Fighting

Following the official announcement of Terence Crawford defending his welterweight world title against Shawn Porter, Crawford chatted with ESPN about his thoughts on the fight and why this bout ended up being a long time coming. Check out some excerpts of what Crawford had to say on the fight below. Crawford on what took so

The WBA announced on Thursday their plan to reduce the number of redundant titles, this time in the welterweight division. To that end, they have ordered their champion Yordenis Ugas to face Eimantas Stanionis by January 13, 2022, and their secondary belt-holder Jamal James to face mandatory challenger Radzhab Butaev before November 2021. The winners

As revealed last week, Mikey Garcia is set to headline an October 16th DAZN show in Fresno against European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin. Matchroom has officially revealed the card, which will also feature two light flyweight title fights. Garcia (40-1, 30 KO) had been linked to a genuinely interesting fight with former unified titlist

Former world titleholder Leo Santa Cruz takes a moment to weigh in with his thoughts on the big news of Terence Crawford defending his strap against Shawn Porter. Timothy Bradley was one recent former champion who predicts a close, tough fight for both men, and Santa Cruz shares a similar line of thinking while speaking

Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter won’t be the only Top Rank/PBC collaboration on the schedule. The WBC has announced that Friday’s purse bid between light heavyweight champ Artur Beterbiev and mandatory challenger Marcus Browne has been pushed back to September 28th by mutual request. Dan Rafael and Julius Julianis report that the promoters were too

With the official word coming that welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford has finally come to terms to face Shawn Porter, former world titleholder (and now boxing analyst) Timothy Bradley shares his thoughts on the impending battle. Talking to ESPN about the fight, Bradley predicts a spectacular night of highly competitive boxing knowing the characters in play.

Teofimo Lopez vs. George Kambosos Jr. has had its fair share of supporting casts during its long and troubled genesis; the June 19th date included Franchon Crews-Dezurn vs. Elin Cederroos, Michael Hunter vs. Mike Wilson, and Andy Vences vs. Jono Carroll. Those bouts wound up scattering to the winds when Lopez caught COVID, and Triller

Earlier this summer, Frank Warren announced that he intended to stage the Lyndon Arthur vs. Anthony Yarde rematch on October 9th as a lead-in for Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder 3. That matchup wound up falling through, but Queensberry will still host an event in Birmingham that evening. The main event sees Brad Foster (14-0-2,

Less than two hours before a scheduled purse bid, Top Rank and PBC have come to terms for WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford’s mandatory title defense against Shawn Porter. Top Rank’s Carl Moretti tells Kevin Iole that the two are officially set to meet on November 20th at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay. No word yet

Here’s an interesting bit of matchmaking. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez announced on Twitter that he’s set to face unbeaten Puerto Rican prospect Orlando Gonzalez on the October 9th pre-PPV portion of Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder 3. Listo para enfrentar al puertorriqueño Orlando González y a quien me pongan de frente en mi

Virtually everyone saw Oscar Valdez’s gritty, back-and-forth title defense against Robson Conceicao last Friday as an extremely close bout that could have gone either away. Judge Stephen Blea disagreed, scoring the fight 117-110 for the champion where his compatriots turned in scores of 115-112. In an extremely rare move, Blea has released a statement apologizing

Anderson Silva made quick work of Tito Ortiz in tonight’s Triller Fight Club boxing match, knocking Ortiz out in the first round. Silva (3-1, 2 KO in boxing) and Ortiz (0-1 in boxing) are both MMA legends, but this boxing matchup always strongly favored Silva, and he didn’t waste time in there, dropping and stopping

A day after his points win over Robson Conceicao, WBC titleholder Oscar Valdez takes some questions from Fight Hub TV about how he’s feeling now that he’s got this win under his belt and he looks towards bigger bouts. Check out some excerpts of what Valdez had to say below. Oscar Valdez on if he

In one of the saddest, most disgraceful displays of pessimistic nonsense the sport of boxing, which is largely built on pessimistic nonsense, will ever see, Vitor Belfort stopped 58-year-old Evander Holyfield in the first round of tonight’s Triller Fight Club main event. The fight was technically an exhibition in that it’s not going to count

Tonight’s Triller Fight Club main event saw a 58-year-old boxing legend look like a shell of a shell of a shell of the fighter people want to remember, and even a shell of the fighter he was when he was hopelessly still fighting a decade ago. Vitor Belfort stopped Evander Holyfield in the first round,

Tonight at 7 pm ET on pay-per-view, Triller Fight Club return with their most abominable offering yet, featuring 58-year-old Evander Holyfield in the main event against 44-year-old former MMA star Vitor Belfort in what may or may not be an exhibition bout. We’ll have live updates, “highlights,” and full coverage in this stream: The latest

It’s been anything but smooth sailing in the past week or so for Oscar Valdez. First, he tested positive for phentermine, which meant he’d failed a VADA drug test, but the fight was allowed to go on anyway, sanctioned not only by the commission but also the WBC. The WBC allowed Valdez to keep their

Once Oscar Valdez failed a pre-fight VADA drug test for phentermine and was allowed to fight — and defend his WBC title — anyway, Friday’s ESPN+ main event with Robson Conceicao was always going to be shrouded in controversy. Fight night itself left us with some more, as there is plenty of debate as to