On Saturday's Zuffa Boxing show in Las Vegas, Zuffa cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia became the first fighter to stop WBC champion Noel Mikaelian. According to Zuffa's website, Opetaia "added another world title to his growing collection" but the WBC has yet to confirm whether it will recognize Opetaia as champion. After...

The international boxing community is mourning the passing of heavyweight legend George Chuvalo of Canada. Chuvalo was a multi-time Canadian champion but came along in the greatest era of heavyweights ever. He fought professionally from 1956-1978 and was known for having the greatest chin of his generation, if not ever....

Ryan Garcia TKO2 Conor Benn... In a star-making performance, Ryan Garcia defended his WBC welterweight title with a blistering second-round technical of Conor Benn at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Ahead of the fight, much was said and written about Garcia’s left hook, but it was Garcia’s right hand that proved the crucial shot...

Jai Opetaia TKO8 Noel Mikaelian... Reigning Zuffa Boxing cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia became the first fighter to stop Noel Mikaelian as he notched the 24th knockout victory of his 31-0 career.  The southpaw versus orthodox matchup produced some awkward moments early on, with two big head clashes leaving Opetaia...

Alexis Rocha W12 Jose C. Ramirez... Former two-belt junior welterweight champion Jose Carlos Ramirez moved up to 147 pounds to take on welterweight contender Alexis Rocha, and it produced ten thrilling rounds of action, with Rocha emerging as the decision victor. Ramirez’s elite experience held sway throughout a...

Da’Mazion Vanhouter KO1 Raphael Akpejiori... American heavyweight Da’Mazion Vanhouter (13-0) continued his rise with a first-round demolition of Nigeria’s Raphael Akpejiori (19-4). Vanhouter needed just one minute, 58 seconds as he wobbled the six-foot-eight former college basketball player with two big right hands early. Then,...

In a move reeking of corruption and self-dealing, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has left WBC cruiserweight champion Noel Mikaelian and Jai Opetaia in limbo. Mikaelian and Opetaia fight each other today (Saturday) but the WBC has not said whether it will sanction the fight or strip Mikaelian. Hours before the fight...

Below are the boxers' weights for the Zuffa Boxing show taking place Saturday, September 12th. The main card begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and streams on Paramount+ in the United States. Ryan Garcia makes the first defense of his WBC welterweight championship against Conor Benn in the main event, while Jai Opetaia faces...

Lightweights Zelfa Barrett and Gavin Gwynne are out to secure capital gains when they clash in London on Saturday, November 14th, live on DAZN. Barrett, from Manchester, is 35-3 with four lower-level wins in a row. Gwynne, from Wales, is 19-4-2 overall, including 1-0-1 in his last two bouts, both of which were...

Tickets are on sale now for the three-belt junior lightweight unification battle between WBO/IBF king Emanuel Navarrete and WBC champ O’Shaquie Foster, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24th at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Promoted by Top Rank, tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com. In the ten-round...

Matchroom Boxing announced the signing of former British heavyweight champion, David Adeleye. The 29-year old from Ladbroke Grove in London has put pen to paper on a multi-fight deal and insists he cannot wait to “get the ball rolling” in his pursuit of his dream of becoming a wolrd champion. Adeleye boasts a record of...

“Dominican Fight Night,” co-promoted by BiYu Promotions and Shuan Boxing, streams live worldwide tonight (Friday) on CombatVisionTV from Coliseo Carlos Teo Cruz in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. “This is exactly what CombatVisionTV is about, giving talented fighters...

In Tokyo on September 27th, local man Tomoya Tsuboi will attempt to win a vacant world title in just his fifth pro bout. The deserving Tsuboi is 3-0 with 1 NC but he is 30 years old and an amateur world champion from 2021. Tsuboi's second pro fight saw him stop and retire ex-champ Carlos Cuadra.  He'll face South...

Ryan Garcia’s career has taken more twists and turns than a soap opera in recent years, but “King Ry” arrives in Las Vegas feeling back to his best, and with the WBC welterweight championship belt around his waist. After a turbulent few years, he plans on asserting his dominance on the welterweight division by facing big...

