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,…
Alycia Baumgardner (15-1, 7KOs), who was recently allowed to resume her career after being taken off the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC’s) list of suspended athletes, has seen the WBC ensure the current undisputed super-featherweight champion makes a swift return to the ring.
The WBC has called for purse bids, which will see Baumgardner defend her respective titles against Def…
Come one, come all, professional boxers: I’m about to tell you how to land a huge fight.
Here’s all you have to do: win. Stay undefeated if you can. That’s the most important thing. If you just keep winning, no one will be able to ignore you anymore. You’ll get a fight with a pound-for-pound talent or a huge star. And the really big fights are driven by casual fans, who ne…
Former world champion Chris Algieri believes the May 4 all-Mexican clash between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Jaime Munguia could turn into a shootout.
The fight was formally announced this week following weeks of intense speculation about who would broadcast and who would promote the fight, with Munguia fighting off competition from Edgar Berlanga to be in the opposite corner in Las Veg…
According to Callum Walsh, his second consecutive main event at Madison Square Garden’s Theater this Friday is just another fight. But make no mistake about it, the unbeaten junior middleweight also knows it’s a big deal.
“I definitely pay attention to it after I fight, not in the buildup,” said Walsh, who faces Dauren Yeleussinov in a 10-rounder for the WBC Continen…
Junior middleweight Marques Valle, a promising power puncher, is on the verge of making a big name for himself in the division.
Valle, in his first scheduled 10-round bout, returns Wednesday against Raul Garcia at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida.
Both Valle (10-0, 7 KOs) and Garcia (13-1-1, 11 KOs) are 25-year-olds who turned pro in 2021. The matchup marks Valle’s chance…
It’s been 19 years since Mike Tyson’s last professional fight and 21 years since his last win.
It’s been 28 years since he last held a belt, 34 years since Buster Douglas ended the myth of his invincibility, and 38 years since he became the youngest heavyweight champ ever.
It’s been 25 years since I wrote a cover story for Boxing 99 titled “The Secret of Mike Tyson&…
'Hot Rod' ready to make statement against Sullivan Barrera on ProBox TV, eyes Bivol next
Light heavyweight contender 'Hot Rod' Radivoke Kalajdzic is setting out to make a statement against fellow world title challenger Sullivan Barrera this Wednesday night on ProBox TV.
Kalajdzic returned to the ring last year, stopping the tough Mickey Ellison, and is fully focused on Sullivan Barrera as a champi…
Conor Benn says if he has to go through Manny Pacquiao on his way to a world title, then that is what he will do.
Benn and the Filipino icon went head-to-head in Saudi Arabia last week, and news of a summer fight between the two quickly spread.
Benn, whose last two fights have been in the USA following two positive VADA tests ahead of his proposed 2022 bout with Chris Eubank Jr, still stre…
Highly touted junior middleweight Jordan ‘The Patriot’ Panthen, (7-0, 6 KOs), heads back into back into battle on Thursday, April 4 against hard-hitting Uzbek veteran Ravshan Hudaynazarov, (19-5, 14 KOs) in the eight-round feature fight at SOCA Fights from The Hangar in Costa Mesa, CA and broadcast live on TrillerTV starting at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
Following a weeklong sessio…
Filip Hrgovic (17-0, 14KOs) has long awaited his opportunity at a world title following his August 2022 victory over Zhilei Zhang (26-2-1, 21KOs), claiming a narrow points win over the Chinese heavyweight contender.
The win over Zhang put the Croat Hrgovic into the IBF’s mandatory position for an opportunity against either Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua, who appeared on the same Aug…
Watching from a distance this time, Abel Sanchez took note of one particular turn of event in Saul "Canelo" Alvarez’s most recent fight negotiation.
“He broke away from [Premier Boxing Champions] and then they went back to him,” Sanchez said. “That shows you who’s driving the truck of boxing.
“That shows you who’s in control. He’s the fac…
One of the most iconic figures in sports history, Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist was known around the world for his charisma, his confidence, and his ability to back it up inside the ropes.
Already a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, next month Ali will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Known simply as “The Great…
Charlie Edwards will launch his bid to become a two-weight world champion when he headlines a Wasserman Boxing event at York Hall on Friday April 12, live and free on Channel 5.
