Fighting

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

As Jackson Marinez gets ready for tomorrow evening’s ESPN lightweight main event, taking on former titleholder Richard Commey, Marinez isn’t sulking about his much debated loss to Rolando Romero last time out. Instead Marinez tells RingTV that he’s taken the loss as a test from which he’ll come back even stronger. And looking towards Commey

Joseph Diaz Jr is set to make the first defense of his IBF junior lightweight title Saturday night on DAZN (Feb. 13, 8 pm ET), as he faces Russia’s Shavkat Rakhimov in a main event from Indio, Calif. Diaz (31-1, 15 KO) took the belt from Tevin Farmer just over a year ago in Miami

Larry Merchant — the wordsmith who started out as a newspaperman and graced HBO airwaves with his often poetic and trenchant analysis for 35 years — sounded upbeat and ready to party when congratulated on making it to the 90-year mark. “It’s been a good day,” Merchant told me, after I sang him a few

Matchroom Boxing returns to Barcelona on Friday, March 26th with two European title fights and a couple of Spain’s best fighters in store. The main event sees European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin (37-2, 13 KO) look for his ninth consecutive victory and second successful defense of the title he stopped Andrea Scarpa to claim

Iran Barkley is indeed in the hospital after testing positive for COVID, but the three-weight champ from the Bronx told BLH that he is feeling decent. Once a fighter, always a fighter. “I’m hanging in, buddy,” Barkley, age 60, told me on Wednesday evening. “I went to the hospital last week, because I started coughing,

WBC lightweight titleholder Devin Haney says he’s not getting all riled up by Teofimo Lopez’s taunting about being undisputed lightweight champion, but instead says Lopez knows they eventually need to meet in order to settle things in the ring. Haney calls Lopez a ‘liar’ and accuses him of constantly changing his story to skirt a

Eddie Hearn promised that WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol’s 2021 would be a bizarre adventure, and it seems we’ve now got some actual details. Bivol’s manager, Vadim Kornilov, tells Steve Kim that his charge “could be placed on a UK card in April” before facing former WBO super middleweight champ Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez in