IBO junior welterweight champion Adam Azim has signed a new contract with Boxxer, committing his future to the next-generation boxing promotion. The British Azim first signed with Boxxer in 2021, just one fight into his professional career. Since then, the electrifying 23-year old has established himself as one of the...

On September 14th, at the IG Arena in Nagoya, Japan, veteran Yuni Takada (16-8-3, 6 KOs) meets 27 year-old Ryusie Matsumoto (6-0, 4 KOs) for the WBA regular title at minimumweight. [Neither one is worthy of a world title fight]. Takada brings the grit and experience, but Matsumoto, representing the new wave of Japanese...

Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan stood toe-to-toe this week in the very spot they will collide this Saturday aspart of their fight week. Belfast’s own Crocker – headlining at the Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park where he grew up just yards away – kept a cool counsel as rival Donovan, from Limerick, arrived in...

Thirty years after immortalizing his name in boxing folklore, British treasure Frank Bruno has opened up on his historic WBC heavyweight title and his extraordinary life and times since in a world exclusive with Modern Boxing Journal. Captured candidly by renowned photographer Tom Cockram with his collection of belts,...

Boxing returns to Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, as Boxlab Promotions presents a show on Friday, September 19th featuring a ten-round junior welterweight bout between Cuba's Kevin Brown (7-0, 3 KOs) and Mexico's Juan Meza Angulo (9-2, 6 KOs). The event will stream live on BXNGTV, and tickets are on sale now...

Mexican women’s boxing will take center stage on October 18th when Lourdes "Little Lulu” Juárez defends her WBC light flyweight world title against former unified champion Yesica Nery Plata at Most Valuable Prospects 16, staged by MVP at the South Padre Island Convention Center in Texas. Juárez, the reigning champion and...

Yoseline Perez  was the first, and so far only, American to make it through to the medal rounds at the 2025 World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England. The Team USA competitor from Houston claimed a split decision victory on Wednesday over Uzbekistan’s Nigina Uktamova, a Paris 2024 Olympian, in bout two of the...

Reed Shelger's Paradigm Combat Sports is set to bring a combined boxing and mixed martial arts show on Saturday to the Paradigm Combat Sports Training Center in Sugarland, Texas, which is located in the Houston metropolitan area. The show will feature five professional boxing matches and two MMA bouts.  Gerald McClellan...

The Vine Theater at del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo, New York will host an evening of boxing on Thursday evening, October 30th. The card will feature five professional and six amateur fights, with tickets going on sale this Friday. Fans must be 21 years or older to attend. The show will be presented by Rising...

Netflix announced the following preliminary bouts will stream on its Tudum platform (Tudum is Netflix's official companion website) at 5:30 PM Eastern Time ahead of the main event on Saturday, Sept. 13th: Serhii Bohachuk (26-2, 24 KOs, fighting out of Los Angeles by way of Vinnytsya, Ukraine) faces off against Brandon...

WBC interim super middleweight title holder Christian Mbilli (pictured) was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is now based in Montreal. He made his professional debut on February 9, 2017. A French Olympian in 2016, he has built an impeccable pro career and currently holds a record of 29 wins with no losses, including 24...

UPDATE: Tickets for 'All or Nothing' - Joseph Parker vs Fabio Wardley at The O2, London on Saturday, October 25th - are now on general sale, available from axs.com A classic heavyweight showdown will take place at The O2 Arena in London when BO interim champion Joseph Parker (pictured) will take on the challenge of Fabio...

The Global Boxing Network (GBN) is proud to announce the launch of its very first show across all of its platforms, debuting with a preview of one of the biggest events in the history of the sport: the world super middleweight championship bout between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford, set for Saturday, September 13th,...

Dante Kirkman W4 Dylan Carlson... From the opening bell, Stanford graduate Dante “The Inferno” Kirkman (5-0, 2 KOs) showcased complete command, scoring a dominant unanimous decision victory over Dylan Carlson (2-11-3, 1 KO) in a four-round bout this past Saturday at Thunder Valley Casino Resort. Promoted by Nasser Niavaroni...

