Boxing Scene

Dina Thorslund will look to become a two-weight world champion when she faces Debora Anahi Dionicius for the vacant WBO bantamweight title on June 25. The fight will take place at the Struer Arena in Denmark, as Thorslund (15-0, 6 KOs) drops down in weight for the showdown with Dioncius (30-2, 6 KOs). Thorslund already

Carlos Gongora will defend his IBO World Super-Middleweight title against Christopher Pearson as the chief support to Demetrius Andrade’s WBO World Middleweight title defense against Liam Williams at Hard Rock Live at Hard Rock Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida on Saturday April 17 in America, live worldwide on DAZN – with the

Fresh off his recent third-round stoppage of Sylvera “Sly” Louis in their rematch, Oscar “Kaboom” Rivas (27-1, 19 KOs) is on a special mission to not only become the first WBC bridgerweight world champion but capture the world heavyweight crown as well. A 2008 Colombian Olympian, Rivas is currently rated as the WBC’s No. 1-rated

Boxing fans looking to see the best against the best aren’t really all that short on options these days. We’re just weeks past a rematch class at Jr. bantamweight between lineal champion Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman Gonzalez. Soon, there will be a four-belt unification at Jr. welterweight between Josh Taylor and Jose Ramirez and

Former unified heavyweight world champion Andy Ruiz expects all-out drama when he returns for the first time since December 2019, when he face fellow Mexican Chris Arreola. Their fight will headline a pay-per-view card on Saturday, May 1, from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. In his last fight, Ruiz was outboxed over the

Dillian Whyte won’t hold his breath awaiting a shot at the WBC heavyweight title if he wins his rematch against Alexander Povetkin on Saturday night. Whyte would at least expect to be reinstated as the WBC’s mandatory challenger, however, if he avenges his fifth-round knockout defeat to Povetkin on August 22. London’s Whyte believes he

Former world champion Antonio Tarver is no longer returning to the ring on April 17 in Atlanta, according to ESPN. The 52-year-old retired fighter was scheduled to face former UFC heavyweight champion, Frank Mir, in a boxing match. Tarver vs. Mir was one of the undercard fights announced for the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren

“March Madness” might’ve been a tougher opponent for Artur Beterbiev than Adam Deines. Directly competing with telecasts of numerous NCAA men’s basketball tournament games Saturday afternoon clearly impacted viewership of the Russian knockout artist’s fight against Deines on ESPN. Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that an average of 287,000 viewers watched ESPN’s broadcast of Beterbiev’s

On April 16, at Allianz Cloud in Milan (Italy), 27-year-old Italian cruiserweight Fabio Turchi (18-1 with 13 KOs) will fight French champion Dylan Bregeon (11-0-1 with 3 KOs) for the vacant European Union belt in the main event of the show promoted by Opi Since 82 and Matchroom – and streamed live by DAZN. Turchi

Triller Fight Club today announced that boxing manager/adviser Peter Kahn has been named to the newly created position of Chief Boxing Officer.  “We are excited have Peter formally join us in this critical role as we expand and advance the boxing side of Triller Fight Club,” Kavanaugh said. “In a very short period of time

The next fight Bob Arum’s company promotes in Las Vegas will be attended by a lot more people than the shows Top Rank Inc. has staged there over the past nine months. Arum informed BoxingScene.com that Top Rank has narrowed down the possible site for the Jose Ramirez-Josh Taylor fight to two Las Vegas venues.

It took a little while for Artur Beterbiev to get going on Saturday night. Even before he stepped foot in the ring.  The event he headlined against Adam Deines in his first defense of unified light heavyweight titles at the Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia had sixteen fights in total, most of which ended

WBO #3 ranked lightweight Denys Berinchyk (15-0, 9 KOs) continued his quest for a world title shot with yet another victory, when he stopped Chilean fight veteran Jose Sanchez within three rounds at the Ice Terminal in Brovary, Ukraine. This time the master of the unpredictable, whose ring entrances will make Prince Naseem Hamed extremely

Russia’s Artur Beterbiev, in his first bout in 17 months, knocked out Adam Deines in the 10th round to retain his WBC and IBF light heavyweight world titles Saturday at Megasport Arena in Moscow. Beterbiev (16-0, 16 KOs) authored a fitting encore to his October 2019 TKO over Oleksandr Gvozdyk, the bout that solidified his

Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte is only a few days away from his anticipated rematch with Alexander Povetkin, which takes place on March 27 in Gibraltar. Back in August, Whyte was knocked out in five rounds by Povetkin.  He would quickly exercise an immediate rematch clause. A victory over Povetkin would put him right back in

Having not fought in more than two years, the last thing Hekkie Budler wanted to hear was that he will have to wait even longer to step into the ring. Such was the fate awaiting the former two-division titlist, whose attempted comeback was aborted at the scale. Budler was due to face Tanzania’s Hamidu Kwata

If Vergil Ortiz Jr. performs the way Oscar De La Hoya expects Saturday night, Ortiz’s promoter would be willing to put him in a much more difficult fight later this year. De La Hoya stated during an appearance Thursday on “The Ak & Barak Show” that he’d be comfortable making an Ortiz-Terence Crawford welterweight title

Saul Sanchez continues to thrive on the Telemundo circuit. A quick night’s work came of Sanchez’s most recent performance, a 1st round knockout of Miami’s Frank Gonzalez in their regional bantamweight title fight. Three knockdowns came of the Telemundo-televised main event, the last of which prompted a stoppage at 1:47 of the first round Friday