Fighting

UFC welterweight (170 lbs) champion Kamaru Usman is still hoping to land a big crossover boxing bout with Canelo Alvarez, and has his sights set on a September date with the superstar. Of course, we know that Canelo will be facing Dmitry Bivol in a DAZN PPV main event on May 7, and is tentatively

We have our first casualty of the sanctioning bodies’ recent moves to penalize Russia and Belarus. Jalol Akhmedov reports and others confirm that a March 26th show in Ekaterinburg, headlined by Magomed Kurbanov vs. Patrick Teixeira, has been postponed after the WBA and WBO refused to sanction a pair of scheduled title fights. The first,

Ryan Garcia’s April 9th return against Emmanuel Tagoe may not tickle many people’s fancies, but there’s at least one interesting fight on the card. Five-division titlist and reigning WBA flyweight champion Naoko Fujioka revealed yesterday that she’ll face WBC titlist Marlen Esparza in a unification match at the Alamodome. The 46-year-old Fujioka (19-2-1, 7 KO),

Now that we’re all set for Tyson Fury’s upcoming April 23rd WBC heavyweight title defense against Dillian Whyte, Fury is ready to get down to the business. Yesterday, Fury had to hold stage at the opening press conference all by his lonesome (with Whyte not in attendance), and not long after Fury plainly spoke to

Three months after COVID restrictions in Japan forced a postponement, we may finally have a new date for the middleweight unification between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reports the fight will happen in Saitama, Japan on April 9th. Sources: The Gennadiy Golovkin-Ryota Murata middleweight title unification is set for April 9 in

One day after the WBA announced a series of sanctions on Russian and Belarusian fighters, its fellow alphabet organizations released their own restrictions, namely a resolution to “not certify any championship fights involving boxers from Russia and Belarus.” The announcement is desperately short on specifics, such as whether fighters originally from those countries but now

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte are set to officially announce their April 23 fight in London today, as the heavyweight stars meet up at their first press conference. The event will stream live in the video up top in this post starting at 9 am ET. Fury (31-0-1, 22 KO) is making a mandatory defense

While the WBO has yet to rule on the status of Brian Castano vs. Jermell Charlo 2, we now know where the rest of the card is headed. Twitter user Deuce reports, and Keith Idec and Jake Donovan confirm, that Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha will now headline its own tripleheader a week later on

Rankings go up on Mondays. Ranked fights this week: Junior Welterweight: (4) Jose Ramirez vs (6) Jose Pedraza, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (9) Joet Gonzalez vs Jeo Santisima, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (3) Mauricio Lara vs Emilio Sanchez, Mar. 5 Junior Bantamweight: (4) Chocolatito Gonzalez vs Julio Cesar Martinez, Mar. 5 Flyweight: (1) Julio Cesar Martinez vs

Earlier this week, we shared the news that former heavyweight champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko committed to defend their country against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has joined the fight as well. A Facebook post from Lomachenko said: The Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Territorial Defense Battalion has been formed and armed. In the

Lawrence Okolie didn’t get the knockout and didn’t have the most exciting fight, to put it mildly, but he retained his WBO cruiserweight title with a decision win over Michal Cieslak in London. Okolie took the cards on scores of 115-112, 116-111, and 117-110. Bad Left Hook had the fight 117-110 for Okolie. It was

Lawrence Okolie will make the second defense of his WBO cruiserweight title today in London, taking on Poland’s Michal Cieslak in a 12-round main event from O2 Arena. The fights will stream live at Noon ET on DAZN, with prelim action starting at 10 am ET. Along with Okolie vs Cieslak, the show will feature

Showtime Championship Boxing is back tonight, with Chris Colbert taking on Hector Garcia in a WBA 130 lb eliminator in the short notice main event. Colbert was originally slated to face WBA titleholder Roger Gutierrez, who withdrew late with COVID, and Garcia, a 29-year-old former Olympian and untested pro from the Dominican Republic, stepped in

Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall will settle things today in Scotland, as Taylor defends his undisputed 140 lb championship in the main event at The SSE Hydro. The show will stream live on ESPN+ at 2 pm ET for those in the United States, with the action airing on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.

Lawrence Okolie will make the second defense of his WBO cruiserweight title in a rare Sunday main event for Matchroom Boxing, facing Poland’s Michal Cieslak in a 12-round bout from London’s O2 Arena. Bad Left Hook will have live coverage on Sunday, Feb. 27, starting at Noon ET, with the fights streaming live on DAZN.

It’s now official, coming from the horse’s mouth, as Canelo Alvarez has just announced on social media platforms that he will go ahead with a DAZN deal that will have him face WBA light heavyweight titleholder Dmitry Bivol in a May 7th pay-per-view attraction. ¡Es oficial! #CaneloBivol Pelearé este próximo 07 de mayo contra Dmitry

There’s no question it’s been a unsettling couple of days following Russian’s armed invasion of Ukraine, and now two former heavyweight champions (and Ukraine nationals) in Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko express their compulsion to join the armed conflict in order to protect their country. Vitali Klitschko is currently serving as the mayor of Kyiv —

Josh Taylor returns to defend his undisputed 140 lb championship this Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland, facing mandatory challenger Jack Catterall in the main event, which will air on ESPN+ in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom. Taylor (18-0, 13 KO) is a big favorite, but we’ve seen some big favorites fall