Boxing Scene

Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. is widely regarded as the greatest boxer in the history of Mexico. Chavez retired in 2005 with a record of 107 wins, six defeats, two draws and 85 wins by knockout. Chavez was undefeated in 90 fights (89-0-1) when he suffered his first career defeat in 1994 against Frankie Randall. He

Jake Paul inserted himself straight into the UFC storyline when he crashed UFC 261 and sat cageside at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville on Saturday night. First, he had a heated kerfuffle with former heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier. Fingers were pointed at each other during the exchange and beefy bodyguards

Xander Zayas will never forget the first time he was able to fight in his adopted home state of Florida. Nor will the 18-year-old ever let go of the feeling he enjoyed doing so with fans permitted in attendance this time around. The rising welterweight prospect from Plantation, Florida by way of San Juan fought

Ryan Garcia’s promoter expressed support Saturday after the popular lightweight withdrew from his upcoming fight. Oscar De La Hoya, whose company promotes Garcia, stated on Twitter that Garcia’s health is of “utmost importance” to those at Golden Boy Promotions. Garcia alluded to health issues with which he is dealing in an Instagram post Saturday, but

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will be paid record purses for heavyweights when they fight for all the titles in their division this summer. According to an ESPN.com report posted Saturday afternoon, the British heavyweights will split most of a site fee that’ll exceed $150 million. The deal isn’t finalized, but Fury and Joshua are

Christopher ‘Pitufo’ Diaz can take comfort in knowing that both career losses came in fights where he was out of his element. A 12-round unanimous decision defeat to Japan’s Masayuki Ito in their July 2018 WBO junior lightweight title fight was a wake-up call that Puerto Rico’s Diaz (26-2, 16KOs) didn’t have any real business

On May 8 in the AT&T Stadium in Texas, a slick former middleweight champion takes on a powerful former light-heavyweight belt holder. The consensus is that WBO 168lbs champion Billy Joe Saunders will have to try to outboxing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the WBC and WBA ruler, who will likely try to wear down and batter

Sandor Martin made a routine defense of his European super-lightweight title with a landslide points win over British challenger Kay Prosper on Matchroom’s show in Barcelona.  Martin, 27, is a clever southpaw, quite rangy and awkward. How that will help him at world level is anyone’s guess, although a shortage of power could find him

Amanda Serrano isn’t done adding titles to her record-setting collection. The seven-division and reigning featherweight titlist has settled in at what she views as her optimal weight, as evidenced in her latest performance. Last month, Serrano returned to her birthplace of Puerto Rico, where she scored a one-sided 9th round knockout of Argentina’s Daniela Bermudez

Emanuel Navarrete thinks he’ll encounter a cautious Christopher Diaz on Saturday night. Eventually, though, the defending WBO featherweight champion is confident Diaz will succumb to trying to satisfy an arena full of proud Puerto Rican boxing fans in Kissimmee, Florida. That’s when Navarrete envisions a typical brawl between a Mexican and a Puerto Rican developing

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has continued to confidently back Billy Joe Saunders in the biggest fight of his career. Fury cautions that Fury is a different breed of animal to anything that his upcoming opponent, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, has ever come across – ahead of their unification showdown next month. The highly-anticipated event takes

Oscar De La Hoya disputes Devin Haney’s version of why Ryan Garcia didn’t agree to fight him after defeating Luke Campbell. Haney, the WBC world lightweight champion, feels it’s obvious that Garcia ducked him. De La Hoya, whose company promotes Garcia, contends that Haney needs to strengthen his resume before Garcia will consider challenging him,

Josh Taylor is a month away from his highly anticipated full division unification with Jose Ramirez. The two boxers will collide in Las Vegas on May 22, with the IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA junior welterweight titles at stake. Unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez has discussed the possibility of facing the winner of Taylor vs. Ramirez

HALL OF FAME PROMOTER Frank Warren today hosted the final head-to-head press conference between British Middleweight champion Denzel Bentley (14-0-1, 12 KOs) and Commonwealth title holder Felix Cash (13-0, 9 KOs). Both titles will be on the line when the bitter rivals meet on Saturday (April 24) live on BT Sport. Also on the bill,

Eddie Hearn couldn’t even remember the name of Jermall Charlo’s upcoming opponent. And after Demetrius Andrade showed some vulnerability Saturday night, Hearn can’t see any reason why the WBC middleweight champion shouldn’t pursue a title unification fight against the unbeaten southpaw he promotes. Hearn said following Andrade’s points victory over Liam Williams that an Andrade-Charlo

Older brother Logan Paul is not surprised with last Saturday’s performance by his younger brother, Jake Paul. Jake Paul, who was taking part in his third pro boxing match, stopped MMA veteran Ben Askren in the first round at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. It only took one big right hand to send Askren crashing

Angel ‘Tito’ Acosta watched the last WBO flyweight title fight take place with the understanding that he would have the next shot at the crown. That day will soon arrive for the former junior flyweight titlist. Puerto Rico’s Acosta (22-2, 21KOs) will hit the road in a bid to become a two-division titlist, as he

WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders is motivated to derail the plans of his own promoter, Eddie Hearn. Saunders will face WBC, WBA champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in a unification clash on May 8th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Hearn is also working with Canelo, on a fight by fight basis, and is