warren has dismissed as “cruel” the criticism that Daniel Dubois was subjected to in the aftermath of his defeats by Oleksandr Usyk and Joe Joyce.
The 26-year-old Dubois in December recorded the biggest victory of his career when in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia he stopped Jarrell Miller in 10 rounds.
His promoter had risked matching him in a potentially difficult fight, on the occasion o…
Joeshon James has taken a hard road.
James makes his ProBox TV debut against Vaughn Alexander on February 16, in Plant City, Florida, in an eight-round middleweight bout.
James spoke to ProBox TV while preparing for his upcoming fight against the brother of former world champion Devon Alexander.
“This is a big opportunity in my career,” said James. “This is somebody to push…
Undefeated Australian super welterweight Jordan Laruccia returns to the ring on March 1 at the top of the card on Thunderdome 45.
Jordan is coming off a career best performance September 1st in a Australian fight of year contender. He soundly defeated Fano Kori for the Australian National Boxing Federations Australasian super welterweight championship.
Australian boxing icon Danny Green was i…
The growing influx of Saudi Arabia within boxing has been telling, with the riches on offer and calming the waters between rival factions of fighters and promoters alike.
Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren, the UK’s most-established promoters, have begun a blossoming working relationship alongside Turki Alalshikh, whose influence within the sport has been rapid and telling with him wanting the bes…
Bobby Benton has been with O’Shaquie Foster for a long time.
Foster looks to make the second defense of his WBC super-featherweight title when he faces Abraham Nova on Friday, February 16, at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York City.
Foster’s 2023 was rugged. He entered as the B-side in both of his fights, meaning he was the fighter going in against the promotion’s fig…
Naoya Inoue plans to remain at super-bantamweight throughout 2024 and will resist the temptation to move up in weight solely for financial gain.
He next fights Luis Nery, 29 and from Mexico, in Tokyo on May 6, in what he hopes will be the first of three fights in 2024, and after a successful 2023 in which he stopped Stephen Fulton Jr and Marlon Tapales. Only then, will he consider a future move to…
Golden Boy Promotions returns tomorrow night at the Commerce Casino in Southern California.
2012 U.S. Olympian Joseph ‘Jo-Jo’ Diaz (33-4-1, 15 KOs) will face Jesus Perez (24-5, 18 KOs) in the main event at junior welterweight. The event will be streamed live on DAZN and Golden Boy Promotions YouTube page.
Diaz has seen various adversities derail a somewhat promising career. Diaz …
WBC junior lightweight world champion O’Shaquie “Ice Water” Foster (21-2, 12 KOs) and Abraham “El Super” Nova (23-1, 16 KOs) are ready to lock horns in the main event of an ESPN-televised tripleheader this Friday, Feb. 16 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. This will be the second title defense for Foster, a native of Orange, Texas, …
Carlos Adames and Alberto Puello are no longer training with Bob Santos, although both fighters achieved major accomplishments under Santos.
“Their management wanted to go in a different direction, and I said I was fine with that, you get one career, you guys do what you think is best for your career,” Santos told ProBox TV.
Adames had two fights with Santos and both were knockout wins…
Promoter Eddie Hearn has admitted that he has been surprised by the prospect of Conor Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) possibly facing one of the biggest names in the sport in Gervonta Davis (29-0, 27 KOs).
Benn, who returned earlier this month against Peter Dobson in Las Vegas, continued his career following his ongoing battle with the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) and United Kingdom Anti-Dop…
O’Shaquie Foster's signing with Top Rank Inc. stunned many.
Foster looks to make the second defense of his WBC super-featherweight title when he faces Abraham Nova on Friday, February 16, at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York City.
It isn’t that the WBC champion isn’t talented, it was more so that people assumed Foster was under contract with Matchroom Boxing and/or D…
Andres Cortes is an interested observer of O’Shaquie Foster’s second world title defense against Abraham Nova.
Cortes will face Bryan Chevalier in a super-featherweight fight on Friday, February 16 at Madison Square Garden Theater, as part of the ESPN telecast, before the WBC super-featherweight title between Foster and Nova.
While the oddsmakers might have Nova as a sizable unde…
Two showdowns featuring a rising star in his toughest test to date and a flyweight world champion against an undefeated contender will highlight the first PBC on Prime Video show taking place Saturday, March 30 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The two matchups will be available via free access to all fans, regardless of Prime membership or purchase of the PPV card. The live streaming p…
The ratings are in.
