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IBF featherweight champion Josh Warrington is still eager to have a unification showdown with WBA champion Leo Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz holds the WBA’s ‘super title’ at 126-pounds, while Leigh Wood is the “regular” champion. Warrington recently reclaimed the IBF strap with a knockout of Kiko Martinez. During the big win, Warrington suffered a fractured jaw

Super Middleweight: David Benavidez now holds an interim designation from the WBC, theoretically putting him in line for a crack at Saul Alvarez in the future.   Middleweight: Gennadiy Golovkin is once again partially unified in the division after a stoppage of Ryota Murata. Zhanibek Alimkhanuly is now the WBO interim titlist, positioned to assume

Undefeated heavyweight knockout artist Bakhodir Jalolov took his time on Friday night, but ultimately closed the show in dramatic fashion with an eighth-round knockout over Jack Mulowayi in the main event of a SHOBOX: The New Generation telecast at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. that helped kick off the International Boxing Hall of

Honda Center, Anaheim, California – Top middleweight contender Jaime Munguia (40-0, 32 KOs) struggled in the first four rounds. He finally unleashed his power in the fifth, to score three knockdowns to secure a stoppage of Jimmy Kelly (26-3, 10 KOs). The fight took place at a catch-weight of 165-pounds. Entering the fight, Kelly was

Jimmy ‘Kilrain’ Kelly has heard just about enough of those who don’t give him any shot of beating Jaime Munguia this weekend. The 29-year-old Brit is a longshot underdog to upend Tijuana’s Munguia (39-0, 31KOs) in their scheduled 12-round super middleweight bout at Honda Center in Anaheim California (Saturday, DAZN, 8:00 p.m. ET). More time

A clash featuring content creators will headline a pay-per-view card at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on July 30 when Austin McBroom takes on AnEsonGib in a six-round professional boxing match.  One of the featured attractions will include former NBA star Nick Young taking on rapper Blueface, a source with direct knowledge of the

‘Gentleman’ George Arias hung on to his undefeated record with a tight split decision win over Alante Green in a heavyweight eight-rounder on Lou DiBella’s Shobox show at the Turning Stone Casino.  The first round was largely exploratory with Arias moving, looking for openings but Green worked to close the distance in the second. Both

The last time Alexis Angulo weighed in for a televised main event, it was his opponent, David Benavidez, who came in nearly three pounds overweight for their 12-round, 168-pound title fight. Angulo was the fighter who arrived at the scale overweight Friday, though. The Colombian contender stepped on the New York State Athletic Commission’s scale

It would be fair to say that there have been some pretty high profile heavyweight scraps in Australia in recent years, but it would also be fair to say that most if not all of them would resemble corporate-style affairs, often with one or both combatants famous for their endeavors in sports other than boxing

Undefeated heavyweight knockout artist Bakhodir Jalolov (10-0, 10 KOs), a two-time Uzbekistan Olympian and 2020 Gold Medalist, and rising heavyweight prospect Jack Mulowayi (11-2-1, 7 KOs) both showed off their towering stature at Thursday’s official weigh-in a day ahead of their eight-round main event on SHOBOX: The New Generation tomorrow night, Friday, June 10 live

World cruiserweight contenders Richard Riakporhe and Fabio Turchi made their final pre-fight comments at today’s press conference in BoxPark Wembley, London ahead of their headline showdown this Saturday night in the world-famous Wembley Arena, live on Sky Sports. RICHARD RIAKPORHE vs FABIO TURCHI - IBF World Cruiserweight Championship Eliminator: Riakporhe: “This fight is perfect for me

Jonhatan “Maximus” Cardoso (14-0, 14 KOs), the Brazilian 135-pounder with an 100% knockout ratio, will take the toughest test of his career when he faces Panamanian Olympian Juan “El Olimpico” Huertas (15-3-1, 11 KOs) in a 10-round main event for the WBO Latino lightweight title on Friday, June 17 in Panama City, Panama. Cardoso-Huertas, which

Devin Haney is fully confident he can travel to Australia again later this year and beat George Kambosos Jr. just as handily as he did Sunday afternoon at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. According to the contract he signed late in March, Haney has to face Kambosos in an immediate rematch in Australia in his next

Brandon Figueroa will make his featherweight debut July 9. BoxingScene.com has learned that the former WBC super bantamweight champion will return to the ring against an opponent who will also move up in weight, Carlos Castro. Showtime will televise Figueroa-Castro as its co-feature July 9 from Alamodome in San Antonio. The 12-round bout between Figueroa,

Oscar De La Hoya and Ryan Garcia were interested observers Saturday night when Devin Haney beat George Kambosos Jr. via unanimous decision for undisputed lightweight champion status.  The undefeated Garcia next faces Javier Fortuna on July 16 at the Crytpo.com Arena in Los Angeles on DAZN, and the rising 23-year-old phenom is looking for a

A fight at a new weight required a few changes for Jaime Munguia. The decision to briefly campaign at super middleweight—perhaps for just one night—prompted the unbeaten Tijuana native and his team to find a location more suitable to his preparation needs. The former WBO junior middleweight titlist normally trains at the famed Otomi Ceremonial

Newly crowned IBF super featherweight champion Joe Cordina is ready to pursue bigger fights and more gold in his weight class. This past Saturday night in Liverpool, Cordina captured the IBF belt with a brutal one-punch knockout of Japan’s Kenichi Ogawa in the second round. The outcome was impressive, as most observers saw Ogawa as

Former WBA “regular” heavyweight champion Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne took his boxing career into his own hands, or should that be into his right hand, by taking out Junior Fa in two minutes on the Kambosos v Haney undercard this past Sunday.   A huge underdog leading into the fight the 43 year old Aussie