Two undefeated cruiserweights will face off on September 27th in Fethiye, Turkiye. Local man Hasan Kubilay Alcu, (18-0 with 14 KOs) will take on Brazil's Luciano Falcao (11-0 with 8 KOs), on a card promoted by TJ Boxing Promotions. Kubilay Alcu turned professional in 2020 at light heavyweight.  Falcao started punching for...

WBC interim heavyweight champion Agit Kabayel announced on social media that he will soon reveal details of a homecoming fight in Germany, his native country. This will be his first bout on German soil, back on March 4, 2023, when he stopped Agron Smakici in the third round. Since then, Kabayel has racked up three stoppage...

Six months after the most disappointing night of his career, Ireland's Paddy “The Real Deal” Donovan (14-0-1, 11 KOs), is ready to take care of unfinished business this Saturday night against archrival Lewis “Croc” Crocker (21-0, 11 KOs) at Winsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The 26 year-old Donovan battered Crocker...

Ilunga Junior Makabu TKO3 Dodzi Kemeh... Ilunga Junior Makabu remained a cruiserweight contender with a third-round victory over the weekend at the Martyrs Stadium in the city of Kinshasa. Makabu overwhelmed Ghana’s Dodzi Kemeh on a show presented by Luyoyo Promotions. Makabu started the bout cautiously in front of a...

In what is already being hailed as a potential “Fight of the Year” candidate, Christopher “Pitufo” Diaz (30-6, 19 KOs) of Orlando, Florida lost a toe-to-toe battle with IBF 130-pound champion Eduardo “Sugar” Nunez (29-1, 27 KOs) in Mexico this past Saturday, September 6th. From the opening round, Diaz and Nunez stood in...

Charlie Edwards W10 Salvador “Peloncito” Juárez... At Dublin’s 3Arena, former WBC flyweight champion Charlie Edwards got a quality win in the super flyweight division by defeating Mexico’s Salvador “Peloncito” Juárez. The ten-round fight saw the British Edwards (21-2) take control from the opening bell, showcasing his...

Massachusetts super middleweight Steven “The Savage” Sumpter (11-1-1, 9 KOs) will be fighting in Las Vegas this week as part of the festivities for the 2025 boxing event of the year, “Canelo vs. Crawford." Sumpter will be, competing on the Wednesday night show, three days before the big event, in the first of back-to-back...

Marco Romero KO2 Javier Dario Aragon ... Last weekend's Turner Boxing Academy show was a celebration of local hero Marco “El Tiburon” Romero (10-0, 9 KOs) at the sold-out Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center last Saturday night in Olathe, Kansas. A multiple national amateur champion, Romero fought in his hometown at a...

The WBC issued this division-by-division update on the WBC title situations... Heavyweight: no update. Bridgerweight: Champion Kevin Lerena vs. interim champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk has been ordered and a purse bid is scheduled for September 16th in case there is no agreement. Cruiserweight: A rematch between...

Edwin Nunez W12 Christopher Diaz... Edwin "Sugar" Nunez retained his IBF junior lightweight title over perennial contender Christopher "Pitufo" Diaz, live on DAZN in front of his hometown crowd in in Los Mochis, Mexico on Saturday.  Diaz provided a tougher-than-expected test for Nunez. But when it was all said and done,...

Michael Conlan KO4 Jack Bateson... Over the weekend in Dublin, former Olympian Michael Conlan restored some momentum to his stalled career by knocking out Jack Bateson in the fourth round. Bates beat thge count and seemed clear-headed but he clearly suffered an ankle injury during his fall. It was immediately clear Bates could...

On Saturday in Las Vegas, reigning undisputed world super middleweight champion Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez (63-2-2), has a track record that includes championships in four divisions (junior middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight) will face Terence “Bud” Crawford, considered one of the...

On September 14th the Aichi International Arena in Nagoya, Japan, will host one of the year’s most anticipated showdowns: Naoya “Monster” Inoue (30-0, 27 KOs), the undisputed world 122-pound champion, will put his laurels on the line against former two-belt and current interim champion Murodjon “MJ” Akhmadaliev (17-3, 11...

