Boxing Scene

WBC, WBA super middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is not concerned with the boxing ability of his upcoming opponent, WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders. Canelo and Saunders will unify their titles on May 8th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Saunders believes that he’s the best boxer that Canelo has faced since Floyd Mayweather, who

Ring City USA today announced the entire loaded undercard for its Thursday, April 22 event from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y, the first professional fight card to take place in the state since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. Five professional fights including top prospects and four amateur bouts featuring West

Jose Felix Jr. (38-4-1) will have an experienced opponent on April 24, when he faces experienced Adalberto “Terrible” Borquez (30-21-1) in a ten-round battle in the super lightweight division in the Boxing Club Promotions featured bout to be held at the PTV Arena, in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. The Mochitense boxer has embarked on a strong

Super featherweight Johansen Alvarez, who is the nephew of four division world champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, will make his professional debut in June, according to well known manager and trainer Jose Reynoso. “He is a cheerful boxing boy, with good movement from the waist and good counterattacks; He also hits hard,” Reynoso told Efe after

Joe Calzaghe has backed Liam Williams to become Wales’ latest World champion as he prepares to face Demetrius Andrade for the WBO world middleweight title on Saturday night at Hard Rock Live at Hard Rock Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Fl. on Saturday April 17, live worldwide on DAZN and in association with

Veteran Cuban coach Jorge Rubio has received a call from the father of Teofimo Lopez – asking the well-known trainer to travel to Las Vegas to help prepare his son for the upcoming fight George Kambosos. Lopez will make a mandatory defense of his IBF, WBA, WBC Franchise, WBO titles against Kambosos on June 5th.

Junior middleweight contender Carlos “Chema” Ocampo showed that he’s very serious about his desire to land a world championship. Ocampo (29-1, 19 KO’s) attacked the body of his rival in a savage way. With both hands, with power punch combinations on both sides. Ivan Matute’s liver, ribs, abdomen and the pit of his stomach took

Copper Box Arena, London – In a welterweight clash, Conor Benn (18-0, 12 KOs) made a big statement by blowing out veteran Samuel Vargas (31-7-2, 14 KOs) in one round. (photos by Mark Robinson) It didn’t last long. Benn started slowly, but then let his hands go with very heavy punches that were landing all

Eddie Hearn, promoter for Savannah Marshall, is working hard to make a unification clash with two-time Olympic gold medal winner Claressa Shields. On Saturday night at Copper Box Arena in London, Marshall became the first woman to stop Maria Lindberg in 29 fights as she retained her WBO middleweight world title with a third round

UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Two Mexican underdogs Sean Gibbons advises have pulled off huge upsets in recent months. Mauricio Lara traveled to London and stopped previously undefeated, former IBF featherweight champion Josh Warrington in the ninth round February 13. A month later, unknown late replacement Angel Fierro capitalized on the biggest opportunity of his career by

Now that Artur Beterbiev has handled Adam Deines, Bob Arum is halfway toward making the light heavyweight title unification fight that the promoter can’t wait to put together. If Joe Smith beats Maxim Vlasov on April 10, Arum’s company can begin working on a deal for Beterbiev and Smith to meet sometime later this year.

As BoxingScene.com reported, WBA heavyweight champion in recess Mahmoud ‘Manuel’ Charr (31-4) takes on undefeated American Christopher Lovejoy (19-0, 19 KO’s) on May 15 at the EC Boxing Gym in Hamburg, Germany, in what appears to be a non-title fight. Charr last fought in 2017 but has been scheduled to fight a number of times

Junior lightweight Chris Colbert is close to a deal to make the next defense of his WBA interim title against former unified featherweight world titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa, multiple sources with knowledge of the discussions told BoxingScene on Friday. The fight, which is agreed to but not signed, would air as part of a Showtime-televised undercard

UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Jonathan Rodriguez realizes there are boxing fans that don’t expect much from him Saturday night because they aren’t familiar with what he has done during his 23-fight, five-year pro career. The Mexican contender cannot wait to introduce himself in by far the biggest fight of his career – a shot at IBF

UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Jaron Ennis isn’t interested in comparing himself to boxing’s other undefeated, 23-year-old rising star in the welterweight division. When asked about Vergil Ortiz Jr. on Thursday, Philadelphia’s Ennis didn’t discuss the emerging knockout artist by name. “I don’t worry about nobody else but myself,” Ennis said during a virtual press conference. “At

Grozny, Russia – Umar Salamov was scheduled to warm himself up against a fighter who had lost his last two contests – one to a boxer with 2-0 record. Instead, Salamov found himself in a firefight with a well-matched opponent in Sergey Ekimov. The local favorite barely won a split decision over ten rounds. No

VAN NUYS, Calif. — Sergey Lipinets wants all the smoke from fast-rising star Jarron Ennis.  The former IBF super lightweight champion Lipinets (16-1-1, 12 KOs) will meet the Philly fighter Ennis (26-0, 24 KOs) in a 12-round Showtime main event April 10 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut with the intent to severely

Losses matter more in the last generation or two than they used to.  For some boxers, they can be career crippling.  In some ways, it wouldn’t be fair if it didn’t work that way. Once at a certain level of contention, most of the current battlers in the sport just aren’t active enough to afford