Boxing Scene

Jermell Charlo-Brian Castano was Showtime’s most-watched live boxing match since December 2019. Nielsen Media Research released viewership figures Tuesday that indicated an average of 422,000 watched the highly competitive, thoroughly entertaining battle between Castano and Charlo on Saturday night from AT&T Center in San Antonio. Showtime’s audience peaked at 536,000 toward the end of a

Every now and then, the tinkering mood just hits. Especially when I’m feeling bored, introspective, forward-thinking … whatever, and I begin pondering ways in which I can make the things I genuinely enjoy even better. For a lot of guys, that probably means loading up the pickup truck and heading to the nearest Lowe’s or

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman had no issue with the overall outcome in Saturday’s high stakes junior middleweight unification between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano. The two boxers staked their titles to crown an undisputed champion at 154-pounds at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.  After twelve exciting rounds, the judges were not

Tuesday will mark the second anniversary of eight-division world champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao’s dethroning of then undefeated WBA welterweight “super” champion Keith Thurman.  Manny, at age 40, became the oldest man to win a welterweight title.   But it was 20 years ago — June 23, 2001 to be exact — that Manny made his

Former two division world champion Ricky Hatton fears that Tyson Fury’s potential unification showdown with Anthony Joshua could be “doomed” due to numerous delays. Fury and Joshua appeared to be on the path of a unification fight on a date in August in Saudi Arabia. However, an arbitrator ordered Fury to honor a rematch clause

AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas – Amilcar Vidal Jr. (13-0, 11 KOs) remained unbeaten with a thrilling 10-round majority decision over a determined Immanuwel Aleem. “It was a great fight against a really tough opponent, but the fruits of my labor alongside my brother during training camp paid off and I never lost my cool,”

WBO junior middleweight champion Brian Castano felt that he did enough to secure the decision over WBA, WBC and IBF champion Jermell Charlo. The two boxers fought to a twelve round split draw on Saturday night at AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. The unification was televised by Showtime. Charlo (34-1-1, 18 KOs) and Castano (17-0-2,

Great back and forth fight between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano as they were within 22 punches landed of each other. The 173 punches landed by Castano are the most ever landed on Charlo. Castano landed 41% of his power (164/400). AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas – In a showdown for the IBF, WBC, WBO,

Jermell Charlo cannot understand how he doesn’t occupy a spot on every person’s pound-for-pound list by this point. The 31-year-old Charlo owns the IBF, WBA and WBC 154-pound championships, has embraced the most difficult fights within his division and could become its first fully unified champion in the four-belt era Saturday night. Houston’s Charlo (34-1,

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards tacking topics such as Manny Pacquiao vs. Errol Spence, Jermell Charlo vs. Brian Castano, Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant, Casimero vs. Rigondeaux, and more.   Hey Bread! I recently started reading your mailbag, and I’m totally hooked.  It’s rare to find somebody with your level of

Assuming an eleventh-hour glove controversy doesn’t derail plans, and these controversies seldom do, sometime in the next twenty-four hours, we will have an answer to the most exciting question in boxing. Who is the best Jr. middleweight in the world? It doesn’t have to be Jr. middleweight. The question was just as exciting when it

SAN ANTONIO – Rolando Romero’s trainer wasn’t the least bit surprised that another opponent didn’t come close to making weight Friday afternoon. It wasn’t just the communication among their camps late Friday morning that confirmed Cromwell Gordon’s suspicions about Anthony Yigit’s weight. Gordon never expected the Swedish southpaw to get down to the 135-pound limit

Even on the heels of a two-year ring absence and seemingly nearing the end of his incredible career, Manny Pacquiao still wants to make every ring appearance count. The legendary former eight division champion and future Hall of Famer could have selected just about any opponent for his long-awaited comeback. Instead, he chose to pursue

Brian Castano knows that he is facing the fight of his life. That upcoming assignment that can catapult him into the great history of Argentine boxing. This Saturday, he will face Jermell Charlo in a junior middleweight unification for the titles of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the World Boxing Council (WBC), the World Boxing

Two-division world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux will face bantamweight world champion John Riel Casimero for his WBO belt on Saturday, August 14 live on SHOWTIME headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast begins at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT and will also see rising

Longtime 126-pound titleholder Gary Russell Jr. is not sure what more he can do to get Gervonta Davis to fight him.  After all, the two share the same manager (Al Haymon), appear on the same network (Showtime), were both raised in the DMV area (Russell in D.C., Davis in Baltimore), and fight in and around

Boxing is a sport without seasons, making it hard to identify strict beginnings and endings to its eras. It takes time to identify who the real players in a memorable time period will be and for older names to fade. A constant fluidity only looks concrete from a distance. Even without a firm start date,

Carlos Gongora is fully focused not only on his second title defense fight, but on one day challenging Mexican superstar Saul Canelo Alvarez, who holds the World Boxing Organization (WBO), World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight titles. Gongora currently holds the IBO’s version of the title at 168-pounds. According to