Fifty years ago, the world stood still. On the morning of October 1, 1975, in Manila’s Araneta Coliseum, two titans — Muhammad Ali (pictured) and Joe Frazier — battled through 14 brutal rounds in what would go down as one of the greatest fights in boxing history: The Thrilla in Manila. For those who witnessed it firsthand,...

One of New England’s most talented fighters returns to the squared circle this Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut, with a plan to put on a show.  “I like to have fun in there,” said welterweight contender “Speedy” Rashidi Ellis, who cites Prince Naseem Hamed, Roy Jones Jr. and Meldrick Taylor among his...

UPDATE: The IBF announced that the BakhramMurtazaliev vs. Josh Kelly purse bid scheduled for today has been postponed again. Original story: On August 19th, the IBF ordered its junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev to begin negotiations with Josh Kelly of the United Kingdom for a mandatory title defense. An...

CB Promotions will stage its first fight card on Tuesday night, November 25th at The Cure Insurance Arena in Trenton, New Jersey. The plan is for Tuesday Night at the Fights to be a monthly series in East Coast venues. In the main event, local favorite Shinard Bunch (21-3-1, 17 KOs) of Hamilton, New Jersey takes on Juan...

Joshua Buatsi and Zach Parker are set to square off this Saturday at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, England, in a high-stakes light heavyweight clash. Buatsi enters the ring with a record of 20 wins, 3 losses, and 14 knockouts (including the World Series of Boxing), while Parker boasts 26 victories, 1 defeat, and...

Lightweight Giorgio Visoli (9-0, 6 KOs) returns to the UK, fresh from a winning US debut, to battle ‘Wigan Warrior’ Joe Howarth (14-1, 4 KOs) on a London show to be aired on DAZN. Fight date is December 17th. In the co-feature, the English cruiserweight title is on the line as ’The Gentleman’ John Hedges collides with...

A new injury to Erik Bazinyan has forced Eye of the Tiger Management to revise the main event for November 13th. However, the finale will remain 100% Candian, as Montreal’s Stéphane Fondjo will now face two-time title challenger Steven “Bang Bang” Butler at the Casino de Montréal. Butler (36-5-1, 30 KOs), who is finishing...

Pro boxing will make its way to Fiji this weekend as Suva’s Vodafone Arena hosts a ten-bout show this Saturday night. In the main event, Australia’s veteran Francis Chua will face MikaeleRavalaca in a junior welterweight bout. The chief support features Junior Binnu Singh against ApichartKlintai in the super...

On the heels of becoming a two-division BKB champion and solidifying himself among the top, if not top, pound-for-pound bare knuckle boxers earlier this month BKB 47 in Leeds, England, BKB bridgerweight and super cruiserweight champion Marko Martinjak announced that he will vacate his super cruiserweight title and focus...

Former eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao has been appointed as vice president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), marking a rare transition from sporting legend to sports governor on the world stage. The appointment, made official during the IBA Board of Directors meeting held in Manila, positions Pacquiao at...

Cuban heavyweight Lenier Pero returns to action on Saturday when he takes on Jordan Thompson in Florida. Thompson (15-1) will be making his heavyweight debut in what is his first fight since being knocked out by unified cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia two years ago. Pero vs. Thompson will take place on Saturday, November...

Jaquan Carty W10 Semajay Thomas... On Friday night, Toronto's Jaquan Carty (11-0, 7 KOs) won a ten-round unanimous decision over Semajay Thomas (11-2, 8 KOs) of Chicago in the junior middlewight division on Carlos Llinas and CLIP Boxing’s “Night of Knockouts XXXVI (36),” event at Sound Board in MotorCity Casino Hotel in...

In the super flyweight division, Japan’s Ayumu Sano (11-0-1, 5 KOs) claimed a commanding unanimous decision victory over the Philippines’ ReymartTagacanao (11-1, 9 KOs) on October 25th at the Bishkek Arena in Kyrgyzstan.The judges’ scorecards told the story: 117-111, 119-109, and 120-108, all in favor of Sano, who...

