Boxing Scene

Tyson Fury hasn’t completely dismissed Deontay Wilder’s ability to alter his style somewhat for their third fight. Fury, after all, drastically changed his own outlook in a relatively short time prior to their rematch in February 2020. Javan “SugarHill” Steward radically changed Fury’s approach before Fury fought Wilder a second time, when the huge heavyweight

Adam Kownacki has had more time than he cares to remember to think about his first professional defeat. Waiting more than 18 months for his shot at redemption has helped Kownacki work on his flaws, though, particularly his obvious defensive deficiencies. The popular Polish heavyweight contender fully understands that he cannot be as reckless in

Undefeated light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury (7-0, 4 KOs), 22-years-old, believes Youtuber turned boxer, Jake Paul (4-0, 3 KOs), is afraid to fight him. Last month on a Showtime Pay-Per-View event in Cleveland, Fury and Paul were both showcased in separate fights. In the main event, the 24-year-old Paul won an eight round decision over

Jaime Munguia and Gabriel Rosado have a home for their middleweight showdown. The aforementioned bout headlines a November 13 show on DAZN, which will air live from Honda Center in Anaheim, California, Golden Boy Promotions confirmed Thursday. It will mark the first boxing event at the venue since the pandemic, with Golden Boy also taking

Liam Smith has confidently predicted that Anthony Fowler won’t hear the final bell when the Liverpool rivals clash in a huge local derby at the sold-out M&S Bank Arena on Saturday October 9, live worldwide on DAZN. Former WBO Super-Welterweight World Champion Smith (29-3-1, 16 KOs) was last in action in May, suffering a controversial

Late Tuesday night, eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao officially announced his retirement from the sport. Last month, the 42-year-old Pacquiao snapped a two-year layoff and lost a twelve round unanimous decision to WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas. In 2015, Pacquiao took part in the richest and most financially lucrative fight in the history of

Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions has announced back-to-back shows on Thursday and Friday, October 14th and 15th, showcasing some of the top Mexican fighters in various weight classes, at Auditorio Benito Juarez in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. Both shows will stream live and exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m.

Rylan Charlton is relishing his drop down in weight to 135lbs and says fans can expect to see the best version of him at his “own weight” when he meets undefeated Tony Bellew-managed southpaw Luke Willis on the huge Smith vs. Fowler card at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on Saturday October 9.  Norwich’s

Triller is on the verge of losing out on its lightweight thriller. The legal team representing Australia’s George Kambosos Jr. is calling for a declaration of purse bid default on the unbeaten IBF mandatory challenger’s oft-postponed lightweight championship clash versus defending unified WBA/IBF/WBO champ Teofimo Lopez Jr. Lead attorney Greg Smith submitted a letter on

The Artur Beterbiev-Marcus Browne bout officially has a promoter of record. Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. won a purse bid Tuesday to earn the right to promote their WBC light heavyweight title fight. The bidding process was conducted virtually by the WBC. Top Rank’s winning bid was $1,105,000. The only other offer was made by

Highly ranked Bruno Tarimo is eyeing a world title clash in the near future, with the IBF and IBO regional title holder now firmly established within the world ratings in multiple sanctioning bodies.  Tarimo, who is guided by Australian boxing manager Tony Tolj, has done things the hard way at times, trusting in his management

John Riel Casimero could see his next title defense fall in the hands of the highest bidder. A purse bid hearing was called by the World Boxing Organization (WBO) for the ordered bantamweight title fight between defending champion Casimero and mandatory challenger Paul Butler. The ruling comes just five days after the two sides were

WBA #7 Anatoli Muratov (24-2-1, 17 KOs) replaces Sven Elbir as the opponent for Chris Eubank Jr (30-2, 22 KOs) on October 2 at The SSE Arena, Wembley after Elbir tested positive for Covid-19. The German-based Kazahk was on standby preparing for his own bout on October 9 when he got the call to step

Jared “Big Baby” Anderson will make his pay-per-view debut in his 10th professional fight on the all-heavyweight undercard of Fury vs. Wilder III at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on October 9. Anderson will open the PPV broadcast in a showdown with veteran Vladimir Tereshkin (22-0-1) of Russia in what could be the toughest test

Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch disagreed with Anthony Joshua’s strategy in Saturday’s fight with Oleksandr Usyk. The unbeaten boxer from Ukraine was able to outbox Joshua over twelve rounds to capture the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight titles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Froch would have liked to see Joshua use more of his physical

Tyson Fury’s co-promoter, Frank Warren, highly doubts that a British super-fight with Anthony Joshua will happen in the future. On Saturday night at Tottenham Stadium, Joshua was clearly outboxed over twelve rounds by mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk, who walked away with the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight titles. Entering that fight, many observers felt Usyk

On Saturday night at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Anthony Joshua suffered his second career defeat when he was outboxed over twelve rounds by Oleksandr Usyk. Uysk left the ring with the WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles. The unexpected outcome is certainly a big setback to Joshua’s goal of becoming the undisputed champion of his weight

Eddie Hearn might attempt to talk Anthony Joshua into a confidence-building bout before the former heavyweight champion climbs into the ring to oppose Oleksandr Usyk again. Hearn realizes, of course, that such advice probably will be ignored because Joshua will want to avenge his second professional defeat immediately. Joshua might’ve suffered a significant injury to