Showtime Boxing Promotions announced that a scheduled heavyweight showdown between Michael “The Bounty” Hunter (24-1-2, 17 KOs) and Christopher Lovejoy (20-1-1, 20 KOs), which was booked April 19th at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California, has been cancelled due to contractual differences between the fighters (Hunter...

The WBO has designated Puerto Rico's undefeated Xander Zayas as its mandatory challenger in the junior middleweight division, stating "Champion Sebastian Fundora must fulfill his WBO mandatory title defense obligation in his next bout against Zayas. Failure to do so will result in [the WBO Cjhampionship] Committee proceeding...

Jasmine Artiga W10 Regina Chávez... Jasmine Artiga is the new WBA super flyweight champion after earning a hard-fought majority decision victory (96-94, 98-92, 95-95) over Mexico’s Regina Chávez in San Bernardino, California. It was a tightly contested battle with momentum shifting throughout, but Artiga managed to take control...

Star Boxing issued the following announcement: "Regrettably, the Junior Younan versus Abel Mina fight [scheduled for last Saturday in Huntington (Long Island), New York was canceled at practically the last minute. Mina was brought in from Ecuador earlier in the week. He refused to leave his hotel room [or] come down to...

Micky Scala W6 Mario Zabojnik... On Saturday's Star Boxing show at the Paramount Theater in Huntington (Long Island), New York, Micky Scala (12-0, 6 KOs) earned a hard-fought six-round decision over a determined Mario Zabojnik (12-2, 6 KOs) of Slovakia. Both fighters were willing to stand in the pocket and bang, trading...

As the boxing world mourns the loss of the legendary George Foreman, another champion has left the earth. The WBA reports the passing of former lightweight champion and 1980s standout, Ras-I Bramble, a/k/a Linvingstone Bramble. Born Ras-I Alujah Bramble in Saint Kitts and Nevis, he made a name for himself with...

The British heavyweight title will be on the line when English champion David Adeleye faces London rival Jeamie TKV Tshikeva on Saturday, April 5th in Manchester at the recently built, Co-op Live Arena. The show, which will be headlined by the previously announced heavyweight bout between Filip Hrgovic and 2016 Olympic...

Mexico's Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, will set about his attempt to regain the fourth belt in the super middleweight division on May 3rd at the ANB Arena in Riyadh in the first of four fights Canelo will enter into as part of Riyadh Season. Alvarez, whose claim the the true world 168-pound championship cannot be seriously...

Cherneka Johnson TKO6 Nina Hughes...  Cherneka Johnson successfully defended her WBA bantamweight title in dominant fashion over the weekend, forcing Nina Hughes’ corner to throw in the towel in the sixth round of their bout at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. The Australian champion faced little resistance from her...

Dustin “The Disciple” Pague upped his record to 4-2 with a technical knockout victory over Andrew Angelcor in the BKFC Fight Night main event in Philadelphia. The ringside doctor called a stop to the welterweight (165-pound in BKFC) fight at the conclusion of the second round due to a large cut on Angelcor’s forehead....

Sebastian Fundora TKO4 Chordale Booker... WBC / WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora made a successful first defense of his world titles with a fourth-round stoppage of Chordale Booker on PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video Saturday night at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las...

Jesus Ramos Jr. TKO7 Guido E. Schramm ... In the PBC co-feature in Las Vegas, Mexico's Jesus Ramos Jr. (23-1, 19 KOs) dominated from start to finish on his way to a seventh-round TKO of Argentina’s Guido Emmanuel Schramm (16-4-2, 9 KOs) in junior middleweight clash. "I had some obstacles,” said Ramos. “I hurt my hand in the...

The entire boxing world is mourning the passing of George Foreman, one of the biggest punchers and personalities the sport has ever seen. Foreman, a product of Houston's Fifth Ward, was a 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist and captured his first heavyweight championship in 1973. In 1987, after nearly a decade away from the...

