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Day seven of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the men’s flyweights and men’s lightweights in preliminary rounds action, plus women’s middleweight quarterfinals, and both semifinal bouts in the women’s featherweight division, with the losers getting bronze and the winners going on to fight for gold. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is obviously encouraged by Tyson Fury’s chances to beat Deontay Wilder in their planned October trilogy, but makes it a point not to discount the fact that Wilder holds that equalizer when it comes to brute force punching. Talking to Sky Sports about his impressions on the fight, Arum says

Luke Campbell, who won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London Olympics in 2012 and fought for a world lightweight title as a pro, has decided to retire from the sport at age 33, releasing a statement this morning via social media. “After a lot of thought and reflection, I have decided that

Looks like the celebrity boxing trend isn’t ending anytime soon. TMZ Sports reports that retired former champions Riddick Bowe and Paulie Malignaggi are set to appear on capital-letters Celebrity Boxing’s October 2nd card, which will air on FITE. The 53-year-old Bowe (43-1, 33 KO) was one of the great fighters of the 90s in his

Day seven of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the women’s lightweights in preliminary rounds action, and the women’s welterweight, men’s welterweight, men’s light heavyweight, and men’s heavyweight divisions in in quarterfinal bouts, with winners guaranteed at least a bronze medal. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m

Day six of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the men’s welterweight, men’s heavyweight, women’s lightweight, and women’s welterweight divisions in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results

Bob Arum offered World Boxing News’ Dan Rafael a thorough outline of Top Rank’s upcoming schedule, including working dates for previously revealed fights and the latest on some of the promotion’s biggest stars. Some chronological Cliffs Notes: WBO light heavyweight champion Joe Smith Jr. will face mandatory challenger Umar Salamov on October 23 at either

Women’s featherweight (Quarterfinals) Winners guaranteed at least a bronze medal. Karris Artingstall (Great Britain) def. Skye Nicolson (Australia), 3:2: Utter heartbreak for Nicolson, and, man, this was so close. Just an extremely competitive fight in every round, all of them really could have gone either way. Nicolson in the third just needed either the Kazakh

During this video interview with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks about his plans to return to boxing in September and where he’s looking to go from there. De La Hoya talks about the first of three fights he’s planning to have and says his endgame could

WBC interim heavyweight champion Dillian Whyte still intends to return to the United States in his next bout, and Eddie Hearn tells Michael Benson that it will “most likely” take place September 11th. The show “may” also feature Hiroto Kyoguchi vs. Elwin Soto and Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs. Ronny Rios, which were previously slated to land

Junior middleweight Anthony Fowler is still set to return Saturday at Matchroom’s Fight Camp show on DAZN, but he’ll have a short-notice opponent. Roberto Garcia is out with a back injury, so Rico Mueller (28-3-1, 19 KO) will take on Fowler in a 10-round bout with a regional WBA title on the line. The last

As unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua prepares for his September 25th title defense against mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk, Joshua looks forward to the meeting while telling Sky Sports that facing good opposition only brings the credit deserved from the fans. Joshua obviously is looking to put on a good performance here as he believes it

Day four of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the men’s welterweight, men’s heavyweight, women’s lightweight, and women’s welterweight divisions in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results

Shannon Courtenay was set to make the first defense of her WBA bantamweight title on Aug. 14 — which had been pushed back from an earlier Matchroom Fight Camp date already — but has withdrawn from the bout due to an injury in training camp. “I’m absolutely devastated but we’ve had to postpone this fight,”

Day three of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the men’s flyweight, men’s middleweight, and women’s featherweight divisions in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results in this

Filed under: Keyshawn Davis turned in Team USA’s best performance so far, but didn’t have the most dominant showing of today’s first session. Share this story Share All sharing options for: Tokyo 2020 boxing results (Day 2, Morning Session): Keyshawn Davis wins for Team USA, Khataev and Bachkov dominate, more in full recap

Joe Joyce had some early tough moments against veteran Carlos Takam, but his increasingly famous durability and engine held true to reputation, and he was able to force a stoppage early in the sixth round to stay undefeated. Joyce (13-0, 12 KO) arguably lost the first three rounds of this fight, but had a turning

Day two of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the women’s flyweights, men’s lightweights, and men’s light heavyweights in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results in this