Boxing Scene

This Saturday night on Showtime PPV (9 PM EST), two of the best welterweights in the world will lock horns to unify three titles in their weight class and narrow the championship field to just two men. One of those men, WBO titlist Terence Crawford (38-0, 29 KO), will play interested observer this weekend.  The

Triller Fight Club has announced a heavyweight clash between former unified heavyweight world champion Andy ‘The Destroyer’ Ruiz Jr., (34-2, 22 KOs), of Imperial, CA and top rated and undefeated contender Tyrone ‘King of the Ring’ Spong, (14-0, 13 KOs) of Paramaribo, Suriname set for Saturday, July 16 and emanating from the historic Plaza de

One of the major storylines surrounding the career of Errol Spence Jr. is just how much longer the big-bodied boxer could compete at 147 pounds.  The WBC and IBF welterweight champion has been hinting for a while about his inevitable move up to the super welterweight division.  But first, Spence (27-0, 21 KOs) will further

By the time boxers like Errol Spence Jr. reach that pay-per-view headliner spot and close in on 30 pro fights, they’re usually a finished product. There’s the good, the bad, and the ugly – things for an opponent to avoid and areas where he believes he can pin a loss on a perfect record. But

Barry Hearn, the founder of Matchroom Sport, expects Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury to eventually come off. The two British heavyweights were in serious talks earlier last year. Their negotiations fell apart after Deontay Wilder was victorious at an arbitration to force a third meeting with Fury. They are now scheduled for high profile fights

Errol Spence Jr. is embracing the second lease on his life and boxing career.  Spence has survived an uneven series of events following a spirited split decision win against Shawn Porter on Sept. 28, 2019. Spence was the IBF welterweight champion at the time and picked up Porter’s WBC crown with the win.  On Oct.

Conor Benn is riding the crest of a wave, but as he takes a moment during the build-up to next week’s fight against South African Chris Van Heerden the bravado slips and the fighting talk dims. Instead, the 25-year-old husband, father and son of a British boxing icon gets very real. There are no soundbites

Conor Benn has warned South Africa’s Chris van Heerden that he needs to be prepared for “a whole lot of firepower” when they clash over 12 rounds for the WBA Continental Welterweight Title at the AO Arena in Manchester this Saturday April 16, live worldwide on DAZN (excluding New Zealand and Australia). ‘The Destroyer’ (20-0,

SAN ANTONIO – Oscar De La Hoya has always viewed fighting in San Antonio as a rite of passage for the biggest stars at Golden Boy Promotions. It was among the reasons that the city was chosen for the anticipated ring return of Ryan Garcia following a 15-month hiatus. The 23-year-old lightweight didn’t get up

While the boxing public was asking questions about what Gennadiy Golovkin had left, his upcoming opponent Ryota Murata was asking questions about himself. (photo by Naoki Fukuda) In his two years and four months out of the ring, a good portion of it dedicated to hoping then waiting for a bout with Golovkin, Murata had

LAS VEGAS – Erickson Lubin luckily didn’t suffer quite as much physical damage as it seemed when he left the ring Saturday night at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. BoxingScene.com confirmed Sunday that X-rays at a local hospital early Sunday morning determined Lubin sustained a broken nose and a separated right shoulder during his brutal battle

Las Vegas, Nevada – In a crossroads junior middleweight fight, former world champion Tony Harrison (29-3-1, 21 KOs) boxed his way to a ten round unanimous decision over Sergio Garcia (33-2, 14 KOs). (photos by Ryan Hafey, Esther Lin) The scores were 98-92, 100-90 and 100-90. Harrison was sticking a very hard jab in the

Giovani Santillan knew Jeovanis Barraza had nothing left to offer – it was up to Santillan to decide whether or not he wanted to make it a short night. In the end, the aggressive 30-year-old welterweight from San Diego forced referee Thomas Taylor to halt his 10-round bout with Jeovanis Barraza of Colombia 33 seconds

The ‘First Mate’ is honored to help provide a platform for ‘The Captain’ to make her awaited pro debut. Best friends Mikaela Mayer and Ginny Fuchs are reunited in the pro ranks, appearing on the same show Saturday evening at The OC Hangar in Costa Mesa, California. Mayer (16-0, 5KOs) makes her third overall WBO

Junto Nakatani battered Ryota Yamauchi throughout most of their one-sided, 112-pound title fight Saturday in Saitama, Japan. The rangy southpaw, who is unusually tall for his division, hurt and stopped his countryman in the eighth round of their scheduled 12-rounder on the Gennadiy Golovkin-Ryota Murata undercard at Saitama Super Arena. The unbeaten, 24-year-old Nakatani (23-0,

Grande Synthe, France – French hotshot Milan Prat (15-0) won the IBF Youth title with an easy stoppage of much shorter, overmatched and overweight Mexican Jose Angel Flores Chan (9-6-2). After a quiet first round Prat hurt his opponent with a right uppercut and then floored him with a short right. Flores got up but

Eddie Hearn says a venue for Oleksandr Usyk’s rematch with Anthony Joshua will be announced within the next two weeks, with “final negotiations” with different sites still taking place.  Saudi Arabia is understood to be the frontrunner to stage the fight for the WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF heavyweight titles, despite the outrage that greeted

SAN ANTONIO – Ryan Garcia and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis held court at separate press conferences nearly 1,900 miles apart to sell their next respective fights. However, there still exists the desire for the pair of unbeaten lightweights to eventually meet. Davis’ upcoming secondary WBA lightweight title defense versus heated rival Rolando Romero (14-0, 12KOs) was