Fighting

Day six of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the men’s welterweight, men’s heavyweight, women’s lightweight, and women’s welterweight divisions in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results

Bob Arum offered World Boxing News’ Dan Rafael a thorough outline of Top Rank’s upcoming schedule, including working dates for previously revealed fights and the latest on some of the promotion’s biggest stars. Some chronological Cliffs Notes: WBO light heavyweight champion Joe Smith Jr. will face mandatory challenger Umar Salamov on October 23 at either

Women’s featherweight (Quarterfinals) Winners guaranteed at least a bronze medal. Nesthy Petecio (Philippines) def. Jenny Marcela Arias (Colombia), 5:0: Petecio has just been rock solid through three fights, winning another one here to advance to the semifinal round. She was the first fighter to have their hand raised in Tokyo, out in the first bout

During this video interview with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks about his plans to return to boxing in September and where he’s looking to go from there. De La Hoya talks about the first of three fights he’s planning to have and says his endgame could

WBC interim heavyweight champion Dillian Whyte still intends to return to the United States in his next bout, and Eddie Hearn tells Michael Benson that it will “most likely” take place September 11th. The show “may” also feature Hiroto Kyoguchi vs. Elwin Soto and Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs. Ronny Rios, which were previously slated to land

Junior middleweight Anthony Fowler is still set to return Saturday at Matchroom’s Fight Camp show on DAZN, but he’ll have a short-notice opponent. Roberto Garcia is out with a back injury, so Rico Mueller (28-3-1, 19 KO) will take on Fowler in a 10-round bout with a regional WBA title on the line. The last

As unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua prepares for his September 25th title defense against mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk, Joshua looks forward to the meeting while telling Sky Sports that facing good opposition only brings the credit deserved from the fans. Joshua obviously is looking to put on a good performance here as he believes it

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Shannon Courtenay was set to make the first defense of her WBA bantamweight title on Aug. 14 — which had been pushed back from an earlier Matchroom Fight Camp date already — but has withdrawn from the bout due to an injury in training camp. “I’m absolutely devastated but we’ve had to postpone this fight,”

Day three of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the men’s flyweight, men’s middleweight, and women’s featherweight divisions in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results in this

Filed under: Keyshawn Davis turned in Team USA’s best performance so far, but didn’t have the most dominant showing of today’s first session. Share this story Share All sharing options for: Tokyo 2020 boxing results (Day 2, Morning Session): Keyshawn Davis wins for Team USA, Khataev and Bachkov dominate, more in full recap

Joe Joyce had some early tough moments against veteran Carlos Takam, but his increasingly famous durability and engine held true to reputation, and he was able to force a stoppage early in the sixth round to stay undefeated. Joyce (13-0, 12 KO) arguably lost the first three rounds of this fight, but had a turning

Day two of boxing at the 2020 Olympics will see the women’s flyweights, men’s lightweights, and men’s light heavyweights in action. You can stream live on NBCOlympics.com if you’re in the United States, I’m sure there are options elsewhere if you live elsewhere. Probably easy to Google. We’ll have live updates and results in this

Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant appear headed for a Sept. 18 undisputed super middleweight championship showdown. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger Tweeted this evening that Canelo has been sent a draft contract for the bout, and details are “still in the process of being finalized.” It’s not a done deal, but it’s looking very close indeed. Canelo

Tonight at 9 pm ET and 3 am ET, Olympic boxing is back, as we’ve got fights in various weight classes from Tokyo and 10 pm ET and 4 am ET for the first sessions. We’ll have live updates and highlights for both sessions tonight, streaming live on NBCOlympics.com: At 10 pm ET, we’ll see

On Wednesday, the WBO sent out an order for welterweight titlist Terence Crawford to face Shawn Porter, opening a very good chance for Top Rank’s Crawford to finally get a big fight against one of the top Premier Boxing Champions welterweight contenders. Speaking with ESPN’s Mike Coppinger, Crawford said he’s ready for the fight, and

The boxing official at the heart of the Brian Castano vs Jermell Charlo scoring controversy this past Saturday has spoken up to defend his honor. While he acknowledges the fight was very close, fans might be skeptical of his justification for scoring it in such a lopsided manner. “It was a close fight, but in

Earlier this week, Bellator MMA fighter Dillon Danis shared what he claimed was a text from Brazilian Jiu Jitsu great Viktor Doria, who claimed that Logan Paul and Anderson Silva would headline a September 19th event in Dubai. As Danis is a prick of the highest order, I decided to take it with a grain