Teofimo Lopez outpointed Jamaine Ortiz in a rather uneventful Thursday night event from Las Vegas last week.
The Nielsen Media Research released the rating for the fight and an average audience of 532,000 tuned in to the event. It peaked at 583,000 viewers. The numbers appear low, as Lopez pulled in 945,000 average viewers for his fight with Josh Taylor. That fight …
Promoter Ben Shalom says former Olympian and WBO cruiserweight world champion Lawrence Okolie is set to switch weights.
Okolie has not featured since his world title defeat to Chris Billam-Smith in May last year. He suffered four knockdowns and two point deductions for holding on his way to the first defeat of his career by majority decision.
Billam-Smith, who inked a new promotional agreeme…
On Friday, February 16, Top Rank invades New York City as WBC super featherweight world champion O’Shaquie Foster (21-2, 12 KOs) looks to make his second title defense against Abraham Nova (21-1, 16 KOs). The match-up could determine who is the best super-featherweight in the division.
The bout is taking place at Madison Square Garden Theater.
O’SHAQUIE FOSTER IS A COMEBACK STORY…
Subriel Matias had some cryptic words for Teofimo Lopez on social media after Lopez toiled to a scrappy and narrow points win over Jamaine Ortiz.
Lopez outpointed Ortiz on Thursday as a part of an ESPN telecast in Las Vegas that was lackluster but saw him walk away with a unanimous decision.
Currently, Lopez holds the WBO junior-welterweight title, while Matias holds the IBF junior-welterweight ti…
Lightweight contender Keyshawn Davis took a leap in class when stopping Jose Pedraza in Las Vegas last Thursday.
The 24-year-old Virginian moved into double figures with his sixth-round knockout over the former two-weight world champion.
“For the most part, I could do what I wanted to do,” Davis said in the post-fight media scrum.
“But he's a veteran. The first …
Andres Cortes believes he will stop Bryan Chevalier in a round.
The 26-year-old Las Vegas native Cortes clashes with Chevalier in a super-featherweight fight on Friday, February 16, in the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
With a record of 20-0 (11KOs), Cortes knows he is one signature performance away from a big fight, one that might just be a world title shot. He hopes his bout against Che…
More bad blood has been added to BOXXER’s hotly-anticipated Super Sunday Bank Holiday showdown between unbeaten heavyweights Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke with welterweight rivals Florian Marku and Chris Kongoset to settle their differences on March 31st at The O2 in London, live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and Peacock in the USA.
There’s no love lost between Marku and Kongo,…
Welcome to the big-time Keyshawn Davis.
The 2020 US Olympic silver medalist stopped former two-division world champion, Jose Pedraza in the sixth-round of their scheduled 10-round co-feature bout on ESPN.
The contest served as the co-feature to Teofimo Lopez-Jamaine Ortiz, which proved to be a lot less action-packed. After the impressive win for Davis, the undefeated lightweight offere…
Queensberry Promotions returns with a marquee event this Saturday. The main event on this card marks the return of middleweight contender Hamzah Sheeraz (18-0, 14 KOs) as he faces the tough veteran Liam Williams (25-4-1, 20 KOs). This is Sheeraz's first fight of 2024.
Hamzah Sheeraz VS. Liam Williams BETTING ODDS
Per SportsBetting.ag, Hamzah Sheeraz is the favorite at -500 and Liam Williams …
British super-featherweight champion Liam Dillon and Commonwealth champion Reece Bellotti launch Matchroom Boxing’s UK schedule for 2024 at London’s 02 Indigo. The final press conference saw all of the participant’s of the events speaking including Matchroom Boxing’s CEO, Frank Smith.
Frank Smith, Matchroom Boxing CEO:
"This is an unbelievable fight - these two going at it …
Reece Bellotti will be aiming the win the prestigious Lord Lonsdale Challenge Belt at the second time of asking when he takes on reigning Super-Featherweight Champion Liam Dillon at the top of Matchroom's latest NXTGEN card at Indigo at The O2 this Saturday February 10, live worldwide on DAZN.
