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Salvador Rodriguez brings word that Matchroom Boxing, promoter of Israil Madrimov, won today’s purse bid for their charge’s ordered eliminator against “gold” champion Michel Soro with a $245,000 offer. They intend to stage the fight on December 11th in either the U.S. or Ukraine. Why Ukraine for a fight between an Uzbek and a Frenchman?

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Caleb Plant and Canelo Alvarez got into a bit of a scrap at Tuesday’s press conference in Beverly Hills, which you can watch here, resulting in one of the more talked-about early pressers in quite some time. But Plant needs you to know something: Canelo did not fully slip the left hand the Tennessean threw,

Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant have barely gotten their press conference underway in Los Angeles, and we’ve already seen fireworks. Canelo was abnormally chatty in their face-to-face to lead off the event, and while you couldn’t hear what was being said, the Mexican superstar gave Plant a hard shove that sent him backwards. Plant came

With Anthony Joshua set to defend his heavyweight world titles against Oleksandr Usyk this weekend in London, Joshua tells ESPN that he’s been much more concerned about preparing himself to deal with Usyk’s southpaw style rather than worry much about whatever power Usyk might be packing. “He’s fought many men that are orthodox and during

So here’s the latest on the Nonito Donaire situation: while Bob Arum has proposed a rematch with Naoya Inoue, the WBC bantamweight champion restarted talks with WBO champion John Riel Casimero, whom he was slated to face in the summer before withdrawing due to a social media spat. Al Haymon now claims that Casimero rejected

This is beyond parody. Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh, appearing on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour, claims that he’s now hoping to move Teofimo Lopez vs George Kambosos Jr from October 4th at Hulu Theater to October 16th at Barclays Center. Kavanaugh claims it’s an effort to avoid conflicting with the Oakland Raiders vs San Diego Chargers game

Mikaela Mayer and Maiva Hamadouche will meet in a 130 lb title unification fight on Friday, Nov. 5, and ESPN.com’s Michael Rothstein reports that it will be a main event fight on ESPN+ in Las Vegas. WBO titleholder Mayer (15-0, 5 KO) has served as chief support on Top Rank/ESPN cards in most of her

Friday, Sept. 24 SHO, 10:35 pm ET, ShoBox: Ja’Rico O’Quinn vs Saul Sanchez. ShoBox returns with a nice looking show from Broken Arrow, Okla., featuring bantamweight prospects O’Quinn and Sanchez in a well-matched main event. We’ll also see Alejandro Guerrero face Otar Eranosyan in a 130 lb matchup, and the original “co-main” was meant to

Senator Manny Pacquiao has just informed the world on his social media accounts that he has accepted his party’s nomination and will officially run for presidency in his home country of The Philippines. This announcement ends years of speculation regarding Pacquiao’s aspirations in public office. I boldly accept the challenge of running as PRESIDENT of

According to sources cited by Mike Coppinger, the undisputed 168lb title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant will officially headline a Showtime PPV event set for November 6th in Las Vegas. Anyway, we obviously already knew that Canelo and Plant agreed to terms for the fight, but now we know exactly where the fight

Following the official announcement of Terence Crawford defending his welterweight world title against Shawn Porter, Crawford chatted with ESPN about his thoughts on the fight and why this bout ended up being a long time coming. Check out some excerpts of what Crawford had to say on the fight below. Crawford on what took so

After failing to secure fights with division standouts Brian Castano and Tony Harrison, WBO #1 super welterweight contender Tim Tszyu has announced that he’ll return to the ring November 17th against former title challenger Takeshi Inoue. Tszyu (19-0, 15 KO) tells Wide World of Sports that the Harrison fight was “thought to be a done

While the Jermell Charlo-Brian Castano situation at the top remains unresolved, the super welterweight division is making some interesting moves. Brazil’s Estadão newspaper reports that former champion Patrick Teixeira will return to action December 11th against unbeaten contender Magomed Kurbanov, while BoxRec lists the location as Ekaterinburg, Russia. Teixeira (31-2, 22 KO) ended his home

During an ESPN State of Boxing segment, hosted by Bernando Osuna, Timothy Bradley, Andre Ward, and Mike Coppinger, both Bradley and Ward weigh-in on the matchup and discuss why they think this is going to be a difficult fight to predict the winner of. Check out some of what the former world champions had to

The WBA announced on Thursday their plan to reduce the number of redundant titles, this time in the welterweight division. To that end, they have ordered their champion Yordenis Ugas to face Eimantas Stanionis by January 13, 2022, and their secondary belt-holder Jamal James to face mandatory challenger Radzhab Butaev before November 2021. The winners

As revealed last week, Mikey Garcia is set to headline an October 16th DAZN show in Fresno against European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin. Matchroom has officially revealed the card, which will also feature two light flyweight title fights. Garcia (40-1, 30 KO) had been linked to a genuinely interesting fight with former unified titlist

The long delayed rematch between Oscar Rivas and Bryant Jennings has received a new date, October 22nd in Montreal. The WBC ordered the rematch earlier this year to crown an inaugural champion for its new, arguably superfluous weight division that ‘bridges’ the gap between cruiserweight and heavyweight. In their first meeting on January 18, 2019,