Boxing Scene

WBO/IBF junior lightweight world champion Mikaela Mayer, the Southern California native who is now one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound talents, is ready for her home region title defense. (photos by Mikey Williams) Mayer will defend her belts against former featherweight world champion Jennifer Han on Saturday evening at the Orange County Fair & Event

IBF, WBO super featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer is backing Claressa Shields to topple Savannah Marshall in a planned middleweight unification. The two champions traded harsh words, face to face, last Saturday in Newcastle, in the aftermath of Marshall’s most recent defense. Mayer believes Shields’ speed and output will prove to be too much for the power

Canelo Alvarez apparently wants to make sure his potential victory over Dmitry Bivol will be free of any caveats. According to Alvarez’s promoter Eddie Hearn, the Mexican superstar and current undisputed 168-pound champion, rebuffed the idea of meeting Russia’s Bivol at a catchweight for their scheduled 12-round, light heavyweight bout May 7 in Las Vegas

It has been more than two years since Ryota Murata has been able to soak in the ambience that comes with a big fight night. A career-long 28-month inactive stretch will come to an end once Tokyo’s Murata (16-2, 13KOs) returns to the ring this Saturday. The 2012 Olympic Gold medalist and reigning WBA “Super”

Las Vegas native Nico Ali Walsh, grandson of “The Greatest,” hopes to make a statement for the hometown fans. Ali Walsh will fight Denver’s Alejandro Ibarra in a four-round middleweight attraction Saturday, April 30, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Ali Walsh-Ibarra will open the televised broadcast featuring the world junior lightweight title unification showdown

Claressa Shields is not too enamored with the idea of unifying her middleweight titles in her opponent’s backyard. Shields, the WBC, WBA, and IBF women’s middleweight champion, is on a collision course to face WBO middleweight titlist Savannah Marshall in a full unification bout this summer on Sky Sports, which has both fighters under exclusive

The biggest Cinco De Mayo celebration in Canada will take place at REBEL Entertainment Complex, as Lee Baxter Promotions stages a night of boxing action on May 5 headlined by rising featherweight contender Bryan Acosta. Acosta (16-0, 5 KOs) signed with Lee Baxter Promotions in February 2022, making his Canadian debut on the undercard of

On the same day that undercard was unveiled for Tyson Fury’s WBC heavyweight championship of the world collision with challenger Dillian Whyte on Saturday, April 23, it was confirmed that 4,000 additional tickets now set to go on sale at midday tomorrow from Ticketmaster making Fury-Whyte the record-breaking sporting event to be held at Wembley

Andrew Moloney continues to hunt for a major title in the lucrative junior bantamweight division. The former secondary WBA titlist has drawn motivation from a recently ordered title fight ahead of his own ring appearance this weekend. Australia’s Moloney returns this Saturday in the opening bout of an ESPN tripleheader from The OC Hangar in

The team behind unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk are expecting to finalize the date and venue for the rematch with Anthony Joshua within the next two weeks. Last September at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Usyk outboxed Joshua over twelve rounds to capture the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight belts. Joshua would later exercise an immediate rematch

Promoter Ben Shalom of Boxxer believes a welterweight scrap between Amir Khan and Florian Marku is a fight that makes sense for both parties. Back in February, Khan returned to the ring for the first time since July of 2019 – and he was stopped in six rounds by domestic rival Kell Brook in a

Ryan Garcia always knew how to use social media to his advantage. What he shows to his legion of followers, however, is rarely what he intends to apply to any given fight. “I don’t show anybody what I’m working on,” Garcia insisted during a recent open workout ahead of his April 9 DAZN headliner versus

There is only “one street” in Devin Haney’s mind. In a recent interview, the WBC lightweight titleholder tried to refute the notion that fighters who belong to different promotional entities are more or less consigned to operating within their respective spheres, thus preventing the most competitive matches in the sport from being made. Haney, of

Not even promoter Kathy Duva has any inkling of what to expect from her longtime charge, former light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev, when he enters the ring as a cruiserweight. Kovalev will break a nearly three-year absence from boxing when he takes on Tervel Pulev on May 14 in a 10-round cruiserweight (200-lb limit) bout

Yamileth Mercado retained her WBC super bantamweight world championship for the third time, beating a brave and always dangerous Isis Vargas by unanimous decision, in the main event of the show presented by Zanfer and 2M Promotions in Chihuahua, and broadcast by Azteca 7. Mercado (19-3, 5 KO’s) was always at the forefront, aggressive, unleashing

Ryan Garcia’s 15-month break from the sweet science will end April 9 when the undefeated lightweight contender takes on Emmanuel Tagoe at the Alamodome in San Antonio on DAZN.  Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) has not fought since his Jan. 2, 2021 knockout win against Luke Campbell because of a self-imposed break due to mental health

Derrick James assured Ismael Salas and any other doubter that Errol Spence Jr. is indeed the same fighter that beat Shawn Porter in September 2019. Yordenis Ugas’ trainer stated during the WBA “super” welterweight champion’s open workout Wednesday that the Spence he watched unanimously out-point Danny Garcia in December 2020 “wasn’t the same” as the

Jajaira Gonzalez (Glendora, Calif.) and Jennifer Lozano (Laredo, Texas) closed out their 2022 AMBC Elite Championship run on top of the medal podium, while Rashida Ellis (Lynn, Mass.) came away with a silver medal for Team USA in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Lozano, who was making her international debut at these championships, as well as boxed in