Fighting

Alright, bear with me here. Earlier this year, the WBA officially installed Jono Carroll as super featherweight champ Lamont Roach Jr’s mandatory challenger. They also named Otar Eranosyan, who won a later eliminator, as next in line. This being the WBA, of course, neither of those fights are on the docket. ProBox TV announced today

May 2024 The voters: Scott Christ, Wil Esco, John Hansen, Patrick Stumberg, and Lewis Watson Others Receiving Votes: Jaron “Boots” Ennis 5, Gervonta “Tank” Davis 2, Subriel Matias 1 (Editor’s Note: We’re leaving the comments as originally submitted, though there may be some different attitude toward the Haney vs Garcia result after Garcia’s failed drug

Canelo Alvarez takes on Jaime Munguia this Saturday in a pay-per-view main event from Las Vegas, defending the undisputed super middleweight championship of the world. Canelo (60-2-2, 39 KO) fully unified the 168 lb division with his win over Caleb Plant in late 2021, and has made three successful undisputed defenses since then, along with

Canelo Alvarez and Oscar De La Hoya had an altercation at yesterday’s final Canelo vs Munguia press conference which has picked up a lot of attention. Canelo and his former promoter De La Hoya are not friendly — to say the least — and haven’t been in years, and the beef between the two went

Canelo Alvarez’s fight on Saturday with Jaime Munguia will be the actual main event of this week in boxing, but Canelo’s feud with former promoter — and Munguia’s current promoter — Oscar De La Hoya has stolen the headlines during fight week. Canelo and De La Hoya had a verbal altercation on Wednesday at the

A week before cousin Tyson battles Oleksandr Usyk for undisputed heavyweight glory, Hughie Fury will have his second bout in under a month on Boxxer’s May 11th McCaskill vs Price show. Fury (27-3, 15 KO), who’s still just 29, just beat 10-15-1 Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko in his first bout since 2021. He faces a similarly nonexistent

Jaron Ennis’ homecoming is officially on the schedule, as Matchroom confirmed today that “Boots” will defend his IBF welterweight title against mandatory challenger Cody Crowley on July 13th at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. As the Philadelphia Inquirer points out, this marks the first boxing match at Wells Fargo Center since it opened in 1996. Ennis

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn weighs in on the news about Ryan Garcia testing positive for banned substances for his fight with Devin Haney and the reaction he has along with his fighter Haney. Here are some excerpts of what Hearn had to say below. “I woke up to missed calls from Devin and a text

Results Vergil Ortiz Jr KO-1 Thomas Dulorme (2:39) Oscar Duarte KO-9 Joseph Diaz Jr (2:32) Gabriela Alaniz SD-10 Marlen Esparza (97-93, 92-98, 96-94) Raul Curiel KO-1 Jorge Marron Jr (1:31) Jose Ramirez and Vergil Ortiz Jr are both back in action tonight on DAZN, co-headlining from Ramirez’s hometown of Fresno, Calif. Ramirez will face Rances

Peter McGrail will look to rebound from his first pro defeat today in Liverpool, though it’s not the fight he was hoping to get. Super bantamweight prospect McGrail (8-1, 5 KO) was originally slated to face the man who upset him last December, Ja’Rico O’Quinn, in a rematch today, but instead will be taking on

Jose Ramirez looked a bit rusty and showed a number of his classic bad habits, but his pressure, volume, and durability were enough to carry him past a game Rances Barthelemy. Ramirez (29-1, 18 KO), fighting for the first time since March of last year, banked the first two rounds with relative ease as Barthelemy

Thursday, May 2 Social Media and DAZN, TBA, Canelo vs Munguia press conference We’ll get the quotes and whatnot to you as soon as we can. ESPN+, 7:00 pm ET, Erik Bazinyan vs Shakeel Phinn This got postponed shortly, meant to happen a couple weeks back, but it’s still on and here it is. Bazinyan

Following the first stoppage loss of his career Joseph Diaz spoke to all his fans in a live stream after the fight, explaining that while he doesn’t agree with the stoppage he’s still in good spirits and expects to come back better at a lower weight. Check out some of what he had to say

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