Boxing Scene

A nice hotel room with a balcony and a view of the picturesque Sydney skyline sounds nice, right? Imagine if you weren’t allowed to leave that room at all for two weeks for anything other than a fire. You’re required to eat all of your meals in that room or on that balcony. You’re not

Oscar Valdez remains hard at work for his next ring appearance, as his legal team has taken the lead on perhaps the most important fight of his career. The unbeaten two-time and reigning WBC junior lightweight titlist is due to make his first defense versus Brazil’s Robson Conceicao (16-0, 8KOs), scheduled to take place September

photo © Promociones del Pueblo It’s not the high profile fight he sought, but Kazuto Ioka can at least move forward with a title fight. The defending WBO junior bantamweight champ and mandatory challenger Francisco ‘Chihuas’ Rodriguez both made weight for their upcoming showdown, which takes place Wednesday at Ota-City Gymnasium in Tokyo. Ioka (26-2,

Frank Warren, the promoter for unbeaten prospect Tommy Fury (7-0, 4 KOs), would love to finalize a deal for his man to face Youtube star Jake Paul (4-0, 3 KOs). This past Sunday night in Cleveland, the two boxers were featured on the same Showtime Pay-Per-View card. For his part, Fury won a four round

Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions and Roy Jones Jr. Boxing in association with World Cup Boxing Series have announced an  ten-bout card of world class boxing for the return of the acclaimed Hollywood Fight Nights series on Thursday, September 16 at the Quiet Cannon – Montebello Country Club and streamed live exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS.

Cleveland – In the second pay-per-view bout, Cleveland’s Montana Love (16-0-1, 8 KOs) scored a vicious TKO over former world champion Ivan Baranchyk (20-3, 13 KOs), thrilling the hometown fans who were on their feet for the duration of the action-packed slugfest. The southpaw Love landed a flush left uppercut in the closing seconds of

Cleveland – Promising British heavyweight contender Daniel Dubois (17-1, 16 KOs) made his U.S. debut in style, knocking down Juiseppe Angelo Cusumano (19-4, 17 KOs) three times en-route to a first-round stoppage. Dubois landed nearly everything he threw on the overmatched Cusumano, who was finished off by a barrage of punches 2:10 into the fight.

CLEVELAND – Jake Paul expects to display facets of his skill set Sunday night that the boxing novice hasn’t had a chance to demonstrate due to an inexperienced, low level of opposition. Paul predicted that Tyron Woodley will enable him to show he is capable of throwing more than the right hand that knocked out

CLEVELAND – Jake Paul stands four inches taller than Tyron Woodley. Paul also has weighed in at least 189 pounds for each of his three professional boxing matches, 19 pounds more than the mixed martial arts welterweight limit at which Woodley competed for many years. Woodley contends, though, that their size discrepancy has been greatly

CLEVELAND – Stephen Espinoza understands the skepticism many boxing fans have directed toward Jake Paul. Espinoza was skeptical, too, before Showtime’s president of sports and event programming examined Paul’s potential as not only a fighter, but as an uncommon conduit who can broaden boxing’s fan base among younger people who don’t regularly watch the sport.

Anthony Yarde’s first fight since losing to Lyndon Arthur last year lasted less than a round as he dropped Alex Theran twice before the Colombian was counted out in Birmingham.  Yarde had been promised a fight before his Commonwealth light-heavyweight title rematch with Arthur and, after a fight with Emin Atra was called off at

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards tackling topics such as Yordenis Ugas’ upset win over Manny Pacquiao, the upcoming super middleweight unification between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Caleb Plant, Nonito Donaire, and more. (photo by Ryan Hafey) What up Bread? I was somewhat shocked by Pacquiao vs Ugas outcome. I don’t rate

CLEVELAND – It’s impossible for Montana Love to avoid becoming emotional during the biggest fight week of his boxing career. Six years ago, he was imprisoned. Incarceration was even more difficult for Love because his mother, Clarice Love, died from colon cancer at the age of 38 in January 2015. The Cleveland native’s longtime trainer

Houston boxer Eridson Garcia (14-0, 9 KOs) remained undefeated and captured the vacant North American Boxing Federation (NABF) Super Featherweight Championship, winning the main event last night on the latest installment of RJJ Boxing on UFC FIGHT PASS, presented by Roy Jones Jr. (RJJ) Boxing in association with Next Up Fight and the World Cup

Rolando Romero has no problem keeping up his bad boy persona so long as that means more people end up watching “The Sweet Science.”  The hard-punching – and frequently profane – lightweight contender has made a name for himself as one of the more abrasive personalities in boxing. While his rhetoric may be off putting to

The stage is set for the Boxeo Telemundo summer season finale. Dennis ‘El Martillo’ Contreras and Cesar Juarez both made weight ahead of their scheduled ten-round regional title fight. Both boxers weighed right at the 126-pound divisional limit for their televised main event Friday evening on Telemundo from White Sands Event Center in Plant City,

Every fighter talks and dreams about that “opportunity of a lifetime,” but few ever get it, and the percentage that actually come out on top is even smaller. Heavyweight Juiseppe Cusumano, the hard-hitting, 6-foot-4 giant from Sicily – appropriately nicknamed “The Sicilian Nightmare” – finally gets that coveted, life-changing opportunity Sunday, August 29 in Cleveland

John Riel Casimero would welcome an opportunity to challenge Naoya Inoue in Inoue’s home country of Japan. The WBO bantamweight champion senses, though, that Inoue doesn’t want to face him in what would be an intriguing 118-pound title unification fight. The Philippines’ Casimero discussed a potential showdown with Inoue following his 12-round, split-decision defeat of