Fighting

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks to Fight Hub on his thoughts on the lightweight division and its current landscape. Hearn, who no longer promotes undisputed champion Devin Haney, says a fight against Vasiliy Lomachenko might do it for the die-hard boxing fans, but he has no doubt there’s one fight that’s head and shoulders over

Top Rank’s Dec. 10 Teofimo Lopez vs Jose Pedraza show has its co-feature, as Keith Idec reports and Mike Coppinger confirms that top heavyweight prospect Jared Anderson has “struck a deal” to meet veteran Jerry Forrest. No other bouts have yet been announced for the card, which takes place at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater.

The December 3rd main event between Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora is hot garbage, and the co-feature pitting Daniel Dubois against Kevin Lerena is decent at best. There are some reasonably well-matched tussles on the undercard, however, as Julius Julianis brings word of the supporting cast. Yvan Mendy takes on Denys Berinchyk for the EBU

In a conversation with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, former junior welterweight titleholder Regis Prograis talks about his upcoming shot at a vacant belt against Jose Zepeda while also touching on yet another fighter testing positive for banned substances. Prograis, who admits that he doesn’t know much about Conor Benn, does find it curious

LONDON — I’d love to tell you that there was a different feeling inside London’s O2 Arena on Saturday night, but in truth, there wasn’t. The same characters swayed along the gangways, balancing six beers across two trembling hands. The same queues snaked around corners for overpriced pizza and chips. And the same rendition of

As reports suggest that we’re nearing a junior welterweight rematch between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall, who officially lost a much disputed split decision to Taylor the first time around, Catterall says he’s even more confident in his ability to compete at the highest level and looks to turn things up a notch. There’s no

Bear with me here. The agreement that made Canelo-GGG 3 possible stipulated that Gennadiy Golovkin, who holds both the IBF and WBA “super” middleweight titles, immediately face WBA “world” champion Erislandy Lara afterwards. By all accounts, there were no other options; Golovkin’s choices were to make a deal by October 23rd, roll the dice on

Hey! It’s Tuesday, so that means it’s podcast day with myself and John Hansen here at Bad Left Hook. We’re up later than usual this week, as we had to delay our normal recording schedule by a full day, but we’re here! We’ve got ALL that good boxing talk. Furthermore, the delay means I am

As recent news broke that Josh Taylor is headed towards a rematch with Jack Catterall, Taylor has revealed that he’s make a change in his camp as he’s now given the reigns over to Joe McNally to act as his lead trainer. Taylor has previously been working with Ben Davison as lead trainer, but as

We knew it was coming in December, but now we have a proper date. Troy Williamson is officially set to defend his British super welterweight title against Josh Kelly atop a December 2nd Channel 5 show in Newcastle. Williamson (19-0-1, 14 KO) claimed his title with a vicious knockout of Ted Cheeseman in one of

Rankings go up on Mondays. Really bare weekend coming up so we’ll be back in two weeks. This is happening way too often for my liking lately, and there’s more of it to come for the rest of 2022. Ranked fights the next two weeks: Cruiserweight: (10) Aleksei Papin vs Damir Beljo, Oct. 29 Lightweight:

We finally had ourselves a truly busy weekend in boxing again, with a monstrous Saturday that included Deontay Wilder’s comeback, Devin Haney staying undisputed, Claressa Shields once again going undisputed, an unexpected win for Alycia Baumgardner, and an unexpected method of victory for Caleb Plant. Plus, like MORE! There was MORE of real note, too!

“The Brown Bomber” Joe Louis carved out an all-time great career and gave light to the sport of boxing during an era plagued by Depression and war. Most casual boxing fans, and even some avid aficionados, may not have dug in the archives to find the myriad of fights in which Louis made his bones.

DAZN and Social Media, 9:00 pm ET, Floyd Schofield vs Daniel Rosas. A pretty solid main event for the return of Golden Boy Fight Night, as young GBP prospect Schofield meets veteran Rosas in an eight-rounder. The show will also feature Anabel Ortiz vs Maria Santizo in an eight-rounder at 108 lbs, and more fights.

Deontay Wilder did Deontay Wilder stuff in his return to the ring, scoring a devastating first round knockout win over Robert Helenius at his favorite venue, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Wilder (43-2-1, 42 KO) keeps up his career run of knocking out everyone he’s ever faced except for Tyson Fury, and heaven knows he did his

Alycia Baumgardner pulled an upset — not a huge one, but an upset — over Mikaela Mayer today in London, winning a very competitive split decision to unify three of the four world titles at 130 lbs. Scores were 96-95 twice in Baumgardner’s favor, and one card of 97-93 for Mayer, who was very unhappy

Liam Paro knocked out Brock Jarvis with ease in the opening round of Matchroom Boxing’s debut main event in Australia, with Skye Nicolson and Demsey McKean, among others, picking up undercard victories. Paro (23-0, 14 KO) was the clearly cooler head in the ring, with the is the 26-year-old junior welterweight looking nice and relaxed,

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Devin Haney and George Kambosos Jr are set for their undisputed lightweight championship rematch in Melbourne, Australia, with Haney defending the WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO titles that he unified with a win over Kambosos in June. Haney (27-0, 15 KO) came in at 134.81 lbs and looked sharp