Fighting

Billy Joe Saunders was pulled from his fight with Canelo Alvarez on Saturday after eight rounds, suffering a very clear injury to the eye. The severity was speculated on overnight, with a broken orbital bone seeming most likely, and we do have an update today from promoter Eddie Hearn, who says Saunders will undergo surgery

DAZN, 2:00 pm ET, Joshua Buatsi vs Daniel Blenda Dos Santos, Lerrone Richards vs Giovanni De Carolis, Tommy McCarthy vs Alexandru Jur, Gamal Yafai vs Jason Cunningham, Dalton Smith vs Lee Appleyard. This show was originally meant to be headlined by a 130 lb world title unification between Terri Harper and Hyun Mi Choi, but

Canelo Alvarez made his second fight in the first half of 2021 one to remember, as he stopped Billy Joe Saunders in front of over 70,000 fans at AT&T Stadium in Texas, unifying the WBC, WBA, and WBO super middleweight titles. Saunders (30-1, 14 KO) will surely be back, as an orbital bone injury —

Tonight at 8 pm ET on DAZN, Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders headline a four-fight card from DAZN, with the main event itself expected around 11 pm ET. We’ll be here with full live coverage starting from 5:25 pm ET for the live streaming prelims, and then Wil Esco will have round-by-round coverage for

No, a formal announcement for the undisputed heavyweight title unification between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua has not come to pass just yet, but the good news is Tyson Fury is still publicly talking as if he’ll be in the ring opposite Joshua in the near future. In fact Fury is even going so far

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Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders are set for tomorrow night’s main event on DAZN, with both making weight, meaning all three belts are officially on the line, and we’re good to go. Canelo (55-1-2, 37 KO) will defend his WBC and WBA super middleweight titles, coming in at 167.4, with WBO titleholder Saunders (30-0,

Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders are ready for Saturday night’s main event on DAZN (8 pm ET), live from AT&T Stadium in Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys. 60,000 or so fans are expected in the stadium for what will be one of the biggest fights of 2021. Scott Christ (33-8-2) I’ve really tried

As the horrendous story behind a murdered young Puerto Rican woman develops, Felix Verdejo — who’s been formally accused of being behind the killing — has just been indicted by a grand jury, with the possibility of the death penalty. Keishla Rodriguez’s body was recently found in a local body of water in Puerto Rico

WBO light heavyweight titleholder Joe Smith Jr says he’s on the hunt to unify world titles. Smith snagged a belt in a hotly debated win over Maxim Vlasov last month and has since been linked to a potential unification fight against WBC and IBF champion Artur Beterbiev, though nothing official has been announced at this

Tyson Fury is in Texas to see his friend Billy Joe Saunders take on Canelo Alvarez this Saturday, and while Canelo is a clear if not crazy betting favorite, Fury is leaning the other way, and hard. “Absolutely, 100 percent (Saunders is) gonna smash this motherfucker. 100 percent,” Fury said. “I think he’s gonna give

Yesterday, PBC sent out a press release for its May 15th Luis Nery-Brandon Figueroa tripleheader on Showtime. The main event and the co-feature between Danny Roman and Ricardo Espinoza remain intact, though the opening bout has received an adjustment. Rather than meet Abraham Montoya, prospect Xavier Martinez will take on former title challenger Juan Carlos

Boxing can be a very “what have you done for me lately?” world, and in some respects, there’s good reason for that. The most recent performances of a fighter are generally the most important in trying to figure out how they’re going to look the next time out. That’s not to say that fights further

DiBella Entertainment announced the signing of amateur star Mikiah Kreps (1-0, 1 KO as a pro) on Tuesday. The 24-year-old from Niagara Falls, New York, is a two-time winner of the National Golden Gloves tournament (2014, 2019), and received a bronze medal at the 2019 AIBA World Championships. Kreps is managed by Jamel Herring and

With Billy Joe Saunders threatening to withdraw from his fight with Canelo Alvarez on Saturday if he’s forced to fight in a 20-foot ring, we’ve either got a pretty familiar situation of fight week nonsense drama meant to draw late attention to the fact that a fight is happening on Saturday, or we might possibly

Last week we asked if you’d be ordering the Ruiz-Arreola pay-per-view. I kind of got the expected result: 11 percent said yes, 55 percent said no, 34 percent said they were going to watch but via, uh, other means than buying the PPV. I don’t really know why you wouldn’t watch at all, it was

Former NFL star Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson will make his boxing debut on June 6th as part of the undercard of Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul. Johnson will fight an exhibition match against a yet-to-be-determined opponent. ESPN reports that Johnson will likely fight in a 4 or 6 round match against a celebrity or fellow athlete

As Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez gets ready to unify super middleweight titles with Billy Joe Saunders this weekend, Alvarez shares some of his thoughts on the recent trend on YouTube fighters — most notably Jake and Logan Paul who have crashed the sport with their novelty events. And with Jake Paul describing himself as an