Boxing Scene

Mairis Briedis has not seen the ring since losing his IBF cruiserweight title to Jai Opetaia nearly two years ago.  The pair put on an incredible show in Gold Coast, Australia. Tomorrow night they rematch on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Both men broke each other’s bones in arguably the

New welterweight blood is ready to break through. Giovani Santillan (32-0, 17 KOs) and Brian Norman (25-0, 19 KOs) will meet in a critical 147-pound clash Saturday night in an ESPN-televised co-main event fight at San Diego’s Pechanga Arena. The winner will be awarded the vacant WBO interim welterweight title. Santillan is the WBO’s No.

William Zepeda’s pursuit of Shakur Stevenson didn’t materialize, and now the unbeaten lightweight has turned his attention to Giovanni Cabrera. Zepeda, 30-0 (26 KOs), will meet Cabrera, 22-1 (7 KOs), on July 6 at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California, as the main event of a DAZN-streamed card promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. This fight will

Queensberry promoter Frank Warren has had quite the journey with his charge Tyson Fury as he approaches the first undisputed heavyweight title fight in 25 years. The pair’s working relationship spans more than a decade. “In the early days, when he fought Derek Chisora for the second time [in 2014], it was a WBO final

In Thursday’s episode of “Deep Waters” on ProBox TV, analyst Chris Algieri considers how boxing has changed over the years, and megafights such as Saturday’s undisputed heavyweight championship bout between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk hold back the sport. The politics of making these events, Algieri says, rather than the fight itself, kneecap boxing’s ability

Amid the fervent anticipation and hype surrounding Saturday’s undisputed heavyweight championship between unbeaten three-belt champion Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) and unbeaten WBC titleholder Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), the ultimate high stakes loom in their guaranteed mid-October rematch. It’s that bout that allows the winner to exit as an undisputed champion, free to select

Isaac Chamberlain will now face Jack Massey for the vacant European and Commonwealth cruiserweight titles on June 15 at South London’s Selhurst Park Stadium. Chamberlain had been set to challenge Michal Cieslak for the EBU belt, but Cieslak has been forced to withdraw due to injury and has chosen to vacate his European title, giving Massey a opportunity to step in and

Devin Haney has requested that the New York State Athletic Commission disqualify Ryan Garcia following his April 20 majority decision triumph in a bout later stained by Garcia’s positive test result for a banned performance-enhancing substance. Haney attorney Pat English, in an eight-page letter to the commission’s top two directors, its chief medical officer and

Mike Tyson walked out to Tupac Shakur’s “Ambitionz Az a Ridah” on Monday night to officially announce his comeback fight against Jake Paul later this summer. “Let’s f****** go,” were the first words Tyson shared on stage to the audience who gathered at the Apollo Theater in New York. Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) then elaborated

Jake Paul is pursuing an interesting promotional strategy heading into his summer showdown against Mike Tyson.  The always-confident Paul admitted to vulnerability and fear on Monday at the Apollo Theater in New York during the kickoff press conference of their July 20 fight.  “I know it’s going to be tough [fighting against Tyson],” said Paul.

The last time Mike Tyson held a heavyweight title, Katie Taylor was 10 years old and had yet to set foot in a boxing ring as a competitor. The notion that Taylor might one day share a bill with “Iron Mike” was likely one that had never crossed anyone’s mind – least of all her

Lightweight Jajaira Gonzalez might be the younger sister of professional boxers Joet and Jousce Gonzalez, but she wants to be viewed as a fighter in her own right rather than simply the fighters’ sister. The 27-year-old Gonzalez is aiming to win gold as she heads to the Paris 2024 Olympics this summer, representing the United

When Amanda Serrano met Katie Taylor in the ring for the first time, in April 2022, the matchup promised an undisputed lightweight championship blockbuster between perhaps the two brightest stars in women’s boxing. Somehow, the outcome was even better than advertised, as the first-ever women’s headliner staged at Madison Square Garden sold out the “Mecca

Riyadh – Tyson Fury is “levels ahead” of everyone Jordan Thompson has ever sparred – Oleksandr Usyk included. The WBC heavyweight champion on Saturday fights his leading rival for the undisputed title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and does so aware that it could prove his defining night. When he makes his way to the ring

Today at the iconic Apollo Theater in New York, the Problem Child, Jake “El Gallo de Dorado” Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) and the Baddest Man on the Planet Mike Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) came face to face for the first time since Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) announced their upcoming fight. Paul vs. Tyson

Mike Tyson thinks Tyson Fury will overpower Oleksandr Usyk when the two face each other this Saturday for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. Victory on Saturday will crown the first undisputed heavyweight champion in the ‘four-belt era’ and first since Lennox Lewis more than 25 years ago. Usyk has already been undisputed champion;

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Vasiliy Lomachenko listened to all the chatter speculating his career was on the precipice with retirement looming if he’d lost in Australia to former lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr., and the three-division champion promptly responded with a showing reminiscent of his peak years. “There’s something about the sport …

Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Cody Crowley went head-to-head in Philadelphia on Friday, formally announcing their fight. IBF welterweight champion Ennis and mandatory challenger Crowley will reconvene at the Wells Fargo Center – where they met today – on July 13. It marks a homecoming for the 32-year-old Ennis, and his first fight on DAZN under