Boxing Scene

Murodjon Akhmadaliev will head into 2022 with multiple mandatory title defenses looming ahead. A bout between Marlon Tapales and Hiroaki Teshigawara has been granted approval by the International Boxing Federation (IBF) to serve as a final title eliminator. The bout was already scheduled to take place on the non-televised undercard of a December 11 Showtime

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Amir Khan has placed in a weight penalty to ensure Kell Brook makes their contracted weight limit of 149-pounds – two-pounds above the welterweight limit. Brook will have to pay £100,000 for every pound over their contract weight. Their showdown is scheduled to take place on February 19 at the

Ryan Garcia believes he found his first fight back in 2022. It remains to be seen whether the unbeaten lightweight contender jumps to the front of the line, but he was among the more interested observers for Saturday’s divisional championship bout on DAZN from Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater in New York City. In a

George Kambosos Jr. senses that he defeated Teofimo Lopez almost as convincingly as Lopez claimed he had won their lightweight title fight right after it ended Saturday night in New York. The difference, according to Kambosos, is that his score of their 12-round, 135-pound championship match is based on what actually occurred inside the ring

George Kambosos Jr. accomplished nearly everything he vowed to do in the biggest fight of his career to date. Having to overcome a knockdown wasn’t necessarily part of the plan in his upset win over lineal/WBA/IBF/WBO lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez Jr (16-1, 12KOs). Both boxers hit the deck in their sensational twelve-round contest Saturday evening

Hulu Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York City – Lightweight Teofimo Lopez (16-1, 12 KOs) was in disbelief after losing his WBO, IBF, WBA titles to huge underdog George Kambosos (20-0, 10 KOs) on Saturday night. The scores were 115-111 for Kambosos, 114-113 for Lopez and 115-112 for Kambosos. Lopez, who came out with a vengeance

LAS VEGAS – Stephen Fulton finally unveiled the way to beat Brandon Figueroa on Saturday night. Fulton fended off the ferocious Figueroa and convinced two judges that he defeated Figueroa in their 12-round, 122-pound title unification fight at Park MGM’s Dolby Live. Figueroa forced Fulton to bang it out in a proverbial phone booth for

LAS VEGAS – Brandon Figueroa embraces the description “pretty ugly” as a compliment. The undefeated Figueroa feeds off the fact that many of his opponents portray him as a pretty boy with a style entirely too ugly to beat them. Having opponents underestimate him has motivated the unbeaten WBC super bantamweight champion throughout his impressive

Teofimo Lopez’s long layoff has left him feeling underappreciated, as if fans have forgotten about his career-changing victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko. The undefeated, unified lightweight champion will fight for the first time Saturday night in the 13 months since he beat Lomachenko. He is heavily favored, 10-1 according to most sportsbooks, to beat George Kambosos

It’s a battle of undefeated titlists making a habit of fighting undefeated opponents.  Saturday night (Showtime, 10 PM EST), two of the three men holding belts at Jr. featherweight will narrow the field. Both are young, both are hungry, both throw leather, and neither knows how to lose. They could have sat on their belts

Unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez and mandatory challenger George Kambosos clash on a night of action in New York, with chief support provided by the battle for the vacant IBF World Super-Featherweight title between Azinga Fuzile (15-1 9 KOs) and Kenichi Ogawa (25-1-1 28 KOs). (photos by Ed Mulholland) Raymond Ford (9-0-1 5 KOs) clashes

LAS VEGAS – Josh Taylor responded appropriately when asked late Saturday night how he felt he would defeat Terence Crawford. “Oh, I ain’t gonna tell you that, am I?,” a laughing Taylor said while speaking to a small group of reporters. “I ain’t gonna tell you that. Come on! Nah, nah, come on now. I’m

Yordenis Ugas is thankful for his title reign, if not the manner in which he is required to maintain that status. A purse bid hearing has been added to the schedule to determine promotional rights for Ugas’ ordered WBA “Super” welterweight title defense versus Lithuania’s Eimantas Stanionis. The sanctioning body took that step after having

Mexico City, Mexico – Three time world title challenger Miguel “The Scorpion” Marriaga (30-4 26 KO’s) from Arjona, Colombia is full speed ahead in training camp as he prepares for his Showtime pay-per-view clash, scheduled for December 5 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, against world ranked contender Eduardo “Zurdito” Ramirez (25-2-3 12 KO’s). Their

The decision could not have been easier for Tommy Fury when offered the opportunity to face Jake Paul. Both boxers appeared in separate bouts this past August, with the two sides immediately clashing and planting the seeds for a continued rivalry. Fury (7-0, 4KOs) outpointed Anthony Taylor (0-2) in an admittedly lackluster performance in the

George Kambosos Jr. believes yesterday’s fracas between Teofimo Lopez’s father and his father shows the champion’s team is full of ‘nervous energy’ ahead of their clash for Lopez’s IBF, WBC Franchise, WBO, WBA world lightweight titles, at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, live worldwide on DAZN. Kambosos Jr. (19-0 10

On Sunday, December 19, WBO #4-, IBF #6-, and WBC #14-ranked bantamweight contender Nikolai Potapov of Russia will continue his hunt for a monstrous challenge by facing rugged South African Sabelo Ngebinyana in a 10-round showdown at USC Soviet Wings Stadium in Moscow, Russia. Fighting in the co-main event of another card presented by promoter

Keith Thurman keeps drawing the ire from fellow fighters.  The former welterweight champion has been sidelined since July 2019 after suffering a spirited split decision loss to Manny Pacquiao. In the fight, the Floridian fighter also sustained a left-hand injury that resulted in surgery.  The boxer nicknamed “One Time” has just twice since March 2017,