James "Jazza" Dickens (36-5) reported that the WBA has promoted him from WBA interim junior lightweight champion to WBA junior lighweight champion. The upgrade was made possible by the WBA unfairly stripping Lamont Roach of the WBA junior lightweight championship. On Saturday, Roach fought Isaac Cruz at juniopr welterweight...

Shabaz Masoud W12 Peter McGrail ... Shabaz Masoud and Peter McGrail locked horns on Saturday for the European super bantamweight title in Monte Carlo, live on DAZN. McGrail (12-2) came out the aggressor in the opening three rounds and looked to be on his way to a rout. Then, Masoud woke up and dominated the remainder of the...

Junior middleweight contender Bakary Samake has joined forces with Frank Warren and Queensberry. In conjunction with Samake Promotions, the 22 year-old Frenchman will fight under the Queensberry banner as he closes in on a shot at the WBC world title. Samake, who holds a record of 19-0 with 11 KOs, is ranked #1 by the...

The opening day of the IBA 2025 men’s amateur world championships got underway in Dubai this weekend. Athletes from around the world set the tone for a tournament featuring a record $8.32 million prize pool. In the heavyweight division, Kazakhstan’s Nurmagamed Yussupov dismantled Tajikistan’s Navruz Jafoev in under 30...

Remsey Trujillo TKO3 Kevin Guerrero ... Guatemala's Remsey Trujillo, age 20, stopped fellow undefeated Kevin Guerrero from Costa Rica in the third round. The junior middleweight bout was held on Saturday in Guatemala City. A pro for only fourteen months, Trujillo has been incredibly busy and improved his pro record to 10-0-1...

Lamont Roach D12 Isaac Cruz... Mexico's Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz and now-former champion Lamont Roach (pictured) went toe-to-toe for a dozen rounds, battling to a majority draw in the main event of a PBC show Saturday night at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Cruz retained the WBC interim junior welterweight title with...

 O’Shaquie Foster W12 Stephen Fulton... On the PBC pay-per-view show in San Antonio, reigning WBC junior lightweight champion O’Shaquie Foster (24-3, 12 KOs) dominated on his way to a unanimous decision over former two-division champion Stephen Fulton Jr. (23-2, 8 KOs) to add the questionable WBC interim lightweight title to...

Jai Opetaia KO8 Huseyin Cinkara... One of the most avoided boxers in the sport, Australia's Jai Opetaia, defended his IBF cruiserweight title with a frightening eighth-round knockout of Germany's Huseyin Cinkara. The ending is a strong contender for knockout of the year, but it wasn't all sunshine for Opetaia. The 40...

Erislandy Lara W12 Johan Gonzalez... Erislandy Lara (pictured) dropped late replacement Johan Gonzalez twice on the way to a unanimous decision victory, defending his WBA middleweight title. Gonzalez was subbed in for WBO/IBF middleweight champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly who test positive for a banned performance enhancing...

Frank Martin KO4 Rances Barthelemy... On the PBC show in San Antonio, Texas, Frank Martin made a successful jump up to junior welterweight, putting former two-division champ Rances Barthelemy to sleep just before the bell sounded to end round four. The knockout was a beautiful straight left following a right-handed jab. Martin...

Elif Nur Turhan TKO5 Beatriz Ferreira... Turkish boxing fans are celebrating as Elif Nur Turhan defeated Beatriz Ferreira in a battle of unbeatens to win the IBF women's lightweight title. Turhan triumphed by technical knockout at 1:05 of the fifth round, finishing off Ferreira with a flair rarely seen in women's boxing....

On Thursday, the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum announced its inductees for 2006. The men and women to be honored at a Jue ceremony in Canastota, New York are:  Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin, Antonio Tarver and  Nigel Benn in the Men’s Modern category; Naoko Fujioka and Jackie Nava in the Women’s Modern...

The WBC has committed a stunning breach of boxing tradition as well as general principles of fairness. Tonight (December 6th) in San Antonio, Texas, O’Shaquie Foster will face Stephen Fulton in a fight that was supposed to be for Foster's WBC junior lightweight (130-pound) title. Fulton is the WBC featherweight...

