Fighting

June has a lot of fights to choose from for a top 10 of the month’s boxing offerings. Definitely a lot of fights to choose from. Are they a good lot of fights to choose from? Well, there’s the rub. Boxing’s had a good start to 2021, believe it or not (if you don’t want

Another fight, another win that builds the legend of Nonito Donaire, as he stopped Nordine Oubaali inside of four rounds to become the oldest recognized bantamweight champion in boxing history. At 38, Donaire (41-6, 27 KO) has countryman Gerry Penalosa beaten by three years to take the record, picking up the WBC belt after a

Tonight at 10 pm ET on Showtime, Nordine Oubaali will defend the WBC bantamweight title against Hall of Fame-bound Nonito Donaire, with Donaire looking to become the oldest major bantamweight champion in boxing history at age 38. We’ll have full coverage and highlights, plus round-by-round updates for the main event, right here in this stream,

This evening at 8 pm ET streaming live on DAZN, Devin Haney returns to defend his WBC lightweight title against Jorge Linares in a main event from Las Vegas. All updates, including round-by-round for Haney vs Linares from Wil Esco, will be in this stream, which updates itself: It’s a big fight for Haney, obviously,

Kevin Iole reports that Jean Pascal is out of his scheduled June 6 rematch with Badou Jack, which was to be the key co-feature for the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul exhibition PPV, with Pascal failing a drug test for the steroids epitrenbolone, drostanolone, and drostanolone metabolite A. The 38-year-old Pascal (35-6-1, 20 KO) and the 37-year-old

Saturday night on DAZN, Devin Haney returns to defend his WBC lightweight title against veteran Jorge Linares, a four-division titlist who will be Haney’s stiffest test to date on paper. Does the 22-year-old prove out, or will the 35-year-old Linares expose some weaknesses in the young man’s game? Scott Christ (34-10-2) I’m probably about as

Saturday night on Showtime, Nonito Donaire will attempt to make further history in his already Hall of Fame-bound career, as he looks to take the WBC bantamweight title from Nordine Oubaali and become the oldest bantamweight titleholder ever. Can he do it, or does Oubaali get the win and possibly send Donaire into retirement? Scott

Top Rank has officially revealed that their June 26th Vasiliy Lomachenko-Masayoshi Nakatani card will see former WBA “world” middleweight champion Rob Brant face Kazakh Olympian Janibek Alimkhanuly in the co-feature. Brant’s roller-coaster career saw him rise through the ranks at middleweight before making a one-and-done trip to 168 for the World Boxing Super Series, where

During this media session captured by Fight Hub TV, Teofimo Lopez Sr explains how he and his son are seeking a match up against newly-minted undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor, saying Taylor is scared to face his son because he knows he can’t match up. Check out some of what Lopez Sr. had to

Former Cincinnati Bengals star Chad Johnson has long been out of the sporting world’s spotlight, playing his last game for the New England Patriots in 2011, but now at 43, he’s set to make a boxing debut of sorts, participating in an exhibition on the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul card on Sunday, June 6. Johnson will

News broke earlier this year that flyweight wunderkind Junto Nakatani would make the first defense of his WBO title against former light flyweight champ Angel Acosta on May 29th, but the increasingly strict COVID protocols Japan enacted in preparation for Tokyo 2021 put the kibosh on that. Luckily, the fight is still alive, and the

Jean Pascal and Badou Jack have pretty much been on a course for a rematch since their controversial and thrilling first fight in late 2019, and the two will get a chance to settle the score with one another on Sunday, June 6, when they meet on the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul card. The 38-year-old Pascal

Showtime really seems committed to propping up the worst of its upcoming main events with strong undercards. Mike Coppinger, Julius Julianis, and Espabox all report that unbeaten Dominican lightweight Michel Rivera will face Spanish finisher Jon Fernandez as part of the July 3rd Chris Colbert vs Yuriorkis Gamboa undercard. Both men saw marquee fights fall

We’ve heard little from Gennadiy Golovkin since a potential clash with Jaime Munguia fell through, but according to Dan Rafael, some plans are a-brewin’. A source tells him that GGG Promotions is “in advanced discussions” with Teiken Promotions’ Akihiko Honda to stage a unification with WBA champion Ryota Murata on New Year’s Eve. There are

Frank Warren shared some interesting tidbits in this week’s BT Sport column, including Tyson Fury’s planned July 24th trilogy match with Deontay Wilder, Jake Paul turning down a fight with Tommy Fury, and his desire to have Callum Johnson face Joshua Buatsi. As far as concrete fight info, he reports that Sunny Edwards’ first defense

Looks like we’re already getting answers about Josh Taylor’s next steps. Bob Arum tells Lance Pugmire that Taylor intends to face WBO mandatory challenger Jack Catterall in July, then “pursue a big fight” with either Terence Crawford or Teofimo Lopez by the end of 2021. As Scott points out in that first link, Catterall (26-0,

Rankings go up on Mondays at 10 am ET. Ranked fights this week: Lightweight: (4) Devin Haney vs (6) Jorge Linares, May 29 Bantamweight: (2) Nordine Oubaali vs (3) Nonito Donaire, May 29 Junior Flyweight: (4) Carlos Canizales vs Esteban Bermudez, May 28 Minimumweight: (1) Knockout CP Freshmart vs Pongsaklek Sithdabnij, May 29 Notes: Now

Josh Taylor joined a short list of four-belt undisputed world champions on Saturday, beating Jose Ramirez to become the fully unified man at 140 lbs. Taylor (18-0, 13 KO) spoke with media at the post-fight press conference about his performance and what could be next. On setting a precedent for other fighters “I don’t know.