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Posted on 09/24/2022 By: Sean Crose It appears that Jake Paul’s next opponent will be none other than Matchroom honcho Eddie Hearn. No, Paul’s scheduled bout with legendary UFC star turned pro boxer Anderson Silva isn’t in jeopardy. The match with Hearn will be going down in the world of legal proceedings rather than the

Posted on 09/22/2022 By: Sean Crose Sometimes an article requires a preamble. This is one of those articles. The truth is that Boxing Insider can’t confirm what the pay per view numbers for the third Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin pay per view card are. The reality is probably that few people can. Since we’re not sure

Posted on 09/24/2022 By: Sean Crose Shakur Stevenson may not have had his title belts when he stepped into the ring at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Friday night, but there was no doubt the 18-0 fighter had the hometown crowd behind him. Stevenson, who originally hailed from Newark, lost his WBO

Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose On Friday evening, the World Boxing Association released the following statement on social media: “The WBA Championships Committee, in another decision following the world title reduction plan, ordered the bout between Middleweight Super Champion Gennady Golovkin (@GGGBoxing) and his mandatory challenger Erislandy Lara (@Laraboxing) #GGGLara.” And so it appears

Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose “He said yesterday that I am fake,” Robson Conceicao said of Shakur Stevenson after the weigh in for their Friday night fight, “so he shows to the world whose fake – it’s him.” Conceicao was understandably put off by the fact that Stevenson, who held the WBO and WBC

Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose Shakur Stevenson takes on Robson Conceicao in a twelve round main event tonight at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center. The fight will be aired live on ESPN and ESPN+ starting at 10 PM eastern time. The 18-0 Stevenson was supposed to be defending his WBO and WBC junior lightweight

Posted on 09/22/2022 By: Sean Crose Earlier today, WBO and WBC junior lightweight titlist Shakur Stevenson, who is set to face Robson Conceicao tomorrow night in Newark, New Jersey, missed weight by 1.6 pounds. He was given two hours to make things right on the scale. He didn’t bother, opting instead to post the following

Posted on 09/22/2022 By: Sean Crose “I gave it my all,” Shakur Stevenson posted on Twitter Thursday afternoon. He had come in 1.6 pounds overweight on the scales a few minutes earlier at the weigh in for his scheduled Friday night battle with Robson Conceicao, who himself made weight easily. “I’ve been professional my whole

Posted on 09/21/2022 By: Sean Crose At the time it all made a bit of sense. Floyd Mayweather, although forty years of age and retired, was still considered the single most dominant force in boxing. No one, not even former foe Canelo Alvarez, had positioned himself on the throne Mayweather had vacated. Conor McGregor, on

Posted on 09/20/2022 By: Sean Crose It had been said that the postponed undisputed middleweight championship fight between Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall was going to be rescheduled for October 15th. Now it’s been made official. “New Date. Same Mindset,” read a Top Rank Twitter post that appeared Tuesday. Under that post was a promotional

Posted on 09/20/2022 By: Sean Crose “I was a little disappointed in the efforts. It looked like one guy wasn’t ready to fight and he was glad the other guy wasn’t either.” So said famed trainer Abel Sanchez of last Saturday night’s Canelo Golovkin battle. It was the first time the Big Bear, California based

Posted on 09/18/2022 By: Sean Crose So now we’re told that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez should have laid out Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night in Las Vegas. This after we’ve been told over the past several years that Canelo was a ducker, a cheater, a judges’ darling and just an overall over-rated product of hype. Okay,

Posted on 09/19/2022 By: Sean Crose “It’s hard to deny that Golovkin no longer appears to be his prime self in the ring.” The above words weren’t written after last weekend’s third Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight. They were written by me in back 2019, after Golovkin fought in less than stellar fashion against  Sergiy Derevyanchenko.

Posted on 09/17/2022 By Charles Jay Canelo Alvarez is consistently a favorite for his Saturday night bout against Gennady Golovkin (GGG). That’s not a secret. But there is some disparity in terms of the odds at which you can wager on either man. It is not Boxing Insider‘s policy to advertise or promote any individual

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose The 11-0 middleweight Austin Williams opened up DAZN’s Canelo-Golovkin pay per view card Saturday night at Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena by taking on the 18-2-1 Kieron Conway in a scheduled 10 rounder. The opening chapter was something of a feeling out process for each man. Williams moved forward while Conway

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose Popular veteran Gabriel Rosado stepped into the ring as part of the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin undercard at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Saturday. The 26-15-1 fighter was facing the 18-1 Ali Akhmedov in a scheduled super middleweight 10 rounder. The first half of the fight saw Akhmedov looking

Posted on 09/18/2022 By: Sean Crose Saul “Canelo” Alvarez returned to the ring at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday to once again face his arch rival, Gennady Golovkin. The first two controversial fights (which ended in a draw and a Canelo victory, respectively) between the two men had been held in the

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, the 22 year old undefeated WBC super flyweight champion of the world slipped in between the ropes at Vegas’ T-Mobil Arena Saturday night to take on the 28-4-1 Israel Gonzalez in a championship affair scheduled for 12 rounds. This was the first defense of the 16-0 Rodriguez’