Fighting

Friday, Sep. 27 DAZN, 2:00 pm ET, Shakiel Thompson vs River Wilson-Bent. A GBM show out of Sheffield, England. Thompson is a 6’3” middleweight nicknamed “Dr. Steel.” Wilson-Bent lost to Hamzah Sheeraz, another 6’3” middleweight, by 2nd round TKO about two years ago. Maxi Hughes and Hughie Fury are listed on the undercard! Channel 5

Anthony Joshua suffered another big setback this past weekend when he was beat down by Daniel Dubois, forcing a fifth round knockout. Joshua has designs on winning the IBF world title from Dubois en route to making a run at undisputed, but now those plans appear much less likely. Many have offered their opinions that

Following Anthony Joshua’s knockout loss to Daniel Dubois over the weekend, Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn took to the post-fight press conference to share his thoughts on what he admits was a disastrous outing for his heavyweight star and where they could go from here. Check out some of what Hearn had to say about Joshua’s

Despite a bevy of domestic accomplishments and a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan-American Games, one could argue that Richard Torrez Jr’s biggest pre-Tokyo spotlight came when Mauricio Sulaiman used a clip of his loss to Bakhodir Jalolov to disingenuously claim that letting pros into the Olympics posed a clear a present danger. Suffice to

Daniel Dubois scored the biggest win of his career over the weekend by stopping Anthony Joshua in under five full rounds, and in the immediate aftermath of the fight he spoke at the post-fight press conference to discuss his thoughts on the achievement. Check out some of what he had to say about the fight

Anthony Joshua is making very clear that he has no plans to retire from boxing following last weekend’s loss to Daniel Dubois, with his eyes still set on becoming a three-time world heavyweight champion. Dubois retained the IBF title in Saturday’s dominant win over Joshua. “It’s far from over yet. We’ve done it once, we’ve

Jaime Munguia is looking to make 2024 his busiest year since 2018, as Salvador Rodriguez reports that he’ll meet Ronald Gavril on December 14th in his native Tijuana. 2024 has already seen Munguia (44-1, 35 KO) stop John Ryder, fall to Canelo Alvarez, and most recently batter Erik Bazinyan this past Friday. The hope was

Josh Kelly has a new opponent for this coming Saturday after Liam Smith’s exit, as Turki Alalshikh announced that undefeated super welterweight Ishmael Davis has answered the call. Davis (13-0, 6 KO) was preparing for a date with Uisma Lima on Matchroom’s October 26th Jack Catterall vs Regis Prograis show, his first bout since March’s

Matchroom’s reveal that Josh Warrington would challenge Anthony Cacace for the latter’s newly won IBF super featherweight title was perplexing for a number of reasons. Not only did Cacace have a standing order to face knockout artist Eduardo “Sugar” Nunez, Warrington was 1-3-1 in his previous five, unranked, and had yet to compete at 130.

The supporting cast is coming together for next month’s Adam Azim vs Ohara Davies show, as Boxxer announced today that Dan Azeez will meet Lewis Edmondson in the light heavyweight co-feature. Edmondson (9-0, 3 KO) will be taking a significant step up in class, having just won his first eight-rounder over Joel McIntyre in May.

Following Caleb Plant’s stoppage win over Trevor McCumby this weekend, he speaks to the media about his experience in the ring, getting this win, as well as his performance in the outing. Check out some excerpts of what Plant had to say below. “He was awkward and strong and unorthodox,” Plant said of McCumby. “He

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