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T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas – Heavyweight contender Zhang Zhilei (24-0-1, 19 KOs) crushed Scott Alexander (16-5-2, 8 KOs) in one round, with a one-punch knockout. (photos by Ed Mulholland) Alexander was a late replacement for Filip Hrgovic, who withdrew due to his father’s recent passing. Alexander was jabbing to the gut for most of the

Canelo Alvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 7, live on DAZN, excluding Latin America and Mexico. The event will be offered exclusively on DAZN Pay-Per View (PPV). >>>>CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE SCORECARD<<<< Canelo (57-1-2, 39 KOs) returns to Las Vegas for his first Cinco De

David Benavidez is hearing a lot of names mentioned for Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’s planned 2022 campaign. The one name he has yet to hear is his own—which is puzzling since Benavidez is on the short list of fighters who is actually owed a title fight if the sanctioning body rules were properly enforced. Instead, Mexico’s

The knock on Dmitry Bivol of late has been that he doesn’t kick it into second gear in fights that he’s comfortably winning with intent to score a knockout and convincing victory.    The undefeated WBA light heavyweight champion has scored six consecutive unanimous decisions in mostly one-sided matchups over the last four years.  The last

Junior middleweight contender Tim Tszyu underwent surgery on both his hands before he flies out to the United States to sit ringside for next Saturday’s undisputed rematch clash between world champions Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano. The Showtime televised fight takes place at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. They fought to a twelve

DANIEL DUBOIS WILL challenge Trevor Bryan for the WBA regular world title on June 11 in Miami and you can catch the heavyweight action, along with a British title double-header from Telford on the same night, all on BT Sport. WBA No.1 ranked Dubois (17-1, 16 KOs) heads Stateside for his breakthrough fight against the

A third of the year is past and boxing has left little to complain about. Multiple unification matches, our first few Fight of the Year contenders, a massive stadium show…2022 is off to a great start and it’s not slowing down.  It’s as good a time as any to take a pulse of just who

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has successfully trialed the use of new technology, in the form of impact-sensing mouthguards, at the EUBC European Youth Championships. Boxers from several national boxing federations participated, while the data capture is both anonymized and secured. With the assistance of artificial intelligence, data from the impacts is being used to

LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez has been a professional boxer for almost 17 years. The Mexican superstar is still just 31 years old, in his physical prime, yet he’ll get paid to fight for the 61st time Saturday night. If he defeats Dmitry Bivol in their 12-round, 175-pound title fight at T-Mobile Arena, the Guadalajara

There will be no big celebration tonight for Paul Butler despite being elevated to being WBO bantamweight champion after the decision by the WBO to strip John Riel Casimero of the title. Butler already had plans, which meant he was at his old amateur club training youngsters.  The news was no great surprise after Casimero,

A few days ago, the next EOTTM event scheduled on the Fête nationale was announced and final and semi-final bouts were confirmed with the NABA and NABF belts at stake for Erik Bazinyan (27-1, 21 KOs) and also the NABF title for Steven Butler (29-3-1, 25 KOs). The event takes place on June 23 at

Two-division world champion Badou Jack will prepare to make one more run at championship gold with his sights set on a cruiserweight title as he returns to action on Saturday, May 14 on “The Global Titans Fight Series” undercard available on PPV through LIVENow from the helipad of Dubai’s opulent Burj Al Arab Hotel. “My

Promoter Eddie Hearn thinks Anthony Yarde may be wilting away on the vine. In a recent interview, the head of Matchroom Boxing lambasted Yarde, the British light heavyweight contender and top contender in the WBO, and Yarde’s promoter Frank Warren, for refusing to entertain any other fight besides a potential one against the winner of

Evan Holyfield (9-0, 6 KOs) from Atlanta GA and son of five time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, is preparing for his May 14 fight at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA.  TRILLERVERZ 5 will be streamed live on Triller and Fite.tv. Evan is training in Colorado Springs.  It’s the first time in his career

The first two fights of Canelo Alvarez’s three-fight reunion with DAZN and Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing were revealed earlier this year. If the Mexican icon defeats Dmitry Bivol on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Alvarez will move back down from the 175-pound division to the 168-pound limit for his long-awaited third showdown

Unification fever was everywhere in April with new partially unified titlists crowned at middleweight, welterweight, and Jr. lightweight on the men’s side and super middleweight and flyweight on the women’s.  We’re not done yet.  One of the best fights of 2021 came at Jr. middleweight, and it left us without a conclusion. One of the

Sergey “The Krusher” Kovalev (34-4, 29 KOs), living in Long Beach, CA, will fight Tervel Pulev in his cruiserweight debut on Saturday, May 14 at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA and will be streamed live on Triller and Fite.tv. Sergey is being trained by Buddy McGirt and his strength and conditioning coach is Teddy

LAS VEGAS – The most intriguing fight on the Canelo Alvarez-Dmitry Bivol undercard has been scrapped. BoxingScene.com has learned that Filip Hrgovic has withdrawn from his 12-round heavyweight fight against Zhang Zhilei. Croatia’s Hrgovic (14-0, 12 KOs) and China’s Zhilei (23-0-1, 18 KOs) were scheduled to meet in an IBF elimination match Saturday night at