And on the same crunch night of action, Lerrone Richards looks to accelerate his pursuit of second world super middleweight title, when he fights in the co-main event.
Edwards, the former world flyweight king, is now tar…
Australian heavyweight prospect Justis Huni is now 9-0 (4 KOs) but he survived a tough test and a 10th round crisis to get by Kevin Lerena.
Huni was hurt early in the fight and in real danger of falling apart in the 10th and final round, but he managed to ride out the storm, stay on his feet and snare a decision win.
Southpaw Lerena, inspired by the passing of his mother last week, was mom…
Super bantamweight contender Bruno Tarimo is ready to kick-start his career now that he and his family members have received Australian visa approval.
Tarimo (28-4-2, 7 KOs) soared into the super featherweight rankings after a string of upset victories over Aussie contenders Billy Dib, Joel Brunker and Nathaniel May in 2019. Tarimo’s link-up with Aussie trainer Angelo Hyder and manage…
Eimantas Stanionis has not fought competitively in almost two years.
Stanionis, a Lithuanian welterweight, defeated Radzhab Butaev in a WBA regular title fight on the undercard of the Errol Spence Jr.-Yordenis Ugas 147-pound unification bout in April 2022.
A former European gold medalist, Stanionis made his mark in one of boxing’s premier weight classes before an intriguing mat…
Former two-weight world champion and Hall of Famer Andre Ward believes that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez risks damaging his legacy if he refuses to eventually face David Benavidez.
Discussions between Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) and Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) have not been successful thus far. The fighters have been unable to agree on a deal for a lucrative match in recent months, and Alvarez rec…
“I want my title shot.”
Those are the words of 2016 U.S. Olympian Charles Conwell who recently signed with Golden Boy Promotions.
Conwell, aged 26, trains out of the Soul City Boxing Gym in Toledo, Ohio. Though he was promoted by DiBella Entertainment to start his career, Conwell has joined forces with Golden Boy Promotions and he believes that is the partnership that will allo…
Mark Heffron’s manager, Kevin Maree, believes that his fighter still has what it takes to make an impact on the world stage.
Last Saturday, Heffron (30-3-1, 24 KO’s) scored a brutal second-round knockout of Serhii Ksendzov. It was Heffron’s first outing under his new trainer, Lee Beard, and the first time he has been in the ring since he lost his British and Commonwealth s…
Tim Tszyu considers himself to be cut from an old-school cloth.
The son of Hall of Fame fighter Kostya Tszyu has carte blanche to make such statements, especially since the highly active fighter’s actions back up his words in the ring.
Tszyu (24-0, 17 KOs) will look to make another statement when he takes on former unified welterweight champion Keith Thurman (30-1, 22 KOs) on March 3…
Now comes the real question …
With their May 4 undisputed super middleweight bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas now official, can Jaime Munguia subject Canelo Alvarez to anything near the rugged treatment the boxing public delivered while battering Alvarez during the process of him settling upon his Mexican countryman as a foe?
The unbeaten, 27-year-old Munguia (43-0, 34 KOs), a forme…
Oscar De La Hoya has urged Jake Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) to take boxing seriously after Paul’s promotional firm, Most Valuable Promotions, announced that the Youtube star turned boxer will face former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) on July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Paul, who fought to a first-round stoppage win against Ryan Bourland last week in Puerto Rico,…
Anthony Joshua answered so many questions during his convincing Friday night triumph, clinched by a hellacious second-round knockout of former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou.
And with that, he posed the biggest question of all in the increasingly fascinating heavyweight division:
Tyson Fury, can you top that?
Joshua’s unleashing of a right-handed hammer shot square to the face o…
Producing an explosive performance to beat Francis Ngannou is the most effective way Anthony Joshua can force a future fight with Tyson Fury.
Ngannou doing well against Fury in October created an increased demand for him to fight the world’s other leading heavyweights, and with Joshua as marketable as he already is – especially given how good he looked against Otto Wallin in December,…
David Haye has told Anthony Joshua he can’t risk trading with Francis Ngannou on Friday evening.
Joshua and Ngannou fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aware that in the event of victory they will secure a future date with the winner of the two fights between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title.
The 34-year-old Joshua impressed in December when he stopped Otto Wal…
Manny Pacquiao said he never cut corners in his training, whether it was for an exhibition bout like the one he’s scheduled to do in April, or a full-fledged return to the sport, as he’s poised to do now.
