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Derek Chisora and Joseph Parker will collide in a heavyweight clash on a night of action that sees Irish star Katie Taylor defend her Undisputed Lightweight crown against former amateur rival Natasha Jonas and undefeated WBA Light-Heavyweight World Champion Dmitry Bivol put his Title on the line against Craig Richards, as well as the return

Lawrence Okolie has not had much experience as a professional or an amateur, but Eddie Hearn believes he can clean up the world cruiserweight division in 18 months before moving up to heavyweight if he beats Krzysztof Glowacki in a “life-changing” fight in Saturday night.  Okolie faces Glowacki for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at

Joe Ward accomplished Thursday night what he intended to do the first time he fought Marco Delgado. The Irish light heavyweight prospect defeated Delgado by unanimous decision in their six-round rematch. Judges Gerardo Martinez, Charlie Ruiz and Jose Roberto Torres each scored all six rounds for Ward, 60-54. The 27-year-old Ward’s win enabled him to

If there was anything more frustrating than the manner in which Joe Ward suffered a loss in his pro debut it’s the amount of time he was forced to sit on that result. A fluke knee injury forced Ward to concede early in the second round of his Oct. 2019 bout with Turlock, California’s Marco

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has embraced the idea of sanctioning a final eliminator between highly ranked heavyweight contenders Deontay Wilder and Dillian Whyte. Wilder, a former WBC world champion, is ranked at number one. Whyte is sitting in the sixth ranked position. Before that can happen, Whyte will have to win his upcoming

Junior lightweight Rene Tellez stopped gatekeeper Gabriel Piña in round 7 Sunday afternoon at the Plaza Festival in Rosarito, Mexico.  With the win, Tellez (16-1, 0 knockouts) has now won his last three fights, all by knockout.  Tellez, who is originally from Queretaro, Mexico and now lives and trains in San Diego, California, last fought

BRITISH Middleweight champion Denzel Bentley will make the first defence of his title against mandatory challenger Felix Cash on Saturday April 24. The unbeaten pair will headline a night of boxing live on BT Sport. Queensberry Promotions won the purse bids for the fight between their man Bentley (14-0-1, 12 KOs) and Cash (13-0, 9

Former two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman is backing Tyson Fury to defeat Anthony Joshua in their full division unification. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Joshua and Fury had both signed their respective portions of a two-fight agreement.  The two sides are now working to finalize a date and site. Foreman, 72-years-old and the

Juan Francisco “Gallo” Estrada, the WBC and WBA super flyweight world champion, regrets the disgust and discomfort caused by the fact that in a photograph in which he appears with his team, prior to his fight last Saturday against Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, the flag of Nicaragua was upside down in the image. “It was 100%

Unbeaten cruiserweight contender Lawrence Okolie is eager to make a big statement on Saturday night, when he faces former world champion Krzysztof Glowacki for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title. A stated in recent days, Okolie wants to capture as many world titles as possible in the cruiserweight division before making the move to the heavyweight

IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is already working on several game plans to overcome WBC champion Tyson Fury, according to trainer Joby Clayton. Clayton works with Joshua’s head trainer, Rob McCracken. While the date and location have yet to be finalized, Joshua and Fury have signed a two-fight contract. Both fights are expected

Saul Sanchez makes his way back to the Sunshine State. The 23-year old bantamweight from Encino, California will headline the spring season finale of Boxeo Telemundo, which takes place March 19 at Bryan Glazer JCC Center in Tampa, Florida. Sanchez will face locally based Frank Gonzalez in a scheduled 10-round main event. “I am excited

Roman Gonzalez believes he has already beaten Juan Francisco Estrada twice. Boxing’s former pound-for-pound king still would welcome a third fight against his Mexican rival. Gonzalez, more commonly known by his nickname, “Chocolatito,” might have to wait to encounter Estrada a third time because Estrada is supposed to make a mandatory defense of his WBC

When Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman Gonzalez fought for the first time in 2012, the boxing industry and the streaming media world were a whole lot different than they are today.  That year, the Olympics streamed on YouTube for the first time, an upstart called Spotify was entering its second year, and for the first

Juan Francisco Estrada admits he wasn’t sure what Michael Buffer would announce as he read the scores Saturday night. Estrada doesn’t think Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez did enough to beat him in their 12-round, 115-pound title unification fight. The WBA/WBC super flyweight champion wouldn’t have been surprised, though, if their back-and-forth fight would’ve resulted in a

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Ronald Ellis was not happy with the referee’s stoppage, in his TKO defeat at the hands of former two-time world champion David Benavidez. Benavidez kept his perfect ring record intact with an 11th-round technical knockout victory against veteran Ronald Ellis in their WBC super middleweight title eliminator on Saturday night at Mohegan

Super flyweight world champions Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez went face to face at the official weigh-in ahead of their unification rematch at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on Saturday night, live worldwide on DAZN. (photos by Ed Mulholland) >>>>CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE SCORECARD<<<< Estrada and Chocolatito renew their rivalry

Jessica McCaskill cannot wait for the opportunity to end any lingering debate about whether she is a better fighter than Cecilia Braekhus. McCaskill pulled off a huge upset August 15, when she beat Braekhus by majority decision in their 10-round welterweight title fight. Chicago’s McCaskill left Tulsa, Oklahoma, with the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC and