Fighting

2024 will officially be Naoya Inoue’s first three-fight year since 2017, as Top Rank announced that he’ll face IBF mandatory challenger Sam Goodman on December 24th at Tokyo’s Ariake Arena. Inoue (28-0, 25 KO) opened the year by getting off the canvas to flatten Luis Nery, satisfying Japan’s long-held grudge against the former bantamweight titlist.

Janibek Alimkhanuly is publicly tossing his name into the mix for a potential fight with Canelo Alvarez, which would see the Kazakh middleweight titleholder moving up in weight to face the super middleweight king. “Everyone knows that I want to fight Canelo, but he doesn’t (want to) fight me, and everyone knows it,” Janibek said

Gervonta “Tank” Davis is currently set to return on Saturday, Dec. 14, in a Premier Boxing Champions pay-per-view main event against Lamont Roach, but Dan Rafael reports that multiple sources have told him the fight could be postponed. One source, Rafael reports, “deemed it ‘50-50,’” and the issue may be with the announced venue, Houston’s

Tevin Farmer is looking to pull a big upset on Nov. 16 when he faces William Zepeda, and knows he has a shot to derail the unbeaten favorite’s planned 2025 fight with WBC lightweight titlist Shakur Stevenson. The 34-year-old Farmer (33-6-1, 8 KO) hasn’t won a fight of consequence this decade, with his last notable

Janibek Alimkhanuly and Hamzah Sheeraz now have until Nov. 4 to reach a deal for their WBO-ordered middleweight title fight. The sanctioning body announced that both Top Rank (Alimkhanuly) and Queensberry (Sheeraz) petitioned for an extension of the negotiation period, which was originally set to end today and would have been ordered to a purse

Devin Haney is rolling with an old rival to score an upset on Saturday. “I’m picking Regis (Prograis) this weekend,” Haney said on social media, regarding Prograis’ fight this weekend with Jack Catterall. Haney dominated Prograis last December in a successful 140 lb title defense. For what it’s worth, Haney’s father and trainer Bill Haney

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz In this weeks episode of Clap Back Thursday hosted by Oscar De La Hoya, the Golden Boy promoter takes the opportunity to take aim at PBC’s latest setback with Tim Tszyu’s loss, as De La Hoya then goes on to recall the origins of his beef with the rival

Jack Catterall and Regis Prograis will meet in this weekend’s marquee matchup, with the pair of 140 lb veterans headlining a DAZN-streamed card from Manchester, England. The 35-year-old Prograis (29-2, 24 KO) is looking to bounce back from a pair of dreadful performances in 2023, including a one-sided loss to Devin Haney and a very

Takuma Inoue will defend his WBA bantamweight title against Seiya Tsutsumi in the main event of a Tokyo card that features four world title fights. Along with the main event, we’ll also see Shokichi Iwata and Jairo Noriega fight for the vacant WBO title at 108 lbs; and a pair of flyweight title fights: Seigo

A quick rundown of what we saw today from Tokyo! Seiya Tsutsumi UD-12 Takuma Inoue A pretty solid upset here, as Tsutsumi (12-0-2, 8 KO) stepped up to world level for the first time in his first 12-round fight, and he just flat beat Inoue (20-2, 5 KO), who wasn’t flat or anything, just out-fought.

Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn thinks Dmitry Bivol was robbed on Saturday against Artur Beterbiev, which isn’t an unpopular stance in the boxing world right now. Beterbiev won a majority decision to become the undisputed light heavyweight champion on Saturday in Riyadh. “It’s a joke! They knew, they told (Beterbiev) in the 10th round, ‘You

Results Phumelele Cafu SD-12 Kosei Tanaka (113-114, 114-113, 114-113) Anthony Olascuaga NC-1 Jonathan Gonzalez (2:25) Junto Nakatani returns to defend his WBC bantamweight title against Petch Sor Chitpattana in the main event of a four-fight card that features two more world title fights as well as the latest fight for Tenshin Nasukawa. Along with Nakatani’s

A quick rundown of the action we saw today in Tokyo. Junto Nakatani TKO-6 Petch Sor Chitpattana Nakatani (29-0, 22 KO) retains his WBC bantamweight title with another terrific winning performance. Sor Chitpattana (76-2, 53 KO) came in here aiming for the upset, wasn’t just rolling over, but Nakatani is a P4P guy and Sor

Liam Cameron may not have gotten the marquee win he appeared to earn this past weekend, but he didn’t leave Riyadh empty-handed after securing a contract with Queensberry Promotions. Though viewed by most as another stepping stone for Olympic silver medalist Ben Whittaker, Cameron (23-6-1, 10 KO) took it to his man from the opening

Following his majority decision loss to Artur Beterbiev over the weekend, Dmitry Bivol sits down with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV to discuss his thoughts on the fight and he breaks it down matter of factly while making comparisons to his experience with Canelo Alvarez. Check out some excerpts below. Bivol on how he’s

Ahead of his weekend return to the ring following a bloody loss to Sebastian Fundora in March, Tim Tszyu talks to Fight Hype about his upcoming fight with Bakhram Murtazaliev and more. Check out some excerpts from Tszyu below. Tszyu on what he thinks he’ll be able to show the public in his next fight

Liam Paro will make a first defense of his IBF super lightweight title on Saturday, Dec. 7, as the Aussie returns to Puerto Rico to meet the challenge from Richardson Hitchins. Paro (25-0, 15 KO) stunned many back in June, when he went to Manati and out-pointed Subriel Matias to take the belt in an

Naoya Inoue is reportedly finalizing a deal to defend his undisputed super bantamweight championship against Sam Goodman, according to ESPN.com’s Mike Coppinger. Inoue will face Goodman in Tokyo on Tuesday, Dec. 24, so Christmas Eve morning for those of you in the United States. Inoue (28-0, 25 KO) is coming off of a successful defense