Executive Summary: Professional boxing is entering a decisive structural transition. Capital concentration, vertical integration, media consolidation and legislative recalibration are converging simultaneously. When these forces align, negotiating dynamics shift and institutional leverage recalibrates. At the center of...

Boxing is at an inflection point. The sport has historically operated within a decentralized marketplace. Promoters such as Matchroom Boxing, Queensberry Promotions, and Golden Boy Promotions negotiated events independently.
Sanctioning bodies including the WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO governed championship recognition...

This year’s British Board of Boxing Control (BBBofC) Awards ceremony took place on Sunday March 8th in London. Listed below are the award winners, which celebrated boxing in the United Kingdom during the year 2025: Boxer of the Year – Fabio Wardley (pictured); Contest of the Year – Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn I...

Last week, BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing announced the signing of ex-welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (33-7-3) to a multi-fight, multi-year agreement. The former WBC champion and crossover star (Dancing With The Stars, Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables, and Hawaii Five-0) will bring his power, championship pedigree, and...

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has confirmed that the IBA Asia U23 [age 23 and under] and Youth Championships, scheduled to take place in Jakarta, Indonesia, will be postponed due to the current and evolving situation in the Middle East. Following careful assessment of the prevailing circumstances, the IBA has...

UPDATE: After several postponements, the IBF has canmcelled the Bivol vs. Eifert purse bid and announced that the two sides have reached an agreement for world light heavyweight champion Dmitrii Bivol (pictured) to make his next defense against Michael Eifert of Germany. The fight is rumored to be headed to the Oleksandr...

Here is a look at the recent lineage of the major championships in the cruiserweight (200-pound) division. The current champions are  Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (WBO and WBA), Jai Opetaia (Zuffa) and Noel Mikaelian (WBC). The IBF title is vacant, having been stripped from Opetaia over a silly dispute between Zuffa and the...

Zuffa Boxing sits at the center of a new alignment between Saudi governmental capital and TKO’s global media platform. Boxing is no longer being shaped by individual promoters alone. It is being reorganized through institutional capital, sovereign strategy, and corporate sports infrastructure. At the center of that shift...

In season six of The Sopranos, Patsy Parisi tries to shake down a new Starbucks-type coffee chain the same way the mob always extorted the local spots. The manager doesn’t flinch. It’ll have to go through corporate in Seattle, he tells them. They try to intimidate him with threats of vandalism and violence, asking...

Gustavo Trujillo KO1 Phillip Penson... Heavyweight Gustavo “The Cuban Assassin” Trujillo (10-0, 9 KOs) delivered another quick victory this past Saturday night, stopping Phillip Penson (8-6-3, 2 KOs) of Orlando, Florida, with a first-round knockout in the main event at the Hilton in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The event...

Sammy Contreras, a 14-time national amateur champion from Los Angeles, has signed a multi-year promotional contract with Top Rank. The 21 year-old lightweight will return on Saturday, March 21st, in a six-rounder against Cesar Cantu at the National Orange Show Event Center in San Bernardino, California. Contreras (5-0, 2...

The supporting bouts are taking shape for ProBoxTV’s big show on Saturday, March 21st, headlined by WBC Lester Martinez’s WBC interim super middleweight title fight against Immanuwel “The Chosen One” Aleem from the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, California and broadcast live on ProBoxTV (7:00 pm EST/4:00 pm PST)....

Steven Butler KO2 Ramadan Hiseni...  At the Casino de Montreal last week, Canadian super middleweight Steven “Bang Bang” Butler crushed Switzerland’s Ramadan Hiseni with a second-round knockout. True to his aggressive style and fueled by the roar of the home crowd, Butler (38-5-1) stormed out at the opening bell determined...

Francis Ngannou is returning to mixed martial arts, and he will be doing it on a big Netflix show. After crossing over to boxing events (and going 0-2 vs. Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua) and then scoring a dominant PFL championship victory in 2024, Ngannou returns to MMA to face Brazil’s Philipe Lins (18–5, 4 submissions,...

Jai Opetaia W12 Brandon Glanton... Zuffa Boxing returned to the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, where Jai Opetaia punished Brandon Glanton for twelve rounds to claim the inaugural Zuffa cruiserweight championship.  All three official scores were 119-106, and it should be considered a shutout, as Opetaia had a point deducted and...

Vlad Panin TKO9 Shinard Bunch ... “Superbad” Vlad Panin got his Zuffa Boxing career off to a winning start with a ninth-round technical knockout victory over Shinard Bunch (22-4-1) in their welterweight matchup. Panin started swiftly, fighting on the front foot and taking the initiative in the early rounds, while Bunch seemed...

Karol Welter TKO3 Evander Castillo... The Hotel Terminal in Wroclaw, Poland provided the perfect setting for local favorite Karol Welter. In a middleweight contest, Welter delivered in front of his hometown crowd by stopping dangerous Venezuelan Evander Castillo with a third-round technical knockout. The bout opened with...

Here the boxers' weights for the Zuffa show in Las Vegas on Sunday:Twelve-round Zuffa cruiserweight title bout:  Jai Opetaia (199.5 pounds) vs. Brandon Glanton (200) Ten-round welterweight bout: Ricardo Salas (145.5) vs. Jesus Saracho (146.5); Eight-round featherweight bout: Adan Palma (125.5) vs. Pablo...

Sadly, the IBF will strip cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia of its title over a dispute with Zuffa Boxing, who is planning to offer its own version of boxing championships. Here is the IBF's statement: The International Boxing Federation (IBF) has withdrawn sanction of the optional defense of the IBF cruiserweight...