Disgraced ex-champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly is moving closer to a world title opportunity despite a recent anti-doping violation. Alimkhanuly is the mandatory challenger to Hamzah Sheeraz for Sheeraz's WBO super middleweight title. WBO president Gustavo Olivieri reported that the WBO has received official confirmation...

On October 3rd, Britain's Ben Whittaker will engage in a light heavyweight dust-up when he faces Australian southpaw Conor Wallace in Birmingham. Whittaker had a big win in November 2025 with a first-round knockout victory over Benjamin Gavazi. Since then, he has early stoppage wins over Braian Nahuel Suarez and Popeye...

Katie Taylor’s farewell bout caused millions around the world to tune in to the emotional scenes from a sold-out Croke Park in Dublin. In what was the highest-ever attendance for a boxing card headlined by two female stars, over 82,000 fans witnessed Taylor’s win over Flora Pili, before laying down her gloves. In...

Here are the boxers' weights for Friday's  ProBoxTV card at Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California.Santillan-Baraou headlines the show, with the action streaming on YouTube for ProBoxTV members beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. Giovani Santillan, 153.8 -vs.- Abass Baraou, 153.8 pounds (junior middleweight,...

Women’s boxing has never had more momentum, and a new weekly show is ready to give the sport and its fighters a dedicated platform to tell their stories. Women’s Boxing Weekly, hosted by International Boxing Hall of Famer Al Bernstein and veteran respected boxing media reporter Cynthia Conte, will bring fans closer to...

The WBA Championships Committee has issued a resolution regarding the junior lightweight division, elevating Anthony Cacace to super champion status and Elnur Samedov to regular champion. Cacace will be authorized to make a voluntary defense against a WBA-ranked boxer before December 31, 2026, potentially against Nick...

Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena will play host to a Zuffa championship boxing show on Saturday, September 12th, with all the action streaming on Paramount+. Headlining the card is a battle for the WBC welterweight championship, as one Ryan Garcia (25-2) goes toe-to-toe with Conor Benn (25-1). Saturday night’s bout with Garcia may...

Second chances aren’t guaranteed, but when they arise, the inspiration, motivation and calculation to make things right creates a compelling scene. In the case of junior middleweight contender Giovani Santillan, Friday night’s San Diego homecoming main event versus former WBA title holder Abass Baraou of Germany provides...

For the first time in more than two years, CES Boxing returns to Bally’s Lincoln Casino Resort in Rhode Island. A boxing show will take place on Saturday, September 26th. In a six-round light heavyweight feature, Worcester, Massachusetts’ Kendrick Ball Jr. (23-2-3, 13 KOs) returns to the site of his pro debut when he...

Middleweight Vito Mielnicki Jr. (24-1, 13 KOs) took a major step toward a world title opportunity with a unanimous decision victory over Austin “Ammo” Williams (20-3, 13 KOs) in their ten-round middleweight showdown over the weekend. Mielnicki, co-promoted by Matchroom Boxing and Boxlab Promotions, won by identical scores...

As Ryan Garcia prepares to defend his WBC 147-pound world title against Conor Benn this Saturday, September 12th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, longtime designer Javier Zinzun Jr. is once again preparing to shape Garcia's look for one of boxing's biggest nights of the year. But Zinzun's relationship with Garcia goes back...

Taiga Imanaga W10 Min Ho Jung.... At Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, local lightweight Taiga Imanaga successfully defended his OPBF championship for the first time, securing a unanimous decision victory over South Korea's Min Ho Jung (19-7-2). The southpaw Imanaga utilized his strategic boxing and dominant stance against Jung,,...

Don King Promotions (DKP) has demanded that TKO Group Holdings and Zuffa Boxing cancel the September 12th cruiserweight fight between Jai Opetaia and WBC champion Noel Mikaelian, claiming that Mikaelian remains under an exclusive promotional contract with DKP and had no authority to take the fight without King's...