Pacquiao, 45, told BoxingScene Thursday following a face-to-face meeting with England’s Conor Benn that he intends to leave Saudi Arabia this weekend with a signed contract to …
Jake Paul’s dreamlike participation in boxing has landed him the most significant living name in the sport with Thursday morning’s announcement that Mike Tyson and Paul will stage a “global live sports event” by boxing on Netflix July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Texas.
How much boxing life remains in Tyson, 58, remains to be seen.
What remains especially true is that Paul, …
Otabek Kholmatov was just seconds from becoming the WBA featherweight champion until Raymond Ford stopped him with seven seconds remaining on the clock.
Kholmatov and Ford produced throughout their competitive and dramatic fight at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York on March 2.
The Uzbek, 25, was ahead on two of the judges' scorecards by three points until Ford snatc…
Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) today announced their first-ever partnership in a heavyweight boxing mega-event headlined by The Problem Child, Jake “El Gallo” Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) vs. the Baddest Man on the Planet, Mike Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs). Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson will stream live globally, exclusively on Netflix on Saturday, July 20, 2024 from the 80,000-seat capacity AT&am…
The deft linguistics, incisive blow-by-blow commentary and unbridled passion all made Jim Lampley the voice of boxing for decades, both in reality and on the silver screen. So when he co-hosted the viewer chat for the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Jermell Charlo fight on PPV.com last year, it was almost as if all was well with the boxing world.
At least for one night.
“I was work…
The IBF has ordered South Africa’s Sivenathi Nontshinga (13-1, 10 KOs) to defend his light flyweight world title in a rematch against his mandatory challenger, Christian Araneta (24-2, 19 KOs), of the Philippines.
Nontshinga recaptured the IBF world title on Feb. 16 in an immediate rematch with Adrian Curiel (24-5-1, 5KOs) in Oaxaca, Mexico. Last November, Curiel produced a shocking second-…
Sebastian Fundora is aiming for the Fundora family to have two world titles by the end of March.
Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) faces Serhii Bohachuk (23-1, 23 KOs) on March 30 as part of the pay-per-view card on the Keith Thurman-Tim Tszyu bill. Fundora-Bohachuk is for the vacant super welterweight world title.
Trained by his father, Freddy Fundora, boxing is in the blood. Sebastian&rsquo…
Darius Fulghum has a passion for boxing.
The prospect, new to Golden Boy, has turned down the financial stability of his career in nursing to chase his dream.
Fulghum succeeded at the trials for the 2020 Olympic Games as the eighth seed. He fought at heavyweight, but has moved down to super middleweight as a professional. Yet it was his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, who recently inspir…
Fabio Wardley believes that Francis Ngannou will get a first-hand demonstration of just how much Anthony Joshua has improved since linking up with Ben Davison when the two meet in Saudi Arabia on Friday night.
Joshua and Davison worked together for the first time last December and Joshua put in his best performance for a while, forcing Otto Wallin to retire on his stool after five one-sided round…
Tyson Fury revealed Wednesday that plans are in place for the winner of Friday’s Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou heavyweight bout in Saudi Arabia to meet the winner of Fury’s two-bout series with fellow heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
WBC heavyweight Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), speaking on a Queensberry Promotions stream to help promote both Joshua-Ngannou and his May 18 bout for undis…
Francis Ngannou vowed to “shock the world” when he fights Anthony Joshua on Friday evening.
On the occasion of his second professional boxing match, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he fights the 34-year-old Joshua with a date against the winner of Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk on the line.
Fury revealed earlier on Wednesday that plans exist for the winner of Friday’s fight to meet the win…
Reigning International Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight World Champion Miyo Yoshida (17-4, 0 KOs) has signed with New York-based lawyer Keith Sullivan.
Yoshida, 35, is a three-time, two-division world champion having captured the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Super Flyweight crowns twice in 2019 and 2021. A native of Japan, she moved to Manhattan last year, trains at the famed Gleason&rsquo…
Artur Beterbiev’s trainer Marc Ramsey believes a long-awaited showdown with fellow Russian Dmitrii Bivol is finally on track for June 1.
