Fighting

Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson will, officially, be a sanctioned professional boxing match on July 20 in Texas, but with rules that argue that it really isn’t one at all. Most Valuable Promotions confirms that the bout, which will be held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington and stream live on Netflix, will see the 27-year-old

Sports mismatches are a feature, not a bug. Bracketed tournaments open with the highest seeds fighting the lowest seeds and round-robin formats disregard relative strength entirely. Those are products of circumstance, though; in those sorts of arrangements, the participants themselves don’t hand-select weak opponents. Things like college athletics have a bit more leeway involved, allowing

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Ahead of this weekend’s big main event between Canelo Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, PBC releases its first episode of PBC Gloves Off, taking a behind the scenes look at the respective fighters heading into the PPV event. Training camp has long been underway at this stage, and at the

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Ryan Garcia put Devin Haney on the canvas three times officially and scored an upset win tonight in Brooklyn. Garcia won by majority decision on scores of 112-112, 114-110, and 115-109. Because he failed to make weight on Friday, he did not win the WBC super lightweight title, which

Ryan Garcia put Devin Haney on the canvas three times — officially — en route to a majority decision upset win tonight in Brooklyn. Garcia does not win the WBC super lightweight title with the victory after failing to miss weight on Friday. The belt is now vacant. Here’s a look at all three knockdowns

Ryan Garcia’s win over Devin Haney on Saturday night has come as quite a surprise to many in and around the boxing world, which will happen when you come in a +550 underdog and all that. Garcia (25-1, 21 KO) dropped Haney three times en route to a majority decision win in one of the

Mauricio Sulaiman has ruled that Devin Haney will continue to hold the WBC super lightweight title after his loss to Ryan Garcia, a change in protocol from the usual standard. The title was not on the line for Garcia in the fight, after Ryan failed to make weight on Friday, but the understanding everyone had

Ryan Garcia’s win over Devin Haney on Saturday night has people talking about a rematch with Haney, but also some about a rematch with Gervonta “Tank” Davis, who knocked Garcia out last year. Garcia (25-1, 21 KO) says he doesn’t expect it to happen, saying that he’s not even going to try fighting at 140

Ryan Garcia’s win over Devin Haney has thrown some chaos into the boxing world, which isn’t the most unwelcome thing. Chaos has seemed to follow Garcia around of late, and he sent some mixed messages about recent behavior, still insisting that he drank heavily through his training camp and managed to win anyway. “I don’t

Eddie Hearn and Ryan Garcia’s father Henry got into a bit of an altercation backstage after Ryan’s win over Devin Haney, whom Hearn was promoting in the event, but the anger didn’t last. Hearn was doing an interview, at a point where he was saying “big respect to Ryan Garcia, he was amazing,” when Henry

Friday, April 26 DAZN, 8:00 pm ET, Yoenis Tellez vs Joseph Jackson Most Valuable Prospects show from Orlando. Tellez is a legit prospect and emerging contender at 154, 23 and from Cuba but one of the new age lads who doesn’t necessarily “fight like a Cuban.” Jackson isn’t a prospect, he’s a 35-year-old club fighter

With all signs pointing to a rematch between Richard Riakporhe and Chris Billam-Smith, both fighters have been talking about their expectations of an impending rematch. Riakporhe took a split decision win over Billam-Smith back in 2019 and feels even more confident now having a world title on the line this time around. Riakporhe says he’ll

Jake Paul’s July 20th Netflix showdown with Mike Tyson will feature at least one morally defensible boxing match, as MVP announced today that undisputed super lightweight champion Kaie Taylor will rematch rival Amanda Serrano in the co-main event. “This is the rematch the world has wanted to see and I’m delighted that it’s finally happening,”

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia went face-to-face in the typical “our fight’s in New York” photo opportunity press event today, and it wound up with Haney shoving Garcia in the face after some trash talk between the two fighters. Haney and Garcia will fight Saturday night on DAZN PPV

Following today’s festivities, building up this weekend’s PPV main event between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, Haney spoke to boxing media about wanting to secure an emphatic win over his rival. Haney doesn’t believe Garcia has been taking this fight seriously, and expects for that to show itself in the ring as he expects a

In a conversation with Fight Hype, George Kambosos insists he’s fully focused on his upcoming bout against Vasiliy Lomachenko but fields some questions about Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and why he isn’t taking on the best fighters around his weight class. Here’s some of what Kambosos had to say on that subject down below. Kambosos on

Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia were scheduled to throw first pitches on Tuesday at Citi Field, ahead of a game where the New York Mets would host the Pittsburgh Pirates. Chris Mannix reported that Mets officials had concerns after the Empire State Building scuffle earlier in the day, when the two did a photo opp

Deontay Wilder talks about being the ‘captain’ of Matchroom Boxing as he heads into a June 1 showdown with Zhilei Zhang. In particular Wilder says he’s feeling better about working with a group of people who encourage his capacity for homicide inside the ring instead of trying to make him dial back his rhetoric for