It was announced late Friday that heavyweights Deontay Wilder (pictured) and Derek Chisora will do battle at the O2 Arena in London on April 4th.  When the bruising heavyweights clash in a little over nine weeks time, it will be the 100 combined fights between Wilder and Chisora, with each guy having 50 apiece.  Wilder...

Saturday night sees  Teofimo Lopez defend his world and WBO junior weltereight championship against undefeated three-division champion Shakur Stevenson at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Stevenson, a former champion in the 126, 130 and 135-pound weight divisions, came in at a career-high 138.6 pounds, while Lopez was...

Here are the weigh-in results for Saturday's Top Rank show at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan:WBO / WBA junior middleweight unification — twelve rounds Xander Zayas 153.5 pounds vs. Abass Baraou 153.5  Referee: Roberto Ramirez Jr.; judges: Oliver Brien, Patrick Morley and Jose R. Torres;  Juanmita Lopez De...

In Las Vegas, the action continues on Sunday with Zuffa Boxing 02. In the main event, former WBA junior welterweight champion Jose "Rayo" Valenzuela (14-3) kicks off a new chapter in his career as he drops to lightweight to take on hard-hitting Diego "Azabache" Torres over ten rounds. Valenzuela last fought back in March...

Promoter's editorial: As a fight promoter for the past forty years, I believe it gives me the right to comment on what has been said or posted the past month by fight promoters, fight media, and fight fans, regarding the launch of Zuffa Boxing by Dana White. Let’s look at this situation. White launched a boxing promotions...

The New York City Fire Department's FDNY Bravest Boxing Team is gearing to square off against first responders from around the globe at the International Battle of the Badges III. On Friday, March 6th, the fearless fighters will take center stage at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, battling not only for victory but...

The WBC announced that the WBC middleweight championship fight between Carlos Adames and Austin Williams, scheduled for this Saturday, January 31st at Madison Square Garden in New York City has been cancelled due to an illness affecting the champion, Adames. The bout was set to be Adames' second title defense. Two fights...

Welterweight Rohan Polanco fell ill late Thursday evening and was forced to withdraw from his bout against Christian Gomez. The rest of the card tomorrow at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, headlined by the Xander Zayas-Abass Baraou junior middleweight title unification showdown, will proceed as scheduled. The six-round...

Thursday's final presser with world and WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez (pictured) and undefeated WBC lightweight titlist Shakur Stevenson brought drama and substance ahead of Saturday's headliner from a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York City, live on DAZN PPV. Normally, Stevenson is cool, calm,...

IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev travels to Newcastle upon Tyne, England to make the second defense of his title against Josh Kelly, live on DAZN.  Taking place this Saturday, Kelly will be in his first world title fight and will be a huge underdog to topple the undefeated 33-year old. The...

Mexican bantamweight Alejandro “Konejo” González (19-6-3) will compete on the road in a WBC eliminator against Britain’s Andrew Cain (14-1) on Saturday, February 7th in Liverpool, England. González is coming off an important victory over Juan Hernández. González and his promoter, Mario Muñoz, were present at the WBC’s...

Puerto Rican star Xander Zayas  (22-0, 13 KOs) has waited nearly six years for a homecoming. He returns as WBO 154-pound champion and will square off against WBA king Abass Baraou (17-1, 9 KOs) this Saturday, Jan. 31st, at Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. In just the second unification ever held on Puerto Rican soil,...

The Box Fan Expo has announced its return to Las Vegas for its ninth annual Box Fan Expo for fans and the boxing industry. The event will return to the Las Vegas Convention Center on Saturday May 2nd, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will coincide with Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez's cruiserweight championship defense against...

Here are the boxers' weights for Friday's ProBoxTV show at the Live! Casino Hotel in Hanover, Maryland: Bryan Flores 139.6 pounds -vs.- Starling Castillo 138.2;  Sulaiman Segawa 124.2 -vs.- Rene Palacios 125.4;  Francois Scarboro Jr. 130.8 lbs -vs.- Brandon Valdes 129.8;  Jordan White 135 -vs.- Willie...

