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JACK FLATLEY insists he never wants to be second best ever again. The Bolton Super-Welterweight is back in action next week less than three months after travelling into European champion Kerman Lejarraga’s Bilbao’s backyard where he lost in nine rounds. Flatley (17-2-1,4 KOs) faces Ghanian Daniel Aduku (14-2-1, 10 KOs) over eight rounds at University

Jaime Munguia is weighing his options. The former WBO junior middleweight champion has been presented with two championship choices for his next fight. The Tijuana native can either fight for the WBO interim middleweight title against Janibek Alimkhanuly or challenge unbeaten WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo. The deadline for Golden Boy Promotions and Zanfer Boxing,

The World Boxing Association’s “KO Drugs” festival will return this week in Panama City with former world champions Anselmo Moreno and Jezreel Corrales as the main protagonists of the event. As part of the festival, there will be female world title fight on Friday, March 11 at the Majestic Casino and on Saturday, March 12,

Even more undefeated stars have been added to next month’s MTK Fight Night event – with Carl Fail, Elliot Whale and Dean Richardson all returning on the bill. The card is headlined by a British and Commonwealth lightweight title fight between Gavin Gwynne and Luke Willis and takes place on April 15 at York Hall

Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez would like to see the best fighters at middleweight and super middleweight collide with each other – with Canelo stepping in the ring with the overall winner. Canelo has already mapped out his entire year. He will return to the ring on May 7, when he moves back to light heavyweight

If Anthony Joshua has truly found the new trainer he has been hinting at for the past several months, he didn’t have to look too far. The British sporting star and former heavyweight champion casually informed reporters Saturday night in London at the OVO Arena Wembley for the Deji vs. Alex Wassabi YouTuber card that

Olympian Pat McCormack will face Nicaraguan opposition on his eagerly anticipated professional debut later this month.  The exceptional Great Britain amateur, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Games last summer, is scheduled to meet Danny Mendoza (6-7, 4KO) over six rounds in Newcastle on Friday, March 25. There is a huge buzz about

Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez waited a year for his chance to avenge a defeat in a fight that he–and many others in the sport—felt should have gone his way. The wait will be even longer, though Nicaragua’s legendary former four-division champion hasn’t even set out a timetable for rescheduling a third fight with lineal/WBA junior bantamweight

SAN DIEGO – Julio Cesar Martinez is cleared to fight. The WBC flyweight titlist complied with the same-day weigh-in terms required to proceed with his scheduled 12-round junior bantamweight fight with legendary former four-division champion Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez. Martinez checked in at 122.8 pounds in the presence of the California State Athletic Commission during Saturday’s

Prince Ranch Boxings’ undefeated featherweight prospect, Ricky “El Castigo” Medina (12-0, 6 KOs), will make his 2022 debut on March 12, 2022, against his toughest challenge to date, Armando Frausto (9-2-1, 5 KOs), as the two will do battle in San Antonio, Texas at The Scottish Rite Theatre. Medina vs. Frausto, a scheduled 8-round main

Javier Martinez suffered a knockdown during the third round Friday, but the middleweight prospect from Milwaukee came back to defeat Donte Stubbs by unanimous decision in a six-rounder. The left-handed Martinez mostly out-worked Stubbs, particularly to the body, on his way to winning by scores of 59-56, 58-55 and 58-55 on the Jose Ramirez-Jose Pedraza

Like so many fellow brave Ukrainians, Serhii “El Flaco” Bohachuk (20-1, 20 KOs) has returned home in defense of his country fighting alongside his compatriots against the Russian invasion, which has forced his withdrawal from a scheduled March 25th showdown with Canadian super welterweight Mikael Zewski (35-2, 23 KOs). Vidéotron Coliseum in Trois-Rivières, Canada, will

Joe Markowski knows boxing fans almost never forgive or forget, particularly when it comes to broken promotional promises. Now that DAZN has been forced to acknowledge that pay-per-view is very much alive and well, the last thing the streaming service’s savvy executive vice president intends to do is pretend he and its partners didn’t guarantee

The delay in a ruling from the WBO proved to be well worth the wait for Brian Castano. Boxingscene.com has confirmed that Castano has been approved to proceed with his rescheduled undisputed junior middleweight championship rematch with lineal/WBA/WBC/IBF champion Jermell Charlo. The division’s top two fighters were forced to wait more than two weeks for

Next month’s MTK Fight Night event has added three fighters to the bill – with Pierce O’Leary, Sultan Zaurbek and Jimmy Croxson all in action. The card is headlined by a British and Commonwealth lightweight title fight between Gavin Gwynne and Luke Willis and takes place on April 15 at York Hall in London, which

Last Saturday night in Manchester, undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor picked up a controversial twelve round split decision over unbeaten mandatory challenger Jack Catterall. The scores were 113-112 for Taylor, 113-112 for Catterall and 114-111 for Taylor. During the fight, Taylor was dropped for the first time in his career and had a lot

Jose Ramirez and Jose Pedraza understand the stakes. The junior welterweights know that the winner of Friday night’s 12-round main event at Fresno’s Save Mart Center will likely receive a world title shot next. Ramirez (26-1, 17 KOs) is a former unified world champion seeking to return to the division’s apex. (photos by Mikey Williams)

WBC and IBF world champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. and WBA world champion Yordenis Ugas will square off in a welterweight title unification clash that headlines a Showtime PPV on Saturday, April 16 from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in a Premier Boxing Champions event. Spence vs. Ugas is just the 12th unification fight