A classic heavyweight showdown will take place at The O2 Arena in London when BO interim champion Joseph Parker (pictured) will take on the challenge of Fabio Wardley in ‘All or Nothing’ on Saturday, October 25th, live worldwide on DAZN PPV. ‘All or Nothing’, promoted by Queensberry and co-promoted with Platform Sport, is...

Oscar Valdez W10 Ricky Medina... For the first time in more than a decade, former two-division world champion Oscar Valdez returned to fight on Mexican soil. The 34-year old complained of an injured shoulder but was able to defeat San Antonio, Texas' Ricky Medina via unanimous decision (97-93, 100-90, and 98-92) Saturday night...

Here are the weigh-In results for the Zanfer / Top Rank show on ESPN Deportes from Nogales, Mexico on Saturday Oscar Valdez 127.9 pounds vs. Ricky Medina 127.9 (ten rounds); Israel Ramirez 121.5  vs. Jose Amaro 123 (ten rounds); Angel Patron 123  vs. Carlos Vargas 123 (eight rounds); Erick Fernando Campos 139.3 ...

Two of the most prominent and popular boxers of all time are preparing to square off in what will be one of the most significant and compelling boxing [exhibitions] in history, coming in Spring 2026. Mike Tyson, the beloved heavyweight world champion, iconic entertainer and entrepreneur, and Floyd “Money” Mayweather, a...

The official weigh in was held for Saturday night’s “The Homecoming” Pro-Am boxing event, presented by Turner Boxing Academy, at Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Olathe, Kansas. “The Homecoming” is a fundraiser for the Turner Boxing Academy. The primary sponsor of this event is McCarthy Auto Group, and part of...

The stage is set and the weights are in from Lowell, Massachusetts where CES Boxing returns to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium today (Saturday) with Mill City Mayhem 2, a pro-am boxing card. The show features New Hampshire's Mike "The Blessed Southpaw" Fontanez in his first CES main event against Venezuela's Esneiker Correa...

The Matchroom Boxing Flash Knockdown show has relaunched in studio format with Jamie Ward hosting the proceedings. In episode 1: Ishmael Davis and Caoimhín Agyarko are on-set together to discuss September 13th’s boxing event in Belfast, Pat McCormack previews Saturday’s Sunderland headliner and plots his path to world...

Boxing executive Mark Taffett announced on social media: "Very excited to announce our new venture’s first event... and it’s a mega-event —- the two biggest worldwide names in the sport since the 1980s —- Mike Tyson vs Floyd Mayweather! Like Holyfield Foreman in ’91, it’s great to launch with a big one! Proud to be part...

Osleys Iglesias TKO8 Vladiir Shishkin... At the Cabaret du Casino in Montreal, Cuban super middleweight Osleys “El Tornado” Iglesias, already the IBO world champion, stopped Russia's Vladimir Shishkin in round eight of an IBF eliminator. Iglesisas had Shishkin out on his feet when the referee intervened. Iglesias is now 14-0...

There will be two significant fights at the Casino de Montréal on October 30th. WBA junior middlweight champion Mary Spencer will face two-division champion Mikaela Mayer of the United States in one of the most significant women’s boxing matches ever held in Canada. Then, in a high-stakes local clash, young Wilkens Mathieu...

1988 Olympic gold medalist Park Si Hun journeyed from South Korea to Roy Jones Jr.’s ranch in Pensacola, Florida to personally deliver his Seoul Olympic gold medal to Jones. This historic exchange, which took place in May 2023, symbolizes a powerful act of reconciliation and an effort to correct one of boxing’s most...

Former two-weight champion Oscar Valdez (pictured) makes his homecoming this Saturday in a ten-round junior lightweight main event against San Antonio native Ricky Medina at Domo Binacional in Nogales, Mexico. The 34 year-old Valdez (32-3, 24 KOs) represented Mexico at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and earned a reputation in...

Sadam Ali W10 Cody Wilson... Two former champions, Sadam “World Kid” Ali (28-3, 14 KOs) and Richard “RC” Commey eturned to the ring after long layoffs on yesterday’s “The Return” pro boxing card, presented by WorldKid Promotions, at Wayne State Fieldhouse in Detroit. Ali, age 36, hadn’t fought since May 4, 2019. The 2008...