In what could be a costly fail, Ryan Garcia missed the junior welterweight limit of 140 pounds by a significant amount-- three pounds-- at today's weigh-in in Brooklyn. Although his fight vs. Devin Haney will go on at Barclays Center on Saturday, Garcia is ineligible to win Haney's WBC championship. Garcia was nonchalant...

The WBA Championships Committee granted special permission for its regular super middleweight champion David Morrell to move up a division and fight for the regular light heavyweight championship against Radivoje Kalajdzic in June of this year. The WBA approved the request of Morrell's promoter, TGB Promotions, "whose...

WBC junior welterweight champion Devin Haney (pictured) has an undefeated record of 31 victories with 15 KOs and is one of the finest  pound-for-pound fighters in the sport right now. Aged twenty five, Devin has defeated Jorge Linares, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Joseph Diaz, George Kambosos, Regis Prograis and Vasyl Lomachenko, with...

Super middleweight Nathan Lugo will make his pro debut today when he takes on Robert Lartigue in a bout scheduled for four rounds. Lugo of Atlanta has signed with Split-T Management and comes into the pro ranks after an amateur career that saw him win 23 titles in the unpaid ranks. Age nineteen, Lugo compiled a record of...

Mixed martial arts stars Nate Diaz and Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal continued their publicity tour on Wednesday in Masvidal’s hometown of Miami before they meet in the ring on Saturday, June 1st headlining a pay-per-view show presented by Fanmio from The Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Two huge personalities, Diaz and Masvidal...

Brandon Adams, inactive for more than three years, weighed in for his OTX junior middleweight tournament bout against New York City's Ismael Villareal that will take place Friday night at the OTX Arena in Atlanta and live on DAZN. Adams had a career-best win against Serhii Bohachuk in 2021, but while Bohachuk has won...

Former 154-pound champion Hannah Rankin returns to the ring on April 26th against Naomi Mannes in Liverpool, United Kingdom. From Scotland, Rankin held the WBA and IBO titles from 2021 through 2022 when she lost to Terri Harper. She gained championship status when she beat Maria Lindberg, then made a successful defense...

Uzbekistan’s Bektemir Melikuziev will battle France's Pierre Dibombe in a super middleweight contest this Saturday at the Barclays Arena in Brooklyn, New York. The bout takes place in support of the main event featuring Devin Haney defend his WBC junior welterweight title against Ryan Garcia. Melikuziev (17-3 including...

Tyler Denny will defend his European middleweight title against former British and Commonwealth champion Felix Cash at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England on Saturday June 22nd, live worldwide on DAZN. Denny (18-2-3, 1 KO) ripped the EBU title from Mateo Signani in Wolverhampton last November, stopping the...

Boxing royalty will be in the house at the 2300 Arena tonight (Thursday) when former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis attends DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing show in Philadelphia. Tickets can be purchased via www.2300arena.com or by calling (267) 273-0945. The 2300 Arena is located at 2300 S Swanson Street...

Junior middleweight Xander Zayas will kick off New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend against his stiffest challenge yet. Zayas will take on former WBO titleholder Patrick Teixeira of Brazil in a ten-round clash on Saturday, June 8th at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. In the ten-round featherweight...

Top Rank revealed the full undercard for its Puerto Rican day show set for Saturday, June 8th at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In the main event, junior middleweight Xander Zayas will take on Brazil's former WBO 154-pound title holder Patrick Teixeira of Brazil in a ten-round clash. Brooklyn's...

His Excellency Turki Alalshikh (pictured), Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), today announced the boxers selected to compete on behalf of long-standing promotional rivals Queensberry and Matchroom in the history-making 5 vs 5 collision set to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 1st. The "5 vs....

Undisputed world 122-pound champion and future Hall of Famer Naoya Inoue will headline the biggest boxing event Japan has witnessed. “The Monster” will defend all the belts against Mexico's Luis “Pantera” Nery on Monday, May 6th at the iconic Tokyo Dome. Inoue, a four-weight champion and undisputed two-weight king,...

