Fighting

Podcast listeners heard Scott Christ and me despairing earlier this week over upcoming October weekends with no televised boxing. It appears we panicked too soon, because Triller stepped in to fill at least one gap on the calendar with an October 22nd live show and FITE broadcast called ‘LINEAGE OF GREATNESS II’. The show happens

Floyd Mayweather will return to exhibition action on Saturday night U.S. time, facing Mikuru Asakura in a bout from Saitama Super Arena in Japan. Here’s how you can watch the show. If you’re in the United States, the the exhibition fight is available on pay-per-view for a cost of $29.99, through traditional cable and satellite.

Shakur Stevenson returns to action tonight to face Robson Conceicao in an ESPN main event from Newark, N.J., but the fight has admittedly lost some luster as of yesterday. Stevenson missed weight on Friday, so the WBC and WBO junior lightweight titles are on the line for Conceicao only. All the same, we’ll be here,

DAZN has officially revealed the undercard for Chris Eubank Jr’s October 8th clash with Conor Benn, which includes a number of familiar British faces like Felix Cash, Galal Yafai, Harlem Eubank, Ellie Scotney, Lyndon Arthur, and Shannon Courtenay. Cash (15-0, 10 KO) takes what looks to be a decent-sized step back against Connor Coyle (17-0,

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum chats with Fight Hype about the future of Shakur Stevenson as he heads into this weekend’s fight, before taking questions about the much talked about fight between Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Ryan Garcia. Now obviously a fight between Tank and Garcia has yet to be formally announced, but both fighters

Shakur Stevenson is set to defend his WBC and WBO junior lightweight titles in a Friday night main event on ESPN, where he’ll face Robson Conceicao. The two met up for today’s final presser, and their stare down photo op got just a little bit heated, with plenty of talking between the two of them

DAZN have officially announced that last Saturday’s third fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin “saw a global audience in the millions, with more than 1.06 million buys generated worldwide including PPV and DAZN subscriptions.” To be extremely clear here, because sometimes people see a number and stop reading to go yell on social media:

Floyd Mayweather says he and Conor McGregor have engaged in talks about a rematch in 2023, and that he would prefer it be an exhibition but a “real fight” — presumably meaning one sanctioned that counts on pro records — has also been discussed. Mayweather, who will turn 46 next February, hasn’t had a real,

It may not be completely official just yet, but with all signs pointing towards an undisputed welterweight showdown between Errol Spence and Terence Crawford we might as well start getting some thoughts from boxing insiders. Here we’ll start with rising prospect Keyshawn Davis, who has shown to be a pretty damn good fight analyst. So

After a last-second postponement due to the UK’s insistence on forcing everyone to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth whether they wanted to or not, the all-women Claressa Shields vs Savannah Marshall/Mikaela Mayer vs Alycia Baumgardner doubleheader has officially been rescheduled for October 15th at London’s O2 Arena. The original card, planned for September 10th,

During a conversation with Fight Hype, David Benavidez talks about the state of his career, specifically regarding his aspirations to secure a big time boxing fight. Benavidez says after being in the professional ranks for nearly a decade at this point, he’s ready for his opportunity on the big stage and says he’s frustrated that

When someone becomes undisputed champion, they, by necessity, sacrifice autonomy. Four mandatory challengers leave very little time for creative endeavors; maybe the occasional one-off sojourn into a higher or lower weight class, but anything more creates a logjam. Having cleared his immediate IBF obligation by beating Caleb Plant for the belt and with the WBA

Rankings go up on Mondays. Ranked fights this week: Heavyweight: (5) Joe Joyce vs (7) Joseph Parker, Sept. 24 Lightweight: (10) Maxi Hughes vs Kid Galahad, Sept. 24 Junior Lightweight: (1) Shakur Stevenson vs (5) Robson Conceicao, Sept. 23 Notes: Will be some adjustments next week after Joyce vs Parker. As for Tyson Fury, we’ll

Canelo Alvarez picked up a clear and unquestioned win over Gennadiy Golovkin on Saturday night, and spoke at his post-fight press conference about the victory, his feelings about GGG, the hand (actually wrist) injury he’d mentioned in the ring after the bout, and more. Notably, he got pretty clearly bothered when asked questions about David

Troy Williams will defend his British junior middleweight title against Josh Kelly in a December fight in Newcastle, Probellum announced on Saturday. Williamson (19-0-1, 14 KO) took the belt from Ted Cheeseman in Oct. 2021, stopping Cheeseman via brutal knockout in the 10th round of a fight in Liverpool, and staking a clear claim as

ESPN+ and Social Media, 11:00 am ET, Stevenson vs Conceicao press conference. ESPN+ and Social Media, 1:00 pm ET, Stevenson vs Conceicao weigh-in. ESPN+ and Social Media, 9:00 am ET, Joyce vs Parker weigh-in. ESPN+, 6:00 pm ET, Stevenson vs Conceicao prelims. This is the listed time right now, sometimes this gets bumped up a

Diego Pacheco stayed unbeaten with a fifth round stoppage of Enrique Collazo, capping an overall entertaining set of prelim fights on the Canelo vs GGG 3 undercard. Our live coverage of Canelo vs GGG 3 continues! Click here!) Pacheco (16-0, 13 KO) and Collazo (16-3-1, 11 KO) had probably the worst of the four fights

Bill Haney takes some time to chat with Fight Hype about Devin Haney’s upcoming rematch with George Kambosos and the ongoing social media beef between Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and his son. The elder Haney, who is clearly a man about his business, makes it a point to call out how Tank and Mayweather Promotions have