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This Saturday night is the third installment of the classic modern rivalry between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin, with the Mexican king putting his undisputed Super-Middleweight crown on the line against Kazakhstan’s reigning WBA and IBF Middleweight ruler in the most anticipated match up of 2022. (photos by Ed Mulholland) The co-main fight stars Super-Flyweight

The anticipation builds as ‘King’ Lyndon Arthur (19-1, 13 KOs) trained in front of the media yesterday ahead of his clash against Walter ‘El Yacare’ Sequeira (25-9-1, 17 KOs) as part of a night of free-to-air boxing on Saturday September 17 at the University of Bolton Stadium, live on Channel 5 from 9:30pm. Arthur had

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz LAS VEGAS – There they sat Thursday, several feet apart, yet so close to the night they’ll finally be able to put hands on one another again. After more twists and turns than anyone can remember, Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin were just two days away from the high-profile

Eddie Hearn says he is working on the assumption that the fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will go ahead, even though he still has a plan B if it all falls through. Joshua agreed to Fury’s offer to box on December 3 in Cardiff, taking the low end of a 60-40 split in

Promoter Eddie Hearn is backing Youtube star turned boxer, Jake Paul, to overcome former UFC champion Anderson Silva on October 29. SIlva is Paul’s first opponent with actual pro boxing experience. Last year, Silva pulled off an upset when outboxed former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to a decision win. Paul had two opponents

Undefeated Cuban heavyweight Frank Sanchez will be looking to make a big statement on October 15, with the idea of landing a world title fight in the near future. Sanchez will collide with Carlos Negron on the undercard to Deontay Wilder’s clash with Robert Helenius at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Sanchez (20-0, 13 KOs) will take

Sebastian Fundora has the right idea. In an era where top contenders are willing to sacrifice ring activity and momentum just to wait out a title shot, the unbeaten 24-year-old has no desire to sit on his lead. While he presently serves as the WBC mandatory challenger and interim junior middleweight titlist for undisputed champion

The World Boxing Council has finally ranked Anthony Joshua in their top ten – which WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman explains was done because the British star is no longer aligned with another sanctioning body.  Most see the ranking as a calculated move, because Joshua’s handlers are in talks for a year-end fight with WBC heavyweight

Former four division world champion Mikey Garcia is backing IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO super middleweight world champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in the upcoming trilogy fight with Gennady Golovkin. The two rivals will collide on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Canelo is coming off a twelve round decision loss to WBA light

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz This Saturday night is the third installment of the classic modern rivalry between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin, with the Mexican king putting his undisputed Super-Middleweight crown on the line against Kazakhstan’s reigning WBA and IBF Middleweight ruler in the most anticipated match up of 2022. (photos by Ed

French Y12 Boxing won the purse bids today for EBU super lightweight champ Enock Poulsen’s mandatory defense against Franck Petitjean with a bid for 38,000 Euro. Danish Fight Night bid 35,343 Euro. The fight will go ahead November 26 in Creteil, France. Poulsen beat Petitjean earlier this year, but an immediate rematch was ordered by

USA Boxing’s reigning World champions – Maryland featherweight Jahmal Harvey, Massachusetts lightweight Rashida Ellis and Nevada light heavyweight Rahim Gonzales – have all decided, albeit for different reasons, to remain elite Olympic-style amateur boxers rather than join the professional ranks. Harvey is following his dream, Ellis taking care of unfinished business, and Gonzales has proven

As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Subriel Matias will have to wait a little longer for his world title opportunity. The boxer from Fajardo announced over the weekend that his fight against Argentine Jeremias Ponce, scheduled for October 15 for the vacant 140-pound title of the International Boxing Federation (IBF,) had to be postponed due to “irresponsibility”

Alycia Baumgardner thinks the unfortunate delay to her 130-pound unification fight will not exactly play in the favor of her opponent. The women’s WBC 130-pound champion from Michigan will not be taking on WBO, IBF champion Mikaela Mayer in their unification bout as planned on the undercard of the Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall undisputed middleweight championship

Although Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin fought for the first time in 2017, the boxing world has been discussing them fighting much longer than that. The two have been in one another’s orbit for over eight years, first as “dream opponents” with Canelo the bigger star chasing Golovkin in acclaim, and Golovkin inversely wanting Canelo’s

Johnathon Banks, the head trainer of Gennadiy Golovkin, believes his fighter is going to upset the odds this coming Saturday night, when he faces Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in a trilogy fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. In the first two meetings, Golovkin was trained by his longtime coach Abel Sanchez. The first bout,

Edgar Berlanga roared loudly following the first 16 fights of his career. While the violent stoppage victories placed the super middleweight contender on the map, Juan De Leon, Berlanga’s new trainer, becomes agitated when his fighter’s knockout power begins to steal all of the headlines. More than anything, although De Leon knows good and well

The International Boxing Association notes the comments in respect of the recent communication from the IOC; this includes a revised version of the Paris 2024 Boxing Qualification System (OQS). Whilst they acknowledge the changes, the IBA remains concerned, specifically with regards to the removal of the ranking pathway which was originally agreed in April of