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Regis Prograis feels like he is the odd man out in the junior welterweight class. The 140-pound contender from New Orleans recently blew off some steam in a video posted on his social media account in which he decried his divisional rivals for refusing to acknowledge him. Prograis, a former titlist who lives in Houston,

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Floyd Mayweather Jr. will continue his exhibition tour. The newly Hall of Fame-enshrined former five-division champion and pound-for-pound king has confirmed his next exhibition fight, which will come against mixed martial artist Mikuru Asakura. The event will take place as part of a Rizin Fighting Federation show this September

Jermell Charlo’s next fight will be a mandatory title defense. Against which mandatory is currently a matter for the sanctioning bodies to resolve amongst themselves. As previously reported by BoxingScene.com, WBO president Francisco ‘Paco’ Valcarcel announced over the weekend that a deal was reached for Charlo to next face WBO junior middleweight mandatory challenger Tim

Sentimental. Nostalgic. Maudlin. Get to a certain age and the gap between them narrows significantly. Particularly when certain milestones arrive. That was the case this past Saturday, when it was officially 40 years since the first big heavyweight fight of my boxing fan lifetime – Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney for the WBC championship. It’s

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,