Jake Donovan announced yesterday that super lightweight Regis Prograis has suffered a shoulder injury in training, forcing him out of a February 15th DAZN main event opposite Oscar Duarte. Prograis (29-3, 24 KO) appeared to confirm the news on his Twitter this morning. All that sacrifice and training for nothing — Rougarou (@RPrograis) February 5,
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Fresh off of her heavyweight title win over Danielle Perkins, Claressa Shields is setting her sights on a rematch of her 2022 fight with Savannah Marshall — but this one she wants to stage at heavyweight according to her promoter Dmitry Sailta. Shields took a unanimous decision win over Marshall in their first meeting at
Derek Chisora speaks to boxing media about this upcoming fight against Otto Wallin and his trash talk leading into to the bout. Chisora makes it clear that he’s not specifically trying to get into Wallin’s head before the fight and is just telling it like it is — although he does plan on breaking Wallin
Miguel Madueno has been officially announced as Oscar Duarte’s new opponent for a Feb. 15 main event on DAZN, replacing the injured Regis Prograis. The 26-year-old “Explosivo” has lost two of his last three, but is a scrapper and realistically about the best Golden Boy were going to be able to do on under two
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn spends some time talking to boxing media about recent rumors of Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford being off and recent word of Canelo being lined up to face Jake Paul. Hearn doesn’t dismiss the possibility of Canelo vs Crawford happening at some point, but says there is a real offer for
Canelo Alvarez and Jake Paul look like they’re really, actually going to fight in real life. ESPN.com’s Mike Coppinger is reporting that a deal is being “finalized” for a May 3 fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Canelo would be moving up to cruiserweight to face the social media star and hobbyist boxer in
Under the byline of “The Ring Staff,” Ring Magazine announced yesterday that the supposedly agreed-upon showdown between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford was “now canceled.” The article declined to elaborate, instead promising more details “when obtained,” but we now have an explanation: Mike Coppinger reports that Turki Alalshikh pulled the plug in response to Alvarez’s
The last week or so has been a bit of a roller coaster ride with respects to Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming plans. First it was announced that Canelo had reached terms for a fight against Terence Crawford. Soon after it was reported by Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring magazine that a Canelo vs Crawford fight had been
By: Sean Crose IIt all seemed to have gone beyond pre fight hype. Light heavyweight power houses David Benavidez, 29-0, and David Morrell, 11-0, truly seemed to not like each other. Perhaps it was a simple clash of personalities. Or maybe their scheduled Saturday night pay per view main event had too much on the
Today the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame (ACBHOF) unveiled the twenty (20) honorees chosen for induction into its Hall of Fame. The prestigious 9th Annual Awards & Induction Weekend is scheduled to take place on Friday, September 26th, to Sunday, September 28th, 2025, at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. 2025 INDUCTION CLASS:
Boxing Insider Promotions brings club boxing back to NYC again on Thursday Night Feb 20th at Sony Hall in Times Square and will be streamed live on videos.BoxingInsider.com and international on DAZN. The 10-round, featured fight pits one of boxing’s best kept secrets, Tennessee welterweight Avious Griffin (16-0, 15 KOs) versus Jose Luis “Guerro” Sanchez
By: Sean Crose Ring Magazine reports that a hoped for dream fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford is about to become a reality. The bout is said to be going down in Las Vegas as a Riyadh Season event in September. Not all that long ago, the bout was considered nothing more than a
By: Sean Crose Things seem to be changing for the better. Not all that long ago, well regarded fighters who suffered a single defeat were taken to the online woodshed where they would be charged with being hype jobs who had been “exposed’ by their victorious opponents. That no longer seems to be the case.
By: Sean Crose It was fun while it lasted. The Ring Magazine reported on Wednesday that the agreed to fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford is off. This just days after it was reported across the internet that the fight had become a reality. The lesson, once again, is that boxing is a sport
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz By: Sean Crose It really is a shallow world we live in. At least that seems to be the case at times. And now is one of those times. Immediately after it was reported that a hoped for battle between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez had fallen through, word
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn has made some recent noise for his criticism of Naoya Inoue and his standing among the top pound-for-pound best fighters in the world considering the kind of competition he’s been facing lately. Here in this interview with iFL TV Hearn tries to explain his position while not completely discrediting Inoue. “I
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Following the final press conference for David Benavidez’s fight against David Morrell tomorrow night, Benavidez takes some time to talk to Fight Hub TV about what he noticed in his opponent during the final presser and his expectations for his performance. Here are some excerpts of what Benavidez had
Riyadh Season is back with the theatrics. Late last year Turki Alalshikh’s company produced an epic trailer for the undisputed light heavyweight showdown between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, and they’ve come back with another one in anticipation of the Feb. 22 rematch between the fighters. The rematch, which has been entitled The Last Crescendo,