Lou DiBella, former HBO executive and promoter, paid tribute to the late Jimmy Glenn on Glenn's election to the Hall of Fame: "In 1989, on my first day at HBO Sports, the late Arthur Curry told me that he was bringing me to Jimmy's Corner to meet an OG and a boxing treasure. Jimmy Glenn [the owner of Jimmy's Corner] became a...

Here are the boxers' weights for Saturday night's King's Promotions card at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia: Atif Oberlton 177 pounds -vs.- Vaughn Alexander 174; Shannel Butler 125.2 -vs.- Debora Anahi Dionicius 124.2; Ali Ellis 239 -vs.- Colby Madison 246; Shera Mae Patricio 117.2 -vs.- Moni...

Boxing fans will have a rare opportunity to meet former two-time champion Regis Prograis this Saturday, December 6th at a book signing event at Ferocious Fitness Boxing Gym in San Antonio, Texas. Prograis will be signing copies of his biography, which was released last year to praise for its raw honesty, powerful...

Thammanoon Niyomtrong W12 Junior Zarate ... On the last night of the WBC convention in Bangkok,Thammanoon Niyomtrong a/k/a Knockout CP Freshmart defeated Junior Zarate by convincing unanimous decision to claim the vacant WBC light flyweight belt. The WBC vacated the title and demoted Carlos Cañizales to champion in recess...

World super middleweight champion Terence Crawford’s public dispute with the WBC has drawn widespread attention across the boxing industry, emerging at a moment when major stakeholders are seeking to influence the sport’s future structure. The WBC announced it had stripped Crawford of the WBC super middleweight title...

The International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum is thrilled to announce the newest class of inductees to be honored during the Hall of Fame Induction Weekend June 11-14, 2026 in “Boxing’s Hometown,” Canastota, New York. The Class of 2026 includes Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin, Antonio Tarver and  Nigel Benn in the Men’s...

After a positive test for the banned substance meldonium, the WBO World Championship Committee has issued a “show cause notice” to WBO / IBF middleweight champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly. The notice stated, "It has been formally reported that on December 2nd, the WBO received an official communication from the...

Heavyweight Johnny Fisher (13-1) is hoping to rebound on Saturday when he heads to Monaco to face late replacement Ivan Balaz, live on DAZN. Earlier this year, Fisher, one of Britain’s most popular fighters, suffered a shock loss when he was stopped by Dave Allen in five rounds. The Slovakian Balaz is 7-0 but only has...

In a twelve-round world title fight on the December 6th PBC pay-per-view show from Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, top pound-for-pound fighter Stephen Fulton Jr., who currently holds the WBC featherweight championship, will look to become a three-division champion when he challenges reigning WBC junior...

WBA middleweight champion Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara will defend his title against late replacement Johan Gonzalez thia Saturday (December 6th) at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Lara was originally scheduled to face two-belt champion Janibek Alimkhanuly, but Alimkhanuly failed a VADA doping test. The Lara...

On Thursday, December 18th at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ProBoxTV will present “Merry Fistmas!” live at 7:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT. The ten-round “don’t blink” main event sees Ramon “Dinamita” Cardenas (26-2, 14 KOs) of San Antonio, Texas return to US soil to face Mexico's Erik “Terrible” Robles...

Muhammad Waseem W12 Jakrawut Majungoen... In Lahore, Pakistan last weeekend, local bantamweight Muhammad Waseem (15-2, 10 KOs) battled his way to a unanimous decision over Thailand's Jakrawut Majungoen (50-8-2, 29 KOs). Waseem prevailed by  scores of 115-110 and 114-111 (twice). The fight was chaotic from the opening bell....

On the second day of the 63rd WBC Convention in Bangkok, Thailand, the WBC's main assembly focused its attention on mandatory defenses in the men's weight classes. Here is the report:Heavyweight. Champion Oleksandr Usyk can make a voluntary defense. He has already stated his desire to fight Deontay Wilder. His mandatory...

