WBC light heavyweight champion David “The Mexican Monster” Benavidez (pictured) is excited about taking over next Cinco de Mayo weekend to face WBA / WBO cruiserweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez-- not only because he’ll be vying to become a three-division champion, but also for the history-making aspect of two proud...

The IBF has scheduled a purse bid for tomorrow (December 2nd) that will determine the promotional rights for a super flyweight title defense by champion Irma Garcia against mandatory contender Emma Dolan. From Mexico City, Garcia has a record of 25-5-1 and is 44 years old. Dolan, 8-0, is 27 years old. She is the...

Saturday's "Pitbull vs. Roach" pay-per-view show will see former 140-pound champion Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz step into the ring against reigning WBA 130-pound champion Lamont Roach for a WBC interim title fight at 140 pounds at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. The pay-per-view broadcast will also feature WBO and...

The opening ceremony kicked off the WBC's 63rd boxing convention and the simultaneous first muay thai convention at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Queens Park in Bangkok, all commencing to the beat of the drum. The setting featured a shimmering sea of floating silk banners and ornate lattice signs, all choreographed by a...

Austin “No Doubt” Trout is ready to live up to his nickname in his rematch with Luis Palomino. Trout, a former traditional boxing junior middleweight champion and Palomino will do battle bare-knuckle style in the BKFC 85 Main Event, on DAZN on December 5th at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Their bout is a...

Costa Rica's Yokasta Valle will return to the ring on Friday, December 19th on the Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul undercard at the Kaseya Center in Miami. Valle (33-3) will face Yadira Bustillos (11-1) in a card broadcast by Netflix. Valle’s WBC minimumweight world title will be on the line. Valle, one of the most active...

Middleweight Nika Bigvava (7-7-2), from the Republic of Georgia is set for action on December 14 in his nation's capital, Tbilisi. Bigvava will take on South African Jarred “Mr. Hollywood” Silverman, a tough challenger who enters the fight with an 11-4 record. The 24 year-old Bigvava achieved a quality win last May when...

Justin Pauldo TKO8 Nike Theran ... Justin Pauldo took some early thunder from Colombia’s hard-punching Nike Theran but used a pinpoint jab and searing body attack to wear down his foe after seven tough rounds in the lightweight main event at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State in Fresno, California. After a careful opening...

Adelaida M. Ruiz W10 Alexas Kubicki... On Saturday, California's Adelaida Maria “La Cobra” Ruiz (18-1-1, 8 KOs) won a “closer than the cards” unanimous decision over Canada''s Alexas “Iron Lady” Kubicki (13-3, 2 KOs) to win the vacant WBC super flyweight championship. [The title was last held by Mexico's Asley Gonzalez]. The...

Erik Badillo W10 Elwin Soto...In an all-Mexican slugfest between light flyweight contenders, southpaw Erik Badillo Mares (19-0, 8 KOs) outlasted former WBO minimumweight champion Elwin “La Pulga” Soto (21-4-1, 13 KOs) to win an all-action ten-round unanimous decision. The bout was part of the ProBox TV show in Fresno,...

Ben Whittaker KO1 Benjamin Gavazi...  Saturday night marked the Matchroom Boxing debut of Ben Whittaker as he took on Benjamin Gavazi at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, live on DAZN. Whittaker was expected to win, but the question was, how would he look? "The Surgeon" delivered, dropping Gavazi once and...

Cameron Vuong D10 Gavin Gwynne... British lightweights Cameron Vuong and all-action Gavin Gwynne fought to a draw in a rematch held in Birmingham, England on Saturday. It was an exciting fight in which Vuong raced out to an early lead but Gwynne's endurance in the second half saw that lead receive a big dent. Vuong showed...

Tomoya Tsuboi TKO8 Carlos Cuadras... Earlier this week, former 115-pound champion Carlos “Príncipe” Cuadras announced his retirement from professional boxing after suffering an eighth-round technical knockout defeat to Japan’s Tomoya Tsuboi in Tokyo. That loss occurred the week before.Tsuboi is 29 years old but just 3-0 as...

