Fighting

Fightzone (UK), TBA, Myron Mills vs Lucas Ballingall. Fightzone is a UK streaming service with, being honest, lower-tier fights, but lower-tier fights aren’t always a bad thing, necessarily. Look how great Jake Paul is! This is for the English lightweight title, which is a stepping stone toward a British title. You may have seen Mills

Brandon Figueroa is now WBC super bantamweight world champion (and WBA ‘regular’ champion) after scoring clearly the biggest win of his entire career, knocking out Luis Nery in the seventh round of action last night. Immediately after his win to claim the green belt Figueroa discussed the fight and his his feelings on making it

Brandon Figueroa TKO-7 Luis Nery Tonight’s Showtime main event largely lived up to Carson, CA standards with a fast-paced action fight between titleholder Luis Nery and Brandon Figueroa before Figueroa ultimately scored the stoppage to win the WBC and WBA ‘regular’ world title. Nery actually got off to a fast start in this fight, finding

Tonight at 10 pm ET live on Showtime, Luis Nery and Brandon Figueroa headline a three-fight card, with the WBC and WBA “regular” junior featherweight titles on the line. We’ll have live updates for the event, and and all of those, including round-by-round from Wil Esco, will update in this stream: Nery made a somewhat

Former WBC heavyweight champion and self-destructive cosplay enthusiast Deontay Wilder has declared Malik Scott his new trainer. The move comes 6 months after Wilder accused his former trainer Mark Breland of plotting against him, drugging his water, and scheming with nefarious accomplices in the United Kingdom. Over the past few weeks, Wilder has shared multiple

An excellent super welterweight battle is on the horizon, as promoter Sampson Lewkowicz revealed that unbeaten contenders Sebastian Fundora and Sergio Garcia have signed to square off on FOX later this year. The date and location will “be announced shortly.” The announcement doesn’t say whether it’s an eliminator of any kind, but considering the pair

Former world titleholder Danny Roman (28-3-1, 10 KOs) is set to take on Ricardo Espinoza Franco (25-3, 21 KOs) in tomorrow evening’s Showtime co-main event and during yesterday’s final press conference Roman shared his final thoughts about fight before the two square off in the ring. “I’m a former unified champion and I’m still overlooked,”

During today’s final press conference Brandon Figueroa shared his final thoughts before going head-to-head with Luis Nery this weekend in Showtime’s world title main event. Figueroa says he’s in tremendous shape for this bout and is believes that Nery is in for a tougher fight than he’s expecting. “I had what was probably one of

As Top Rank’s Carl Moretti revealed late last month, former two-division champion Jose Pedraza will meet rising prospect Julian “Hammer Hands” Rodriguez on ESPN’s June 12th Shakur Stevenson vs Jeremiah Nakathila card. Puerto Rican young gun Xander Zayas will be in action as well against TBA. Pedraza (28-3, 13 KO) enjoyed a strong 2020 after

As we continue to wait on new of Manny Pacquiao’s official return to the ring, one potential opponent in Mikey Garcia discusses his negotiations with Pacquiao to say that much interest has been expressed in making the fight happen but that it just hasn’t gotten over the hump thus far. Garcia tells WBN that Pacquiao

Last week, Bad Left Hook shared the story of DAZN’s entry into the non-fungible token (NFT) market with a limited series of Canelo Alvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders NFTs. DAZN originally planned to offer over 4200 NFTs based on the fight. 23 would sell at auction for a price to be determined, with 4210 listed

Two previously brewing fights are set to share a very interesting-looking card, as Mike Coppinger reports that DAZN will host a July 9th doubleheader featuring Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez vs. Sullivan Barrera and Joseph Diaz Jr. vs. Javier Fortuna. Ramirez (41-0, 27 KO) will be making his first appearance since signing with Golden Boy this past

Top Rank announced the undercard lineup for the May 22 undisputed super-lightweight unification between WBC and WBO titleist Jose Ramirez (26-0, 17 KO) and IBF and WBA champion Josh Taylor (17-0, 13 KO). Two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez (6-1, 4 KO) makes his return against Juan Tapia (10-3, 3 KO) in a featherweight matchup.

Billy Joe Saunders has a lengthy stretch of recovery ahead of him, but there’s a silver lining. Mike Coppinger reports that the former WBO super middleweight champion took home $8 million for last Saturday’s unification bout with Canelo Alvarez. Saunders (30-1, 14 KO), who vacated his middleweight title over a drug test dispute before beating

Another week has passed and we’ve still yet to receive official confirmation on the undisputed heavyweight title unification between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. Even yesterday Joshua himself took to social media to express some of his frustration that negotiations have continued to linger. “Spartan.” I’m tired. My fans are tired. Your fans are tired.

Well, Scott called it. After going through a whole stretch of negotiations that culminated in Matchroom winning the purse bid, Michael Hunter has officially withdrawn from his ordered IBF eliminator against Filip Hrgovic. Eddie Hearn had some choice words for “The Bounty” on Boxing Social; Boxing News 24/7 transcribed the relevant bits. “What a waste

On the heels of Billy Joe Saunders’ TKO loss on Saturday due to what sounds like a severe orbital injury, many in the boxing world were eager to hear from Daniel Dubois. While he would have been well within his rights to take Saunders to task, the 23-year-old British heavyweight prospect showed his maturity and

Did Billy Joe Saunders “quit?” Well, he didn’t come out for round nine, so you could say Saunders quit after eight rounds against Canelo Alvarez on Saturday evening. But isn’t “quit” perhaps too harsh a term, being that Canelo Alvarez can crack a bit, and the right uppercut he landed clean in round eight did