Boxing Scene

Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (41-0, 27 KOs) and Sullivan Barrera (22-3, 14 KOs) hosted their final press conference today at Banc of California Stadium, home of their July 9 fight which will be streamed live on DAZN. They were joined by several members of the undercard, including Joseph Diaz Jr. (31-1-1, 15 KOs) and Seniesa Estrada

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has made it clear that currently there is no mandatory challenger to WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Fury will return on July 24th, when he faces former champion Deontay Wilder in a trilogy fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Last year, Dillian Whyte was getting close to

The antiquated ways of testing for marijuana in the state of Nevada has officially gone up in smoke. A watershed moment came of the most recent monthly agenda hearing as held by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC), whose five-member chairperson panel voted unanimously to no longer offer disciplinary action for combat sport athletes who

The fight reached a point where Chris Colbert knew that he wasn’t going to stop Tugstsogt ‘King Tug’ Nyambayar. That was never going to be an excuse for the unbeaten junior lightweight to stop fighting like he wanted to close the show in style. An entertaining if one-sided affair came from Colbert’s twelve-round, unanimous decision

Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, will be keeping a very close eye on this month’s trilogy fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. Fury will defend the WBC title against Wilder on July 24, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The winner would certainly become a frontrunner

Unified WBC, WBA and IBF 154-pound world champion Jermell Charlo greeted fans and signed autographs at San Antonio FC game this past Saturday, before he enters the ring to take on WBO World Champion Brian Castaño in an undisputed super welterweight showdown on Saturday, July 17 from AT&T Center in San Antonio headlining a Premier

Tim Tszyu was just three years old when his father made his final appearance in Australia before spending the rest of his Hall of Fame career in the United States. The occasion took place at Newcastle Entertainment Centre, marking the seventh and final time that Kostya Tszyu played the venue. The occasion was brief, scoring

IBF, WBA, WBC junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo is only a few weeks away from his undisputed fight with WBO world champion Brian Castano. The Showtime televised fight will take place on July 17th from AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. The undefeated Castano has barely been hurt in his career, but Charlo feels that

Eddy Reynoso, trainer and manager of Mexican superstar Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, says his team will do everything possible to finalize a fight with IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant. Canelo, who hold the WBC, WBA, WBO world titles at 168, wants to unify the entire weight class in September. Back in May, Canelo stopped unbeaten

Promoter Kalle Sauerland says fight fans will have a clear indication of what he’s been building by September or October. Sauerland and his family boxing company linked up with giant sport’s agency Wasserman earlier in the year, he has also announced the new season of the World Boxing Super Series and a partnership with social

German veteran Erkan Teper is a good opponent for former world champion Murat Gassiev at this stage of his career, according to the Russian boxer’s coach Vitaly Slanov. The fight between Gassiev and Teper is scheduled to take place on July 22 at the Dynamo Arena in Moscow. Gassiev, a former WBA and IBF cruiserweight

Promoter Eddie Hearn thinks that the Juan Macias Montiel fight should be a wake up call for Jermall Charlo.  The Houston-based WBC middleweight champion was last seen in the ring a few weeks ago recording a wide unanimous decision over Montiel, a Mexican journeyman. It was a more competitive fight, however, than the scorecards indicated.

Dina Thorslund has once again made it clear what she wants next after becoming WBO bantamweight champion – a unification against WBA champion Shannon Courtenay. Thorslund (16-0, 6 KOs) became a two-weight world champion last weekend when she defeated Jasseth Noriega at the Struer Arena in Denmark, with a belt at 118lbs going alongside her

Unbeaten Interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Chris “Primetime” Colbert and hard-hitting contender Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar faced off Friday at the official weigh-in before they meet in the main event of action live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, July 3 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. (photos by

Gilberto Ramirez is apparently trying to make up for lost time. The former 168-titleholder and current light heavyweight Mexican contender has seen his career go by the wayside in recent years due to promotional issues–he fought only twice in the past two years–but he has seemingly found his footing after signing with Golden Boy Promotions

Former college football star, super welterweight boxer Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams, recently defeated his first world champion, Yuri Foreman, and the veteran New Haven, Connecticut fighter’s boxing career has been revitalized. This past March 6th, Williams (18-5-2, 6 KOs) was originally supposed to fight Foreman, who withdrew after the weigh in due to sickness. Williams

WBA “regular” super middleweight champion David Morrell made a statement last Sunday, when he knocked out undefeated contender Mario Cazares in a single round. Morrell felt the victory could not have been more clear – despite Cazares and his handlers claiming there were rabbit punches used to set the knockout up. Cazares was mostly known

LOGIC DETERMINED THAT it was Daniel Dubois who chose to remove himself from the firing line and take a knee in the 10th round of his huge domestic showdown against Joe Joyce in November. Joyce, quite understandably, begs to differ. The defeat of Dubois is the hallmark name on the record of the 2016 Olympic