An undisputed light heavyweight title fight between Beterbiev and Bivol has been discussed since both men shared ownership of the 175 pound belts. The arrival of Saudi Arabia into the boxing world, with its generous purses, has made the fight more re…
On Tuesday, Top Rank announced that Naoya "The Monster" Inoue will defend his undisputed junior featherweight world title against former two-division world champion Luis "Pantera" Nery on May 6 at the Tokyo Dome.
For Inoue (26-0, 23 KOs), it will be his debut headlining at the iconic venue. The bout will also feature three other world title defenses: Jason "Mayhem" M…
Ryan Garcia’s recent run of erratic behavior has prompted Devin Haney to declare that his rival might call it quits on his career even before their scheduled clash takes place on April 20.
During their back-and-forth promotional banter, Garcia said he would retire if Haney stopped him in one round.
“Ryan might retire before we get to the fight,” Haney quipped.
Haney (31-0, 15 …
In the perplexing and riveting case of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, many seemingly conflicting facts are true all at once.
– Fans and followers are incredulous that Alvarez is bypassing the ripest fight since 2010, when pound-for-pound kings Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao failed to strike a deal and instead launched an aggravating five-year waiting process before their letdow…
Henry Garcia has reassured supporters of his son, Ryan Garcia, that the fighter is “OK” despite concerns for his welfare due to his erratic behavior during last week's press tour for his upcoming fight with super lightweight titleholder Devin Haney.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs), following his initial press conference with Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in New York last week, began posting questionable…
Anthony Joshua meets Francis Ngannou in a fight that fewer and fewer people have referred to as a circus act since Tyson Fury had his hands full with Ngannou last October.
Instead, a rebuilding Joshua, 27-3 (24 KOs), meets an inspired Ngannou, with many seeing Ngannou as a far more credible threat this time around, than when he was a huge underdog and written off by the boxing public against Fury…
Heavyweight Showdown, Justis Huni vs Kevin Lerena on the Undercard "Knockout Chaos" in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, March 8, 2024 – Riyadh Season is set to witness an electrifying heavyweight boxing match, as two formidable contenders, Justis Huni and Kevin Lerena, prepare to go head-to-head in "Knockout Chaos" event on March 8th, 2024. The highly anticipated event promises…
“The fight is on,” said Robert Smith, general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control.
He was referring to the bout between Uzbek Israil Madrimov and Magomed Kurbanov of Russia for the WBA junior middleweight title in Saudi Arabia on Friday in Saudi Arabia, on the “Knockout Chaos” bill topped by the heavyweight attraction between Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou…
Thunderdome 45 saw Jordan Laruccia bolster his undefeated while introducing several up-and-coming prospects from Western Australia at the Metro City Night Club in Northbridge.
Jordan Laruccia Defeats Wellem Reyek
In the main event, Laruccia (7-0), of Perth, overcame his most experienced opponent to date, knocking out Wellem Reyek (21-28-4) in a brilliant showing.
Laruccia, who captured the Aust…
Jake Paul continued to call for a fight with undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) following his first-round knockout win over Ryan Bourland (17-3, 6 KOs) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Paul (9-1, 6 KOs), a YouTube phenom/professional boxer, dominated proceedings against Bourland in a one-sided affair which saw Bourland withdrawn by referee Luis Pabon after 2:37 …
Roy Jones Jr. famously moved up from light heavyweight to heavyweight in 2003, conceded 33 pounds to fight John Ruiz, and still scored a unanimous decision victory to become a titleholder in the sport’s glamor division.
In the fight for undisputed heavyweight supremacy on May 18 between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, the matchup between titans will feature a serious size discrepancy.&…
Anthony Joshua has suggested a long-awaited domestic battle with Tyson Fury could be in the pipeline following a recent interview on ITV.
The former unified heavyweight world champion faces Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the latest instalment of Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season, launched in October 2023 with Tyson Fury’s heavyweight encounter with Ngannou.…
Mike Tyson has accused Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) of disrespecting boxing and Mexico with the undisputed super middleweight champion allegedly walking away from a lucrative proposal to face his mandatory challenger David Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs).
A fight between Canelo and Benavidez is one of the most attractive in boxing and has long been discussed, with Benavidez holding the WBC&rsqu…
Undefeated lightweight Steven Cairns has flown under the radar considering he is one of Ireland’s most-exciting prospects.
He recently signed with Frank Warren with news of his Queensberry debut expected this week.
