Fighting

Conor Benn was on hand yesterday in London as David Avanesyan broke down and stopped Josh Kelly in the sixth round. Benn and Kelly (10-1-1, 6 KO) have been positioned for a possible future showdown, maybe even this year, but obviously that’s not going to be in the cards with the 26-year-old Kelly needing to

Friday, Feb. 26 DAZN, 1:00 pm ET, Canelo Alvarez vs Avni Yildirim weigh-in. These fellows are going to stand on scales and someone will tell us what they weigh. BLH will have live coverage. DAZN, 1:30 pm ET, Daniele Scardina vs Cesar Nunez. A pretty standard Matchroom Italy show, which, y’know. It is what it

Oscar Valdez pulled a solid upset and may have landed the Knockout of the Year on Saturday night, walloping Miguel Berchelt at the end of the 10th round to complete a near-perfect performance and take the WBC 130-pound title. Lightweight champ Teofimo Lopez was on hand in the Top Rank “bubble” in Las Vegas, and

Today at 2 pm ET streaming live on DAZN (7 pm UK time on Sky Sports), David Avanesyan defends his European welterweight title against Josh Kelly in the Matchroom main event from London. We’ll have fight-by-fight results as they come in, plus live commentary and discussion in the comments section below. Avanesyan, 32, and Kelly,

Tonight on ESPN and streaming live on ESPN+, Miguel Berchelt defends his WBC junior lightweight world title against former featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez in the Top Rank Boxing main event. Coverage will start at 6:30 pm ET for the undercard prelim bouts on ESPN+, and then we’ll have live, round-by-round updates for the two main

Fairly often, Bob Arum will admit that he is prone to acting like a promoter and putting on a too-cheery face even if the circumstances would dictate otherwise if he didn’t have a dog in the hunt. I was thinking about that when I asked him Friday if he definitely expected an instant classic Saturday

Following yesterday’s somewhat low-key announcement that Adrien Broner and Jovanie Santiago had “mutually agreed” to push their fight from 140 to 147 pounds on Saturday night, today’s weigh-in figured to be OK, and it was. Broner (33-4-1, 24 KO) and Santiago (14-0-1, 10 KO) both came in under the new limit, with Broner at 146

Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn took some open questions from fans on Instagram on Thursday, giving some updates on the likes of Callum Smith, Devin Haney, the Fury-Joshua fight (kinda!), Josh Warrington following his loss to Mauricio Lara, and many more. Some of what Hearn had to say, mostly the boxing stuff, nothing about his

The planned rematch between Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte, which is set to stream on DAZN and air on Sky Box Office, could possibly be facing further delay. Originally scheduled for January, Povetkin came down with COVID and had to pull out, and even if that hadn’t happened, UK boxing shut down for the month

Cecilia Braekhus sounded as if she were contemplating retirement after her upset defeat at the hands of Jessica McCaskill last August. “I don’t know what will happen right now,” she said. “I’m so proud to be a part of women’s boxing right now. If this is my last fight, I can leave boxing saying that

Janelson Figueroa Bocachica stayed unbeaten with a majority decision win over Mark Reyes Jr in tonight’s ShoBox: The New Generation main event, edging scores of 96-94 and 97-93 on two cards, with the third even, 95-95. Bad Left Hook scored the fight 96-94 for Bocachica (17-0, 11 KO), with a good handful of swing rounds

During a conversation with FightHype, lightweight star Ryan Garcia responds to some recent comments made by Teofimo Lopez that the other three of the ‘new four kings’ in the division — namely Garcia, Gervonta Davis, and Devin Haney — aren’t really ‘hot’ in boxing. Obviously Garcia takes umbrage about comments questioning his stardom, and gives

Well, Bob Arum was hoping Eddie Hearn would shut up about the Fury-Joshua negotiations, but Sky Sports went and asked Big Ed if the situation with Deontay Wilder and Fury could be a problem, so Hearn had to answer, right? Hearn told Sky it’s not on their side, but that he doesn’t expect it to

PBC’s Feb. 27 card on FOX is official and finalized, with former super middleweight titlist Anthony Dirrell returning in the main event, and prospects Jesus Ramos and Vito Mielnicki Jr in undercard bouts. The show will be running head-to-head with Canelo Alvarez’s return on DAZN, so frankly it’s going to fly way under the radar,

Josh Warrington suffered a shock loss to Mauricio Lara on Saturday in London, an early (and strong) leader for 2021 Upset of the Year, but the 30-year-old Warrington has received a lot of supports from fans in his home city and across the United Kingdom, and gave his thanks for that. “The support from the

With less than two weeks to go until his scheduled clash with WBC mandatory super middleweight challenger Avni Yildirim, Canelo Alvarez sat down with TUDN to discuss his current and future plans. First off, despite a brief sojourn to light heavyweight to maul Sergey Kovalev in 2019, Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KO) has no intention of

Following his WBO junior middleweight title win over Patrick Teixeira over the weekend, newly-crowned world champion Brian Castano talks about his big win and where he wants to go from here. Check out some excerpts what he had to tell our friends from Fight Hub TV below… Castano on how he feels after winning the

Now-former junior lightweight titlist Joseph Diaz Jr had a bit of a rough weekend, losing his IBF belt on the scales Friday, and then going to a draw with Shavkat Rakhimov in their Saturday night fight on DAZN. But Diaz (31-1-1, 15 KO) isn’t planning to move up from 130 pounds, and has called out