Boxing Scene

The mission has never been clearer for Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez. A shot at the WBA light heavyweight title is well within reach for Mexico’s Ramirez, who faces Germany’s Dominic Boesel (32-2, 15KOs) in a final eliminator this Saturday. The winner will become the mandatory challenger to Dmitry Bivol (20-0, 11KOs), who defended the title with

Zach Parker is back to square one and without a clear path to a due title shot. The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has withdrawn its sanctioning of a previously approved interim super middleweight title fight between England’s Parker and WBO middleweight titlist Demetrius Andrade, the sanctioning body ruled late Friday evening. A shoulder injury suffered

Gilberto Ramirez entered fight week confident that his next fight will be for a light heavyweight title. A win on Saturday will put the unbeaten former WBO super middleweight titlist in contention, as Ramirez is set to face Germany’s Dominic Boesel in a WBA light heavyweight title eliminator. Both boxers made weight for their scheduled

Jermell Charlo expects that his two reigns as a 154-pound champion will be appreciated more once he retires. As the IBF/WBA/WBC champion approaches his 32nd birthday, he has thought more about his accomplishments and if those feats will lead him to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. The Houston native realizes

Angel ‘Tito’ Acosta felt like he never had the chance to show the full arsenal of his previous camp with new trainer Joel Diaz. It can be argued that he still hasn’t been afforded the opportunity after their second fight together. The former WBO junior flyweight titlist made quick work of fellow Boricua flyweight Janiel

Mandatory super bantamweight contender Daniel Roman is less than a month away from his crack at unified WBC and WBO world champion Stephen Fulton Jr. Their Showtime televised fight is scheduled for Saturday, June 4 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from The Armory in Minneapolis. Roman is hoping to shock the betting favorite, who

ARLINGTON, Texas – Jermell Charlo simply doesn’t believe Brian Castano. The unbeaten WBO junior middleweight champion postponed their rematch for nearly two months in mid-February because he suffered a slight tear to his right biceps while sparring with Terrell Gausha. That injury required rest, not surgery, which was why Castano was able to return to

Gilberto Ramirez is hoping to get a measure of revenge in the coming future. Ramirez will collide with Dominic Boesel in a final WBA light heavyweight eliminator on Saturday night. A victory will get Ramirez closer to a mandatory shot at current WBA world champion Dmitry Bivol. Last Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in

A desert town on the U.S. West Coast provides the unlikeliest of backdrops for an all-Boricua clash. Angel Acosta and Janiel Rivera both made weight for their upcoming ten-round bout just above the flyweight limit. San Juan’s Acosta—a former WBO junior flyweight titlist and aspiring flyweight contender—checked in at 112.8 pounds, the second heaviest of

Dmitry Bivol’s overall opinion of Canelo Alvarez hasn’t changed. Bivol, the WBA light heavyweight champion from Russia, stunned the boxing world by outpointing Alvarez in their 12-round 175-pound title bout last Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. All three scorecards read 115-113 in favor of Bivol, whose size, speed, and technique was far

Some words stick with you. The honesty may be flippant, it may be intentional, but whatever it may be, it gives you an insight into the mind of a fighter that you don’t often get in a world of manufactured quotes and cliches you can almost predict before they leave the mouth. But on this

A women’s 10-round championship fight has been added to the inaugural edition of “The Global Titans Fight Series,” headlined by the ring return of Floyd “Money” Mayweather facing “Dangerous” Don Moore “in the skies of Dubai” on Saturday, May 14, as former unified champion Delfine Persoon of Belgium will take on France’s undefeated Elhem “The

Hamzah Sheeraz, the unbeaten middleweight, has been voted Young Boxer of the Year.  The 22-year-old from Slough was voted for the award by members of the Boxing Writers’ Club  . He joins a prestigious roll call of former award winners that includes the likes of Randolph Turpin, John H Stracey, John Conteh, Frank Bruno, Naseem

We already knew he wasn’t perfect.  Now we know he’s not infallible either. Canelo Alvarez’s first blemish came nearly nine years ago and is pardoned these days as too much, too soon for a 22-year-old kid. The second came Saturday, in the form of a big, talented, and determined light heavyweight who outboxed and outworked

WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has gone from being an unknown to being one of the most talked about boxers in the world. This past Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Bivol outboxed 5-1 betting favorite Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to secure a dominant twelve round unanimous decision. “I always believed in

LAS VEGAS – Dmitry Bivol was willing to do whatever was necessary to get the fight he wanted for more than three years. The unbeaten WBA light heavyweight champion realized that getting in the ring with Canelo Alvarez would afford him the opportunity and the exposure to prove to the world that he is an

The WBC immediately established a task force to analyze the situation which occurred Saturday night in Nova Scotia, Canada when local fighter Ryan Rozicki fought against Yamil Peralta from Argentina for The WBC vacant international cruiserweight championship. This was an important fight for both as two top ten ranked fighters were looking to inch close

In a welterweight contest, Shakhram Giyasov (13-0, 9 KOs) scored three knockdowns to win a ten round unanimous decision over a dangerous Christian Gomez (22-3-1, 20 KOs). (photos by Ed Mulholland) The scores were 99-88, 99-88, 98-89. Giyasov was boxing well in the first two rounds, throwing and landing very calculated punches. In the third,