The Watford favourite (17-5, 14 KOs) challenged Cromer's Ryan Walsh for the British Featherweight T…
WBC/WBA/Ring Magazine minimumweight world champion Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada (25-0, 9 KOs) and WBO/IBF ruler Yokasta Valle (30-2, 9 KOs) went face to face for the first time Wednesday in Las Vegas. Their long-simmering feud will be settled Friday, March 29 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, as the division's first-ever undisputed champion will…
As impressive as Devin Haney was in beating Regis Prograis in December, Teofimo Lopez still deserves to be seen as the best in the world at 140lbs.
If Haney can continue to look that good against top-level opposition – and that’s the key – he’ll really start to rival Lopez. I even expect a time when they’re, by some distance, considered the division’s …
Teofimo Lopez vs Jamaine Ortiz: Weigh-In Results, Preview, Prediction, Streaming & Betting Odds
This Thursday, we will have a boxing event live from the Michelob Ultra Arena in the Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. Top Rank promote the card while ESPN and ESPN+ broadcast the WBO junior welterweight world title fight between the champion Teofimo Lopez (19-1, 13 KOs) and challenger …
Promoter Ben Shalom has not ruled out Adam Azim clashing with Dalton Smith yet, after the EBU mandated a fight between two of Britain’s brightest prospects.
Slough’s Azim defended his European super-lightweight title against Enock Poulsen last weekend at Wembley, when Poulsen’s shoulder popped out and he could not continue.
Azim, aged 21, will now likely be out until March, while…
It might have been billed as Bad Blood, but British heavyweights Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke kept things respectful when they met in London to announce their March clash.
The fight, set for Sunday, March 31, at London’s O2 Arena, will likely capture the imagination and Wardley and Clarke, who nearly fought last year before politics caused a divide and they went their separate ways, will …
Who is Jamaine Ortiz?
Who is Jamaine Ortiz, the challenger to the revered WBO super lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas on February 8?
A hard road
Ortiz had a fine amateur career after starting out as a regional talent – his earliest fights were in Rhode Island and other neighbouring northeast venues. His first big break came in 2020 when he foug…
“My thing now is going for a triple crown,” said Teofimo Lopez.
The enigmatic king of the 140lbs division was speaking exclusively to ProBox TV, and discussing his career achievements. He has been recognised as the top dog at both lightweight and junior-welterweight, and despite facing Jamaine Ortiz at 140 on Thursday in Las Vegas, Lopez is more than happy to move up in weight in his b…
Former Showtime Sports president Stephen Espinoza has confirmed his involvement with Premier Boxing Champions ahead of the launch on March 30 of their partnership with Amazon Prime.
The first broadcast of their collaboration, following Showtime’s departure from boxing after 37 years, is Tim Tszyu-Keith Thurman at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas – an occasion Espinoza believes can trigg…
Tyson Fury suffered the cut heard around the world.
Fury was supposed to fight Oleksandr Usyk for all four heavyweight world titles on February 17, and the bout would have crowned an undisputed champion.
The footage was released of Fury being cut in a sparring session that led to the postponement of the bout.
Mike Bazzel was one of two cut men entrusted by Top Rank to corner fighters during the pa…
Unbeaten heavyweight rivals Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke collide in a ‘Bad Blood’ showdown for the British and Commonwealth Titles on Sunday, March 31st at The O2 in London, live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and Peacock in the USA.
Reigning champion Wardley (17-0, 16 KOs) is on an incredible 16-fight K…
The undisputed heavyweight title fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury has been rescheduled for May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
They were due to fight on February 17, but the WBC champion Fury sustaining a cut above his right eye during sparring forced a second postponement of an occasion first organised for December 23.
It had been reported that Fury could be replaced on February 17 b…
A fight between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol has become the most essential fight that can be made.
It’s been marinating for a long time, and to the extent that where it was once a fight for the purists, it’s become one for a mainstream audience. Beterbiev’s destruction of Callum Smith, combined with Bivol returning to action and how difficult it is to determine which is the …
The world wants to see WBA light-heavyweight champion, Dmitrii Bivol versus WBC, WBO, and IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev.
According to Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi advisor entrusted with bringing boxing to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it is a fight he wants to make.
Bivol has outboxed the very best in the division, hardly even getting hit cleanly in some of his biggest …
As Saudi Arabia’s influence continues to grow across the boxing landscape, the UK’s higher-caliber fighters, such as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, have been working closely with Turki Alalshikh.
Eddie Hearn believes that has left a gap in the UK market for one of his stars to fill the void left by Fury and Joshua’s absence, and the man to fill the void is Conor Benn.
