Boxing Scene

American heavyweight prospect Jared “Big Baby” Anderson will close out 2021 on December 11 in his Madison Square Garden debut. The scheduled 10-round bout against Oleksandr Teslenko will serve as the co-feature to Vasiliy Lomachenko’s lightweight match-up with Richard Commey. The 22-year-old Anderson heads to the east coast for the first time since his third

The WBO super welterweight world champion, Brian Carlos Castano, is already training hard for a planned unification rematch with IBF, WBA, WBC champion Jermell Charlo. The two champions fought to a very competitive twelve round draw, in a Showtime televised main event on July 17 of this year in San Antonio, Texas. Their rematch is

Light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury has explained why he decided to withdraw from a planned pay-per-view fight with Youtube star turned boxer, Jake Paul. They were set to collide on December 18 in Tampa, Florida – in the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view – but on Monday it was announced that Fury had withdrawn

Dragon Fire Boxing, headed up by Tony Tolj, has announced the signing of 2020 Olympian Alex Winwood. (photo by Luke Marsden) Winwood competed as a flyweight as an amateur, having domestic success before heading to the Tokyo Games. A native of Perth, the 24-year-old has inked a long-term pact with fellow Western Australian Tolj as

LOS ANGELES – Eduardo Ramirez figured out Miguel Marriaga relatively early in their fight Sunday night and easily out-worked the hard-hitting Colombian. Ramirez extended his winning streak to four by recording a 10-round unanimous decision against Marriaga in the first pay-per-view fight on the Gervonta Davis-Isaac Cruz undercard at Staples Center. Judges Max De Luca,

LOS ANGELES – Sebastian Fundora smiled Friday when Sergio Garcia assured boxing fans that he won’t run Sunday night. Fundora, a 6-feet-6 southpaw, is considered the bigger puncher, yet the Spanish contender intends to test his fellow undefeated fighter by getting inside on him. That type of bout seemingly favors Fundora, who appeared unconvinced during

IBF, IBO middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin, 39-years-old, is not even thinking about retirement at the moment. Golovkin, who turns 40 in April, has not been very active in the last few years. He fought only once in 2020, in December of that year. And he’ll go without a single fight in 2021. He was scheduled

LAS VEGAS – Filip Hrgovic continues to beat on the opposition placed in front of him while on the hunt for far stiffer competition. The rising contender has now scored back-to-back third round knockouts over unbeaten heavyweights, the latest coming versus undefeated but overmatched Emir Ahmatovic. Hrgovic scored two knockdowns in round two and another

LAS VEGAS – Devin Haney and his team have heard this song before—in fact from the same opposing promoter. The unbeaten WBC lightweight titlist once again listened to claims from Golden Boy Promotions insisting that Joseph ‘JoJo’ Diaz will emerge victorious in Saturday’s DAZN main event from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It’s

WE ARE BACK at the Copper Box Arena on Saturday evening for our final UK show of 2021 and I fully expect we will be seeing the year out with a bang. One year on, Lyndon Arthur and Anthony Yarde are getting it on again following their closely-fought fight last year in Westminster and I

Fighters competing on the Gervonta Davis vs. Isaac Cruz SHOWTIME PPV undercard taking place this Sunday, December 5 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT)  previewed their respective showdowns during a press conference Friday before they enter the ring in a Premier Boxing Champions event from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. (photos by Esther Lin, Sean Michael

The new year’s eve world title unification battle between junior bantamweight champions Jerwin Ancajas and Kazuto Ioka has been postponed.   Promoted by Shisei Boxing Gym, Manny Pacquiao’s MP Promotions, TGB Promotions, and Knucklehead Boxing Promotions, Ancajas (33-1-2, 22 KOs), from Panabo City, Philippines vs. Ioka (27-2, 15 KOs), from Tokyo, had the makings of

Three division world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko admits he was surprised by Teofimo Lopez being shocked by George Kambosos last Saturday night at Hulu Theater in Las Vegas. Last year, Lomachenko’s top status at 135-pounds was derailed when he lost a twelve round decision to Lopez – who in his first defense was unseated by huge

George Arias put on his hard hat and went to work in the co-main event at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City; Cassius Chaney didn’t in this clash of unbeatens, and that was the deciding factor of Arias won a ten-round split decision in a fight that wasn’t as close as that verdict would indicate.

THE REMATCH between Lyndon Arthur and Anthony Yarde will take place at the Copper Box Arena in London on Saturday December 4, live on BT Sport. The showdown between the two top light heavyweights falls a year on from the pair’s close-fought Battle of Westminster at Church House, where Arthur prevailed on the cards of

Amir Khan believes Jake Paul has made an error by agreeing to face Tommy Fury and insists it will end badly for the social media influencer. Paul, a Youtube star turned boxer, fights for the fifth time as a professional against Fury, the younger brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, in the main event

Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom has fired back at some of the statements from Teofimo Lopez Sr. – the father and head trainer of former lightweight world champion Teofimo Lopez. Lopez is promoted by Top Rank, and last week suffered his first career defeat at the hands of George Kambosos in a major upset. While

Two-time world title challenger Jesse Hart will be back in action on Saturday, December 11th at the 2300 Arena when he takes on David Murray in the eight round super middleweight main event. The card is promoted by RDR Promotions. Hart of Philadelphia has a record of 27-3 with 21 knockouts. The 32 year-old has