Fighting

WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios will make his second defense of the year against Abel Ramos as part of Netflix’s November 15th Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson show in Arlington, Texas. Barrios (29-2, 18 KO) becomes the latest WBC champion to get a free pass from their “the champion must face their mandatory challenger every

Joshua Buatsi and Willy Hutchinson met for a face to face meeting with DAZN and it wasn’t all that long before tensions flared between the two. Buatsi denied claims of Hutchinson supposedly handing him a beating in a past sparring session, and then Hutchinson got annoyed by Buatsi’s insinuations in return. But when asked specifically

As Anthony Joshua prepares himself to take on Daniel Dubois this weekend for the IBF heavyweight title, he’s been pretty open about wanting to fight the winner in the rematch of Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury. Usyk has already twice beaten Joshua, who still wants to avenge those shortcomings, but his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn

As with Riyadh Season’s Terence Crawford vs Israil Madrimov show in July, Saturday’s Wembley card will feature a trio of fights after Wednesday’s public workout. Cameron Vuong vs Joe Underwood Hughes, Chris Kongo vs Jacob Quinn, and Aadam Hamed vs Santiago Garces all go down tomorrow evening. Vuong (5-0, 3 KO) and Hughes (8-1, 3

With the news breaking that Shakur Stevenson’s fight with Joe Cordina is going in the dumpster now that Stevenson has had to withdraw due to an injury suffered in training camp, his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks about what happened and what will be the plan for Stevenson now. Hearn on Stevenson injuring himself and

An intriguing clash of undefeated super bantamweights is back on the schedule after Queensberry Promotions announced a November 2nd Birmingham show headlined by Liam Davies vs Shabaz Masoud. The pair were initially set to meet in July before Davies (16-0, 8 KO) withdrew due to illness, leaving Masoud (13-0, 4 KO) to pitch an eight-round

Caleb Plant took to the podium during today’s final press conference to make sure Trevor McCumby is aware of what he’s getting himself into this weekend. Plant would make references to members of McCumby’s team heckling him during a previous presser, and says while that trash talking might sound good, McCumby knows what he’ll be

Juan Francisco Estrada won’t be running it back with Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez after all, as Salvador Rodriguez reports that “El Gallo” will instead follow in rival Roman Gonzalez’s footsteps and move to 118 pounds. Estrada (44-4, 28 KO) ends a nearly decade-long stretch at super flyweight, which kicked off in earnest in 2016. He’d previously

Shakur Stevenson won’t be making his next scheduled outing after suffering a torn tendon in his hand during a recent sparring session, which required immediate surgery, and now Fight Hype has released a video clip of the sparring session where the injury occurred. Stevenson would reportedly tear a tendon in his knuckle during the sparring,

In this video interview with Fight Hype, Caleb Plant’s trainer Stephen ‘Breadman’ Edwards talks about tailoring Plant’s approach in training camp for this upcoming fight against Trevor McCumby and why it’s been paying dividends. Breadman also touches on why the general inactivity of today’s fighters hamper their growth as professionals. Check out some excerpts of

Britain’s best flyweights are officially set to duke it out, as Matchroom announced today that former champion Sunny Edwards will face Tokyo gold medalist Galal Yafai on November 30th at Birmingham’s BP Pulse Arena. As mentioned before, Edwards (21-1, 4 KO) has a strong claim to being the best flyweight of the post-”Bam” era; only

Multiple outlets report that Gervonta “Tank” Davis and David Benavidez could once again share the spotlight on a December 14th PBC PPV, with Salvador Rodriguez adding that Brandon Figueroa and at least one Charlo could also appear. No opponents have been named, but the historically reliable Julius Julianis claims that the most “probable” outcome would

There’s sure to be more than a little speculation as why Turki Alalshikh is no longer interested in pursuing a Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford fight — whether it be Crawford’s most recent performance, Canelo’s financial demands, or a combination of the two — but Alalshikh has now expressed that he’ll be focusing his efforts

Newly crowned WBO flyweight champion Anthony Olascuaga won’t have long to rest on his laurels, as the sanctioning body has scheduled a purse bid for this coming Friday after Olascuaga’s camp and that of former light flyweight titlist Jonathan “Bomba” Gonzalez failed to come to terms. The minimum bid is $80,000; if the fight is

Next update will come on Monday, August 19. Ranked fights this period: Super Middleweight: (3) Christian Mbilli vs (4) Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Aug. 17 Super Middleweight: (10) Oselys Iglesias vs TBA, Aug. 17 Super Welterweight: (7) Serhii Bohachuk vs (8) Vergil Ortiz Jr, Aug. 10 Flyweight: (4) Angel Ayala vs (8) Dave Apolinario, Aug. 9 Notes:

Olympic boxing resumes today, as we’re getting down to only medal fights. Today’s lone session will start at 3:30 pm ET. For those in the United States, you can stream all the action live with Peacock. Today we’ll see semifinals in three weight classes, as well as the first boxing gold medal to be contested

Omari Jones was eliminated in the men’s 71kg (welterweight) boxing semifinal today, meaning that Team USA leaves Paris 2024 with just his bronze medal to show for their efforts. Jones was defeated by Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev, who won the bout 3-2. Judges who saw it for Muydinkhujaev had it 29-28, 29-28, and 30-27. Judges who

About three weeks ago, Tim Tszyu announced that his return to action would be a September 22nd IBF final eliminator and named Erickson Lubin as the probably opponent. That wound up falling though due to a hand injury on Lubin’s part, with “Hammer” adding that they’d agreed to fight in December instead. Those plans may