Super middleweight contender Diego Pacheco will take on undefeated Kevin Lele Sadjo on Saturday, December 13th in Stockton, California, headlining a Matchroom Boxing card to be broadcast on DAZN. Pacheco enters undefeated over 24 pro fights. In 2025, he has outpointed Steven Nelson and Trevor McCumby over twelve rounds,...

Andrew Tate, a controversial British-American influencer, and Chase DeMoor go head-to-head for the first time at a major press conference next week as the world-famous Misfits Boxing heads to Dubai. The heavyweight rivals clash in a crossover boxing event, MF Mania – The Fight Before Christmas, on Saturday, December 20th at...

The IBA announced the full line-up for a big December 12th show  in Dubai, headlined by a WBA regular heavyweight title showdown between Kubrat Pulev and Murat Gassiev. Set for Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, here are the announced undercard bout: Bakhodur Usmonov vs Maxi Hughes: A WBA lightweight title...

The WBC has stripped Carlos Cañizales of its 105-pound championship because he is unable to leave his troubled nation of Venezuela to fulfill his mandatory defense. Former WBA champion Thammanoon Niyomtrong a/k/a Knockout CP Freshmart as scheduled to face Canizalez, but Canizalez was quickly replaced with Argentina's...

Here are the boxer's weights for Satuday's ProBox TV show from the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California: Justin Pauldo 135 pounds vs. Nike Theran 135;  Muhammad Yaqubov 129.8 vs. Cristian Cruz Chacon 129; Adelaida Maria Ruiz 113.4 vs. Alexas Kubicki 114; Erik Badillo Mares 107.8 vs. Elwin Soto 107.8; Carlos...

Washington, D.C. native and reigning WBA junior lightweight champion Lamont Roach will hold a public workout and community day in his hometown before he takes on Mexican star Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz on a PBC pay-per-view event on Prime Video on Saturday, December 6th from Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. The public workout...

Queensberry Promotions has announced the signing of two Uzbekistan amateur standouts. Their names are Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev (age 24) and Javokhir Ummataliev (20). The pair made headlines earlier this year when both captured gold at the 2025 World Boxing Championships in Liverpool. Now, they take the next step in...

Takuma Inoue W12 Tenshin Nasukawa... Japan's Takuma Inoue (21-2, 5 KOs) is now a two-time bantamweight title holder. On Monday, he was crowned the WBC champion by defeating his compatriot, former kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa (7-1, 2 KOs). Inoue picked up the vacant title via a unanimous decision win on a Teiken Promotions show...

On Saturday, November 29th at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State in California, ProBoxTV will present another edition of its Contender Series, broadcast live on ProBoxTV beginning at 7:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT. In a ten-round head-on collision at lightweight, surging Justin “The Million Dollar Man” Pauldo (19-2, 9 KOs) will...

Tyrone James W8 Braulio Matias Ferreira... On Saturday in Huntington (Long Island), New York, Star Boxing closed out 2025 with a four bout show that was steamed live on Millions.co. In the featured bout, local middleweight Tyrone “Pretty Boy” James scored a unanimous decision victory over Uruguay’s Braulio Matias Ferreira in...

Former world middleweight champion and 2004 Olympic silver medallist Gennadiy "Triple G" Golovkin, has been named the new president of World Boxing at its Congress 2025 in Rome. He will serve an initial three-year term and succeeds Boris van der Vorst, who did not seek re-election following the completion of his term....

The CB Promotions card scheduled for tomorrow (Novermber 25th) at The Cure Insurance Arena in Trenton, New Jersey has been postponed. A new date of Tuesday, January 13, 2026 has been announced but the venue has not yet been secured. All tickets will be refunded at the point...

On Saturday's ProBox TV broadcast from Fresno, California will be a battle for the vacant WBC women's 115-pound championship between California's Adelaida Maria “La Cobra” Ruiz (17-1-1, 8 KOs) and Canada's Alexas “Iron Lady” Kubicki (13-2, 2 KOs). A longtime contender, the 37 year-old Ruiz’s aggressive style, strength,...

