Fighting

Shakur Stevenson won’t be chasing further unification quite yet, but that delay is for a good cause. ESPN’s Salvador Rodriguez revealed today that he’s in talks to defend his super featherweight belts against WBO featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete, “tentatively in August or September.” Not that clashes with fellow titlists Joe Cordina and the winner of

Derek Chisora vs. Kubrat Pulev 2 won’t be the only rematch the O2 hosts on July 9th. Matchroom announced today that the card will also feature a WBA final eliminator rematch between Israil Madrimov and Michel Soro. Madrimov (8-0, 6 KO) and Soro (35-3-1, 24 KO) put on eight rounds of solid, competitive action before

Jimmy Kelly has a big opportunity this coming Saturday, as he’ll face Jaime Munguia in a Golden Boy main event in Anaheim, live on DAZN. The bout is advertised as a super middleweight fight, which may mean it’s at a full 168 or a catchweight between 160 and 168. Munguia, of course, is a middleweight

A bout in South Africa between local lightweights Simiso Buthelezi and Siphesihle Mntungwa produced one of the most bizarre endings in recent memory this past Sunday when Buthelezi, after eating a counter jab while pressuring Mntungwa into the ropes, suddenly turned and began swinging at air during the referee’s reset. He was subsequently placed into

With Naoya Inoue smashing Nonito Donaire inside of two rounds in Tuesday’s rematch, the Japanese star now lacks just one of the four major titles in the bantamweight division, and made clear that he wants to take a crack at the undisputed championship in his post-fight interview. That title is the WBO’s, and is currently

During an interview with Lance Pugmire, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks about Ryan Garcia’s future and how he’s motivated to strike a deal to make a marquee fight between Garcia and Gervonta Davis this November. De La Hoya reasons that Tank fighting Garcia offers the biggest financial upside and he’s perfectly willing

Naoya “The Monster” Inoue lived up to his moniker in terrifying fashion this morning with a two-round mauling of Nonito Donaire to claim the WBC bantamweight title. He then made clear his desire to become undisputed champion at 118, and it turns out that the feeling’s mutual. WBO champ Paul Butler tells DAZN that his

Ricky Hatton is just under a month away from an exhibition bout with Marco Antonio Barrera in Manchester, England, and took to social media to show off the amount of weight he’s lost since March. Here’s a look at Hatton’s change over three months: It’s a pretty stunning transformation over three months, but not one

Just 12 days before his planned return to the ring against Maciej Sulecki, WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo has been forced to withdraw due to a back injury. The card will be “rescheduled to a new date that will be announced pending an assessment of when Charlo can return to training.” The wording suggests that

Immediately following Devin Haney’s undisputed lightweight title win over George Kambosos in Melbourne, Australia over the weekend, trainer Bill Haney spoke with Fight Hub TV about how everything came together for their team when it counted most. On how it felt to get his visa cleared at the last minute “I went to the rest

Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire will have their highly-anticipated rematch on Tuesday, June 7, live from Saitama, Japan, with three bantamweight titles on the line in the sequel to 2019’s Fight of the Year. Inoue (22-0, 19 KO) and Donaire (42-6, 28 KO) are considered the top two bantamweights in the sport today, their first

ESPN+, 5:30 am ET, Naoya Inoue vs Nonito Donaire 2. The first Inoue vs Donaire fight was an instant classic, the 2019 Fight of the Year in Saitama, and they go back to the same venue to do it again. This could be the last great shot Donaire gets, not because he’s any worse than

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz George Kambosos Jr lost his world title belts to Devin Haney in Melbourne, making Haney the undisputed lightweight champion of the world. You might reasonably expect the often brash Kambosos (20-1, 8 KO) to take a loss and have a lot of heat behind his words, but Kambosos’ post-fight

Stephen Fulton Jr is set to defend two 122 lb titles tonight against Danny Roman, headlining a Showtime doubleheader that kicks off at 9 pm ET. Wil Esco will be on the full call for us tonight, with updates and scoring and discussion coming in the comments section of the post. Fulton unified the WBC

Devin Haney remains a slight favorite going into tonight’s fight with George Kambosos Jr, even though Haney is the road fighter in Melbourne, Australia, and even though Kambosos has earned the right to be called the division’s top dog. Lines have narrowed just a bit over the last week or so, but really not by

George Kambosos Jr and Devin Haney will settle any disputes in the lightweight division tonight, squaring off for all four major world titles and crowning an undisputed champion in Melbourne, Australia. John Hansen will be on the round-by-round call tonight, with updates coming in this stream starting from 9 pm ET: The fight, which already

Stephen Fulton Jr and Danny Roman are officially set for Saturday night’s Showtime main event, where Fulton will defend the WBC and WBO junior featherweight titles in a 12-round bout from Minneapolis. Fulton (20-0, 8 KO) and Roman (29-3-1, 10 KO) both weighed in at 121½ lbs, so just under the 122 lb limit for

During this video interview with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum answers some questions as to what big fights he’s looking to make around the lightweight division, including potential matchups with Gervonta Davis, Shakur Stevenson, Devin Haney, and Teofimo Lopez — who is targeting a late summer return. Check out