BKFC 83 took place at the sold-out Palazzo Dello Sport in Rome. Italian combat sports legend Alessio “Legionarius” Sakara dethroned Chris Camozzi for the BKFC cruiserweight championship. Two judges agreed on the 48-47 verdict for Sakara, and one judge scored it 48-47 for Camozzi, who was defending his belt for the second...

Fabio Wardley TKO11 Joseph Parker.. Fabio Wardley seems to have landed himself a shot at world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk with a stunning finish against Joseph Parker after once again being well behind on the scorecards at London's O2 Arena. Wardley now has both the WBA and WBO interim titles. A relentless attack...

Pedro Taduran W12 Christian Balunan ... In a rare all-Filipino title fight, Pedro Taduran remains the IBF 105-pound champion after a unanimous decision victory over Christian Balunan at the San Andres Sports Complex in Manila. After twelve rounds of action that saw Balunan bloodied, the judges scored it 117-111 and 118-110...

An anticipated WBC/WBA flyweight championship bout between the United State's Ricardo Sandoval and Britain’s Galal Yafai is expected to take place in early 2026, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. Yafai, an Olympic gold medalist and the current mandatory challenger, earned his shot after losing to Francisco Rodríguez Jr.,...

 Former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker is the heavier man ahead of facing Fabio Wardley on Saturday, which will be available exclusively on DAZN pay-per-view.  The tensions have slowly been ramping up during fight week with Parker getting more and more agitated. The two heavyweights took part in the traditional...

Due to unforeseen technical circumstances, the October 30th fight card featuring local favorite Bryce Mills against James Bernadin will now take place at the Randolph House Hotel & Convention Center in Liverpool, New York. The scheduled ten-round junior welterweight bout will top a pro/am event promoted by Rising...

On Thursday, Matchroom tweeted, "Purse bid won. Andy Cruz will challenge for Raymond Muratalla’s IBF world 135-pound title in early 2026 [to be broadcast] on DAZN Boxing." In June, after the IBF received notification that its lightweight champion, the great Vasily Lomachenko, was retiring, Muratalla was upgraded from...

Boxing Insider Returns to Tropicana Atlantic City with Local Talent and Regional Prospects on November 7th. Tickets are on sale now. Heavyweight veteran Otto Wallin (pictured, 27-3), who has faced Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, returns to Atlantic City for his third appearance. He'll meet New Jersey’s Chris Thomas (15-2-2) in...

This Saturday, October 25th, Mexican boxing will host a superflyweight showdown as Jassiel “Flashito” Amador Gamez (12-0-1, 12 KOs) faces Joaquín Cruz Castillo (14-5-2, 2 KOs). The bout will take place in La Paz, Baja California Sur — Amador’s hometown. At age 24, Amador has a perfect 100% knockout ratio since turning pro...

Longtime Detroit promoter Carlos Llinas of CLIP Boxing will put on two professional boxing shows in a span of just eight days at Sound Board in MotorCity Casino Hotel. On Friday, October 24th, “Night of Knockouts XXXVI” will featureToronto's Jaquan Carty (10-0, 7 KOs) against Chicago’s Semajay Thomas (11-1, 8 KOs) in a...

On Saturday, November 1st, CES Boxing returns to Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Arena with its 2025 Autumn Classic. The show will be headlined by a world-class welterweight showdown between "Speedy" Rashidi Ellis (27-1, 18 KOs) of Lynn, Massachusetts and former secondary champion Javier "El Abejón" Fortuna (39-6-1, 28 KOs) of...

Jim Donovan KO1 Bartlomiej Wlodarczyk... Last Saturday night, Irish middleweight Jim Donovan (2-0, 1 KO) turned in a memorable performance in his first pro boxing match in his native Ireland, registering an opening-round knockout in Letterkenny, County Donegal.Fighting just five weeks after his pro debut in Belfast, the...

Queensberry & DAZN will try to kickstart a new golden era of boxing in Germany as Agit Kabayel defends his WBC interim heavyweight title on January 10th. No opponent hasbeen named. It’s the news boxing fans in Germany have been waiting for: Queensberry together with DAZN are bringing big fight nights back! The German...

ReymartTagacanaoof the Philippines and Ayumu Sano of Japan will step into the ring this Saturday at the Bishkek Arena in Kyrgyzstan in a super flyweight contest. This bout is set to be one of the highlights of the event, pitting two undefeated young fighters against each other.At 26 years old, Tagacanao(11-0) will be facing...

