Boxing Scene

The late Marvelous Marvin Hagler once said “it’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas.” For most human beings, the rigors associated with boxing are only fathomable as a desperate escape from circumstances. If you’re already rich, why would you go through this

Carlos Canizales defeated fringe contender German Valenzuela by unanimous decision late Friday night at the Foro Centenario in Mexico City. Scores were 98-92, 98-92, and 99-91 for Canizales, who improves to 23-1-1, 17 knockouts. Canizales, the former WBA ‘Regular’ junior flyweight titleholder who resides in Caracas, Venezuela, was making his return to action since losing

Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas – In the Showtime televised co-main event, rising welterweight star Jaron “Boots” Ennis (28-0, 26 KOs) scored an explosive first-round knockout over former title challenger Thomas Dulorme (25-6-1, 16 KOs), the 12th first-round knockout of Ennis’ young career.   “It was a good knockout,” said Ennis. “You know me, I wanted

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz LAS VEGAS – Radzhab Butaev made the most of his second championship chance Saturday night. Nearly two years after he was cheated in his first shot at the WBA world welterweight title, the Russian-born Butaev stopped a battered, bloodied Jamal James in the ninth round to win that title.

Matchroom Boxing will return to the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool for another huge night of boxing on Saturday December 11 co-headlined by Undisputed Lightweight World Champion Katie Taylor and Welterweight star Conor Benn, with all of the action shown live worldwide on DAZN.  Irish sensation Taylor (19-0, 6 KOs) puts her WBC, WBA, IBF,

LAS VEGAS – Jamal James will take a seven-fight winning streak into his welterweight title defense against Radzhab Butaev on Saturday night. James last lost five years ago, when Yordenis Ugas out-boxed him and won their 10-rounder by unanimous decision. Ugas and James have ascended to greater heights since that August 2016 meeting in Verona,

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, during a recent episode of the ‘Hotboxin with Mike Tyson’ podcast, gave his take on the upcoming super middleweight unification between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Caleb Plant. On November 6, Canelo and Plant will collide for the WBO, WBC, IBF, WBA super middleweight belts at the MGM Grand in Las

 International superstar Jake “The Problem Child” Paul will face undefeated professional boxer and U.K. reality TV star Tommy “TNT” Fury in a sanctioned eight-round cruiserweight bout after months of heated back-and-forth between the two men. Paul and Fury will headline a SHOWTIME PPV event on Saturday, December 18 at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.

A major upset occurred on October 16th when Spain’s Sandor Martin (39-2) defeated Mikey Garcia (40-2) in Fresno, California in a DAZN streamed main event. Garcia was listed as a 20-1 favorite by many sportsbooks and very few observers picked the Spaniard to pull off the upset. One of the few people in the sport

The latest sit down between the heads of the sport’s four most notable sanctioning bodies provided an air of optimism for all parties to work together for the sake of the sport. Time will tell whether that vision sees the light of day, although any conversation is a sound starting point. Maurcio Sulaiman, Gilberto Jesus

Claressa Shields’ loss to Agibail Montes in a mixed martial arts match Wednesday night won’t prevent her from making a quick turnaround for her upcoming boxing bout. Dmitriy Salita, Shields’ boxing promoter, informed BoxingScene.com that Shields left the cage in Hollywood, Florida, relatively unscathed following her three-round, split-decision defeat to Montes. Mexico’s Montes (3-0, 1

Eric Molina has confidently predicted that he will become the first man to defeat fast-rising Croatian Heavyweight contender Alen Babic when they collide in a scheduled eight-round contest on the undercard of Chantelle Cameron vs. Mary McGee at The O2 in London this Saturday October 30, live worldwide on DAZN.  ‘Drummer Boy’ (28-7, 20 KOs)

Four months after enjoying her first mixed martial arts fight, Claressa Shields was presented with a different kind of experience. Defeat. The three-division boxing champion and pound-for-pound queen fell just short in her second MMA fight, dropping a split decision to Mexico’s Abigail Montes. Shields won 29-28 on one scorecard, with the same score gracing

Leigh Wood and Michael Conlan are right back where they left off nearly one month ago. What has amounted to an extra four weeks of negotiations has not brought the featherweights any closer to a deal. The inability to do so following the last extension has prompted the World Boxing Association (WBA) to reorder a

Archie Sharp is hoping to move a step closer to a world title showdown with new WBO super-featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson – provided he can defeat Alexis Boureima Kabore when they collide on Friday’s MTK Fight Night. This week’s card at York Hall in London will be broadcast live in the US on ESPN+ in

Puerto Rican prospect Xander Zayas will take a break for a few days, before returning to the gym on the way to his sixth fight of 2021. Zayas will see action on December 11, as part of the undercard to the lightweight fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Richard Commey, which takes place at Madison Square Gardens

WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas is still fuming that he was ordered to take part in a mini-tournament by the World Boxing Association. Ugas (27-4, 12 KOs) had hoped to move forward with a unification clash against WBC, IBF Errol Spence in the first quarter of 2022 – but instead the sanctioning body has ordered the

LAS VEGAS – Tyson Fury versus Oleksandr Usyk can’t happen next because Usyk is contractually committed to an immediate rematch against Anthony Joshua. But if Ukraine’s Usyk beats Joshua again and Fury makes a successful second defense of his WBC belt in his first fight next year, Fury-Usyk could materialize later in 2022. Their fight