Fighting

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

On the verge of this weekend’s lightweight title rematch between Devin Haney and George Kambosos Jr, Top Rank releases it’s latest episode of Real Time, taking viewers inside the mind and training camps of both fighters leading into the bout. Haney, who easily handled Kambosos the first time around, has noticed a change in attitude

Deontay Wilder is back in action this Saturday in Brooklyn, facing Robert Helenius in the main event of a FOX PBC pay-per-view, with Caleb Plant and Anthony Dirrell providing chief support on the undercard. Will Deontay roar back into the swing of things with another knockout? Does Helenius have an upset shot? What about Plant

The days of DAZN claiming pay-per-view is dead have truly died, as the company has picked up Floyd Mayweather’s Nov. 13 exhibition bout with social media star Deji for their PPV platform. Mayweather, 45, hasn’t had a sanctioned bout since 2017 when he beat Conor McGregor, but has become a standout on the exhibition circuit.

The Jake Paul vs Anderson Silva pay-per-view undercard has added another fight, and this one is between two pro boxers who have actually been active in the sport. Bantamweights Alexandro Santiago (26-3-5, 13 KO) and Antonio Nieves (20-3-2, 11 KO) will meet in a 10-round bout, which will be a rematch of a ShoBox fight

After an unusually (for this time of the year) bad lull in the boxing schedule, we’ve got a mass of big names back in action this Saturday. Deontay Wilder returns after a year out of the ring to spice up the heavyweight division with his right hand bombs. Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall finally meet

Regis Prograis will have a shot to win the vacant WBC 140 lb title on Nov. 26, when he faces Jose Zepeda in a pay-per-view main event from Carson, Calif. It’s a terrific matchup, albeit one everyone will wish weren’t yet another pay-per-view, an odd situation where the purse bid was won by a relative

Turns out Kenshiro Teraji vs Hiroto Kyoguchi won’t be the only unification Japan hosts in the coming months. Levi Luna reports and Jake Donovan confirms that WBO super flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka and newly minted WBA “super” champion Joshua Franco are on course to unify on one of the country’s traditional end-of-year shows. Per Donovan,