Puerto Rican WBO junior middleweight world champion Xander Zayas (22-0, 13 KOs) is set for his high-stakes homecoming against WBA king Abass Barou (17-1, 9 KOs) on Saturday evening from the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. The full Zayas vs. Baraou card will be broadcast in Puerto Rico on WAPA Deportes, the only...

On Wednesday evening, TMZ broke the news that WBA lightweight champion was arrested in Miami Gardens, Florida on domestic violence charges. Davis was taken into police custody about two weeks after officials put out a warrant for his arrest. It is expected that Davis will be bailed out of jail shortly. The details of...

It is often said that “history is written not only by those who act, but by those who fail to object.” In the case of boxing in 2026, congressional inaction and institutional quiet may be dismantling the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act.  Obituaries are rarely written at the moment of death.
 They are written in advance...

With temperatures plummeting below zero in New York City this week, Brooklyn’s Teofimo Lopez and Newark’s Shakur Stevenson (pictured) are set to headline on Saturday at Madison Square Garden with Lopez's world and WBO junior welterweight championships on the line. And as the countdown to this weekend’s eagerly awaited...

Serbia takes on Ukraine in Zuffa Boxing 02's main card opener scheduled for Sunday, February 1st.  Radivoje Kalakdzic takes on ex-WBC champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk (pictured) in a battle between two seasoned light heavyweights with aspirations of championship gold. Serbia's Kalakdzic (29-3, 21 KOs) will end a 541-day layoff...

 Xander Zayas and Abass Baraou kicked off fight week with a public workout at Distrito T-Mobile in San Juan, Puerto Rico, just three days out from a historic unification showdown. Zayas (22-0, 13 KOs), the WBO junior middleweight world champion, will fight at home for the first time in nearly six years when he meets...

On Saturday, January 31st, Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, will play host to a high-caliber ring confrontation. Local bantamweight David Mwale will be in against a dangerous Tanzanian, Ramadhani Abdallah Milonzi a/k/a Ramadhan Pido. Mwale (11-0) has established himself as one of the most solid figures in Zambian boxing and...

“The Gypsy King” has come back to reclaim his throne. Former two-time heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs), a master of verbal jabs and mental mind games, will step into the ring for a collision with Arslanbek Makhmudov (21-2, 19 KOs). The fight will be broadcast on Netflix and funded by Turki Alalshikh, chairman...

During the WBC’s weekly press conference, it was officially announced that French-Cameroonian Christian Mbilli has been elevated from interim titleholder to WBC super middleweight champion at 168 pounds. That is an unfair result, as Mbilli is coming off a draw vs. Lester Martinez and no rematch has been ordered. Joined by...

On February 28th, the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, will host a pivotal clash in the welterweight division. Undefeated Tahmir Smalls of Philadelphia will step up against a top contender, Abel Ramos. This fight marks a return to the ring for Ramos (28-6-3, 22 KOs) after a draw in a WBC championship bid against...

This Friday night (January 30th), ProBox TV returns with its first Contender Series broadcast of 2026 from Hanover, Maryland. Boxers from Mexico and the Dominican Republic will go to war in the ten-round main event as Bryan Flores and Starling Castillo clash with a junior welterweight ranking on the line... Fan...

Ronny Alvarez TKO6 Braulio Matias Ferreira... Fighting in six rounder at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, super middleweight Ronny Alvarez (6-0, 5 KOs) scored a sixth-round TKO over Braulio Matias Ferreira (7-3 with 2 KOs) in a six-round contest on the undercard of a Matchroom Boxing show.  The southpaw Alvarez believes his time...

On Saturday, world junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez and undefeated three-division champion Shakur Stevenson take over Madison Square Garden in New York City for a big night of boxing. According to the venue, limited tickets remain available for purchase. Here is the main fight card: World & WBO junior...