“I’m back and I’m going to be on TV soon knocking some guys out,” Cairns said, exclusively to boxingscene.com. “I’m delighted abo…
Mike Tyson has not been as involved with Francis Ngannou’s second professional boxing fight.
Ngannou faces Anthony Joshua, Friday March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on DAZN pay-per-view.
Ngannou, the former MMA champion-turned boxer without a professional victory under his belt, will look to have an encore performance having taken Tyson Fury to the wire last October.
“For this on…
Tyson Fury insists that the cut that caused the postponement of his eagerly awaited fight with Oleksandr Usyk has already healed and that he is ready to stop the Ukrainian when they finally meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 18.
Fury and Usyk were scheduled to contest the undisputed heavyweight championship on February 17, but Fury was forced to withdraw after suffering a gash over his right eye…
Francis Ngannou’s trainer Dewey Cooper has predicted a stoppage victory over Anthony Joshua when they fight on Friday evening.
Cooper was asked for his prediction on the date in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and answered: “I’m taking Francis Ngannou by stoppage.”
“Every time we go to fight the goal is victory, but we are trying to dominate our opponent and stop them,&…
To have a relationship with boxing is to have a love-hate relationship with boxing. Those are the rules.
Boxing is many things. Violent. Inspiring. Unjust. Beautiful. Exasperating. Exhilarating.
And above all, unpredictable.
All of these many things boxing is — the best of it; the worst of it; the weirdest of it — were on display across two overlapping televised/streamed cards on Sa…
Angelino Cordova is looking to shock the world.
Cordova wants to end Julio Cesar Martinez’s four-year reign as the WBC flyweight champion on the undercard of Tim Tszyu-Keith Thurman at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30.
The Venezuelan, 28, is coming off the biggest win of his career. He won a unanimous decision over Angel Acosta in April 2023, and has since waited for his o…
Raymond Ford had no idea what the scorecards said, that two judges had him behind, that he was seconds away from losing to Otabek Kholmatov.
But Ford knew the fight had been close for the previous 11 rounds. He knew he had Kholmatov hurt. And he did exactly what he needed to do, scoring a dramatic 12th-round technical knockout with just seven seconds left Saturday at Turning Stone Casino in Veron…
Amanda Serrano’s promoter early Sunday revealed the timeline of how the undisputed featherweight champion went from a planned main event before her home fans in Puerto Rico to a stunning last-minute cancellation that left her in tears.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP), told Boxing Scene in a text message that the source of Serrano’s eye i…
Jake Paul called for Ryan Garcia to “chill out” in the aftermath of his first-round stoppage of Ryan Bourland.
Paul recorded his ninth victory as a professional at the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico when the referee Luis Pabon intervened to rescue the 35-year-old Bourland from further punishment while he struggled to defend himself as a consequence of a powerful …
CES Boxing returns to Rhode Island on Saturday, March 23, with a huge doubleheader at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino.
The popular Jimmy Burchfield Classic Invitational amateur showcase kicks off the day's festivities at 2pm, followed by a stacked professional boxing card beginning at 7pm EST.
Dominican sensation Alejandro "El Abusador" Paul…
Jermell Charlo has been stripped of his WBA junior middleweight title, meaning the former undisputed champion has lost the last of his undisputed titles.
WBA president Gilberto Mendoza informed Dan Rafael of the championship committee’s decision to relieve the 33-year-old Charlo of his final piece of title hardware.
Charlo is 35-2-1 (19 KOs), now without a belt for the first time since 201…
Trainer Mark Farrait has hit back at online reports that his super middleweight contender Edgar Berlanga would not be ready to face Canelo Alvarez later this year.
In an interview earlier this week, Farrait was asked whether the New York-based Berlanga would be prepared to face the Mexican in 2024, and in his reply Farrait gave Canelo his props and said: “I don’t think anyone is ready…
Bernard Hopkins has said that whatever beef he had with Ryan Garcia has been squashed.
Speaking ahead of the Los Angeles leg of the Devin Haney-Garcia press tour, Hopkins said he had never had any hard feelings with Garcia, who on Tuesday in New York had stood up and embraced the Golden Boy Promotions exec and former world middleweight and light heavyweight champion.
“To me, he burie…
LOS ANGELES – Can a fight be lost at a news conference, more than one month before the first bell?
