Boxing Scene

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards tackling topics such as Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant, Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter, Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk, and more. What’s up Bread? You said in one of your last mailbag that you thought that the year would end with a big fight, I don’t

Saturday’s big heavyweight fight (DAZN, 1 PM EST) has some elements we haven’t seen a lot of.  Former undisputed cruiserweight king Oleksandr Usyk is only the eighth former champion of that class to challenge for one of the major heavyweight belts. Only two of those eight, Evander Holyfield and David Haye, found success and only

A deal has been struck for Lee McGregor and Kash Farooq to meet in a long-awaited all-Scottish rematch for the British, Commonwealth and European bantamweight titles.  The two met in November 2019 in a brilliant fight, with McGregor, who went into the fight as Commonwealth champion, winning a narrow and disputed decision over Farooq, who

Anthony Joshua hopes his showdown with Tyson Fury can be put back together for some point early in 2022. The IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion is confident he’ll beat mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night in London to maintain his position in what would be billed as the biggest fight in British boxing history. Joshua isn’t

MONTREAL – Eye of the Tiger Management (EOTTM) presented its first boxing card at the Videotron Centre in nearly 3 years. This highly anticipated event featured a total of six fights including two championship bouts.  After a very good training camp with his team led by renowned coach Marc Ramsay, heavyweight Arslanbek Makhmudov was ready

Teofimo Lopez has watched event handlers take plans all around the world for his next fight, only to potentially wind up back home. The latest development in the ongoing saga surrounding Lopez’s IBF-ordered lightweight title fight versus mandatory challenger George Kambosos Jr. now has the Triller Fight Club Pay-Per-View event potentially taking place October 16

There are few places Oleksandr Usyk likes to come more than Britain, which is hardly a surprise considering the amount of success he has had on these shores. Stretching back to 2008, bit things have happened for Usyk in the UK and he hopes that Saturday night will top the lot.  The Ukrainian challenges Anthony

Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF, WBO, WBA, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, would be shocked if a unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury did not come off in 2022. A few months ago, the two sides were in talks to collide on a date in August in Saudi Arabia. Their negotiations fell out, when

The problems Deontay Wilder contends that his extravagant, heavy costume caused before his last fight haven’t deterred him from planning to wear a different elaborate outfit for his next ring walk. Wilder explained during a Zoom call Wednesday that he’ll wear “something special” into the ring again October 9 for his third heavyweight title fight

Oleksandr Usyk can severely stall the heavyweight picture Saturday when he faces off against unified champion Anthony Joshua at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the United Kingdom.  The fight is the first leg of the unofficial heavyweight tournament that is designed to yield an all-British box-off between Joshua and Tyson Fury in 2020. The pair

There will never be another Muhammad Ali. If you didn’t know that already, one look at Ken Burns’ documentary series on “The Greatest” is a good primer and reminder of that fact.  But that’s okay. Time moves on, and if there were 10 versions of Ali showing up after he threw his last punch, then

Mexican superstar and unified WBA/WBC/WBO Super Middleweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez will face undefeated IBF Super Middleweight World Champion Caleb “Sweethands” Plant in a historic showdown on Saturday, November 6, live on SHOWTIME PPV at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in a Premier Boxing Champions event. Canelo, a four-division world champion, will

Anthony Joshua says that Wladimir Klitschko contacted him to wish him good luck for his upcoming fight with Oleksandr Usyk, despite Usyk being signed to Klitschko’s promotional company.  Joshua stopped Klitschko in a famous battle at Wembley in 2017 in what turned out to be the Ukrainian legend’s last fight. Usyk’s manager, Sergey Lapin said

Triller Co-Founder Ryan Kavanaugh is still talking with six division champion Oscar De La Hoya about the possibility of facing facing former UFC champion Vitor Belfort in a boxing match. De La Hoya, 48-years-old, was scheduled to face Belfort on September 11 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. It would have been De La Hoya’s

A sixth fight date is now attached to the title fight between Teofimo Lopez Jr. and George Kambosos Jr., though the latest suggested change will likely come with resistance. Triller Fight Club, which won promotional rights to the lightweight championship fight, is considering plans to reschedule its Pay-Per-View event to October 16 at Barclays Center

The WBO ordered the Terence Crawford-Shawn Porter fight during the month before Errol Spence Jr. suffered a serious eye injury and Manny Pacquiao lost to Spence’s replacement, Yordenis Ugas. Nevertheless, with Spence and Pacquiao at least temporarily removed from Crawford’s pool of potential opponents, Bob Arum doesn’t think there is a better foe for Crawford

Maliek Montgomery demonstrated he can go rounds and entertain against a durable opponent Sunday night. Montgomery remained unbeaten by out-boxing and out-working a determined Aleem Jumakhonov in a fan-friendly, 10-round featherweight fight FS1 broadcast as its main event from Mechanics Bank Arena in Bakersfield, California. The 26-year-old Montgomery boxed beyond the fourth round for the

Amir Khan was removed from a flight after reportedly ignoring airline protocol. The former junior welterweight titleholder from Bolton, England was aboard an American Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey to Colorado Springs, where is now conducting his training camp.  According to the 34-year-old, he and a colleague were removed by police after his colleague