By: Sean Crose WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames, 24-1, defended his title belt on Saturday against the 21-0 Hamzah Sheeraz in Saudi Arabia. The fight was scheduled for 12 championship rounds. The first was something of a feeling out process for each fighter, as both men were strategically patient. The taller Sheeraz was able to
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By: Sean Crose WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson took on the widely unknown Josh Padley Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Stevenson was supposed to have fought Floyd Schofield before Schofield had to drop out of the bout due to an illness. The 15-0 Padley subsequently took the fight on beyond short notice. The question, of course,
By: Sean Crose The 35-3 Joseph Parker wasn’t only a former heavyweight champion. He was a man whose career was on the upswing after having gone through a rough patch. And on Saturday, Parker showed just how game he was when he got into the ring to face the towering, 300+ pound, undefeated, 21-1 Martin
By: Sean Crose And then there was one. After presenting an absolutely terrific card on Saturday, Saudi sports honcho Turki Al-Sheikh gave fans a main event between two future Hall of Famers who were playing back their first razor sharp twelve round affair the previous year. After winning their first throwdown back in October, Artur
By: Sean Crose It was perhaps the most hoped for fight in boxing, a superstar event between two towering Brits for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. Or at least it hasn’t happened yet. For Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua no longer occupy the zenith of the heavyweight mountain. Both
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,
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.