Benn,…
An unprecedented broadcast distribution deal for ‘Ring of Fire’, the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship fight between the WBC champion Tyson Fury and unified champion Oleksandr Usyk, has been set for fans worldwide.
In a groundbreaking agreement, the first Undisputed heavyweight title fight of the century will be available to fans on PPV across three major UK sports broadcasters…
If Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez cares about legacy then he’ll engage David Benavidez in a prospective two-fight deal in September, Sampson Lewkowicz told ProBox TV.
Benavidez punched his way to the shortlist for Fighter of the Year honors in 2023 when he bludgeoned Caleb Plant in March before annihilating Demetrius Andrade in November.
Having seen his name value rise considerably, he is…
Angelo Leo faces Mike Plania in a scheduled 10-round featherweight fight Wednesday.
The bout broadcast on ProBox TV will serve as the main event of Wednesday Night Fights, which takes place at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida.
Here five things to consider:
Looking at the numbers
Leo enters the fight at 22-1, with 10 knockouts. He is five-foot, six-inches, with a 69&rd…
Earlier this month, Turki Alalshikh proposed a clash between two of his promotional partners with a 5v5 concept during the press conference that confirmed Anthony Joshua’s March fight with Francis Ngannou.
Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren, of Queensberry, have long been rivals on the domestic circuit but are in the midst of a blossoming working relationship due to the inf…
Sampson Lewkowicz, who co-promotes Gabriela Fundora alongside Golden Boy Promotions, has challenged the unified champ Marlen Esparza to get in the ring with the 21-year-old hotshot.
“She can run,” Lewkowicz told ProBox TV. “But she can’t hide.”
Fundora is a rising star in women’s boxing thanks to extraordinary height, range, and power that she packs into a flywe…
A historic doubleheader awaits, as a former two-division world champion will make his ring return in familiar territory and an undisputed four-belt queen will be crowned for the first time in the minimumweight division.
Mexican warrior Oscar Valdez will face Australian former world title challenger Liam Wilson in a special 10-round junior lightweight attraction on Friday,…
It was announced on Tuesday that Jake Paul’s next opponent will be the boxing ‘Rhino’ Ryan Bourland of Vallejo, California.
Bourland earned his stripes in Northern California as a tireless worker and a gym rat. Bourland transformed his body over the years through training all the way up to winning a regional title in 2018.
Bourland had a limited amateur career as the perils…
The weights are in, and we have a main event tomorrow night on ProBoxTV. Both Angelo Leo (22-1, 10 KOs) and Mike Plania (29-3, 16 KOs) came underneath the featherweight limit of 126 pounds as they will headline tomorrow night’s Wednesday Night Fights (WNF) event. Will Leo continue to impress on his way to a potential title shot this year, or will Plania ruin all those plans? The oddsmakers h…
Johnny Fisher is ready to kick off a big year in style against Dmytro Bezus at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas on Saturday February 3, live worldwide on DAZN – and the Brit banger wants to add to his KO streak to set up more title fights in 2024.
Fisher (10-0 9 KOs) makes his American debut in Sin City and is raring to get a big year going after cramming three fights into fi…
ProBoxTV kicks things off this week with another edition of Wednesday Night Fights (WNF). The main event on this card marks the return of featherweight contender Angelo Leo (22-1, 10 KOs) as he faces the tough veteran Mike Plania (29-3, 16 KOs). Leo will look to continue his winning ways as he is determined to land a title fight within the next 12 months.
Although Leo is going into this fight with…
Gabriela Fundora might be women’s boxing’s next star.
Fundora dramatically stopped Christina Cruz in the last round of 10 in their IBF flyweight women’s title fight.
Despite Fundora being 20 years younger than Cruz, insiders felt the fight could be close. Cruz was one of the most accomplished amateurs of any era. An Olympic Trials silver medalist, behind Ginny Fuchs, Fundora was …
Lewis Crocker headed into the ring on Saturday under the pressure of his vocal supporters and amid questions regarding his professionalism having failed to make the welterweight limit of 147lbs ahead of his clash with Jose Felix.
Friday saw the 27-year-old Crocker miss weight by 3lbs, tipping the scales at 150lbs – naked and behind a towel – while Felix weighed 146.5lbs. Crocker …
PHOENIX: Zanfer Boxing CEO Fernando Beltran hailed Jaime Munguia as the "new face of boxing" after the Mexican fighter swept John Ryder aside with a ninth-round knockout Saturday at the Footprint Center in Phoenix.
