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By: Sean Crose There he was on Saturday at the Prudential Center in his native Newark, engaged in a hometown battle against a determined but outskilled Artem Harutyunyan. It was a perfect moment for WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson to set off fireworks on a Fourth of July weekend. The only problem was he didn’t.

By: Sean Crose “I’m excited about collecting all the belts and becoming undisputed,” says Jaron “Boots” Ennis on the eve of his IBF welterweight title defense against David Avanesyan. “July 13 is going to be fireworks,” Ennis continues, “don’t miss it.” It’s been a while since Ennis was seen in the ring, over a year

By: Sean Crose Tank Davis proved once again on Saturday that he’s one of the most explosive and exciting individuals in the fight game. Facing the talented Frank Martin, Davis remained poised through some challenging rounds to flatten his man in the eighth in knockout reel fashion. It was, without doubt, a classic Tank Davis

By: Sean Crose He was 23 years old at the time, with a record of 25 wins and no losses. He was a former Olympian, talented, good looking, and in possession of that rare trait known as the “it factor.” Yet “Sugar” Ray Leonard had yet to truly prove himself in the professional rankings. In

By: Sean Crose July 20th 2024 was supposed to be the day of the biggest novelty fight since Conor McGregor slipped in between the ropes to face Floyd Mayweather in 2017. For on that night, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas, social media influencer turned popular boxer Jake Paul was to face former all rime

By: Sean Crose At 92 years of age, Bob Arum is still going strong. Speaking with Fight Hype on a video posted Wednesday, the legendary promoter opened up about his fighter Vasyl Lomachenko fighting PBC fighter Gervonta Davis in the near future. “We know that both fighters want the fight,” said Arum, “so when that

By: Sean Crose Ryan Garcia, the most controversial man in boxing, has declared he’s out of the boxing business. “I’m officially retired,” the popular Californian stated on social media Wednesday evening. The fact that Garcia made such a declaration on the eve of an important ruling from the New York State Athletic Commission has raised

By: Sean Crose Yesterday was most distinctly not a good day for Ryan Garcia. The controversial 25 year old fighter nearly had the book thrown at him by the New York State Athletic Commission as a result of testing positive for the banned substance ostarine before and after his huge win over Devin Haney in

By: Sean Crose “It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be,” Tyson Fury recently stated on the Furocity podcast. He was referring, of course, to the man who handed him his first defeat, Oleksandr Usyk. Although Usyk earned a decision win, he almost put the the towering Fury to the mat

By: Sean Crose “WBC Super Lightweight World Champion Devin Haney requested to be placed in the status of Champion in Recess,” the World Boxing Council announced on Monday via a press statement.  “The WBC Board of Governors unanimously granted Champion Haney’s request and has declared him WBC World Champion in Recess.” And so, Haney, fresh off

By: Sean Crose It was fun while it lasted. Sadly, the world no longer has an undisputed heavyweight champion. In a video message released on Tuesday, Oleksandr Usyk announced that he was vacating the IBF heavyweight title, leaving him in possession of the WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight titles, impressive to be sure, but not

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz By: Sean Crose With Oleksandr Usyk giving up his IBF heavyweight title this week, former IBF titlist Anthony Joshua will battle Daniel Dubois (the current titlist by virtue of having been the number one contender) for the belt. A scheduled 12 rounder between the two Englishmen will take place

By: Sean Crose Ryan Garcia was reportedly arrested by Beverly Hills police for felony vandalism at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday. The story was broken by TMZ, which included video of the fighter presumably being led away by police. TMZ quotes Garcia’s lawyer as saying the fighter known as King Ry

By: Sean Crose Rising junior middleweight Xander Zayas ground out a game win over the gutsy Patrick Teixeira in a ten round battle at New York’s Hulu Theater on Saturday. The fight was the main event of a Top Rank/ESPN card. Zayas started fast while Teixeira worked to maintain range and to keep away from

By: Sean Crose Jaron “Boots” Ennis has a new opponent to defend his IBF welterweight title against July 13th in his hometown of Philadelphia. The 31-0 champion was supposed to face the 22-0 Cody Crowley, but an eye issue subsequently forced Cody to step out of the fact. Taking Crowley’s place will be 30-4-1 former

By: Sean Crose Gervonta “Tank” Davis didn’t show up for the Grand Arrival at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas today as scheduled. Davis was supposed to pretty much be the main attraction of Tuesday’s event, which was meant as a high profile affair in the lead up to Saturday’s pay per view bout against

By: Sean Crose Boxing as we used to know it may well return…at least in a very real sense. Indeed, the best may be the facing best on a regular basis once again. When was the last time boxing fans witnessed that sort of thing happening? Back in the 90s? The 80s? Indeed it’s been

By: Sean Crose Everyone has wanted to see David Benavidez fight Canelo Alvarez. Everyone, that is, except for Canelo. At least for the time being. While it’s a tall order to accuse Canelo of ducking an impressive opponent, there’s little doubt that the future hall of famer has proven himself to be less than eager