Fighting

With lightweight hopeful Rolando Romero set for what will by the biggest opportunity of his career when he challenges Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis for his WBA ‘world’ title on May 28, he held an open media workout today and talked about the fight. And just in case there was any doubt, Romero hasn’t shied away from

Not a surprise, but very much welcome. Top Rank has revealed that Naoya Inoue’s June 7th rematch with Nonito Donaire will air on ESPN+ stateside. Inoue (22-0, 19 KO) and Donaire (42-6, 28 KO) put on a truly spectacular Fight of the Year in November 2019. “The Filipino Flash” was seen as past his best

Tuesday is upon us, and the latest episode of Prophets of Goom is here! This week John and myself (I’m Scott) take a look at another busy weekend ahead, including a major sleeper matchup in Spain on DAZN, David Benavidez and Janibek Alimkhanuly fighting for interim belts on Showtime and ESPN, respectively, Buatsi-Richards, John’s insistence

Friday’s Golden Ring show in Aguascalientes, Mexico, which will see a number of Cuba’s top amateurs make their professional debuts, won’t feature one of the country’s most prized pupils. El Nuevo Herald reports that Tokyo 2020 lightweight gold medalist Andy Cruz has been pulled from the show after what his chief trainer called a drop

Fight Hub TV’s Marcos Villegas immediately caught up with junior middleweight Tim Tszyu following Jermell Charlo’s undisputed title unification against Brian Castano over the weekend. Tszyu didn’t hide his enthusiasm for what was a truly exciting fight, and says he’s eager to challenge Charlo, believing he has a better chance to do damage to the

Saturday was a big day in boxing, with Jermell Charlo becoming undisputed king at 154 lbs, Martin Bakole upsetting Tony Yoka, Sergey Kovalev making a successful cruiserweight debut, and a 200 lb Zurdo Ramirez trampling Dominic Boesel, but it was also the anniversary of something Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields both remember well. 10 years

DAZN and Social Media, 8:00 am ET, Buatsi vs Richards press conference. YouTube/Facebook, 3:00 pm ET, Benavidez vs Lemieux press conference. DAZN and Social Media, 8:00 am ET, Buatsi vs Richards weigh-in. DAZN, 2:00 pm ET, Kerman Lejarraga vs JJ Metcalf. We often don’t do live coverage for these Matchroom shows in Spain (or Italy),

Jermell Charlo became undisputed champion at 154 lbs last night, beating Brian Castano in a fantastic rematch via 10th round stoppage to unify all four major titles in the junior middleweight division, the first men’s fighter to go undisputed in that division in the four-belt era. Charlo (35-1-1, 19 KO) has been at 154 since

Jaron “Boots” Ennis made quick work of Custio Clayton in tonight’s IBF welterweight eliminator, stopping the Canadian former Olympian in the second round of their Showtime co-feature tonight on the Charlo vs Castano 2 card. After his win, Ennis (29-0, 27 KO) called out an in-attendance Errol Spence Jr, who of course has the IBF

Tony Yoka returns to action today in Paris, facing Martin Bakole in a 10-round heavyweight main event, which will stream live on ESPN+ for those in the U.S. and air on Canal+ in France. The show and our live coverage will start at 3 pm ET. Yoka (11-0, 9 KO) won gold at the 2016

Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano keep the run of big fights rolling, as the top two junior middleweights in the world meet once again, this time looking to give us a definitive winner and crown an undisputed 154 lb champion after their draw 10 months ago. Our live updates will come in this stream, including

Here’s a bit of news I really hope isn’t true. Michael Zerafa took to Facebook yesterday to confirm an announcement from NunanBoy Promotions that he’d been offered a fight with Jaime Munguia. The fight has quite a bit more divisional implications than it would have before Zerafa’s (30-4, 19 KO) mauling of Isaac Hardman a

Less than a week after longtime rival Kell Brook announced he’ll be walking away from the sport of boxing, Amir Khan has posted a message on social media this morning telling all his fans that he’s calling it a career too. “It’s time to hang up my gloves,” Khan posted on Twitter. “I feel blessed

Former titleholders Elwin Soto and Hekkie Budler are set to meet on June 25 in Mexicali, Mexico, Zanfer Boxing have announced. Soto (19-2, 13 KO) won the WBO junior flyweight title in 2019, scoring a controversial 12th round stoppage over Angel “Tito” Acosta. He made successful defenses against Carlos Buitrago and Katsunari Takayama in 2020

Canelo Alvarez may be coming off of a May 7 loss to Dmitry Bivol, but the Mexican superstar reigns supreme as boxing’s biggest money man on Forbes’ 2022 list of the highest-paid athletes in the world, coming in at No. 8 overall and an obvious No. 1 in the boxing world. The Forbes list is

Golden Boy Fight Night is back on Thursday again, and tonight’s main event will see flyweight contender Angel Acosta take on Janiel Rivera, plus four more fights from the Fantasy Springs in Indio, Calif. You can watch live at 9 pm ET on DAZN and also on YouTube free for everyone, if you don’t have

Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano will look to settle the score on Saturday, as the two of them meet for a second time, once again attempting to crown an undisputed champion at 154 lbs in a Showtime main event. Charlo (34-1-1, 18 KO) and Castano (17-0-2, 12 KO) fought to a draw in July 2021,

During this video interview with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, Jermell Charlo talks about this weekend’s rematch with Brian Castano and why he’s not looking to let the fight go to the cards this time around. Check out some excerpts of what Charlo had to say below. Charlo on what changes he wants to