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Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez and Julio Cesar Martinez took part in a media workout ahead of their clash at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego on Saturday night, live worldwide on DAZN. (photos by Ed Mulholland) Martinez (18-1 14 KOs) moves up to 115lbs and does so against a legend of the weight in Chocolatito (50-3

Oscar De La Hoya, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, would like to see Ryan Garcia and Canelo Alvarez settle their social media dispute by stepping in the ring – at least several years down the line at a catch-weight. At the moment, Garcia and Canelo are very far apart in weight. Canelo is the undisputed

Pay-per-view customers in the United States won’t be restricted to the ESPN+ platform if they want to purchase the Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte heavyweight title fight. Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, told BoxingScene.com that Fury-Whyte will be made available through traditional cable and satellite operators in the United States, not just via ESPN+, the network’s $7-per-month streaming

Tim Tszyu and Terrell Gausha have been elevated to a “Showtime Championship Boxing” main event. Their junior middleweight match initially was supposed to be the co-feature before the Brian Castano-Jermell Charlo rematch March 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Once Castano suffered a slight tear to his right biceps while training, their second 154-pound

Tyson Fury will have the biggest boxing stage in England to himself Tuesday afternoon. Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, informed BoxingScene.com on Monday that Dillian Whyte won’t attend a press conference at Wembley Stadium in London, which will officially launch the promotion of their WBC heavyweight title fight April 23 at that same venue. Arum said

Oleksandr Usyk is the latest Ukrainian boxing icon fighting for his country. The heavyweight champion of the world announced on his verified social media pages on Monday that he’ll be taking arms and fending off Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  “It’s time to unite!,” Usyk wrote. “A worthy son of his State is a member of

(Video by Ryan Burton) – Erickson Lubin was ringside to watch late replacement Hector Garcia perform like the world champion he was substituting for on Saturday night, battering and dropping the highly touted Chris Colbert to earn a unanimous decision win in a 12-round WBA Super Featherweight World Title Eliminator that headlined a thrilling Showtime

Late replacement Hector Garcia performed like the world champion he was substituting for on Saturday night, battering and dropping the highly touted Chris Colbert to earn a unanimous decision win in a 12-round WBA super featherweight world title eliminator that headlined a thrilling Showtime tripleheader from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Garcia

Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas – In a WBA super featherweight eliminator, Hector Garcia (15-0, 10 KOs) took the fight on late notice and pulled off a stunner, as he dropped and outworked Chris Colbert (16-1, 6 KOs) over twelve rounds to secure a dominant twelve round unanimous decision. (photos by Stephanie Trapp, Ryan Hafey) The scores

Former world champion Kell Brook has rejected the idea of retirement in the immediate future. Last weekend, the 35-year-old veteran picked up the biggest win of his career when he stopped longtime rival Amir Khan in the sixth round of a one-sided fight in Manchester. “I’m a fighter, I love to fight, I didn’t have

Chris Colbert figured he wouldn’t fight February 26 once he learned last week that Roger Gutierrez contracted COVID-19. The brash Brooklyn native is thus thankful Hector Luis Garcia replaced Gutierrez on barely two weeks’ notice. Otherwise, not only would Colbert have been denied his shot at Gutierrez’s WBA world super featherweight title, he would’ve wasted

The Rigolution travels to Dubai, as Guillermo Rigondeaux is set for his next fight. Miami’s Rigondeaux (20-2, 13KOs)—a two-time Olympic Gold medalist and former lineal junior featherweight champ originally from Santiago de Cuba, Cuba— remains at bantamweight, where he faces Philippines Vincent Astrolabio in a scheduled 12-round regional title fight. The bout headlines an eight-fight

Frank Warren, promoter for undefeated super middleweight contender Zach Parker, says his boxer is confident of victory in the upcoming showdown with Demetrius Andrade. Andrade, a two-division world champion, will be heading up to super middleweight to face Parker for the vacant interim-WBO title. The winner position himself to challenge the full WBO champion, Mexican

Unbeaten rising star Chris “Primetime” Colbert and undefeated Dominican Olympian Hector Garcia went face to face at the official weigh-in before they meet in the ring this Saturday, February 26 live on Showtime headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. (photos by Stephanie Trapp) The weigh-in also

Viktor Postol traveled from Los Angeles to Las Vegas this week to fight for what’s left of his career Saturday night. The former WBC super lightweight champion accepts that his life literally is on the line every time he enters a boxing ring, yet Postol also realizes that whatever he experiences during his 10-round, 141-pound

Super bantamweight prosect, Angel “AK-47” Barrientes (7-1, 5 KOs), is eager to make his 2022 debut this Saturday, February 26 from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, a Premier Boxing Champions event. Barrientes will square off against Brian Cannady (10-2, 6 KOs) in a non-televised 4-round bout. Tickets for the live event, which

The fists did not start flying, but there were fireworks between undisputed junior welterweight world champion Josh Taylor and top contender Jack Catterall. Taylor and Catterall will lock horns for all the belts Saturday evening at OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, a short drive from Taylor’s hometown of Prestonpans.  In the 10-round featherweight co-feature, Cuban

Frank Warren has claimed another significant fight through a purse bid hearing The Hall of Fame promoter’s Queensberry Promotions secured the promotional rights to the interim WBO super middleweight title fight between Providence’s Andrade and England’s Zach Parker. An offer of $1,834,050 was submitted by Queensberry, the highest bidder during a purse bid hearing held