Fighting

Earlier this year, Olympic bronze medalist Filip Hrgovic got the call to fight Michael Hunter in an IBF final eliminator. “The Bounty” wound up bailing on the fight in favor of a WBA eliminator against the hapless Mike Wilson, and three months later, it seems Hrgovic couldn’t find an alternate opponent to the IBF’s liking,

After claiming a silver medal in this summer’s Olympic games, Duke Ragan is set to return to the professional ranks. ESPN reports that Ragan will see action on the October 23rd Jamel Herring vs. Shakur Stevenson card in Atlanta alongside Nico Ali Walsh. Both men are booked to face TBA. Despite losing to Bruce Carrington

As part of an ongoing effort to salvage its reputation after the Mykal Fox vs. Gabriel Maestre debacle, the WBA has officially declared all of its interim titles vacant. After a thorough analysis of each division, the WBA has announced several mandatory fights and box-offs between selected fighters. While the interim championships are no longer

A third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder has been in the making for some time now, but as their scheduled October 9th fight date nears Wilder’s trainer Malik Scott tells Sky Sports that he’s spotted the weaknesses in Fury’s style and say Wilder will be taking full advantage to score a knockout win.

Premier Boxing Champions has announced that David Benavidez vs. Jose Uzcategui, previously slated to take place on August 28th before “El Bandera Rojo” tested positive for COVID, will now go down November 13th. As before, it’ll take place at Footprint Center, formerly known as Phoenix Suns Stadium. While the original Showtime opener between Carlos Castro

After more than a year and a half on the shelf, WBA “super” cruiserweight champion Arsen Goulamirian has an opponent and a pair of tentative dates for his next defense. Andrei Ryabinsky’s World of Boxing won yesterday’s purse bid for Goulamirian’s mandated bout with “gold” champ Aleksei Egorov and aim to stage it on either

COVID uncertainty is still impacting the fight game, cementing the adage that if you wanna make God laugh, make plans for the future and assume they are immutable. But Bob Arum and Top Rank are proceeding full steam ahead, as fast as is prudent. Top Rank have a show in Tucson, Arizona, topped by WBC

Rankings go up on Mondays. There will be no update on August 30. Ranked fights for the next two weeks: Junior Welterweight: (7) Ivan Baranchyk vs Montana Love [welterweight], Aug. 29 Featherweight: (4) Mauricio Lara vs (6) Josh Warrington, Sept. 4 Junior Bantamweight: (2) Kazuto Ioka vs (10) Francisco Rodriguez Jr, Sept. 1 Women’s P4P:

It’s no secret that welterweight champion Errol Spence was disappointed he wasn’t the one who got beat Manny Pacquiao this past weekend. For Spence the Pacquiao fight represented not only what would’ve been the biggest payday of his career, but also a chance to thrust him into true superstardom given the global platform Pacquiao brings

With a massive win over Manny Pacquiao, Yordenis Ugas finds himself in a spot that even two weeks ago he couldn’t have imagined. He still has the WBA welterweight title. He just beat — and possibly retired — an all-time great, a true legend. And now, the Cuban guy that nobody really wanted to fight

BT Sport (UK), 2:00 pm ET, Anthony Cacace vs Lyon Woodstock, Akeem Ennis-Brown vs Sam Maxwell, Anthony Yarde vs Alex Theran, Ijaz Ahmed vs Quaise Khamedi. Three domestic title fights, with Cacace-Woodstock for the British title at 130, Ennis-Brown-Maxwell for the British and Commonwealth titles at 140, and Ahmed-Khademi for the vacant British belt at

IBF super middleweight titleholder Caleb Plant is fully confirmed for his crack at Canelo Alvarez on November 6, and the 29-year-old was in the house to do some light promotion during last night’s Pacquiao-Ugas pay-per-view. “November 6, it’s going down. The first undisputed super middleweight of all time, you’re looking at him, his name is

In a battle of veteran welterweights who both desperately needed a win, Robert Guerrero edged by Victor Ortiz via unanimous decision, winning on three cards of 96-94 in his favor. Bad Left Hook had the fight 95-95 on two separate cards, and it was a close, tightly-fought bout between the two throughout, with nobody ever

“Catch the Fair One”, the thriller/boxing film starring WBA super lightweight champion Kali Reis, has found a U.S. distributor. IFC Films recently announced their acquisition of the film’s domestic rights, with a planned release in 2022. IFC Films president Arianna Bocco said of the deal: “We’re so glad we have the opportunity to usher in

Tonight at 9 pm ET on pay-per-view, the legendary Manny Pacquiao returns to challenge Yordenis Ugas for the WBA welterweight title in the main event from Las Vegas. We’ll be here with full live coverage, all of the updates posted in this stream, including round-by-round for all four bouts from Wil Esco: Pacquiao, 42, is

With today’s weigh-in over and done with, Saturday night’s PBC pay-per-view is set, with all four fights good to go, including the Manny Pacquiao vs Yordenis Ugas main event. The 42-year-old Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 KO) weighed in at 146, a pound shy of the 147 lb limit, with WBA titleholder Ugas (26-4, 12 KO) right

During this video interview with Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, leading into this tomorrow’s Showtime PPV fight against Yordenis Ugas, Roach fields some questions from Fight Hub TV about the matchup and what could potentially come next for his fighter. Check out some excerpts of what Roach had to say below. Roach on why Pacquiao

It was just over a week ago that Andy Ruiz Jr was reportedly eyeing a potential October bout with Charles Martin, two former ex-heavyweight titlists, however short their reigns. But Ruiz instead is looking at a December return date, following a surgery on his right knee in Guadalajara this past Tuesday. The 31-year-old Ruiz (34-2,