The fact that’s now a discussion point tells you all you need to know about the mental undressing that Devin Haney delivered to a wobbled Ryan Garcia late Thursday afternoon at Hollywood’s Avalon Theater.
The 25-year-old must have at least briefly regretted the enormity of his soc…
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN presented by AutoZone: Kholmatov vs. Ford will be presented live this Saturday, March 2, at approximately 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT, exclusively on ESPN+. The event takes place at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
In the main event, Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov will fight Raymond Ford for the vacant WBA featherweight world title. This duel of unbeaten so…
Ryan Garcia feels that his former training partner Canelo Alvarez would and should fight David Benavidez.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) is in the midst of promoting his April 20 fight against Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in New York, and Garcia stopped by the popular morning radio show The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 FM, where he discussed Canelo.
“He has to fight Benavidez to keep boxing go…
Promoters Eddie Hearn and Oscar De La Hoya have met to talk about the state of the sport and discuss key talking points.
In times through the past they have been rivals, but they got on the same page on DAZN for an interview with Chris Mannix.
DAZN broadcasts fights from both stables, De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions and Hearn’s Matchroom, and Hearn said that promoters in the sport…
Najee Lopez found himself in ProBox TV classic
Lopez outpointed Marcos Escudero in the co-main event from the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida and Lopez (10-0, 8 KOs), a 24-year-old light heavyweight, was tested.
Escudero (14-3, 12 KOs), a 30-year-old veteran, pushed a pace on Lopez that had not been seen before. Entering the bout, the experience showed on paper – but m…
Devin Haney has little respect for the skills of Ryan Garcia.
Haney defends his WBC super lightweight title against his rival on April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) is making the first defense of the title he won when he defeated Regis Prograis in December in San Francisco.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) bounced back from his loss to Gervonta “Tank&rdq…
There is a featherweight title fight you better not sleep on this Saturday night.
Camden’s Raymond Ford has his first shot at a world title against Ukrainian Otabek Kholmatov at the Turning Stone in Oneida in upstate New York.
Ford is a gifted southpaw – poised and cultured, slick, quick, and gifted.
He’s also only 24 and a former Golden Gloves champion who has keenly wa…
Junto Nakatani is one of my favourite active fighters. On Saturday he produced a wildly impressive performance against a very-tough champion in Alexandro Santiago, who previously impressed when he won his title from Nonito Donaire. He was brilliant.
Regardless of Donaire’s age, Donaire can seriously punch, so for Nakatani to completely control Santiago – disarm him; keep him where he …
Undefeated heavyweight phenom Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson is angling for another big knockout. The fighting pride of Toledo, Ohio, steps up in class to face Belgian contender Ryad Merhy on Saturday, April 13, in the 10-round main event at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
In the 10-round heavyweight co-feature, Nigerian puncher Efe Ajagba and Italian standout Guido…
Bryce Mills has the ability to move a lot of tickets. But this weekend he hopes to begin showing he’s more than just an attraction.
Mills faces Gerffred Ngayot at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino, in Verona, New York, on Saturday, March 2 as part of the ESPN+ telecast of the Otabek Kholmatov-Raymond Ford undercard. The venue is an appropriate battleground given Mills’ and Ngay…
Light-heavyweight contender Radivoje 'Hot Rod' Kalajdzic (28-2, 20 KOs) returns to action on March 13 against former world title challenger Sullivan Barrera (22-4, 14 KOs) live on ProBox TV.
Kalajdzic, who defends his WBA Continental North America title, continues his charge towards another world-title fight. The winner is potentially in line to clash with one of the light-heavyweight champ…
The origin story isn’t anything spectacular. In fact, it’s the stereotypical one that has been attached to prizefighters around the globe for decades. A kid does well on the amateur scene – well enough that someone approaches them with an offer to make some money in a fight, and the kid takes it.
Twenty-year-old Amanda Serrano – the kid, in this case – versus Jackie …
Jazza Dickens has revealed that his days at featherweight are over. From this point on the 32-year-old will campaign at super featherweight.
After struggling mightily to make weight before his IBO featherweight title defence against Hector Sosa last July, Dickens has decided to step up to 130lbs. Dickens was stopped in the 10th round by the Argentinean.
The Liverpudlian was intent on aveng…