Japanese boxing is preparing for one of the most important nights in its history when undefeated four-division champ Naoya Inoue faces undefeated three-division champ Junto Nakatani for Inoue's world super bantamweight championship on May 2nd at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. Inoue enters the fight as one of the...

The historic May 2nd Tokyo Dome card will also feature Japanese legend Kazuto Ioka seeking to make in Japanese history. At 37 years old, Ioka (32-4-1) will attempt to make history by challenging Takuma Inoue for Inoue's WBC 118-pound title. Inoue (21-2) is the brother of world super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue,...

Welterweight Shinard “Showtime” Bunch (22-3-1) just can’t quit his passion. Bunch will introduce himself to a wider audience on Sunday night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, where he’ll take on Vlad Panin (23-2) in a ten-round welterweight bout.  The 26-year old admits that he’s come close to walking away from boxing before,...

Boxing Insider’s Club Boxing Series returns to the Tropicana Showroom in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, March 7t with a six-bout card sanctioned by the New Jersey Athletic Control Board. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster. Here are the boxers' weights: Justin Figueroa 159 pounds -vs.- Luis...

Jhung Ciou W8 Ryuga Hattori ... Boxing in Taiwan celebrated a rare win on the international stage as local son Jhung Ciou defeated Japan’s Ryuga Hattori (6-4-1) by unanimous decision. It was an eight-round bout held in the minimumweight division. The event, organized by the promotional team Pro Boxing Team Taoyuan in the city...

MVP returns to New York City for MVPW 02 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Friday, April 17th — the inaugural U.S. event for MVPW, the new global platform for women’s boxing. In the main event, unified junior lightweight champion Alycia Baumgardner (pictured) will take on Korea's Bo Mi Re Shin in a ten-round bout...

MVP and ESPN have entered a long-term partnership to bring the sport’s biggest women's fights and brightest stars to a global stage. The deal will also support the launch of MVPW -- the first dedicated women’s boxing league -- created to showcase elite female talent and tap into the rapidly growing women’s sports audience....

PFL - The Professional Fighters League- published the following statement on its social media today: "The Professional Fighters League had made the decision to part ways with Francis Ngannou," the company stated. "We have great respect for Francis as both an athlete and a person, and we wish him success in the next chapter...

In the wake of Zuffa boxing signing one of Matchroom Boxing's biggest start, Conor Benn, Matchroom's Eddie Hearn (pictured) has struck back. On Thursday, Hearn announced he had entered into an advisory agreement with reigning UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. Zuffa is essentially UFC's boxing arm. There is no intent...

Boxing legend and multi-division champion Thomas Hearns will appear at the Ninth Annual Box Fan Expo on Saturday May 2nd. BoxFan Expo will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the weekend of the cruiserweight title fight between Gilbero "Zurdo" Ramirez and David Beanvidez, which is...

Uprising Promotions will bring its next amateur boxing event to one of New York City's most iconic outdoor venues, announcing Rumble on the River at Seaport Pier 16 in Manhattan for Saturday, May 30th. Once again, the event proudly partners with Bigvision Community, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting young adults in...

Zuffa Boxing 04 will take place on Sunday March 8th at the Apex in Las Vegas. IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia will take on Brandon Glanton, but what is at stake will be the inaugural Zuffa Boxing cruiserweight chapionship. [Editor's note: it is unclear if the IBF will continue to recognize the winner of...

Here is a look at the recent lineage of the four major championships in the junior lightweight (130-pound) weight class. The current champions are Emanuel Navarrete (WBO / IBF), O'Shaquie Foster (WBC) and James Dickens (WBA). On March 14th, Dickens faces Anthony Cacace, who won the IBF title in 2024, then vacated it and...

On Friday, March 13th, ProBoxTV returns to Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, for another installment of “The Contender Series. In the ten-round main event, light heavyweight Najee Lopez (15-0, 12 KOs) of Ellenwood, Georgia, takes on Manuel Gallegos (22-3-1, 19 KOs) of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. In other...

Former WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. has formed a new promotional company, Throwback Boxing Promotions, along with veteran boxing promoter Jolene Mizzone. They have also announced the new outfit’s first signing, Edwin De Los Santos. With the combined experience of Norman, who fought his way up the rankings...

Boxingtalk belatedly salutes Argentina's Edith Soledad Matthysse, who etched a second championship reign into her career at the age of 45, three weight classes up from her original championship division. On February 22nd, Matthysse captured the WBA junior welterweight world title with a commanding performance over...

Polish middleweight Karol Welter will see action this Friday against Venezuela’s Evander Castillo at the Hotel Terminal in Wroclaw, Poland. Welter brings a record of 20-1 with 8 knockouts into the bout, while Castillo stands at 21-4 with a formidable 19 wins coming by way of knockout. Welter enjoyed a breakout 2025...

Promotional disputes in boxing often play out in interviews and social media posts. Contracts, however, are not decided in public. They are decided by the language in the wrtten agreement — and by what that language requires. On Monday, a federal court ordered the dispute between junior middleweight contender Vergil Ortiz...

WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora has his sights set on re-establishing himself as the top fighter at 154 pounds when he takes on former unified welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman on Saturday, March 28th headlining a PBC pay-per-view event available on Prime Video from the...

Gabe Rosado (pictured) will become the latest fighter to make his Misfits debut this weekend when he faces Ty Mitchell in Derby, England this Saturday, live on DAZN. Rosado, a former contender at middleweight and super middleweight, is now 40 years old. After a long losing streak, he returned weith two wins in 2025 to raise...

Bryce Mills KO4 Tobias Green ... More than 3000 fans were in a 3400-seat building on Saturday night at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York. Most were there to see Bryce Mills (21-1-, 8 KOs), a 24 year-old junior welterweight who put on the best performance of his five-year career with a fourth-round knockout over Tobias...