Fighting

Super middleweight David Benavidez is set to make his ring return on May 21, when he’ll take on David Lemieux in Glendale, AZ, a fight which will air live on Showtime. And in anticipation of the bout David Benavidez spoke to media members during a virtual press conference, expressing his enthusiasm for this platform. “I’m

Oscar Rivas will return home to Colombia to defend his WBC bridgerweight title on Aug. 13 in Cali, facing unbeaten Polish fighter Lukasz Rozanski. The fight was announced today in Bogota at a press conference. Rivas (28-1, 19 KO) is sort of the ideal of what the “bridgerweight” division is meant to be, a six-foot

Matchroom Boxing announced a pair of June shows this afternoon with serious implications for the lower weight classes. One sees WBA light flyweight champion Hiroto Kyoguchi make a long-delayed title defense against secondary titleholder Esteban Bermudez in Mexico City on June 10. The other, much more stacked show features Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez’s inaugural super flyweight

It’s Tuesday, so we’re back with the latest edition of Prophets of Goom, our new podcast here at Bad Left Hook featuring John Hansen and myself, Scott Christ, discussing what’s coming up, what just happened, and what’s going on around the boxing world. This week, we’ve got plenty to preview, with Valdez-Stevenson and Taylor-Serrano both

Don King announced today that he intends to stage Trevor Bryan’s WBA “world” heavyweight title defense against Daniel Dubois, which he won the rights to via purse bid last month, on June 11th. The press release does not name a location or broadcast partner, but does claim that the card will feature “six championship bouts

As expected, Las Vegas’ Resorts World Event Center will host a May 21st Top Rank doubleheader. Janibek Alimkhanuly faces Danny Dignum for the WBO interim middleweight title in the main event, while former super featherweight champion Jamel Herring returns to lightweight to face unbeaten Jamaine Ortiz. We’ve been over Alimkhanuly (11-0, 7 KO) vs. Dignum

In last week’s rankings, I said we might not do an update for this week if Tyson Fury beat Dillian Whyte, because there wasn’t much to talk about with nothing really changing. But the Fury situation is sort of unique, so here’s an update to talk about that. Rankings go up on Mondays. Ranked fights

During a video interview with Rolando Romero, who is scheduled to take on Gervonta Davis on a May 28th Showtime PPV, Romero doesn’t shy away from he prediction of a swift knockout of Tank, saying he doesn’t expect the fight to go past the opening round. “It’s personal. I want to fuck his face up

DAZN and Social Media, 2:00 pm ET, Taylor vs Serrano press conference. We’ll have a stream and all that. BLH will have live coverage. ESPN+ and Social Media, 4:00 pm ET, Valdez vs Stevenson press conference. We’ll have a stream and all that. BLH will have live coverage. DAZN and Social Media, 2:00 pm ET,

Following Tyson Fury’s dominant performance over Dillian Whyte, knocking him out in the sixth round of their WBC heavyweight title fight today, Fury spoke to the media afterwards and confirmed that he indeed intends on retiring from boxing and will do other things with his life. “You’re gonna see me in exhibitions, WWE, movies,” Fury

The Fury vs Whyte undercard is in the books, with Nick Ball the show-stealer and the rest definitely happened, including Tommy Fury getting a win that could set him up to face Jake Paul. The two of them talked trash after that one was over. Here’s a rundown of what we saw on a lousy

Paul Butler claimed the interim WBO bantamweight title with a clear decision win over Jonas Sultan tonight in Liverpool, winning on scores of 116-112, 117-111, and 118-110. Bad Left Hook had it even wider for Butler at 119-109 on our unofficial score card. Sultan (18-6, 11 KO) was just never able to capably cut off

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte are set for a massive heavyweight title fight at Wembley Stadium, where over 94,000 are expected for one of the highest-attended boxing fights in history today. Live coverage will start at 2 pm ET on ESPN+ pay-per-view, at a pricetag of $69.99. If you can’t or just don’t want to

We’re on the verge of Dillian Whyte’s long-awaited shot at the WBC world heavyweight title, with him being scheduled to face reigning champion Tyson Fury this weekend, but don’t think Whyte has forgot the road to getting here! During this week’s final promotional push for the title fight, Whyte was captured getting into it with

Paul Butler and Jonas Sultan are set and ready for today’s Probellum main event in Liverpool, with an interim 118 lb title on the line in the main event of what promises to definitely be a boxing event that takes place. You can watch all the action free at Probellum’s site, which you can access

Jermell Charlo will get a second chance to go undisputed at 154 lbs, as will Brian Castano when the two meet in a highly-anticipated rematch on May 14, live on Showtime. Their first fight was a much-debated draw, but Charlo — again, like Castano — is promising to show more this time around and put

Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was involved in an incident on a JetBlue airplane on Wednesday night, with TMZ reporting that he “repeatedly (punched) a man in the face,” and then updating later to note that sources close to Tyson “claim the man was extremely intoxicated and wouldn’t stop provoking the boxer in his

A civil suit has been filed against Oscar De La Hoya, the former world champion boxing superstar and current promoter for Golden Boy, accusing him of two instances of sexual assault in 2020. The Los Angeles Times first reported that a civil suit has been filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by a woman who