Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez made weight and are set for their main event tomorrow night (Saturday, Feb. 20, 10 pm ET, ESPN and ESPN+), with Berchelt’s WBC junior lightweight title on the line. Berchelt and Valdez both weighed in at the 130-pound limit for the fight, and we’re now officially, fully set, all things
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Saturday night on Showtime (Feb. 20, 9 pm ET), Adrien Broner will make his return to the ring after 25 months of inactivity, taking on unknown Jovanie Santiago in the 140-pound main event, while Otto Wallin and Dominic Breazeale meet in a heavyweight matchup that keeps the winner in the mix and drops the loser
Adrien Broner’s Saturday night comeback fight on Showtime was supposed to be at a 140-pound limit, but the fight will now have a 147-pound limit, which Showtime announced as a “mutual decision from both fighters.” Broner, who has recently said he had to lose about 35 pounds in a relatively short period of time to
With Josh Kelly (10-0-1, 6 KOs) set challenge David Avanesyan (26-3-1, 14 KOs) this Saturday for the European welterweight title on DAZN, Kelly tells RingTV that he’s studied the flaws in Avanesyan’s game and expects to take advantage of them when they meet inside the ring. And Kelly says if Avanesyan takes that personally it
Janelson Figueroa Bocachica stayed unbeaten with a majority decision win over Mark Reyes Jr in tonight’s ShoBox: The New Generation main event, edging scores of 96-94 and 97-93 on two cards, with the third even, 95-95. Bad Left Hook scored the fight 96-94 for Bocachica (17-0, 11 KO), with a good handful of swing rounds
During this video interview with Fight Hub TV, former junior lightweight titleholder Tevin Farmer talks about what he’s planning for his boxing return, why the JoJo Diaz rematch never happened, and his eventual plans to move up to lightweight. On who he wants to face in his next outing being that he’s been out of
Just over a month after seeing one of its marquee signings fall in her debut, BKFC will return to its usual stomping grounds of Biloxi, Mississippi for its latest pay-per-view, which pits UFC veteran Leonard Garcia against Joe Elmore in the main event and features a familiar journeyman’s bare knuckle debut. The 41-year-old Garcia (18-13-1
Robbie Davies Jr returns to the ring on Saturday, Feb. 20 (DAZN, 2 pm ET) in the co-feature of the Avanesyan-Kelly card, and the 31-year-old former European, British, and Commonwealth champion is looking to make a big career push in 2021. Davies (20-2, 13 KO) was on a really good run before his 2019 loss
I told y’all this matchup was cursed. Multiple sources report that WBO junior lightweight champion Jamel Herring’s ever-shifting title defense against Carl Frampton, currently scheduled for February 27th in London, will be pushed back to March after Frampton suffered a hand injury. Steve Kim claims that Mar. 27 is “being floated around,” though there’s no
Josh Warrington suffered a shock loss to Mauricio Lara on Saturday in London, an early (and strong) leader for 2021 Upset of the Year, but the 30-year-old Warrington has received a lot of supports from fans in his home city and across the United Kingdom, and gave his thanks for that. “The support from the
With less than two weeks to go until his scheduled clash with WBC mandatory super middleweight challenger Avni Yildirim, Canelo Alvarez sat down with TUDN to discuss his current and future plans. First off, despite a brief sojourn to light heavyweight to maul Sergey Kovalev in 2019, Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KO) has no intention of
Following his WBO junior middleweight title win over Patrick Teixeira over the weekend, newly-crowned world champion Brian Castano talks about his big win and where he wants to go from here. Check out some excerpts what he had to tell our friends from Fight Hub TV below… Castano on how he feels after winning the
Manny Pacquiao was recently named “champion in recess” by the WBA, which is basically that tip-toeing halfassed boxing speak for stripping him of the belt, but also recently said he’s training and gearing up to return to the ring, saying he’d have news “soon.” Pacquiao, who turned 42 in December, hasn’t fought since July 2019
We had an eventful weekend in boxing for the first time in a bit, with big upsets, new titlists crowned, belts going vacant, and more. Here’s a look at what could be next for some of the biggest names we saw in action. Mauricio Lara and Josh Warrington With due respect to Brian Castano, pictured
SHO, 9:00 pm ET, Janelson Bocachica Figueroa vs Mark Reyes Jr, Vladimir Shishkin vs Sena Agbeko, Alejandro Guerrero vs Abraham Montoya, Timur Kerefov vs Argenis Espana. ShoBox is back with four fights scheduled, so get ready to lose at least one, as has unfortunately become tradition. It’s not anyone’s fault, really, eight fighters can be
Former lightweight titleholder Richard Commey bounced back big in his first fight since 2019, knocking out Jackson Marinez in a late notice main event tonight on ESPN. Commey (30-3, 27 KO) announced that he certainly isn’t going to fade out of contention at 135 pounds just yet, picking up a solid win that keeps the
British boxing is back in the ring after January’s shutdown, and Leigh Wood has given us an early year highlight, knocking out Reece Mould in nasty fashion to win the vacant British featherweight title. The end came in the ninth round of what had been a gritty, tough fight from both men, with Wood (24-3,
Josh Warrington makes his return to the ring today on DAZN and Sky Sports (UK), as the now former featherweight titlist faces Mauricio Lara in the Matchroom Boxing main event. Warrington, 30, recently vacated the IBF title, but plans to stay at 126 pounds and seek bigger fights, feeling the IBF weren’t going to help