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WBC, WBA, IBF middleweight champion Claressa Shields is two weeks away from her long awaited grudge match with career arch-rival Savannah Marshall, who holds the WBO strap at 160-pounds. Their undisputed clash will take place at the O2 Arena in London on September 10, live on ESPN+ and Sky Sports. Shields will be looking to avenge

The latest edition of Boxeo Estrella TV sees a reunion among main event participants and the show’s leading promoters. Hylan Ramos and Ernesto Salcedo both made weight ahead of their scheduled ten-round rematch, which comes with a regional junior featherweight title at stake. Ramos weighed 121 pounds, while Salcedo was 121.6 pounds for Friday’s aptly

Frank Warren has countered the take of rival promoter, Eddie Hearn. In a recent interview, Hearn – who promotes heavyweight Anthony Joshua – explained the reasons behind his boxer’s decision to throw two titles out of the ring after losing his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk last Saturday in Saudi Arabia. “He’s held on to those

Two former world champions, a heavyweight knockout artist, and a US. Olympic silver medalist take the spotlight Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa. (photos by Mikey Williams) In the 10-round main event, Puerto Rico’s former two-weight world champion Jose “Sniper” Pedraza (29-4, 14 KOs) will battle former lightweight champion Richard “RC”

Jose Pedraza didn’t hesitate to take another difficult fight after his points loss to Jose Ramirez five months ago. From Pedraza’s perspective, beating Richard Commey on Saturday night will move him into position to secure a 140-pound title shot, something that has eluded the two-division champion since he moved up from the lightweight division. Like

Naoya Inoue will delay his pursuit of a fourth divisional crown long enough to chase history. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a deal has been in place for an undisputed bantamweight championship clash between Japan’s Inoue and England’s Paul Butler. The lineal/WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO title fight will take place December 13 at a location to be determined in

Alberto “La Avispa” Puello (21-0) made history Saturday night in Hollywood, Florida.  Puello captured the WBA super lightweight title with a split decision victory over Botirzhon Akhmedov (9-2).  The final scores were 117-111 in favor of Puello on two scorecards which overruled the 115-113 score in favor of Akhmedov.  With the victory, Puello became the

Not even Barry Hearn believes his star charge Anthony Joshua did quite enough to beat Oleksandr Uysk. The founder and president of Matchroom Sport, Hearn offered an honest assessment of Joshua’s performance against Ukraine’s Usyk in their heavyweight title unification rematch last Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The fight went the distance, with Usyk winning

Gennadiy Golovkin is less than a month away from his grudge match with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. On September 17th, Golovkin will face Canelo for a third time at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. They initially fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in 2017. A year later, Canelo won a very close twelve

Daniel Dubois is nearing a point where the only fighting he has to worry about will take place in the ring. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that significant progress has been made in settling an active lawsuit that the British heavyweight has filed against Don King Productions earlier this month. Dubois has yet to be paid in

Canelo Alvarez is cognizant that his first career loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013 wasn’t so bad after all.  The undisputed super middleweight champion tasted defeat for the second time in his career most recently in May when he stepped up to light heavyweight to challenge Dmitry Bivol, and ahead of his trilogy against Gennadiy

It’d be hard to find a bigger Anthony Joshua than I was. Though wiping out the worst title claimant of a generation (Charles Martin, blech!) wasn’t exactly the most compelling way to win a heavyweight title, I remember sitting in the press room at the MGM Grand Garden Arena that spring night in 2016 thinking,

Demetrius Andrade will revisit plans to challenge for a title in a third weight division. It will come at the expense of his current title reign ending with a whimper. BoxingScene.com has learned that Providence’s Andrade will no longer move forward with an ordered WBO middleweight title consolidation clash with interim titleholder Janibek Alimkhanuly. The

The promoter of still-reigning unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk believes the ball is now in Tyson Fury’s court. Ukraine’s Usyk successfully defended his WBO, WBA, IBO and IBF heavyweight titles against London’s Anthony Joshua in their ballyhooed rematch Saturday night in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, winning a split decision. Immediately after the conclusion of the fight,

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz In the ninth round of his heavyweight title rematch against Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk looked like he was headed toward a heartbreaking ending. After 21 rounds of fighting, the hulking Joshua had finally been able to impose his physical strength on Usyk and was grinding him down with a

Anthony Joshua says he wants to return to the ring before the end of the year as he starts to target his route back to another world heavyweight title shot.  Far from hiding after his split decision defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah, Joshua turned up at the post-fight press conference and said he would

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – In an IBF heavyweight final eliminator, Filip Hrgovic (15-0, 12 KOs) got off the floor and won a very close twelve round unanimous decision over Zhang Zhilei (24-1-1, 19 KOs). (photos by Mark Robinson) The scores were 115-112, 115-112 and 114-113 for Hrgovic. Hrgovic was landing well to the body of

Giovani Santillan survived the toughest test of his career in a fight where the final scores didn’t come close to reflecting the action in the ring. San Diego’s own Santillan emerged victorious in a ten-round, unanimous decision win over Mexico’s Julio Luna. Judge Robert Hoyle (96-94) saw the bout for the close, competitive affair that