Golden Boy Promotions boss Oscar de la Hoya, who, alongside Beltran, promotes Munguia, waxed lyrical over their fighter to ProBox TV and other reporters backstage, as did Matc…
PHOENIX: Losing Saturday to Jaime Munguia "could be the end of the road" for John Ryder, according to Matchroom chairman and Ryder's representative Eddie Hearn.
Munguia looked sensational as he dropped Munguia four times en route to a ninth round knockout at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
In the build-up to the bout, Ryder told ProBox TV that he wanted to keep his ca…
PHOENIX: Jaime Munguia looked sensational Saturday during a knockout win over John Ryder at the Footprint Center in Phoenix.
ProBox TV has spent a lot of time with Golden Boy Promotions, and Munguia, in recent weeks and it has been clear that this match in particular, against a fighter whom Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez fought over 12 rounds winning by decision, is an audition for Canelo himself.
Those cl…
PHOENIX: Women's boxing star Gabriela Fundora, a possible future face of Golden Boy Promotions in Gael Cabrera, and WBO minimumweight champion Oscar Collazo, and many others, all won their respective fights during the Munguia-Ryder event Saturday broadcast on DAZN from the Footprint Center in Phoenix.
Towering over her opponent Christina Cruz, Fundora landed crisp, short range right hooks early on…
PHOENIX: Alexis 'Lex' Rocha returns to the ring March 30 in a Golden Boy Promotions co-main event against Fredrick Lawson, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the done deal.
It will be Rocha's first fight since his shock loss to Giovanni Santillan at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on October 21.
Prior to that bout, Rocha was on the cusp of a world championship bout at welterweight, …
PHOENIX: The biggest fight Eddie Hearn can make for the US market, he said, remains one between his boxer Devin Haney, and Golden Boy Promotions' Gen-Z superstar fighter Ryan Garcia.
"I think it's a makeable fight for us now," Hearn told ProBox TV this week at the Footprint Center in Phoenix — the Arizona venue in which Jaime Munguia and another of Hearn's boxers John Ryder compete in a supe…
PHOENIX: Before Gabriela Fundora walked to the ring to fight for her first world title late, last year, she made her family and entourage promise one thing — no tears, regardless of the result.
Fundora, despite entering only her 12th bout, boxed like she belonged on the highest of stages all along as she landed 35 punches from 87 shots thrown in the opening two-minute round alone.
Fundo…
PHOENIX: It's official — we have a fight for Saturday at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as headline boxers Jaime Munguia and John Ryder both make weight ahead of the Golden Boy Promotions show live on DAZN.
First onto the scales was the challenger from Britain, Ryder, who weighed 167.8-pounds — comfortably under the super middleweight limit.
Ryder told ProBox TV and oth…
PHOENIX: Should Jaime Munguia defeat John Ryder on Saturday at the Footprint Center, Phoenix, live on DAZN then he should be in prime position to be Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez's next opponent.
"I don’t think Canelo’s going to fight David Benavidez next," Matchroom chairman Eddie Hearn, Ryder's representative, told ProBox TV on Thursday at the final pre-fight press conference. "Whe…
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman hosted a summit of some of the sport’s most powerful promoters in Las Vegas this week, to see how more of them can work together for the benefit of the sport.
Among those present were Bob Arum, Eddie Hearn, Tom Brown, Salvatore Cherchi, Luis de Cubas, Tom Loeffler, Carl Moretti, Fernando Beltrán, Tom Loeffler and Duane Ford (NABF and WBC Ring Officials …
Sometimes opposites attract, and the highly-technical and cerebral Joshua Buatsi finds spiritual inspiration from a legendary brute in former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier.
Buatsi returns to the ring on Saturday, February 3, against Dan Azeez in London.
The bout has bragging rights for the capital, but a major inspiration for Buatsi’s camp, and all of his camps is an unlikely one. ‘…
PHOENIX: World champion boxer Oscar Collazo and his promoter Oscar de la Hoya appear to have entered into an agreement that could involve "a briefcase full of money."
The WBO minimumweight titlist Collazo boxes in the co-main event of Saturday's show involving Jaime Munguia and John Ryder, which takes place at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, live on DAZN.
