Fighting

One of the fights on this coming Sunday’s Ruiz vs Ortiz pay-per-view has gone from a crossroads bout to a clash of prospects. Broadway Joel reports and Dan Rafael confirms that Jose Valenzuela will face fellow young gun Edwin De Los Santos after original foe Jezreel Corrales was denied a visa. There’s an argument to

During yesterday’s opening press conference for Deontay Wilder vs Robert Helenius, which will receive its chief support with a fight between super middleweights Caleb Plant and Anthony Dirrell, Dirrell took some time to field media questions about the personal dislike between Plant and himself. Here, Dirrell says he doesn’t quite care for the way Plant

Things have not been going well for Eddie Hearn of late vis-à-vis light heavyweight contender Joshua Buatsi. First, the WBA smacked down Hearn’s attempt to have Buatsi leapfrog Zurdo Ramirez for a crack at Dmitry Bivol, forcing Matchroom to focus instead on an ordered IBF eliminator against Jean Pascal. Then, earlier today, DiBella Entertainment outbid

Today has been just full of surprises. Not long after Lou DiBella snatched Joshua Buatsi vs Jean Pascal out from under Eddie Hearn’s nose, MarvNation Promotions won the rights to Jose Zepeda vs Regis Prograis with a gigantic $2.4 million bid, doubling up on PBC’s $1.2 million offer. From what I’ve been able to gather,

Chris Eubank Jr takes some time to chat with iFL TV about his upcoming battle with Conor Benn, wanting to make it plainly clear for everyone to see how much of a good time he’s having in the lead up to this fight. In fact, Eubank is so comfortable with the conditions of this fight

Former cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis will take on an unbeaten Australian standout in his next fight, but not the one you probably expected. The Courier-Mail reports that he’s “verbally agreed” to face heavyweight Justis Huni on October 29th in Brisbane. Briedis (28-2, 20 KO), last seen warring his way to a hugely entertaining loss to

The heavyweight picture seems pretty clear in the sense that the fight to make right now is an undisputed clash between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. And as all signs point to that fight ultimately working its way to fruition (although it’s still extremely early), one fellow heavyweight in Michael Hunter shares some of his

The “MF x DAZN Series” will continue on Saturday, Oct. 15, as MMA legend Vitor Belfort will face Hasim Rahman Jr in a boxing match from Sheffield, England. Rahman appeared on the “MF x DAZN” card today in London to speak about the fight being official. It wasn’t clear if it will be DAZN or

Jose Pedraza and Richard Commey came into tonight’s ESPN main event from Tulsa, Okla., both needing a win, and when all was said and done, neither of them got it. Pedraza and Commey fought to a split draw in the 10-round bout at 140 lbs, with Pedraza winning one card 97-93, Commey taking another 96-94,

Sky Sports (UK), 2:00 pm ET, Liam Smith vs Hassan Mwakinyo. This may wind up on FITE+ in the U.S., but maybe not. The main event is OK at best on paper, Mwakinyo has won a bunch in a row but the competition has been middling, and Smith has always, always done the business against

KSI knocked out Swarmz in the second round of their internet celebrity boxing fight today at London’s O2 Arena, and followed it up a few hours later with a third round stoppage of extremely low-level professional boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda. The KSI vs Swarmz was, being honest, pretty terrible. But it was nothing compared to

Today at 2 pm (7 pm BST) on DAZN PPV, social media star and rapper KSI will return to boxing in the main event, and possibly two main events, of a boxing card filled with what are called “influencers,” almost none of whom can box. For more info on how to watch around the world,

Jose Pedraza and Richard Commey are set for a 10-round junior welterweight main event tonight on ESPN and ESPN+, and we’ll be here with live results for you. The card will kick off with prelims exclusively on ESPN+ at 6:30 pm ET, and the main card on both ESPN and ESPN+ will start at 10:30

Top Rank’s usual flotilla of prospects will be in action on its September 23rd Shakur Stevenson vs Robson Conceicao show in Newark. Most notably, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Keyshawn Davis makes his second appearance of the year against Omar Tienda in the ESPN co-feature and Henry Lebron meets Andy Vences in the featured ESPN+ prelim.

As Deontay Wilder prepares for his upcoming ring return against Robert Helenius, Wilder talks about the matchup and his mindset for coming back to boxing despite not needing the money. Wilder says he realized how many people he inspires the world over and it struck him then that he must continue on his fighting journey.

And then there was one. Jake Donovan and Dan Rafael report that Josh Taylor has officially relinquished his IBF title, which he was ordered to defend against Jeremias Ponce earlier this month. As a result, Ponce has been ordered to face Subriel Matias for the now-vacant title. Odds are good that they won’t need the

Sebastian Fundora will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 8, facing Carlos Ocampo in a Showtime main event, defending his interim WBC 154 lb title. The card, which was announced on last Saturday’s Showtime event but may have been missed by a few of you, so we’re telling you about it officially! here anyway, will

Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler have agreed to terms for an undisputed bantamweight championship fight on Dec. 13 in Japan, according to ESPN’s Mike Coppinger. It’s the fight that was expected for both, as Butler (34-2, 15 KO) made very clear his immediate interest in facing Inoue (23-0, 20 KO) following the latter’s destructive second