The WBC announced the death of one of the greatest boxers ever to emerge from Panama, Ismael Laguna, the “Tigre de Colón,” who passed away at the age of 83. Laguna was a two-time undisputed world lightweight champion. Born in Colón on June 28, 1943, Laguna gifted the world a majestic career spanning from 1960 to 1971. His...

WBC interim junior welterweight champion Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz plans to go toe-to-toe with Puerto Rico's Nestor Bravo when they meet in the main event on DAZN in a show presented by Premier Boxing Champions on Saturday, September 19th at Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California. “Bravo is a very tough fighter who always...

GT Promotions gears up to bring an evening of professional boxing to Alice, Texas on September 19th at the Alice Fairgrounds.  "Rise to Greatness 4" will feature seven bouts in all. The co-feature will see featherweight Carlos Torres (6-6) from Corpus Christi taking on Alex McGee (12-2-1) of El Paso in a six rounder. That...

Ryan Garcia will defend his WBC welterweight title against Conor Benn on Saturday, September 12th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be broadcast on Paramount+ in the United States and on DAZN throughout the rest of the world. Both fighters have met the requirements of the 30-day, 14-day, and 7-day weight...

BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing has announced the complete fight card for BKB 60, which takes place at the Utilita Arena Newcastle, England on Saturday, October 10th.The event will mark BKB’s first ever event in Newcastle, and will feature a BKB junior middleweight championship fight between Rolando Dy and five-time BKB champion...

Lightweight Eridson Garcia (24-2, 14 KOs) delivered the biggest victory of his professional career over the weekend, upsetting previously unbeaten Alan Chaves (22-1, 19 KOs) in a dominant ten-round performance at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Entering the bout as a 7-1 underdog, Garcia refused to fight like...

The IBF has asked a federal court in Nevada to dismiss Jai Opetaia’s lawsuit, in which Opetaia sued over IBF’s decision to strip him of its cruiserweight championship. Opetaia was collateral damage in a dispute between the IBF and Zuffa Boxing, Opetaia's new promoter. Zuffa Boxing's Dana White said he wanted to...

Katie Taylor W10 Flora Pili ... Katie Taylor ended her Hall-of-Fame career with a memorable win in Dublin. Taylor, a two-division world champion and 2012 Olympic gold medal winner, said goodbye after winning a wide points decision against Flora Pili inside a sold-out (80,000) Croke Park. Her final fight was well received by...

Dave Allen NC1 Thomas Carty... In the chief supporting bout at Ireland's Croke Park, British heavyweight Dave Allen wound up getting an easy pay day against local man Thomas Carty. The action had to be stopped after Carty fell out the ring in the first round. It was a clinch on the ropes that saw Carty take a bad landing....

Paddy Donovan TKO4 Tyrone McKenna... Paddy Donovan defeated Tyrone McKenna in an all-Irish welterweight encounter at Dublin's Croke Park. Donovan scored a knockdown and then piled on the pressure after opening a bad cut above McKenna's right eye. The doctor called it off in round four. Donovan improves to 16-2, while McKenna...

The WBO has ordered negotiations for a middleweight world title fight between its title holder, Denzel Bentley, and mandatory contender Yoenlis Hernandez. The news is a blow to 160-pound unification, as Bentley was in discussions to unify with IBF champion Aaron McKenna by year's end. The WBO's decision means that Bentley...

Damian Knyba W12 Andy Ruiz... Ex-heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. showed up at his lightest weight in years (254 pounds) but his two years of inactivity showed, as Poland's Damian Knyba dominated him over twelve rounds in Newark, New Jersey. The 6'7" long-armed Knyba fought a disciplined fight behind his jab. Knyba...

Vito Mielnicki W10 Austin Williams... New Jersey middleweight Vito Mielnicki picked up a career-best victory over Austin 'Ammo' Williams to establish himself as a serious contender in the 160-pound category. The bout took place in Newark, New Jersey as the chief support prior to Damian Knyba's win over former heavyweight...