Fighting

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

Boxing at the Paris Olympics is in full swing! We’ll have daily live coverage and updates, plus we’ll be keeping track of all the results from the 2024 Summer Games in this post, which will update with every session daily through the final bouts on Aug. 10. Full results, latest to oldest, listed below. Saturday,

Kellie Harrington of Ireland won her second straight Olympic gold medal today, outboxing China’s Yang Wenlu in the women’s 60kg (lightweight) final bout today in Paris. Harrington also won gold in Tokyo three years ago. Harrington won the bout 4-1, taking four scorecards at 29-28 apiece, with Yang winning the remaining card, also scored 29-28.

According to ESPN’s sources, talks for a long anticipated fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis have officially broken off. Both fighters had been in talks to finally put together a PPV fight that would be co-broadcast on ESPN and Prime Video targeted for November, but Lomachenko has reportedly decided against it and will

Boxing’s place at the Olympics has been in jeopardy for years now, but the sport has kept its spot for at least one more cycle, and men and women from around the world will lace up the gloves and look to bring medals home from Paris, with fights starting on July 27 and wrapping up

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Julio Cesar Chavez Jr made a victorious return to the ring tonight, beating former UFC star Uriah Hall over six rounds on the Jake Paul vs Mike Perry undercard. Judges scored the fight 58-56, 59-55, and 59-55 for Chavez (54-6-1, 34 KO), with the latter two cards arguably a

Jake Paul returns to the boxing ring tonight, facing “Platinum” Mike Perry in a pay-per-view main event from Tampa. The 27-year-old Paul is returning to his roots as a Professional Boxer, taking on a naturally smaller man who plies his trade in a different sport, after two wins over terrible boxers that failed to gain

Amanda Serrano scored a stoppage win in a massive mismatch tonight, putting Stevie Morgan away in the second round when the referee rightly called a stop to the one-sided action. Serrano (47-2-1, 31 KO) was in her 50th professional fight tonight, and got her first stoppage win since 2021. She was not defending her featherweight