FightBook, a forthcoming social network for the fight industry, welcomed Tim VanNewhouse as a business development advisor. A respected figure in boxing, VanNewhouse brings years of experience and deep relationships within the sport, which he will leverage to help expand FightBook’s goal to become an essential platform...

Tiara Brown W10 Skye Nicolson... One of the most avoided women boxers, Tiara Brown, is the new WBC featherweight champion after she defeated Skye Nicolson in Sydney on Saturday.  Fighting in Nicolson's home country, there was a lot of excitement, but Brown was on the hunt for Nicolson from the opening bell. While Brown was on...

George Kambosos Jr. W12 Jake Wyllie ... Former world lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr had a successful homecoming in Sydney where he beat fellow Australian Jake Wyllie by unanimous decision. Wyllie was brought in to face Kambosos on five days' notice after Daud Yordan was forced to withdraw due to medical reasons,...

The boxers' weights are in for Saturday's Las Vegas show headlined by unified WBC and WBO 154-pound champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora defending against Chordale Booker on PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video. The insanely tall Fundora weighed 152.8 pounds, while Booker will challenge him at...

Based on the following tweet, world heavyweight champion Claressa Shields has apparently been exonerated of any drug-related charges in connection with her last fight: "Hey WBO, I’m sure y’all got the news! Make that apology as loud as y’all disrespect was! I’ve been a champion for y’all organization for many years so...

Abdullah Mason, the touted Cleveland-born lightweight will now face Mexican southpaw Carlos "Chinito" Ornelas in a ten-round contest on Saturday, April 5th at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Ornelas replaces Giovanni Cabrera, who withdrew from the bout due to injury. Mason-Ornelas is part of a show headlined by the...

The Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas is set to host a junior middleweight undercard battle today (Saturday), as Freudis Rojas and Maurice Lee square off in advance of the championship main event between Sebastian Fundora and Chordale Booker. Fighting out of Las Vegas, Rojas enters the ring with a...

Due to illness to social media star KSI, Misfits Boxing's Unfinished Business crossover boxing show, scheduled for March 29th in Manchester, England has been postponed. KSI was scheduled to fight Dillon Danis, in KSI's first ring action since 2013. Misfits Boxing promised further news, including a new date for the fight,...

Guatemala is set to host a featherweight clash this Saturday, March 22nd, as Alex Miller and Joshua Jiménez go head-to-head. Miller, a hometown favorite from Guatemala, enters the ring with a 10-1 record, boasting eight knockouts. A skilled and composed technician, Miller believes the energy of his home crowd will be the...

Here are the boxers' weights for Saturday night's Boxing Insider card at The Tropicana in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This event will air on DAZN and doors will open at 6:30 PM ET. Vlad Panin 152 pounds -vs.- Brian Arregui 153; Justin Figueroa 156 -vs.- Mario Gastron Rios 153; Bruce Seldon Jr. 230 -vs.- Gabriel...

Brian Norman Jr. says a champ isn’t a champ until he defends his belt, and he’s ready to do just that. Norman will put his WBO welterweight world title on the line against Puerto Rican challenger Derrieck Cuevas on Saturday, March 29, at BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.  Norman-Cuevas will be the co-feature to...

Mexican junior middleweight Jesus Ramos Jr. (22-1) will face Guido Emmanuel Schramm (16-3-2) in a ten-round showdown as the chief support on Premier Boxing Champion's Prime Video show on Saturday, March 22nd at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Ramos was originally scheduled to face Kevin Salgado, but Salgado withdrew from the...

GT Promotions is gearing up for its first-ever show this Saturday night (March 22nd) at the Edinburg Activity Center in Edinburg, Texas. The main event of the eight-bout show will see Nelson "Hot Hands" Hampton (10-9) vs. Ricardo Camacho (3-1-1) in a six-round junior welterweight bout. The co-feature matches Fabian...

Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaibay and Busenaz Surmeneli of Türkiye joined an exclusive club of boxers to win three gold medals at the IBA women’s world [amateur] championships after the finals in Niš, Serbia last weekend. In the opening match in the junior flyweight category, Kyzaibay won her first title since 2016 and 11 years...

Baltimore cruiserweight Tyler Langer is looking to catapult himself into the 200-pound division discussion this fall. The 29 year-old Langer has a record of 4-0 with three knockouts and already has four more prospective fight dates on the horizon. Langer, who recently signed with Jeter Promotions, is coming off a...

Unified WBC / WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora (pictured) and Chordale Booker faced off on Wednesday with a media workout in Las Vegas before they meet in the main event of PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video this Saturday, March 22nd at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las...

This Saturday, March 22nd, the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney will host a championship rematch between Cherneka Johnson and Nina Hughes. Johnson, the current WBA bantamweight champion, will be defending her title against a challenger determined to overturn the outcome of their May 2024 encounter. At 30 years old, the...

Canadian cruiserweight Ryan “The Bruiser” Rozicki (20-1-1, 19 KOs) will finally get his WBC cruiserweight title shot against defending champion Badou “The Ripper” Jack (20-1-1, 19 KOs) on May 3rd on the Riyadh Season’s high-profile card headlined by the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs) versus William Scull (23-0, 9...

‘Ferocious’ George Kambosos Jr will now face a huge all-Australian clash against young, knockout artist Jake Wyllie in his Sydney homecoming this Saturday – live worldwide on DAZN. The 24 year-old Queensland native steps in at under a week’s notice for the main event after Kambosos Jr’s original opponent Daud Yordan was...

Euri Cedeno KO1 Ulices Tovar... This past Friday, middleweight Euri Cedeno scored a first-round stoppage over Ulices Tovar in the main event of an eight-bout card in front of a capacity crowd at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Wind Creek Event Center. The show was promoted by King's Promotions and streamed to a worldwide audience...

Former junior middleweight Tim Tszyu (pictured) will return to the ring against Joey Spencer in the main event of PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video action on Saturday, April 5th (U.S. date and time) from the Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Newcastle, Australia. The event will begin at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, with the...

Additional bouts have been added to the Saturday's Las Vegas show headlined by unified WBC and WBO 154-pound champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora defending against Chordale Booker on PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video. Highlighting the non-televised portion of the card will be undefeated Freudis Rojas...

Showtime Boxing Promotions has a show set for April 19th at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California. The show will stream live on WBCboxing.com. Headlining the event, heavyweight Michael “The Bounty” Hunter (24-2-2, 17 KOs) of Las Vegas takes on Christopher Lovejoy (20-1-1, 20 KOs) of Los Angeles in a scheduled...

Alfonso Zamora was celebrated, cheered and honored by the WBC for the fiftieth anniversary of becoming a bantamweight champion. On March 14, 1975, he knocked out Soo-Hwan Hong in the fourth round to win the WBA title. Alfonso went on to achieve 32 knockouts in 33 wins against five losses. He is the only Mexican to win...

Undefeated Dutch heavyweight Willy Kyakonye will take on Venezuela's Wilmer Vasquez on March 29th. The potentially explosive affair headlines The Evolution of Boxing XI at the Sporthal de Willisstee in Wilnis, Netherlands. Uganda-born Kyakonye (10-0 with 9 KOs). In Vasquez (13-3-2 with 8 KOs), he is facing his most...

On January 28th, the IBF ordered its super middleweight champion Savannah Marshall (pictured) and its mandatory contender Melinda Watpool to begin negotiations for a title fight. An agreement was not reached within the time frame set forth by IBF, so the IBF has scheduled a purse bid for Tuesday, April 1st at 12 noon....

Turki Alalshikh (pictured), the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia, has announced the full line-up for another huge card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This one takes place on May 3rd at ANB Arena. Here is the bout sheet tweeted out by Alalshikh: World super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo”...