Collazo fights R…
PHOENIX: John Ryder has the chance to scupper Golden Boy, Oscar de la Hoya, and Jaime Munguia's best-laid plans Saturday when he comes to blows with the Mexican fighter at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, headlining a bout that airs live on DAZN.
For Eddie Hearn, the chairman of UK sports brand Matchroom, which represents Ryder, the time is coming at an opportune moment for the veter…
PHOENIX: Oscar de la Hoya has high hopes for one of numerous prospects competing at a Golden Boy Promotions event Saturday.
In bantamweight boxer Gael Cabrera, who is only 3-0-0 (2 KOs) as a pro fighter, de la Hoya has a fighter who he believes can one day be a face for his promotional company.
Cabrera made his boxing debut in June last year and scored a first-round knockout over Ulises Gabriel Ro…
It didn't take long.
Super middleweight Erik Bazinyan (32-0, 23 KOs) knocked out Billi Facundo Godoy (41-7, 20 KOs)in the third round of their Thursday night bout at Casino de Montréal in Montreal, Canada.
Bazinyan has the good fortune of being ranked in the top five of all the major sanctioning bodies.
He is ranked No.2 by the WBA at super middleweight with Christian Mbilli, wh…
Light heavyweight might have a new future star.
Albert Ramirez outlasted Artur Ziyatdinov over 10 rounds at the Montreal Casino, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The bout was a local grudge match. Ramirez is now with Eye of the Tiger, the lead promoter of the event. Ziyatdinov was with Eye of the Tiger until he was dropped around the time of his lone loss. That set the stage for this fight…
Golden Boy Promotions has started fight week.
In the build-up to the Saturday, January 27 main event bout between Jaime Munguia versus John Ryder, a super-middleweight clash with world title implications, Oscar De La Hoya – along with Jaime Munguia, Oscar Collazo, Darius Fulghum, and Gabriela Fundora visited the Boys & Girls Club-Jerry Colangelo Branch.
“Just finished motivat…
Oscar de la Hoya is calling for a lightweight fight between two of the division's top talents William Zepeda, his fighter, and Top Rank stud Shakur Stevenson.
"If anyone can give Shakur trouble," he told ProBox TV and other reporters recently, "it's Zepeda."
The 27-year-old southpaw, unbeaten in 29 fights with 25 knockout wins, is overdue a big fight as the biggest names on his resume so far inclu…
Jaime Munguia takes on John Ryder this weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, with a wave of optimism from promoter Oscar De La Hoya that the unbeaten former super-welterweight champion can land a big performance and catapult himself into the Canelo Alvarez sweepstakes.
Along with the optimism, there has also been change for Munguia, having split from trainer, countryman and one of Mexico’s most…
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has thrown his weight behind Saudi Arabia as an emerging boxing mecca, and is not ruling out Dmitriy Bivol challenging Artur Beterbiev for the WBC light-heavyweight title.
Reports have emerged that the undisputed 175lbs clash could happen on June 1, between Beterbiev, who has the WBC, WBO and IBF belts, and WBA champion Bivol.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the WBC a…
John Ryder appears confident he can spoil Jaime Munguia's desired Canelo party, and said a rematch against Saul Alvarez is a "dream" fight of his own.
"Everyone is beatable," he told ProBox TV recently, unfazed at Munguia's unbeaten record.
Ryder takes on Munguia atop a Golden Boy Promotions event on January 27, live on DAZN from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Though Munguia is yet to t…
Turki Alalshikh has been responsible for bringing two of British boxing’s leading and feuding promoters, Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn, together.
Alalshikh is bringing top-level boxing to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the sport serving as a prominent fixture during Riyadh Season.
Warren was the first to link up with the influential Alalshikh as WBC heavyweight title holder Tyson Fury…
Speculation regarding the first ever PBC on Prime headline event is escalating.
WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu will defend his title against the former unified welterweight world champion Keith Thurman on March 30 in Las Vegas, according to a post ESPN reporter Mike Coppinger made on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
If aligns with previous ProBox TV reporting that …
New York, NY (January 24, 2024) The Fastest Rising Star in Boxing, Undefeated Super Welterweight, ‘King’ Callum Walsh, (9-0, 7 KOs), of Cork, Ireland will battle on St. Patrick’s Day Weekend, Friday, March 15 against hard-hitting Kazak veteran Dauren Yeleussinov, (11-3-1, 10 KOs) in the ten-round main event at The Theater at Madison Square …