Fighting

Nearly three months after Israil Madrimov finished Michel Soro with punches after the bell in a WBA super welterweight eliminator, the sanctioning body has officially ordered them to square off in a rematch. The pair have 30 days to come to terms and avoid a purse bid. They did not, however, elect to overturn the

Rankings go up on Mondays, but we won’t have an update next week, so the next update will come on March 21. Ranked fights the next two weeks: Welterweight: (4) Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Michael McKinson, Mar. 19 Welterweight: (7) David Avanesyan vs Oskari Metz, Mar. 19 Junior Welterweight: (3) Regis Prograis vs Tyrone McKenna,

Demetrius Andrade has signed the contract to face Zach Parker in a WBO super middleweight eliminator, says Queensberry Promotions, which won the purse bid for the bout recently. Andrade, who has yet to officially vacate his WBO middleweight title, will be moving up and seeking to get to a world title in a third division.

When DAZN came into the U.S. boxing market in 2018, the promise from key players like Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn was that pay-per-view was dead and would be replaced by over the top streaming for a monthly fee. Things haven’t quite worked out. Starting last year, when Matchroom moved their U.K. broadcasts to DAZN from

Chocolatito Gonzalez did it again, scoring a dominant win over Julio Cesar Martinez with a master class performance in tonight’s DAZN main event from San Diego. Chocolatito (51-3, 41 KO) won on scores of 116-112, 117-111, and 118-110, and honestly, the first card especially does not reflect the fight most saw. Bad Left Hook had

For most people, Josh Taylor should have lost his undisputed 140 lb championship last Saturday against Jack Catterall. But when a controversial split decision went Taylor’s way at home in Scotland, the belts stayed put — for the time being. Now, Taylor appears set to move up to 147 lbs and vacate all four major

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Chocolatito Gonzalez returns to the ring tonight to face Julio Cesar Martinez in a main event that had a lot of issues on Friday. Live coverage will start tonight at 8:30 pm ET, with round by round for those main card bouts and highlights and updates all coming in

Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Rolando Romero may be set to officially reschedule their fight, which was meant to happen in December before allegations against Romero saw him removed from the fight pending investigation. With Romero appearing to be cleared, for all intents and purposes, and ready to resume his in-ring career, the fight has been

Julio Cesar Martinez did not make weight in two attempts today, putting Saturday night’s planned DAZN main event against Chocolatito Gonzalez in danger of being canceled. Martinez, who was coming up from 112 lbs for the fight, was reportedly “well over the limit” at the official weigh-in earlier today — the one that will stream

Jose Ramirez returns to take on Jose Pedraza tonight in Fresno, Calif., with the fights streaming live on ESPN+ starting at 7:15 pm ET. Bad Left Hook will be here with full live coverage, including highlights, results, and round-by-round for the main event bout: The show also features the pro debut of heavyweight Richard Torrez

We knew it was coming after Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha went forward, but now it’s official. The WBO has given the go-ahead to reschedule Jermell Charlo’s undisputed title rematch with Brian Castano, which is now targeted for May 14th. There are, however, some caveats. If the fight doesn’t happen on that date “regardless of

UFC welterweight (170 lbs) champion Kamaru Usman is still hoping to land a big crossover boxing bout with Canelo Alvarez, and has his sights set on a September date with the superstar. Of course, we know that Canelo will be facing Dmitry Bivol in a DAZN PPV main event on May 7, and is tentatively

We have our first casualty of the sanctioning bodies’ recent moves to penalize Russia and Belarus. Jalol Akhmedov reports and others confirm that a March 26th show in Ekaterinburg, headlined by Magomed Kurbanov vs. Patrick Teixeira, has been postponed after the WBA and WBO refused to sanction a pair of scheduled title fights. The first,

Ryan Garcia’s April 9th return against Emmanuel Tagoe may not tickle many people’s fancies, but there’s at least one interesting fight on the card. Five-division titlist and reigning WBA flyweight champion Naoko Fujioka revealed yesterday that she’ll face WBC titlist Marlen Esparza in a unification match at the Alamodome. The 46-year-old Fujioka (19-2-1, 7 KO),

During a video interview with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks a bit about Ryan Garcia’s upcoming fight against Emmanuel Tagoe, Garcia being roundly criticized as a part-time boxer, and if there are any big fights on the horizon for Garcia — including why a fight against

Three months after COVID restrictions in Japan forced a postponement, we may finally have a new date for the middleweight unification between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reports the fight will happen in Saitama, Japan on April 9th. Sources: The Gennadiy Golovkin-Ryota Murata middleweight title unification is set for April 9 in

One day after the WBA announced a series of sanctions on Russian and Belarusian fighters, its fellow alphabet organizations released their own restrictions, namely a resolution to “not certify any championship fights involving boxers from Russia and Belarus.” The announcement is desperately short on specifics, such as whether fighters originally from those countries but now

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte are set to officially announce their April 23 fight in London today, as the heavyweight stars meet up at their first press conference. The event will stream live in the video up top in this post starting at 9 am ET. Fury (31-0-1, 22 KO) is making a mandatory defense