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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

Cody Crowley struggled to make himself heard inside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center today, but he passionately stated that he had identified Jaron “Boots” Ennis as the fighter he wanted to meet for a world title. Crowley will challenge Philadelphia’s Ennis in the latter’s home city on July 13, at the Wells Fargo Center, and Crowley

In Thursday’s episode of “Deep Waters” on ProBox TV, analyst Shawn Porter compares the profiles of 36-year-old former three-division titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko to that of 33-year-old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Porter says, despite recent talk of Lomachenko’s decline, that the Ukrainian lightweight “still has what it takes to become a champion.” He also has a favorite

Lennox Lewis was not only the last man to really beat the man in the heavyweight division, he was also the last boxer to preside over the division without argument. For Tyson Fury to do the same, Lewis believes it will take more than just victory over Oleksandr Usyk on May 18.  A contracted rematch

Lauren Price hopes a victory over Jessica McCaskill on Saturday can trigger a new golden era for Welsh boxing. In her seventh professional fight, she challenges the WBA welterweight champion at Wales’ Cardiff International Arena, aware that she can join her compatriot Joe Cordina in reigning among the elite. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2020,

Three-division world champion Shakur Stevenson has reached a career crossroads.  The Newark, New Jersey native Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) will look to defend his WBC lightweight title in a homecoming fight against Artem Harutyunyan (12-1, 7 KOs) on July 6 at the Prudential Center. The fight will mark Stevenson’s last under his current contract with

Australia’s Andrew Moloney has branded his WBC interim super flyweight title fight with Pedro Guevara as the “last roll of the dice” for both men.  Moloney (26-3, 16 KOs) and Guevara (41-4-1, 22 KOs) join the undercard of Vasiliy Lomachenko and George Kambosos’s vacant IBF lightweight title fight this Sunday in Perth, Australia.  “At this

Unbeaten welterweight Conor Benn has been “provisionally suspended” by United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) following a successful appeal by UKAD and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC). The appeal overturned Benn’s clearance to return to competition after two failed VADA anti-doping tests in 2022. Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) tested positive for clomifene twice while preparing