On September 13th, Terence Crawford became the world super middleweight champion, defeating Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez in a brilliant performance. The fight was contested for the WBC, WBO, IBF, and WBA titles. At its convention this week, the WBC stripped Crawford of the WBC title over a dispute about sanctioning fees. According...

Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions have finalized the full fight card for the Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul show, streaming live on Netflix on Friday, Dec. 19th. The latest addition brings the opening fight on the main card: U.S. Olympian and amateur world champion Jahmal Harvey will face undefeated Kevin Cervantes in...

Rising super middleweight Daniel Blancas (13-0, 6 KOs) will face William Townsel (8-2, 6 KOs) in an eight-round attraction on PBC's non-televised undercard this Saturday, December 6th at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. The pay-per-view portion of the show will be headlined by reigning WBA 130-pound champion...

On November 15th, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) notified WBC 140-pound champion Subriel Matías and the WBC of an adverse analytical finding consistent with the presence of Ostarine in a urine sample collected from him on November 9th. Matias was scheduled to defend his title vs. Dalton Smith on January 10,...

WBA middleweight champion Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara will defend his title against hard-hitting challenger Johan Gonzalez as part of a four-fight PBC pay-per-view event on Prime Video this Saturday, December 6th from Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Lara was originally scheduled to face unified champion...

At the WBC Convention in Bangkok, world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk said he wants to fight [faded] former WBC champion Deontay Wilder next. Playful, whimsical and coy outside of  the ring, Usyk is focused, efficient and ruthless within it. About Wilder, six years removed from his title run, Usyk suggests: “I want...

In July 2025, Shadasia Green became a unified super middleweight champion by defeating Savannah Marshall, and gaining the WBO and IBF titles. Now Green is chasing a fight vs. multi-division champion Claressa Shields, and the two are arguing on social media about who is ducking who. Green asked her own promoter, Nakisa...

Erislandy Álvarez W10 Rogelio Osvaldo Jiménez... Varadero, Cuba, delivered a night of boxing last weekend that Cuban fans won’t soon forget. Cuban junior welterweight Erislandy Álvarez defeated Mexico’s Rogelio Osvaldo Jiménez. Álvarez, a refined and technically gifted boxer, controlled most of the rounds behind a sharp jab...

Featherweight Luis Nuñez (21-0, 14 KOs) is putting the finishing touches on training camp as he prepares to return to the ring on Saturday, December 6th at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Nuñez will face off against Argentina's Héctor Sosa in a scheduled ten-round bout that kicks off the PBC on Prime...

Brooklyn’s Pryce Taylor (9-0, 6 KOs) is emerging as part of his borough's long standing boxing legacy. Brooklyn has produced world heavyweight champions such as Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, Floyd Patterson, Michael Moorer, and Shannon Briggs—all International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees with the exception of Briggs—and Taylor...

BKFC 85 takes place this Friday live worldwide on DAZN from the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. One of the biggest rematches in BKFC history headlines Friday’s action as Austin “No Doubt” Trout meets Luis “Baboon” Palomino in the second semifinal of BKFC’s lightweight championship tournament. The biggest fight in...

Janibek Alimkhanuly, the two-belt middleweight champion, has tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance just days before a scheduled unification fight against WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara. Journalist Dan Rafael reported that the substance was meldonium, which is commonly used in...

British middleweight Chris Eubank Jr., who recently lost by decision to Conor Benn, posted a short video of hismelf in a hospital bed and tweeted that an unspecified health condition will keep him out of boxing for a while. Here is his tweet: "I’ve been dealing with a lot of health issues over the last year and yeah it...

Young junior middleweight Isaac “La Bestia” Lucero (17-0) hopes to become the next rising Mexican star in boxing by making a statement against hard-hitting Roberto Valenzuela Jr. (31-5) this Saturday, December 6th as part of PBC on Prime Video action from Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. Lucero’s ten-round bout will stream...