Former British champion Willie Limond, who fought just last year, passed away at the young age of 45. The Daily Mail reported he suffered a fatal seizure. From Scotland, Limond had a fight scheduled for next month. His final record is 42-6 and he shared the ring with champions Erik Morales, Amir Khan, Ricky Burns and...

At a press conference in London on Monday, the announcement for the underard upstaged the spectacular main event. Although the top of the bill is a four-belt, world light heavyweight championship unification bout between Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol, the big revela was the Queensberry vs. Matchroom five-on-five...

World 140-pound champion Teofimo Lopez will appear at the Seventh Annual Box Fan Expo on Saturday May 4th at the Las Vegas Convention Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Expo will coincide with the mega fight between Canelo Alvarez vs Jaime Munguia, scheduled to take place later that evening at the T-Mobile Arena. Lopez will...

 Sunny Edwards (pictured) and Adrian Curiel will clash in a twelve-round flyweight battle as the chief support bout for the blockbuster world title clash between Juan Francisco Estrada and Jesse Rodriguez at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday June 29th, live worldwide on DAZN. Both men will be looking to...

WBO/WBC/IBF unified champion Artur Beterbiev (pictured) and WBA ruler Dmitry Bivol met face-to-face at today's kickoff presser in London ahead of their undisputed light heavyweight showdown on Saturday, June 1st at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Although the rest of the show will be a pay-per-view broadcast],...

Hasanboy Dusmatov W10 Samuel Carmona... The Humo Arena in Tashkent, Uzbekistan saw the first-ever IBA pro flyweight champion crowned as local favorite Hasanboy Dusmatov secured a victory against Samuel Carmona of Spain by a unanimous decision. DusmatoDusmatov and Carmona delivered an exciting ten-round bout filled with...

John "Scrappy" Ramirez and David Jimenez will clash this Saturday, April 20th for the WBA interim super flyweight title at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The WBA Championships Committee granted special permission to champion Kazuto Ioka to hold a unification fight against IBF champion Fernando Martinez. Ramirez,...

WBA bantamweight champion, Takuma Inoue of Japan, held a public workout on Thursday and talked about his next title defense, which will be on May 6th against countryman Sho Ishida (34-3 with 17 KOs) at the Tokyo Dome. Inoue has a record of 19 wins with 1 loss and 5 knockouts in his professional career and will fight in the...

Helmand Alekozai will face India's Digari Mahesh (9-3-1) in an eight-round junior welterweight bout on April 19th. The bout take place in La Perle, Dubai, United Arab Emirates as part of a big event promoted by Rahul Suri. The news was confirmed today by Alekozai's manager Trifon Petrov this morning. Alekozai (12-0, 5...

An undisputed light heavyweight king will soon be crowned in The Kingdom. WBO/WBC/IBF unified champion Artur Beterbiev will battle WBA ruler Dmitry Bivol on Saturday, June 1st at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The victor will become the division’s first undisputed champion since Roy Jones Jr. defeated Reggie Johnson...

Artem Suslenkov W8 Michael Hunter... There were two significant heavyweight bouts on an IBA card that took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Saturday. For reasons unknown to Boxingtalk, Boxrec does not recognize these fights on the boxers' records. In a result that will interest many Amercian fans,  Russia's Artem...

Jakhongir Zokirov W8 Agron Smakici... In Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Saturday Jakhongir Zokirov of Uzbekistan faced Croatia's Agron Smakici, the man who boasts 20-2 professional record but is beast known for landing a punch that cut Tyson Fury in sparring and caused a delay in Fury's heavyweight unification bout vs. Oleksandr...

WBC junior welterweight champion Devin “The Dream” Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) and Ryan García (24-1, 20 KOs) clash on Saturday, April 20th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Haney (pictured) is a former world lightweight champion and one of the finest pound-for-pound fighters today. He holds a very narrow win...

Oscar Ahlin W10 Michal Ryba... With two big light heavyweight punchers fighting, a stoppage for either man was more or less expected on Saturday in Malmo, Sweden. But it didn't turn out that way, as Sweden's Oscar Ahlin and Michal Ryba from the Czech Republic went the full ten rounds in a close and competitive fight at the...

