Fighting

Sky Sports and promotional outfit Boxxer announced on Wednesday the supporting bouts for the October 2nd event featuring Chris Eubank Jr vs Sven Elbir. David Avanesyan (27-3-1, 15 KO) and Liam Taylor (23-1-1, 11 KO) will square off for Avanesyan’s EBU European welterweight title. For Taylor, this fight represents a great opportunity for him to

WBO bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero announced yesterday on YouTube that he’ll return to action December 11th in a long-delayed unification match with IBF/WBA champion Naoya Inoue, who’s had his fair share of harsh words for the brash Filipino. Casimero manager Sean Gibbons, however, tells Rappler that “Quadro Alas” is actually in rebooted talks to

Oscar Valdez has failed a VADA test ahead of his planned Sept. 10 fight against Robson Conceicao, with Mike Coppinger reporting that the WBC junior lightweight titlist tested positive for a diuretic. While diuretics are not steroids, they are familiar to the boxing world and to failed drug tests in the boxing world, as they

During this video interview with Fight Hype, boxing analyst and commentator Al Bernstein gives his breakdown on the big upcoming fight between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant. Bernstein says that although we’ve seen Plant improve over his past few fights, his level of opposition hasn’t exactly been awe-inspiring. Check out how Bernstein views this matchup

UFC Fight Pass subscribers will get to enjoy some Thursday night action next month when Hollywood Fight Nights rolls on with a 10-fight card on September 16th. In the main event, once-beaten super welterweight Serhii Bohachuk (19-1, 19 KO) continues down the comeback trail against Raphael Igbokwe (16-2, 7 KO). Bohachuk, who lost his unbeaten

Triller has released the music lineup for “Triller Fight Club: Legends II,” the September 11th entertainment extravaganza headlined by a boxing match between 48-year-old Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KO) and 44-year-old Vitor Belfort (26-14 MMA, 1-0 Boxing). The music portion will be hosted by Triller regular and part-owner Snoop Dogg. And, for anyone

If you were curious as to how exactly the judges saw Jake Paul’s split decision win over Tyron Woodley tonight, here’s a look at the official cards from Jamie Garayua, Phil Rogers, and Dana DePaolo: All three judges gave Paul the first and second rounds, and all three judges gave Woodley the fourth, which is

Amanda Serrano successfully defended her WBC and WBO featherweight titles, winning a clear and deserved unanimous decision over 122 lb titleholder Yamileth Mercado in the Paul-Woodley co-feature from Cleveland. Serrano (41-1-1, 31 KO) was the crisper boxer throughout, and also had more power, both of which are usually the case when she’s in the ring.

Fight Hype was able to catch up with trainer Kenny Porter to get his take on the big upcoming fight between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant. Porter says although he’s pulling for Plant to pull off the win he realistically understands that Plant will be up against it as he takes on one of the

Gervonta “Tank” Davis has given up his WBA 130 lb title, which is the one of the three WBA belts he held that anyone considered a legit title, and will keep his secondary “world” (aka “regular”) titles at 135 and 140 for the time being, according to ESPN. Mike Coppinger also reports that Davis (25-0,

The Jake Paul Circus is back in town on Sunday evening, as the YouTube celebrity-turned-semi-pro boxer returns to the ring to face former UFC champion Tyron Woodley in a Showtime pay-per-view main event from Cleveland. Does Paul go to 4-0, or is Woodley the man to knock the kid off and make a lot of

Today at 5 pm ET streaming live in the video up top, Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley will hit the scales, along with the rest of the fighters for Sunday night’s Showtime pay-per-view event in Cleveland. We’ll have live results from the weigh-in in this stream if you can’t watch the video live: Paul (3-0,

Apologies for citing ESPN so much today, but that’s where everything’s breaking. Mike Coppinger reports that Wasserman Boxing and Sky Sports “have struck a multi-fight deal” that will kick off October 2nd, when Chris Eubank Jr. takes on Germany’s Sven Elbir. A bit of Twitter searching reveals that the pair were initially supposed to fight

The WBA’s ongoing reformation efforts are starting to pick up steam. The sanctioning body announced yesterday that it was axing all of its interim titles and beginning to order the former titlists to fight their respective divisions’ “world” champions. ESPN KnockOut’s Salvador Rodriguez has revealed that as a result, world featherweight champ Leigh Wood must

Tyron Woodley knows he may not talk the game Jake Paul does, but he has no question that he’s got it where it counts and will look to demonstrate exactly that when he faces Paul this Sunday in a Showtime PPV. During yesterday’s final press conference for the bout Woodley makes it clear that he’s

Heavyweight Joe Cusumano gets a big opportunity on Sunday’s Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley PPV, where he’ll face British prospect Daniel Dubois as part of the undercard. The 33-year-old Cusumano (19-3, 17 KO), a Virginia native, has been mostly a club fighter in his career, if we’re being honest, and is a massive underdog against

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