Boxing Scene

In a press conference that broke new ground for the amount of respect and appreciation on display, Jake “The Problem Child” Paul and Anderson “The Spider” Silva showed that fighters don’t have to exchange insults to spread the word on a matchup that promises to deliver fireworks. (photos by Esther Lin) The two sat for

Vasiliy Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion, will make his triumphant New York City return in the 12-round main event Saturday, October 29 against undefeated contender Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. The 10-round featherweight co-feature sees two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist Robeisy “El Tren” Ramirez attempt to author a career-best

Chris Eubank Jr. promised he only needed to be 60% percent of himself on fight night to defeat Conor Benn, and that apparently also extends to his proclivities in the bedroom. The longtime 160 and 168-pound contender says he usually refrains from engaging in any copulation during training camp whenever he has an upcoming fight,

Team USA’s path to gold at the 2022 USA Boxing International Invitational, which is set to begin tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. MT in Pueblo, Colo., is known as the brackets have been drawn. Full brackets can be found here. Light welterweight Emilio Garcia (Laredo, Texas) will kick things off for the Americans in the opening

Over the years, Canelo Alvarez has grown an affinity for the superlative skillset of Oleksandr Usyk. In the midst of preparing for his third showdown against Gennadiy Golovkin, which takes place on September 17th, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Alvarez admitted that he took time away from training camp to watch Usyk

Mostly unknown in the public eye, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz burst onto the scene after a positive showing against Gervonta Davis in December of 2021. On the night, despite being a heavy underdog and relatively late replacement for Rolando “Rolly” Romero, Cruz stepped into the spotlight against Davis and performed well. Forced to go the distance

Naoya Inoue may still have unfinished business at 118 pounds, but the Japanese dynamo apparently is already thinking about some of the more consequential matchups at 122.   In a recent interview, Inoue, the WBC/WBA/IBF bantamweight champion was asked to consider the possibility of moving up to the junior featherweight class in the near future

Subriel Matias will have to wait a little longer for his first shot at a major title. An ordered vacant IBF junior welterweight title fight between Puerto Rico’s Matias and Argentina’s Jeremias Ponce is now on hold.  The bout was targeted for October 15 but is now pushed back, due to Ponce reportedly not being

Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino’s Grand Ballroom – Roiman Villa had a successful U.S. debut on Friday in the SHOBOX opener, dropping Janelson Bocachica and pummeling him over eight rounds to capture a unanimous decision by scores of 78-73, 79-72 and 79-72 in the eight-round welterweight bout. Along with landing the flashier and heavier

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – Roiman Villa won on points for the first time in 26 professional fights Friday night, but the knockout artist also established himself as a welterweight worth watching. Venezuela’s Villa dropped previously unbeaten Janelson Bocachica in the second round and beat him by unanimous decision in an eight-rounder at Bally’s Event

Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes Anthony Joshua would get demolished if a fight moved forward in the fall. Joshua is looking to return at the end of the year – as he hopes to bounce back after suffering back to back decision losses to IBF, IBO, WBA,

Ft. Lauderdale – Jose Perez, owner of Flaco’s Community Gym in Hollywood, Florida announced “Keep Trucking Challenge,” featuring some of the nation’s top ranked amateur boxers. The event will begin at 2 pm at Joseph C. Carter Park, located at 1450 West Sunrise Blvd in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Local boxing fans have enjoyed sanctioned amateur

Alycia Baumgardner never doubted that her next fight would be a title unification bout. The reigning WBC junior lightweight titlist was confidently but cautiously looking to the future throughout fight week leading to her April 16 win over former unified featherweight champ Edith Soledad Matthysse, Next in her sights was a targeted showdown with WBA

The top of the bill on Saturday sees middleweight champions and one-time amateur adversaries Savannah Marshall (12-0, 10 KOs) and Claressa Shields (12-0, 2 KOs) battle for the undisputed title. (photos by Lawrence Lustig) In the co-feature, American stars Mikaela Mayer (17-0, 5 KOs) and Alycia Baumgardner (12-1, 7 KOs) will tangle for the WBC/WBO/IBF/Ring

An all-Welsh affair heats up as fighting talk is exchanged ahead of the British Lightweight Title fight at The University of Bolton Stadium on Saturday September 17, live on Channel 5 from 10pm. The anticipation for fight night continues to build for Newport’s Craig Woodruff (12-6, 4 KOs) as the stakes continue to be raised.

WBO middleweight champion Savannah Marshall is only a few days away from her unification showdown with IBF, WBC, WBA champion Claressa Shields. The two career rivals will collide on Saturday at the O2 Arena in London. Marshall will be looking to stamp her win over Shields from 2012, when the two champions were just amateurs. That

Flyweight world champion Marlen Esparza (13-1, 1 KO), a Texas-born former Olympian, has re-signed a multi-year, multi-fight promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions. Esparza was Golden Boy’s first ever female boxer signed to the company in 2016, and she launched her professional career under its banner in 2017 to ultimately become the WBC, WBA flyweight

There was a time when Yokasta Valle considered her best shot at unification would come on the road against Seniesa Estrada. It was a sacrifice that she was willing to make, for the primary goal of adding another title to her collection. The latter has materialized for Valle, who aims to win the WBO strawweight