Fighting

Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk square off Saturday night, with Joshua’s WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight titles on the line against the former undisputed cruiserweight champion. Does Usyk hold the keys to heavyweight glory, following in the legendary footsteps of Evander Holyfield, or will Joshua turn back another challenge on the road to a possible

Today, at an advertised start time of 7:50 a.m. ET, Sky Sports will be streaming the final press conference for Saturday’s heavyweight title fight between unified titleholder Anthony Joshua and challenger Oleksandr Usyk. You can catch all the festivities right here, live on BLH! Joshua comes into this fight having rebounded from his upset loss

As Deontay Wilder prepares to exact his vengeance against Tyson Fury in their October 9th trilogy match, Wilder holds a virtual media presser and talks about where he’s at in camp and how he plans to regain his WBC heavyweight title. Check out some excerpts of what Wilder had to say below… Wilder on how

Mike Coppinger, confirming an earlier report from Jake Donovan, brings word of a quality PBC on Showtime welterweight doubleheader on October 30th. The main event sees Jamal James face Radzhab Butaev for a crack at the WBA “super” title, while Jaron Ennis meets Thomas Dulorme in a rescheduled co-feature. Current “world” titlist James (27-1, 12

Salvador Rodriguez brings word that Matchroom Boxing, promoter of Israil Madrimov, won today’s purse bid for their charge’s ordered eliminator against “gold” champion Michel Soro with a $245,000 offer. They intend to stage the fight on December 11th in either the U.S. or Ukraine. Why Ukraine for a fight between an Uzbek and a Frenchman?

Yes, there’s been a lot of talk since yesterday that Plant might’ve taken an L before the fight by what went down at yesterday’s opening press conference — but Plant isn’t concerned about any of that as he tells the world that he’s eager to take care of business on Nov. 6 when he expects

Caleb Plant must have really gotten Canelo Alvarez pissed off because he’s now speaking English in the media, making it perfectly clear that he intends to make Plant feel his wrath when they collide in their undisputed super middleweight unification — particularly after today’s dust up at the opening press conference. Canelo on his confrontation

Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant will go face-to-face today, with the two fighters meeting at the press conference to fully, officially announce their Nov. 6 undisputed super middleweight championship fight. Showtime will have the fight on pay-per-view from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on that date, and today the fighters will be at The

Lightweights Ryan Garcia and Joseph Diaz Jr. were already known to be in discussions for a fall fight, and things now seem to be moving even further in that direction with the WBC officially ordering the fight for their interim lightweight title currently held by Diaz, with the winner also set to be in the

So here’s the latest on the Nonito Donaire situation: while Bob Arum has proposed a rematch with Naoya Inoue, the WBC bantamweight champion restarted talks with WBO champion John Riel Casimero, whom he was slated to face in the summer before withdrawing due to a social media spat. Al Haymon now claims that Casimero rejected

Veteran running back Frank Gore is training to box, he says, and it seems his focus is there instead of playing a 17th NFL season, at least for now. According to a report from Ian Rapoport at NFL.com, the 38-year-old Gore is “trying to make a fight happen”: “I’ve been training for both — football

Friday, Sept. 24 SHO, 10:35 pm ET, ShoBox: Ja’Rico O’Quinn vs Saul Sanchez. ShoBox returns with a nice looking show from Broken Arrow, Okla., featuring bantamweight prospects O’Quinn and Sanchez in a well-matched main event. We’ll also see Alejandro Guerrero face Otar Eranosyan in a 130 lb matchup, and the original “co-main” was meant to

Senator Manny Pacquiao has just informed the world on his social media accounts that he has accepted his party’s nomination and will officially run for presidency in his home country of The Philippines. This announcement ends years of speculation regarding Pacquiao’s aspirations in public office. I boldly accept the challenge of running as PRESIDENT of

Conor Benn has signed a new multi-fight deal with Matchroom Boxing, as the rising welterweight star comes off of a Sept. 4 win over Adrian Granados in Leeds, England. “I am extremely excited to extend my professional relationship with Matchroom Boxing,” said Benn. “Matchroom believed in me from the start, they gave me an amazing

According to sources cited by Mike Coppinger, the undisputed 168lb title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant will officially headline a Showtime PPV event set for November 6th in Las Vegas. Anyway, we obviously already knew that Canelo and Plant agreed to terms for the fight, but now we know exactly where the fight

During an ESPN State of Boxing segment, hosted by Bernando Osuna, Timothy Bradley, Andre Ward, and Mike Coppinger, both Bradley and Ward weigh-in on the matchup and discuss why they think this is going to be a difficult fight to predict the winner of. Check out some of what the former world champions had to

After failing to secure fights with division standouts Brian Castano and Tony Harrison, WBO #1 super welterweight contender Tim Tszyu has announced that he’ll return to the ring November 17th against former title challenger Takeshi Inoue. Tszyu (19-0, 15 KO) tells Wide World of Sports that the Harrison fight was “thought to be a done

While the Jermell Charlo-Brian Castano situation at the top remains unresolved, the super welterweight division is making some interesting moves. Brazil’s Estadão newspaper reports that former champion Patrick Teixeira will return to action December 11th against unbeaten contender Magomed Kurbanov, while BoxRec lists the location as Ekaterinburg, Russia. Teixeira (31-2, 22 KO) ended his home