The WBA junior middleweight world title showdown between reigning champion Mary Spencer and two-weight queen Mikaela Mayer (pictured) will take place on Thursday, Oct. 30th at Montreal Casino in Montreal. It will stream live and exclusively in the U.S. on the Top Rank Classics FAST channel.Top Rank Classics is free and...

In Puebla, Mexico on November 8th, at the Auditorio GNP Seguros, Mexico's Gabriela “Bonita” Sánchez will compete for the WBC interim flyweight championship against Argentina's Tamara “Rebelde” Demarco. Their records are horrible. Sanchez is 12-6 with 1 KO, while Demarco is 13-8 with 0 KOs. In her last fight, Demarco went...

Joseph Parker (pictured) and Fabio Wardley square off in just a matter of days in a careerdefining fight for both heavyweights this Saturday night, October 25th at London's The O2 Arena.The New Zealander and the Briton are the WBO and WBA interim heavyweight champions respectively, meaning this bout is an elimination battle for...

Former unified bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani (31-0, 24 KOs) of Japan is meticulously preparing for his debut in the super bantamweight division in December. After unifying two bantamweight titles by stopping Ryosuke Nishida in the sixth round on June 8th in Tokyo, Nakatani announced his plan to move up to the...

For the first time in thirteen years, professional boxing returns to Minot, North Dakota. It takes place this Saturday night, October 25th, at the Minot Municipal Auditorium.  Quicksilver Sports and Entertainment present "Magic City Mayhem" featuring ten bouts set to include professional debuts, heavyweights, and...

Heavyweight Michael Hunter (pictured) returns to the ring on December 5th in London's storied York Hall to face Eli Frankham (3-0). A Southern California native, Hunter's most accurate record is 24-2-2 but his published record ignores an April 2024 loss to little-known Artem Suslenkov in Uzbekistan. In his last fight in...

Coming off his only loss as a professional, Houston-based super middleweight Darius “DFG” Fulghum (14-1, 12 KOs) is preparing to get back into the ring on November 8th versus “Dynamite” David Stevens (15-2, 10 KOs). Fulghum vs. Stevens is on a card presented by Golden Boy Promotions, and headlined by a WBC interim title...

Bare knuckle boxing returns to Italy this week with BKFC 83 on Saturday in Rome, live worldwide on the BKFC App. In the main event, Chris Camozzi defends his BKFC cruiserweight championship against Italian combat sports legend Alessio “Legionarius” Sakara. Camozzi’s grandparents emigrated to the United States from Italy....

UPDATE: The IBF announced that the BakhramMurtazaliev vs. Josh Kelly purse bid scheduled for today has been postponed until October 28th. Original story: On August 19th, the IBF ordered its junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev to begin negotiations with Josh Kelly of the United Kingdom for a mandatory title defense....

Sebastian Juarez KO1 Demarcus Layton... Fans at the South Padre Island Convention Center saw a middleweight war last weekend as Sebastian Juarez (10-0, 8 KOs) of Brownsville, Texas survived early adversity to stop Demarcus Layton (10-8-1, 7 KOs) in a wild, action-packed first roundWhat was scheduled as a six-round bout...

Undisputed world bantamweight champion Cherneka Johnson is set to return to the ring on November 14th at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, where she’ll put her titles on the line against Amanda Galle. The Australian star, who also holds the WBA, WBO, IBF, and WBC belts, will once again defend her status as the...

Former traditional boxing junior welterweight champion PaulieMalignaggi made a triumphant return to competitive fighting, defeating Tyler Goodjohn via split decision in a bare knuckle boxing match at Planet Ice in Leeds, England on Saturday. However, Malignaggi suffered gruesome facial damage for his efforts. The five-round...

Sarah Bormann W10 Yuko Kuroki ... In a hard-fought battle, Germany’s Sarah “Babyface” Bormann (21-1, 7 KOs) unified the WBA minimumweight championship with her WBO version with a split-decision victory over Japan’s Yuko Kuroki (25-9-2, 10 KOs) on Saturday at the WandsbekerSporthalle in Hamburg, Germany. The judges’...