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David McWater’s Split-T Management is known as boxing’s answer to Moneyball. As a lifelong baseball fan and researcher, as well as a lover of the Sweet Science, McWater has said that he felt he could combine his passions and capitalize on a market inefficiency. In his words, boxing was the “last frontier of analytics,” and

Alexander Povetkin has decided to call it a career. The 41-year-old former heavyweight champion and 2004 Olympics gold medal winner announced his retirement during a news conference in St. Petersburg, Russia on Sunday. “The years take their toll,” said Povetkin. “I have all kinds of injuries that still need to be treated. The time has

Bob Arum doesn’t expect a new head trainer or anything else to enable Deontay Wilder to avenge his only professional defeat. Arum anticipates another knockout victory for Tyson Fury in his third fight with Wilder. The heavyweight rivals will fight again July 24, when Fury will defend his WBC belt for the first time in

Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas – For the WBO’s interim-super featherweight title, Shakur Stevenson (16-0, 8 KOs) dominated Jeremiah Nakathila (21-2, 17 KOs) over twelve rounds to secure a lopsided unanimous decision. The scores were 120-107 across the board. Stevenson is now in line to fight full WBO champion Jamel Herring, who was ringside to watch the fight.

Newcastle – In a heavyweight contest, Alen Babic (7-0, 7 KOs) blasted out Damian Chambers (11-2, 7 KOs) in the third round. Babic was fighting for the first time since his stoppage win over Tom Little in November of last year. And Chambers, a career cruiserweight, was coming back from more than a year of

Jamel Herring isn’t the 130-pound champion that Shakur Stevenson really wants to fight next. Stevenson would prefer to challenge unbeaten WBC champion Oscar Valdez (29-0, 23 KOs), the fighter Stevenson considers the man to beat in their division. Based on their schedules, however, Stevenson thinks it is more likely that he’ll box WBO junior lightweight

Jamel Herring planned to use this weekend as a business trip, although recent stories have put into question what exactly lies ahead for the reigning WBO junior lightweight titlist. An interim junior lightweight title fight between Shakur Stevenson and Jeremia Nakathila—which airs live this Saturday on ESPN from The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas—is

The thrill of victory could not have been more evident on the face of Claressa Shields, especially after having spent the preceding two rounds facing potential defeat. A burning desire to succeed ultimately propelled Shields to victory in her MMA debut, stopping Brittney Elkin in the 3rd round of their ESPN-televised main event Thursday evening

Jeremiah Nakathila calmly promised Thursday to produce a huge upset Saturday night. The unknown Namibian contender is very confident in his power, so much that he believes he’ll knock out Shakur Stevenson in their 12-round, 130-pound championship match. ESPN will televise their fight for the WBO interim junior lightweight title as the main event of

Unbeaten WBA super lightweight champion Mario “El Azteca” Barrios shared updates on training camp and previewed his upcoming showdown against four-time world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis before they square off in the SHOWTIME PPV main event Saturday, June 26 from the award-winning State Farm Arena in Atlanta headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by

Try explaining to Esteban Bermudez that belts don’t matter. The recently crowned secondary WBA junior flyweight titlist has a golden opportunity to upgrade his title reign. The WBA ordered a title consolidation clash between Mexico’s Bermudez and Japan’s Hiroto Kyoguchi, the current WBA “Super” junior flyweight champion who is now on the hook to honor

Dmitriy Salita will feel a different type of nervousness when he sits beside the cage Thursday night in Atlantic City. Claressa Shields’ promoter is uneasy when she boxes, but Salita considers the undefeated three-division champion the best female fighter, pound-for-pound, in that sport. Watching Shields make her mixed martial arts debut will elicit more anxiety

Jaime Munguia closed the strong stage of his preparation on Tuesday in Temoaya, State of Mexico, and exhibited great physical and boxing form – for his scheduled return to the ring on Saturday, June 19, in El Paso, Texas. Munguia will defend his WBO middleweight Intercontinental championship, in a contest being carried by DAZN and

At a press conference which took place Wednesday morning at a restaurant in Guadalajara, Johan Alvarez, nephew of Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, announced his professional boxing debut. Accompanied by his mentor, veteran trainer Jose “Chepo” Reynoso, the prospect from Jalisco announced that next Saturday, June 19, at the Jalisco Stadium in the capital of

Brilliant Nonito Donaire surely punched his International Boxing Hall of Fame ticket – for the first ballot, no less – with his superb stoppage of Nordine Oubaali last weekend. The extraordinary Filipino scored one of the biggest wins of his decorated career to capture the WBC bantamweight title and move to 41 wins against 6

The third battle between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder won’t be the only intriguing heavyweight fight to take place July 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. BoxingScene.com has learned that the rematch between Adam Kownacki and Robert Helenius is expected to be placed on the Fury-Wilder undercard. BoxingScene.com also has confirmed that representatives for

Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom felt Floyd Mayweather ‘looked terrible’ in Sunday’s exhibition fight with Youtube star Logan Paul. Mayweather, 44-years-old, retired from boxing in 2017 with a perfect 50-0 record after stopping UFC superstar Conor McGregor in ten rounds. At the Hard Rock Stadium, Mayweather went the full eight round distance with the 26-year-old

It was the phone call Floyd Schofield Sr. didn’t expect to get, but when he got it, he knew what he had to do. He had to come get his son, Floyd Jr. “His grandmother called me to go pick him up and said he was in foster care,” he said. “So I took the