Fighting

Andre Ward retired from boxing in 2017, and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame this past December, part of the 2021 class. But Ward also will only turn 37 in just over a week. He’s not that old. And he’s still fielding questions about if he might come back to the ring.

SHO, 9:00 pm ET, Janelson Bocachica Figueroa vs Mark Reyes Jr, Vladimir Shishkin vs Sena Agbeko, Alejandro Guerrero vs Abraham Montoya, Timur Kerefov vs Argenis Espana. ShoBox is back with four fights scheduled, so get ready to lose at least one, as has unfortunately become tradition. It’s not anyone’s fault, really, eight fighters can be

Former lightweight titleholder Richard Commey bounced back big in his first fight since 2019, knocking out Jackson Marinez in a late notice main event tonight on ESPN. Commey (30-3, 27 KO) announced that he certainly isn’t going to fade out of contention at 135 pounds just yet, picking up a solid win that keeps the

British boxing is back in the ring after January’s shutdown, and Leigh Wood has given us an early year highlight, knocking out Reece Mould in nasty fashion to win the vacant British featherweight title. The end came in the ninth round of what had been a gritty, tough fight from both men, with Wood (24-3,

Josh Warrington makes his return to the ring today on DAZN and Sky Sports (UK), as the now former featherweight titlist faces Mauricio Lara in the Matchroom Boxing main event. Warrington, 30, recently vacated the IBF title, but plans to stay at 126 pounds and seek bigger fights, feeling the IBF weren’t going to help

As Jackson Marinez gets ready for tomorrow evening’s ESPN lightweight main event, taking on former titleholder Richard Commey, Marinez isn’t sulking about his much debated loss to Rolando Romero last time out. Instead Marinez tells RingTV that he’s taken the loss as a test from which he’ll come back even stronger. And looking towards Commey

Joseph Diaz Jr is set to make the first defense of his IBF junior lightweight title Saturday night on DAZN (Feb. 13, 8 pm ET), as he faces Russia’s Shavkat Rakhimov in a main event from Indio, Calif. Diaz (31-1, 15 KO) took the belt from Tevin Farmer just over a year ago in Miami

Larry Merchant — the wordsmith who started out as a newspaperman and graced HBO airwaves with his often poetic and trenchant analysis for 35 years — sounded upbeat and ready to party when congratulated on making it to the 90-year mark. “It’s been a good day,” Merchant told me, after I sang him a few

Matchroom Boxing returns to Barcelona on Friday, March 26th with two European title fights and a couple of Spain’s best fighters in store. The main event sees European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin (37-2, 13 KO) look for his ninth consecutive victory and second successful defense of the title he stopped Andrea Scarpa to claim

Iran Barkley is indeed in the hospital after testing positive for COVID, but the three-weight champ from the Bronx told BLH that he is feeling decent. Once a fighter, always a fighter. “I’m hanging in, buddy,” Barkley, age 60, told me on Wednesday evening. “I went to the hospital last week, because I started coughing,

WBC lightweight titleholder Devin Haney says he’s not getting all riled up by Teofimo Lopez’s taunting about being undisputed lightweight champion, but instead says Lopez knows they eventually need to meet in order to settle things in the ring. Haney calls Lopez a ‘liar’ and accuses him of constantly changing his story to skirt a

Queensberry Promotions have won the purse bid for the ordered British and Commonwealth middleweight title unification between Denzel Bentley and Felix Cash. No further details — date, etc. — just yet, but it moves a terrific domestic UK clash forward. The 26-year-old Bentley (14-0-1, 12 KO) and the 27-year-old Cash (13-0, 9 KO) are both

With Manny Pacquiao back in training and promising “big news coming soon,” the global sporting icon and bona fide boxing legend is back in the spotlight. Now 42, Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 KO) is still a top-tier star in the sport, and still looked like a hell of a good fighter when we last saw him.

Senator Manny Pacquiao is expected to be back in the ring before long as Pacquiao himself has come out to announce that training camp for his next bout is underway. The 42-year-old legend posted on Twitter today that he’s not done adding to his lengthy resume in the sport of boxing. Training camp has begun.

Dan Rafael reports that, as previously reported here, quasi-undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez and IBF mandatory challenger George Kambosos Jr are headed to a Feb. 18 purse bid. Per the sanctioning body’s regulations, this will result in a 65/35 split between champion and challenger. The pair can continue to negotiate until then and cancel the

Well, it’s no surprise that Deontay Wilder didn’t take too kindly to his former trainer’s recent criticisms of his work ethic and boxing ability. So coming back to respond to Mark Breland’s comments, Wilder says Breland has revealed himself for the jealous snake he is. Check out some excerpts of what Wilder had to say

Michael B. Jordan and Jay-Z are putting their companies together with Amazon Studios to produce a limited series on the life of Muhammad Ali, according to Deadline. Jordan, likely familiar to boxing fans particularly as the star of the Creed franchise, won’t be playing Ali, but his Outlier Society company and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation will

Teofimo Lopez, who holds the WBA, IBF, and WBO lightweight titles and is considered far and wide the top man at 135 pounds right now, is never one to shy away from offering an opinion, whether asked for one or not. Lopez listed his top five current lightweights in the sport, with himself rightly in