Fighting

Golden Boy’s March 19th Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Michael McKinson show has both a broadcast opener and a complete undercard. Rebuilding prospect Bektemir Melikuziev returns to action against David Zegarra ahead of Alexis Rocha’s co-feature clash with Blair Cobbs Uzbekistan’s Melikuziev (8-1, 6 KO) competes for the second time since a disastrous knockout loss to

With junior lightweight titleholder Shakur Stevenson set to unify titles with Oscar Valdez on April 30, Stevenson chats with Fight Hype about some of his thoughts on the fight. In particular Stevenson responds with his thoughts on what Valdez may try to bring to the table considering he trains alongside Canelo Alvarez. With that question

The WBC announced on its website today that, as previously reported by Jake Donovan, newly crowned featherweight champion Mark Magsayo’s inaugural title defense could see him face mandatory challenger Rey Vargas this coming July. Vargas (35-0, 22 KO) enjoyed a lengthy reign as super bantamweight champion before a broken leg forced a long stretch of

The work of an undisputed champion is never done. Less than two weeks after Josh Taylor controversially retained his super lightweight titles with a decision over WBO mandatory challenger Jack Catterall, the WBA has ordered him to former interim champion Alberto Puello. The pair have 30 days to negotiate. Per the press release, Taylor (19-0,

With things currently at an indefinite stand-still for the heavyweight title rematch between Oleksandr Uysk and Anthony Joshua, with Usyk having joined an armed resistance group in his home country of Ukraine to fend off a Russian invasion — promoter Dmitry Salita takes an opportunity to throw Otto Wallin’s name out there to Sky Sports

During this conversation with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, trainer Abel Sanchez breaks down the upcoming light heavyweight title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol. Sanchez gives Bivol credit as being a very good, sound boxer, but doesn’t think he has it in him to keep up with Canelo over the course of

Following major controversy two weeks again, Josh Taylor says he’s open to a rematch with Jack Catterall, but that it would “most likely” happen at a catchweight, and not for Taylor’s undisputed championship at 140 lbs, which he seems destined to vacate. From Sky Sports: “We’ll see what happens down the line. We can have

Nearly three months after Israil Madrimov finished Michel Soro with punches after the bell in a WBA super welterweight eliminator, the sanctioning body has officially ordered them to square off in a rematch. The pair have 30 days to come to terms and avoid a purse bid. They did not, however, elect to overturn the

Rankings go up on Mondays, but we won’t have an update next week, so the next update will come on March 21. Ranked fights the next two weeks: Welterweight: (4) Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Michael McKinson, Mar. 19 Welterweight: (7) David Avanesyan vs Oskari Metz, Mar. 19 Junior Welterweight: (3) Regis Prograis vs Tyrone McKenna,

When DAZN came into the U.S. boxing market in 2018, the promise from key players like Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn was that pay-per-view was dead and would be replaced by over the top streaming for a monthly fee. Things haven’t quite worked out. Starting last year, when Matchroom moved their U.K. broadcasts to DAZN from

Demetrius Andrade has signed the contract to face Zach Parker in a WBO super middleweight eliminator, says Queensberry Promotions, which won the purse bid for the bout recently. Andrade, who has yet to officially vacate his WBO middleweight title, will be moving up and seeking to get to a world title in a third division.

Chocolatito Gonzalez did it again, scoring a dominant win over Julio Cesar Martinez with a master class performance in tonight’s DAZN main event from San Diego. Chocolatito (51-3, 41 KO) won on scores of 116-112, 117-111, and 118-110, and honestly, the first card especially does not reflect the fight most saw. Bad Left Hook had

Chocolatito Gonzalez returns to the ring tonight to face Julio Cesar Martinez in a main event that had a lot of issues on Friday. Live coverage will start tonight at 8:30 pm ET, with round by round for those main card bouts and highlights and updates all coming in this stream: Martinez, who was coming

During a video interview with iFL TV, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks about his ongoing negotiations to stage a fight between Conor Benn and Kell Brook, with Amir Khan throwing a wrench into things by threatening to invoke a rematch clause against Brook in order to secure some step-aside money. Hearn makes it clear he

Jose Ramirez bounced back with a solid win tonight at home in Fresno, winning by unanimous decision over Jose Pedraza and putting himself right in line for another shot at a 140 lb title. Ramirez (27-1, 17 KO) won on scores of 116-112 from all three judges. Bad Left Hook had it slightly closer, scoring

Julio Cesar Martinez did not make weight in two attempts today, putting Saturday night’s planned DAZN main event against Chocolatito Gonzalez in danger of being canceled. Martinez, who was coming up from 112 lbs for the fight, was reportedly “well over the limit” at the official weigh-in earlier today — the one that will stream

Spoiler alert, this weekend features what should assuredly be as fan-friendly of a fight that you could ask for — a super flyweight fight between Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez and Julio Cesar Martinez. And it looks like I’m not the only one who’s pumped for what I can only anticipate to be a high-speed slugfest, as

We knew it was coming after Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha went forward, but now it’s official. The WBO has given the go-ahead to reschedule Jermell Charlo’s undisputed title rematch with Brian Castano, which is now targeted for May 14th. There are, however, some caveats. If the fight doesn’t happen on that date “regardless of