Fighting

Gary Russell Jr took some time to speak to our friend Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV and share some of his thoughts on the state of boxing, his career, and why he thinks Gervonta Davis and his promotional team have been cherry picking opponents and trying to fool the public into thinking they’re great

RESULTS: Mauricio Lara vs Josh Warrington – TECHNICAL DRAW-2 Katie Taylor UD-10 Jennifer Han (100-89 x3) Connor Benn UD-10 Adrian Granados (100-90, 99-91, 97-93) Maxi Hughes UD-12 Jovanni Straffon (120-107 x2, 119-109) Ebanie Bridges PTS-8 Mailys Gangloff Today at 2 pm ET live on DAZN, Matchroom Boxing are back with four fights from Leeds, England,

PBC on FOX returns tonight with a tripleheader from Minneapolis, featuring a trio of prospects in against solid veteran opposition. Jonathon Henschel will have the live coverage tonight, with commentary and scoring in the comments section of the post. In the main event, 147/154 lb prospect Jesus Ramos will look to keep moving forward, as

DAZN, 12:00 pm ET, Filip Hrgovic vs Marko Radonjic. ESPN+, 1:00 pm ET, Tony Yoka vs Peter Milas. Here’s what we’re going to do, since frankly neither of these are exactly worth solo coverage, if we’re being fully honest. We’re just going to have a live coverage thread up, I’m gonna rock two screens, we

Josh Warrington didn’t want to wait or go for a tune-up after his shocking upset loss to Mauricio Lara back in February. He wanted to run it back immediately, and 20,000 screaming fans in Leeds wanted to see him settle the score. Unfortunately, a clash of heads in the second round brought a very early

This was a very eventful week for Oscar Valdez. On Tuesday, we learned that Valdez tested positive for a banned substance called phentermine as part of his pre-fight VADA testing. A few days later, it was confirmed that his B-sample was also positive, but the fight would continue as scheduled on September 10th. On Friday,

Oscar Valdez is at the center of a pretty notable controversy right now, as the WBC junior lightweight titlist failed both his A- and B-sample VADA tests ahead of his Sept. 10 title defense against Robson Conceicao. But the fight is going ahead as planned, as the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Athletic Commission have agreed to

Eddie Hearn and Lou DiBella have unveiled the plan to establish an undisputed womens’ super lightweight champion. On October 30th on DAZN, Chantelle Cameron (14-0, 8 KO) will take on Mary McGee (27-3, 15 KO) in a title unification, while Kali Reis (18-7-1, 5 KO) will defend her belt and seek to add an additional

As WBC 122lb titleholder Brandon Figueroa nears his September 18th world title unification against Stephen Fulton Jr, Figueroa tells the world that he’s been training for a difficult fight, expecting Fulton to use his flashy style to make an impression in their meeting. Both Figueroa and Fulton will collide live in a Showtime main event

Saturday’s rematch between featherweights Mauricio Lara and Josh Warrington is an intriguing one, with Lara looking to repeat on his big upset from earlier this year, while former titleholder Warrington aims for revenge at home in Leeds, England, where he’s built up a great and passionate fan base. Who wins Saturday’s showdown? Scott Christ (46-14-3)

The next edition of ShoBox: The New Generation will come our way on Friday, Sept. 24, with a Salita Promotions tripleheader from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The main event will see bantamweight prospect Ja’Rico O’Quinn (14-0-1, 8 KO) take on Saul Sanchez (16-1, 9 KO) in a 10-round bout. O’Quinn, a Detroit native, last fought in

As Adrian Granados (21-8-3, 15 KO) prepares for his fight this weekend against Conor Benn on DAZN, the Chicago fighter says he believes he’s being vastly underrated by the public. Granados, who is a massive betting underdog, strongly believes that despite his eight losses he still has another run at a world title in him.

Josh Warrington will face Mauricio Lara for the second time this year after losing by stoppage to him back in February. Following the loss Warrington tells ESPN that he felt a lot of embarrassment for the loss — to the point where he didn’t leave the house for six weeks as he licked his wounds.

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