WBO welterweight champion Brian “The Assassin II” Norman Jr. has inked a multi-year contract extension with Top Rank. The 24-year-old Norman will make the third defense of his title against Devin “The Dream” Haney on Nov. 22nd in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “When I watch Brian Norman Jr., I think of all the legendary...

 Matchroom Sport will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary ‘Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen.’ The documentary will launch globally on Wednesday, September 17th. The streaming powerhouse has shared the first look at the rollercoaster, six-episode series with the launch of the official trailer. It is the first time...

On Saturday, Sept. 13th, Netflix will stream the blockbuster bout between Mexico’s Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) and four-division champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Dana White of TKO / Zuffa Boxing announced the following preliminary fights have been added to...

Massachusetts junior welterweight Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz (19-2-1, 9 KOs) returns to the ring on Saturday, August 23rd to face Ambiorix Bautista (19-2, 11 KOs) of the Dominican Republic at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, live worldwide on DAZN. The bout is promoted by Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) in...

On Saturday, August 23rd at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, Jasmine Artiga will make a home-state defense of her WBA flyweight world title against Australia’s Linn Sandstrom in a clash that promises contrasting styles. Artiga (10-3-3), the defending champion, is from Tampa, She has built a reputation on...

WBA interim junior middleweight champion, Yoenis “El Bandolero” Tellez (10-0, 7 KOs), has arrived in Orlando, Floirida after an exhausting training camp. He will be defending his secondary title against Abass Baraou (16-1, 9 KOs), this Saturday, August 23rd on the MVP Fight Night card at the Caribe Royale Resort. The...

UPDATE: A purse bid for an IBF heavyweight eliminator is back on the books after a few previous postponements.. The promotional rights to a potential Frank Sanchez vs. Efe Ajagba rematch is scheduled to be  auctioned off on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 12 noon. Sanchez defeated Ajagba by unanimous decision in 2021, but...

This Saturday, August 23rd, the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, will host a 112-pound clash as Venezuela’s Angelino Córdova and Puerto Rico’s Yankiel Rivera square off for the WBA interim flyweight title. [The WBA flyweight champion is Ricardo Sandoval who also holds the WBC version after defeating Kenshiro...

UPDATE: The IBF announced today that Bakhram Mutazaliev vs. Erickson Lubin purse bid schedule for today (in the junior middleweight division) has been cancelled. No further details were announced.PRIOR COVERAGE / AUG. 6, 2025:  On July 21st, the IBF ordered its junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev and its #1...

Future Hall of Famer Naoya Inoue will defend his undisputed world 122-pound champion against former two-belt champion Murodjon “MJ” Akhmadaliev on September 14th at the IG Arena in Nagoya, Japan. This will be the second time this year that Naoya Inoue will fight a day after Saúl “Canelo” Alvarez as “Canelo” will be...

Peter Kahn has announced the signing of undefeated Juanmita Lopez DeJesus to an exclusive managerial contract. Lopez, age 19 and from Caguas, Puerto Rico has a professional record of 3-0 with two knockouts. Before turning pro, Lopez represented his country in the 2024 Olympic Games, The son of former two-division world...

Middleweight Sebastian Juarez (8-0, 5 KOs) of Brownsville, Texas, is primed and ready for his upcoming fight with Mississippi's Louis Hernandez (12-3-1, 10 KOs). The six-round bout is scheduled to air live on DAZN as part of MVP’s Most Valuable Prospects 14 card taking place this Friday, August 22nd at the Caribe Royale...

CES Boxing brings the sport back to Micky Ward country on Saturday, September 6th at Lowell, Massachusetts' Memorial Auditorium. Tickets are available at CES Fights or the Lowell Memorial Auditorium website.  In the co-feature, featherweight “King” Kevin Walsh (17-0, 9 KOs) puts his unbeaten record on the line against...

WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora (pictured) seems headed for a fan-friendly title defense in October against former unified welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman. According to the WBC, the fight could take place in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Arena, the same venue where Fundora successfuly defended...