Jarrell Miller has long craved a major world title fight at heavyweight. The brash New Yorker’s moment in the spotlight could have occurred in 2019 when he was scheduled to be the man challenging for the world heavyweight championship. Instead, he tested positive for performance enhancing substances. The opportunity then...

Rising junior welterweight Adam Azim was due to headline in London this weekend but his fight against Gustavo Lemos has been postponed after both fighters suffered hand injuries in training. Their IBF eliminator will be rescheduled for later this year. Francesca Hennessy and Gradus Kraus, will fight in separate co-features...

Troy Williamson has officially vacated his European super middleweight title ahead of his rematch with Callum Simpson. Williamson upset the odds to dethrone his domestic rival for the British, Commonwealth and European belts in December. But while Williamson had hoped to move up to world level with his biggest career...

UPDATE: The IBF has called off Tuesday's purse bid for a heavyweight elimination bout. Boxingtalk understands that the elimination bout, between Frank Sanchez vs Richard Torrez, Jr., will go forward without a purse bid because the parties have reached a deal. The fight will likely take place on a PBC card scheduled for...

This Saturday, January 31st, the historic stadium of the Argentine Boxing Federation on Castro Barros Street in Buenos Aires will host a bantamweight contest featuring undefeated Junior Andrés Narváez against Dominican-born, Argentine-based Yeury “El Domi” Otañez. At just 20 years old, Narváez (5-0-1, 1 KO) opens his...

Teofimo Lopez (pictured) is in a bullish mood ahead of his hometown showdown with Shakur Stevenson on Saturday. Lopez defends his world (and WBO) light welterweight championship on the Ring 6 card at Madison Square Garden, live and exclusive on DAZN PPV. Stevenson, from nearby New Jersey, is stepping up in a bid to become...

April is being considered as the date for a WBC eliminator between Tenshin Nasukawa and Juan Francisco Estrada (pictured), with Tokyo as the potential host city. If finalized, it will be a match-up that draws a ton of attention in Japan. Nasukawa is a very popular figure in Japan. He is a former kickboxing champion and...

The fight card set for January 31st in Kolding, Denmark has taken an unexpected turn, with Spain’s Almudena Álvarez stepping in to face undefeated, two-division champion Dina Thorslund (pictured) for the WBC interim featherweight title, following the withdrawal of the originally scheduled opponent. Alvarez is 43 years old,...

Raymond Muratalla W12 Andy Cruz...At the Fountainbleau in Las Vegas, Raymond Muratalla kept his IBF lightweight title following a thrilling battle against two-time Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz of Cuba.  The American star was an underdog beforehand, but he produced a strong performance to put pressure on Cruz throughout. At...

Khaill Coe W10 Jesse Hart.... A very bad decision stained the Muratalla-Cruz undercard in Las Vegas. In what was supposed to be a light heavyweight bout,   New Jersey's Khaill Coe received an undeserved win over Philadelphia veteran Jesse Hart (pictured). On Friday, Coe came in nearly eight pounds overweight, but Hart elected...

Ismail Madrimov W10 Luis David Salazar...On the same show, former world title holder Ismail Madrimov (17-3-1 including the World Series of Boxing) defeated Luis David Salazar (20-2, 7 KOs) of the Dominican Republic in junior middleweight action. Th inactive Madrimov won by unanimous decision, as all three scorecards red 99-91....

Callum Walsh W10 Carlos Ocampo... In the main event of Zuffa Boxing's debut show, undefeated “King” Callum Walsh moved up to middleweight and claimed a unanimous decision victory over Mexico's Carlos Ocampo. Walsh’s victory improved his professional record to 16-0 with 11 KOs, while Ocampo dropped to 38-4 with 26 KOs. Walsh,...

Misael Rodriguez TKO4 Austin Deanda... In the Zuffa Boxing co-feature from Las Vegas, 2016 Olympic medallist Misael Rodriguez used his extensive experience to outbox Austin DeAnda en route to a fourth-round TKO victory via doctor stoppage.  Rodriguez controlled the real estate smartly as he took the center of the ring and...