Irish star Katie Taylor is set for a quick turnaround after defending her undisputed lightweight title last month. Eddie Hearn tells Boxing Social that Taylor will face WBA mandatory challenger Miriam Gutierrez in November as one of three planned world title fights on a single card. Independent.ie lists the date at November 14th. Julius Julianis
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Saturday night on Showtime PPV (7 pm ET), Jermall Charlo will defend his WBC middleweight title against Sergiy Derevyanchenko, who is trying for a third time to win a world championship as a professional, having previously lost to Daniel Jacobs and Gennadiy Golovkin by razor-thin margins. Will Charlo retain and stay undefeated, or is Derevyanchenko’s
RJJ Boxing returned to UFC Fight Pass tonight from Biloxi, Miss., with welterweight prospect Mark Reyes Jr staying unbeaten in the main event, scoring a fourth round stoppage over Mohamed Rodriguez. Reyes (13-0, 11 KO) is a 24-year-old fighter from Tampa, and didn’t completely bowl over the 23-year-old Mexican Rodriguez (13-9-1, 5 KO), but when
After successfully picking up his first win since 2013 this summer, 45-year-old Sergio Martinez is set to continue his comeback against Jussi Koivula on December 5th. The fight does not yet have an official location, but it will take place somewhere in Spain. Martinez (52-3-2, 29 KO) ended a six-year layoff last month when he
This Saturday streaming live on ESPN+ in the United States and airing on BT Sport in the United Kingdom, unified 140-pound titleholder Josh Taylor will return to action for the first time in 11 months, facing mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong in a main event from London’s historic York Hall. The 29-year-old Taylor (16-0, 12 KO)
Tonight at 10 pm ET on FS1, Premier Boxing Champions returns with a rather low-key card, headlined by lightweight prospect Nestor Bravos against Jose Luis Gallegos in a 10-round main event from Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Bravo, a 26-year-old lightweight from Puerto Rico, is unbeaten thus far in his pro career, but also pretty
Josh Taylor is set to return on Saturday, headlining an ESPN+ card against mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong, defending his WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles. Taylor (16-0, 12 KO) unified those titles in Oct. 2019, with his World Boxing Super Series tournament final win over Regis Prograis, a narrow victory in London. There was no
Vasiliy Lomachenko tells Sky Sports that he fully intends to hold Teofimo Lopez accountable for all the talk he’s been doing leading into the big unification fight on ESPN. So when asked about what he thinks of Lopez’s bravado, Lomachenko responded: “I understand just one thing. Whatever you say, you must prove it in the
Top Rank is once again set to fill an upcoming card with heaps of in-house prospects. In addition to the previously revealed heavyweight clash between Guido Vianello and Kingsley Ibeh, the October 3rd Jose Zepeda-Ivan Baranchyk event will feature the latest from Stockton lightweight Gabriel Flores Jr. alongside amateur standouts Haven Brady Jr. and Duke
DAZN have added another card to their schedule for this week, picking up U.S. rights to Friday’s card from Tijuana, which will feature Julio Cesar Chavez and Jorge Arce meeting in a third exhibition bout in the main event, plus the return of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on the card, as well. The elder Chavez,
Ahead of their upcoming Showtime doubleheader, where Jermall and Jermell Charlo will be in a title defense and unification bout, respectively, both brothers appeared on All The Smoke to open up on where they come from and where they hope to go in their boxing careers. Check out some excerpts below with the full video
The ongoing Canelo saga has quite a few moving parts, many of them very stupid, but none nearly as stupid as the WBC scheduling a purse bid between him and Avni Yildirim for their vacant super middleweight title. Today was supposed to be the big day, but the sanctioning body has pushed it back to
Derek Chisora has always been a little weird, which has manifested itself at times in displays of bizarre behavior, at other times in a seeming aloofness, and yet others in comical fashion. None of those truly describe this Instagram video of him preparing for Oleksandr Usyk, a fight that is expected to finally happen on
Erickson Lubin’s Saturday night win over Terrell Gausha wasn’t the most thrilling fight, but it earned the 24-year-old Lubin a shot at the WBC junior middleweight title, and getting in line for a second crack at a belt was the ultimate goal. Lubin (23-1, 16 KO) wasn’t overly enthused with his own performance, but gave
Wednesday, Sept. 23 FS1, 10:00 pm ET, Nestor Bravo vs Jose Luis Gallegos. This low-key PBC card from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles is headlined by Bravo, an unbeaten, 26-year-old lightweight prospect, against Gallegos, an eight-times beaten, 26-year-old American who has been used as a trial horse against guys like Erick De Leon, Jhack
Jose Pedraza made it two straight wins in the Top Rank “bubble” tonight, looking extremely sharp in a clear decision victory over Javier Molina in tonight’s ESPN+ main event. Pedraza (28-3, 13 KO) looked as focused and dialed in as he has at any point in his career, as the 31-year-old “Sniper” out-boxed Molina (22-3,
ShoBox: The New Generation will return with a special Wednesday night telecast on Oct. 7, featuring four fights from Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Casino, where Showtime has set up shop for its boxing cards since returning from lockdown. This will be the first episode of ShoBox aired since March 13, which wound up being the last
Showtime Boxing is back tonight at 9 pm ET with a three-fight card from the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, with Erickson Lubin and Terrell Gausha meeting in the 12-round main event, a WBC junior middleweight title eliminator. Wil Esco will be here with round by round coverage of all three fights, plus results as they