Desi Martinez Promotions is set to showcase an evening of professional boxing action this Saturday night (August 23rd) at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas.  Nine bouts in all are scheduled to take place. WBO welterweight Champion Brian “The Assassin II” Norman Jr. will be in attendance as a special...

Promoter Frank Warren previews this weekend's British show, to be streamed on DAZN:  "This coming Saturday in Altrincham, England, at the Ice Dome, we’ve got an absolute domestic cracker to look forward to between British and Commonwealth junior welterweight champion Jack Rafferty (26-0) and Mark Chamberlain (17-1). The place...

Moses Itauma KO1 Dillian Whyte... Heavyweight Moses Itauma, still only twenty years old, graduated from prospect to heavyweight contender with a one-round destruction of Dillian Whyte in Saudi Arabia. Itauma's fast and heavy punches were too much for Whyte's legs to withstand, and the immobile Whyte was knocked off balance...

Nick Ball W12 Sam Goodman.... In Saudi Arabia, Great Britain's Nick Ball retained his WBA featherweight championship with a unanimous decision win over Australia's Sam Goodman. The fight was a competitive one, with Goodman starting well but Ball overtaking him on the cards as the rounds wore on. Official scores were too wide,...

Filip Hrgovic W10 David Adeleye... In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Filip Hrgovic fought through a terrible cut on his right eyelid and defeated David Adeleye by wide decision. A jab from Adeleye in round two busted open Hrgovic's eyelid but did not dampen his spirit. Hrgovic's corner did a phenomenal job stopping the bleeding and...

Ray Ford W10 Abraham Nova... Former WBA featherweight champion Ray Ford, now a top junior lightweight contender, took the win over Abraham Nova, garnering a unanimous decision after ten rounds of boxing. The scorecards favored Ford 96-94 and 97-93 (twice). Ford, a southpaw from New Jersey, is now 18-1-1. Nova, from Puerto...

Hayato Tsutsumi TKO3 Qais Ashfaq... In the  junior lightweight division, Japan's Hayato Tsutsumi took a big step forward, stopping 2016 Olympian Qais Ashfaq in round three. Tsutsumi, a personal favorite of the most powerful man in boxing, Turki Alalshikh, scored three knockdowns before the referee stopped the fight. Tsutsumi...

Moses Itauma  looks to take another step closer to a world heavyweight title shot when he squares off with  Dillian Whyte today (Saturday) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, live on DAZN pay-per-view. It will mark the second fight of 2025 for the heavily hyped Itauma, while Whyte will step into the ring for the first time since...

The WBO has requested more information from world light heavyweight champion Dmitrii Bivol in light of Bivol's statement that underwent back surgery. The WBO learned of the surgery based on a Bivol social media post from last week. The WBO wrote, “we understand he has been dealing with a back injury for ten years and...

ProBox TV returns to Lakeland, Florida today (August 15th) with a fight card headlined by junior lightweight contenders Muhammad Yaqubov and William Foster III. The event will take place at the RP Funding Center and will air live on ProBox TV. Yaqubov, 22-1 (12 KOs), of Isfara, Tajikistan is looking for his fifth straight...

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) has announced BKFC-82, set for Saturday, October 4th at the famed Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The show will be headlined by the return of ‘The King of Violence,’ “Platinum” Mike Perry, defending his bare knuckles light heavyweight title against Jeremy ‘Lil...

On August 7th, the IBF ordered its cruiserweight champion, Jai Opetaia (pictured), to begin negotiating a mandatory defense against Huseyin Cinkara. On August 14th, Opetaia's representative, Michael Francis of Tasman Fighters, advised that Opetaia would like to proceed to a purse bid. The IBF has now scheduled a purse bid...

Dylan Biggs W6 Petro Frolov... In the WBC middleweight Grand Prix tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Australia's Dylan Biggs (16-1) secured his ticket to the semifinals by unanimous decision over the Ukraine's Petro Frolov (12-2). Biggs dominated from the first round on. He also knocked down the Ukrainian to clinch the...