Pat Sullivan has worked for many years as Director of Operations for Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports (CES), New England's leading boxing and MMA promoter. Though he has never thrown a punch in the ring, Sullivan is a champion of life based on how he has responded to tragedy. He established the...

According to television station Fox32 in Chicago, mixed martial artist Isaac Johnson, age 31, collapsed near the end of his first "Thai boxing match" at Cicero Stadium on Friday and later died at Loyola Hospital. Johnson had passed a state-required physical before the fight and was competing in what was billed as the...

Two Japanese boxers, Tenshin Nasukawa and Takuma Inoue, will face each other for the vacant WBC bantamweight championship on Monday at the Toyota Arena in Tokyo. The fight is organized by Teiken Promotions and will be televised by Prime Video Japan. It will also be broadcast live on the Top Rank Classics channel, available...

Francesca Hennessy (6-0), one of the most promising young fighters in British boxing, will see actionon Saturday, November 29, when, at bantamweight, she faces blown-up former atomweight champion Fabiana Bytyqi (22-2-2) at the Valliant Live Arena in Derby, United Kingdom. Hennessy enters motivated not only by fighting at...

Sad news out of Los Angeles: former junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan has passed away at the age of 39 after his two-year battle with skin cancer. A 2004 United States Olympian, Martirosyan (36-4-1, 21 KOs) retired in 2019 after back-to-back losses against Erislandy Lara and Gennadiy Golovkin. He held wins...

David Benavidez TKO7 Anthony Yarde. ...  In the main event of the big show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, David Benavidez successfully defended his title against Britain's Anthony Yarde.  After a little bit of a slow start, Benavidez (31-0, 25 KOs) turned it on with his fast hands to bloody and swell Yarde's face up, which resulted...

Devin Haney W12 Brian Norman... In Saudi Arabia, Devin Haney became a three-division champion and experienced a moment of redemption that precious few get to experience. He knocked down Brian Norman, Jr. in round two and cruised to a unanimous decision victory to become the WBO welterweight champion. The judges scored it...

Jesse Rodriguez KO10 Fernando Martinez... Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez was boxing a shutout against Fernando Martinez, winning every single round, until he exploded with a left hook that caught Martinez across the jaw for a tenth-round knockout Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, live on DAZN pay-per-view. By winning the unification...

Abdullah Mason W12 Sam Noakes... Abdullah Mason used razor-sharp accuracy and a bevy of body shots to methodically dismantle Sam Noakes’ grit to claim the vacant WBO lightweight world title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night. At the end of a twelve-round war of attrition, judges scored the bout 117-111 and 115-113...

On December 13th at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, California, Skye Nicolson (14-1, 3 KO) and Yuliahn “Cobrita” Luna Ávila (28-4-1, 4 KO) will be competing for the WBC interim super bantamweight title. A former champion, Nicolson (14-1, 3 KO) returns to the ring on a two-fight win streak since losing the WBC...

The Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) has notified the WBC that an adverse analytical finding for a banned performance enhancing substance was found in the system as a result of a test administered to WBC 140-pound champion Subriel Matias. Matias was scheduled to defend his title on January 10th against Dalton Smith....

Here are the boxer's weights for Saturday's big Riyadh Season pay-per-view show in Saudi Arabia: David Benavidez (174.3 pounds) vs. Anthony Yarde (173.9) for Benavidez's WBC and WBA regular light heavyweight titles; Devin Haney (146.6) vs. Brian Norman Jr. (146.12) for Norman's WBO welterweight title; Jesse...

Francisco Daniel Veron W10 Roiman Villa... Fighting in his adopted hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Francisco Daniel Veron (17-1-1, 10 KOs) served as the matador to the hard-punching Venezuelan, Roiman Villa (27-4, 25 KOs). The Argentine-born Veron dropped Villa in round nine en route to a ten-round shutout on...

Harlem EubankW10 Josh Wagner... Harlem Eubank took home a rebound win in his hometown of Brighton, England on Friday. In a welterweight ten rounder, Eubank defeated Canada's Josh Wagner via wide unanimous decision to improve his pro record to 22-1. Eubank was coming off a loss to Jack Caterall in July. Wagner falls to 19-2....