Boxing Scene

The 130-pound title picture will crystallize Saturday evening at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa, as the unbeaten Xavier Martinez (17-0, 11 KOs) battles recent world title challenger Robson Conceicao (16-1, 8 KOs) in a 10-round WBC title eliminator. (photos by Mikey Williams) Conceicao is coming off last September’s valiant challenge of WBC world champion

Gabriel Flores Jr. is aiming for a fresh start in Fresno. The 21-year-old junior lightweight hopes to bounce back from his first career defeat in a 10-round bout against Mexican veteran Abraham Montoya on Friday, March 4 at Save Mart Center. Flores and Montoya will do battle underneath the junior welterweight main event between former

South Philadelphia heavyweight fighter Sonny Conto (8-0, 7KOs) puts his undefeated streak on the line against Mike Marshall (6-2-1, 4 KOs) of Danbury, CT, in a six-round heavyweight fight at The Event Center at Live! Casino & Hotel in Philadelphia, on Thursday, February 24th at 7 p.m. In his previous sold out fight at Live!

WBC, IBF, WBA middleweight champion Claressa Shields is gearing up for next week’s defense against mandatory challenger Ema Kozin, which takes place on Saturday, February 5 from Motorpoint Arena Cardiff in Wales and also available in the U.S. and Canada on pay-per-view. Shields will be making her UK debut as a professional, entering the ring

More time has been placed on the clock for Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte to reach a deal. Whether that results in a head-on collision or the pair of British heavyweights going their separate ways remains to be seen. Efforts to move forward with the WBC heavyweight title consolidation fight have resulted in yet another

According to Allboxing.ru, a prominent Russian boxing outlet, world-rated welterweight and European 147-pound champion, David Avanesyan (28-3-1, 16 KOs), is hoping to return to the ring on March 26 in Manchester, England. The date of March 26 is the target date for the next defense of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who last October scored

Sakaria Lukas and his handlers realize that the Namibian featherweight’s career was positively impacted Saturday night. They still want the result of his 10-round split draw with Tugstsogt Nyambayar changed to a no-contest. Scott Farrell, Lukas’ manager, has informed BoxingScene.com that he intends to file a protest on his boxer’s behalf with New Jersey’s State

Middleweight world champions Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall have engaged in a war of words on social media. Shields will make his UK debut next Saturday, February 5, as part of the undercard to the middleweight clash between Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Williams. Shields will defend her WBA, IBF, WBC middleweight titles to make

Murodjon Akhmadaliev is currently presented with the dilemma of moving forward with a new assignment or revisiting an old foe. The unified WBA “Super”/IBF junior featherweight titlist is in the uncomfortable position of having to juggle two mandatory title defenses. Akhmadaliev was recently ordered by the WBA to revisit previous plans for a title defense

In the main event of this past weekend’s Detroit Brawl, at the Lincoln Ballroom of the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan, WBC #9- and WBO #15-ranked Hugo “The Boss” Centeno Jr. (28-4-1, 15 KOs) dropped a shock majority decision to skillful but unheralded Georgian Antonio Todd (13-5, 7 KOs) in a

Rumors of his stepping aside has prompted Anthony Joshua to step up and refute such claims. England’s Joshua offered a response to a report from The Telegraph alleging that the former unified heavyweight titlist will accept a £15,000,000 offer that would permit current WBA/IBF/WBO/IBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk to pursue an undisputed championship showdown with

Ryan Garcia hopes that the year ahead is much kinder than the one he left behind. Plans are in place for the rising lightweight star to return to the ring in the coming months, with an opponent being finalized for a planned April 2 date. The fight will be his first in 15 months—assuming the

Francis Ngannou scored a unanimous decision win against Cyril Gane on Saturday night, defending his heavyweight title for the first time while headlining the UFC 270 pay-per-view event in Anaheim, California.  BoxingScene.com first revealed Saturday night that Ngannou made a minimum purse of $600,000 to fight the fellow Frenchman Gane, who made $500,000. The reported

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J. – Sakaria Lukas (25-1-1, 17 KOs) came in on late notice and felt that he was robbed of a knockdown that would have given him a ten round decision win over Olympian Tugstsogt Nyambayar (12-2-1, 9 KOs) on Saturday night. The fight was very competitive, but

Former world champion Amir Khan admits that he bit off more than he could chew when he jumped up by two weight divisions to challenge Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez for the WBC middleweight title in 2016. Khan started off well, but Canelo eventually adjusted – and scored a brutal one-punch knockout in the sixth round. The

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – Sean Gibbons likened the buildup toward the Gary Russell Jr.-Mark Magsayo fight to what happened prior to Zab Judah’s surprising loss to Carlos Baldomir in January 2006. Argentina’s Baldomir upset a distracted Judah by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden’s Theater and jeopardized Judah’s showdown with Floyd Mayweather. The favored

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards tackling topics such as Canelo Alvarez vs. Joe Smith, David Benavidez and Artur Beterbiev, Terence Crawford’s lawsuit against Top Rank, Gervonta Davis vs. Vasiliy Lomachenko, Deontay Wilder, and more. (photo by Ryan Hafey) Joe Smith just made the comment that he deserved the Canelo Alvarez fight.

On January 29th at the Packard Music Hall in Ohio, World Boxing Council cruiserweight champion Junior Illunga Makabu (28-2, 25KO`s) defends his belt against WBC Silver Champion Thabiso Mchunu (23-5, 13KO`s). Both are southpaws and this will be their second fight. In 2015 they clashed in a WBC eliminator. Thabiso dominated the first six rounds.