Promoter Don King has announced a new date and location for the WBA regular heavyweight championship fight featuring Kubrat “The Cobra” Pulev defending against Michael “The Bounty” Hunter. King says the show will take place on October 4th at Miami’s Jai-Alai Fronton Casino, despite the threats of a lawsuit by [Pulev's...

Carlos Utria W6 Spencer Wilcox... Undefeated Colombian Carlos Utria continues to show himself as one of the favorites to win the junior welterweight tournament, achieving a victory by unanimous decision against Canada's Spencer Wilcox (21-1). It was a complete fight for Utria, who took charge from start to finish in Saudi...

According to the Kyodo news agency, the boxing career of Yudai Shigeoka (pictured, right) has come to an end. The former WBC 105-pound champion announced his retirement in order to spend more time helping his younger brother Ginjiro, a former IBF 105-pound champion whose career was ended by a life-altering brain injury...

Yoni Valverde W6 Yusuf Adeniji ...  France's Yoni Valverde 16-0 took a victory by unanimous decision vs. Yusuf Adeniji of Nigeria in a difficult fight over six rounds. At the beginning of the first round, Valverde slipped and fell. Both boxers threw a large volume of punches, but not all of them landed. Valverde constantly...

Keaton Gomez TKO1 Devon Young.... South Africa's Keaton Gomez didn’t disappoint and started the WBC Grand Prix quarterfinals with a first-round TKO. From the moment the fight began, Gomez (13-3) started throwing powerful punches to the American’s face that landed clean. After one minute of fighting, Young (9-1) fell to the...

This Saturday, August 16th, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Britain’s Nick Ball (22-0-1, 13 KOs) will put his WBA featherweight championship on the line for the third time, facing unbeaten Australian Sam Goodman (20-0, 8 KOs). Ball, age 28 and from Liverpool, has cemented himself as one of the most relentless...

Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions continues to sign the world's top female boxers, adding Costas Rica's Yokasta Valle to its roster. Valle, age 31, last fought in March, defeating former champion Marlen Esparaza in a super flyweight bout, well over Valle's usual 105-pound weight class. MVP wrote from its Twitter account:...

Kieran Farrell will no longer train former IBF heavyweight champion Daniel "DDD" Dubois. Farrell worked with Dubois for big wins over Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua as well as Dubois' most recent fight, a KO loss to Oleksandr Usyk in a world championship unification bout. Farrell wrote on social media: "I have made...

Here is the line-up of fights today (Wednesday) for the third stage of the WBC Grand Prix in Boulevard City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. DAZN will televise all sixteen fights, which are six rounders.HEAVYWEIGHTS: Devon Young (USA) vs. Keaton Gomes (South Africa) 9-0, 7 KOs           12-3, 10 KOs Piotr Lacz (POL) vs....

Desi Martinez Promotions and Fighters First Management will present a night of boxing action on Saturday, August 23rd at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas. The ten-fight card will be headlined by undefeated Justin Figueroa who will duel with Jarrod Tennant in an eight-round junior middleweight matchup. Also stepping into the...

On Saturday, September 20th, to be streamed live on DAZN from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, Gabriela “Sweet Poison” Fundora (16-0, 8 KOs) will look to make a third  defense of her undisputed world flyweight championship against Ayelén “Piru” Granadino (12-2-4, 1 KO) of Buenos Aires. The main event...

Undefeated featherweight Omar Trinidad will face Lorenzo Parra in a ten-round main event on August 15th at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. The fight will be broadcast live on UFC Fight Pass. Promoted by 360 Boxing Promotions, this will be Trinidad’s third fight of 2025. He holds a record of 19-0-1 with 13 KOs...

Golden Boy announced today a championship doubleheader scheduled for Saturday, September 20th, to be streamed live on DAZN from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. In the main event, presented in association with Miguel Cotto Promotions, Puerto Rico’s unified WBA / WBO minimumweight champion Oscar “El...