Jared Anderson W10 Ryad Merhy... Jared "The Real Big Baby" Anderson did not have a particularly eager opponent in Ryad Merhy, but the heavyweight hopeful from Toledo, Ohio, got the job done. Anderson faced little resistance and defeated Merhy via 10-round unanimous decision in the main event Saturday evening at American...

Efe Ajagba W10 Guido Vianello ... Nigerian contender Efe Ajagba (20-1, 14 KOs) won a [debatable] ten-round split decision over Italy's Guido Vianello (12-2-1, 10 KOs) in a phone booth battle of 2016 Olympians. One judge had it 96-94 for Vianello, which was overruled by two scores of 96-94 for Ajagba. Boxingtalk scored it 96-94...

Robson Conceição TKO7 Jose Guardado ... Brazilian Olympic gold medalist Robson Conceição (18-2-1, 9 KOs) scored his first victory in two years by stopping Jose Guardado (15-2-1, 5 KOs) in the seventh round. Returning from a majority draw against two-division champion Emanuel Navarrete in November, Conceição was quick...

Zelfa Barrett TKO10 Jordan Gill... Junior lightweight contender Zelfa Barrett stopped Jordan Gill in the tenth round of a DAZN main event in Manchester, England. Barrett knocked down Gill with a debilitating body shot. Gill bravely got up but had nothing left in the tank, and the fight was soon waved off by the referee. Prior...

 Ellie Scotney W10 Segolene Lefebvre...  Ellie Scotney is the new WBO/IBF junior featherweight champion after defeating France's Segolene Lefebvre via unanimous decision in Manchester, England on Saturday. Scotney (9-0) came in as the IBF champion and left with Lefebvre's WBO title. The official scorecards read 99-91, 97-93...

Rhiannon Dixon W10 Karen Elizabeth Carabajal ... England's Rhiannon Dixon scored a knockdown of Argentina's Karen Elizabeth Carabajal (22-2) on her way to winning the vacant WBO lightweight championship. Dixon prevailed by scores of 98-91, 97-92 and 96-93. The belt became vacant when former world champion Katie Taylor decided...

Former Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) champion Mike “The Marine” Richman was victorious in his return to the squared circle in BKFC Fight Night Clearwater on Friday at the sold-out OCC Road House & Museum in Clearwater, Florida. Richman, who hails from Minneapolis, ended his nine-month layoff from fighting with...

Here are Boxingtalk's Saturday fight predictions:  Ellie Scotney (8-0) vs. Segolene Lefebvre (18-0) (WBO / IBF junior featherweight titles) … prediction: Scotney by decision; Rhiannon Dixon (9-0) vs. Karen Carabajal (22-1) (vacant WBO lightweight title) … prediction: Dixon by decision; Jared Anderson (16-0) vs. Ryad...

IBF junior featherweight champion Ellie Scotney says her nan will have the best seat in the house when she aims to pick up a second world title against France’s undefeated WBO ruler Segolene Lefebvre at the AO Arena in Manchester, England this Saturday – live worldwide on DAZN. The 26 year-old Catford native, who fights...

Jordan Gill is aiming to make it two big road wins in a row when he takes on Manchester’s Zelfa Barrett in a must-win junior lightweight showdown at the famous AO Arena this Saturday April 13th, live worldwide on DAZN. From Chatteris, England, Gill is a former European and Commonwealth Champion at featherweight. He...

Here are the weigh-in results for Saturday's ESPN show at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas: Jared Anderson 250.9 pounds -vs.- Ryad Merhy 235.6 (ten rounds); Efe Ajagba 241.2  -vs.- Guido Vianello 244.5 (ten rounds); and Robson Conceição 131.6  -vs.- Jose Guardado 131.5  (eight rounds). The three...

Charlie Edwards W10 Georges Ory... Former WBC flyweight champion Charlie Edwards defeated Georges Ory at sold-out York Hall in London to officially launch bid to become a two-weight champion. Now fighting as a bantamweight,  Edwards defeated his French opponent by scores of 98-92 on all scorecards. Edwards is now 19-1 while...