Boxing Scene

Tech Port Arena, San Antonio, Texas – Jesse Rodriguez (16-0, 11 KOs) made a statement by beating down, dropping and stopping Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (50-6-1, 43 KOs) in the eight round to retain the WBC super flyweight title. Rodriguez came out respecting the power of Sor Rungvisai by moving and using his much longer reach to

Shakur Stevenson enjoyed a homecoming for his last fight before officially entering the title picture. His next trip home will come as his stock has never been higher. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Stevenson will next face Brazil’s Robson Conceicao in defense of his lineal/WBC/WBO junior lightweight championship. The bout will headline a September 23 ESPN

It’s not a great look when an organization that exposes human rights abuses and injustices across the world makes a statement on a boxing event. But that happened last week when Peter Frankel, the UK’s economic affairs director of Amnesty International asked world heavyweight contender Anthony Joshua to speak out against the Saudi Arabian regime

According to veteran trainer Dominic Ingle, former two division champion Billy Joe Saunders is finally back in training with a potential ring return being positioned for the month of December. Saunders, 32-years-old, has been out of the ring since May of 2021 – when he suffered the first defeat of his career at the hands

Jesse Rodriguez put to rest any claims of being the smaller man in any given matchup at junior bantamweight. The 22-year-old southpaw arrived in peak condition for his hometown headliner versus former two-time WBC 115-pound champ Srisaket Sor Rungvisai. Both boxers made weight for their scheduled 12-round main event, which airs live on DAZN this

Jonathan ‘Bomba’ Gonzalez has never weighed lighter than 108 pounds for a pro fight. He came in right at that limit for his WBO junior flyweight title-winning effort over Elwin Soto last October, and has previously campaigned at flyweight and junior bantamweight. However, the Puerto Rican southpaw is confident that—for the right opportunity—he could see

It’s been a long time since Jarrell Miller has enjoyed the taste of victory or even a boxing ring on fight night. The unbeaten heavyweight enjoyed both experiences in his ring return following a self-imposed 43-month absence in a ten-round, unanimous decision win over Ariel Esteban Bracamonte. All three judges scored the contest 97-92 in

Sunny Edwards hopes the collapse of Julio Cesar Martinez’s latest title defense does not prevent the “biggest fight in the flyweight division” from happening. Edwards has confirmed he is “aggressively” chasing a fight with the Mexican and is keeping his fingers crossed that Martinez retains his WBC belt, despite pulling out of a fight with

John Fury has given his backing to Anthony Joshua to defeat Oleksandr Usyk in their world heavyweight title rematch and has teased that his son Tyson Fury could return to face his compatriot if he is successful. Joshua’s crunch rematch with Usyk was confirmed on Sunday, with the British star looking to win the WBA

Adelaida “La Cobra” Ruiz (11-0-1, 6 KOs) will have her second opportunity to challenge for the WBC Interim Super Flyweight Championship when she faces Sonia Osorio (15-7-2, 4 KOs) in 10-round a rematch on Friday, July 29 in San Jose, Costa Rica.                           

Social media star turned boxer, Jake Paul (5-0, 4 KOs), is applying a lot of pressure on Tommy Fury to sign a contract for an August showdown. Paul is scheduled to return to the ring on August 6, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Showtime Pay-Per-View will carry the event. Last year, Fury

Spanish Kamikaze Promotions won the purse bids on Tuesday for EBU welterweight champ David Avanesyan’s mandatory defense against Jon Miguez (17-0). Kamikaze thus beat both Frank Warren and Miguez’s promoter MGZ. When and where is to be announced – and there must be a big question mark on the fight even happening – as Avanesyan

Nate Diaz would love to get out of his current contract and into the ring with Jake Paul. The good news is that his employer is willing to accommodate his request. The outspoken Diaz has been vocal in his displeasure with the UFC, under whose banner he has fought since 2007. However, it has been

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has given high praise to Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and believes the Mexican superstar is still the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. Last month, Canelo was outboxed over twelve rounds by WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol. Canelo, who still holds the undisputed crown at super middleweight, suffered his

Vergil Ortiz is adamant that his experience with a harrowing illness is now firmly behind him.   The hard-hitting welterweight contender from Texan was originally scheduled to face Michael McKinson of England in March, but Ortiz had to withdraw from their bout at the 11th hour because he fell dangerously ill. It turned out Ortiz

Joe Smith Jr. admits he could never implement his strategy to the fullest extent during his short-lived tussle with Russian puncher Artur Beterbiev. Smith, the Mastic, Long Island, native was stopped by Montreal-based Beterbiev in two rounds in their 175-pound unification bout last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater in New York City.

Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller will fight in a professional boxing match for the first time in nearly four years Thursday when the heavyweight contender takes on journeyman Ariel Esteban Bracamonte of Argentina at the Casino Buenos Aires. The event will take part as part of the WBA’s two-day KO Drugs Festival.  Miller (23-0-1, 20 KOs)

WBC, WBO, IBF junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor was one of the many fighters who at one time gave praise to alleged drug cartel leader Daniel Kinahan Back in 2020, Taylor signed an agreement with management company MTK Global – which was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012. At one point, MTK had claimed that Kinahan