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Taylor-Serrano III press conference open to NYC fans

Press Release World junor welterweight champion Katie Taylor of Ireland and Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican world featherweight champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano (pictured) will square off in a highly anticipated third bout, headlining an all‑women’s boxing mega‑event this July at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Get in on the...

IBF orders Crocker vs. Sullivan rematch as an eliminator

Press Release The IBF has granted the appeal filed by Paddy Donovan regarding his controversial disqualification in the eighth round of his March 1st welterweight title eliminator against Lewis Crocker at SSE Arena (Odyssey Arena) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Donovan appealed, requesting an immediate rematch between the two boxers....

Details emerge for next month's Boxing Grand Prix

Source: WBC WBC president Mauricio Sulaimán led an important virtual meeting with the participants of the upcoming Boxing Grand Prix. The virtual meeting served as a platform to detail crucial aspects of the tournament, the first stage of which will be held from April 17th to 20th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the session,...

Introducing teenager Perla Bazaldua

Press Release Perla Bazaldua, a 15-time national amateur champion from Los Angeles, has signed a long-term promotional contract with Top Rank. The 19 year-old junior bantamweight is LA's latest female boxing star to sign with Top Rank, folowing multi-weight world champions and pound-for-pound queens Mikaela Mayer and Seniesa...

Pittsburgh boxing scene is heating up

Source: Integrity Pro Boxing On Saturday night, April 19th, Integrity Pro Boxing will launch a new televised series on Sportsnet Pittsburgh from the Hollywood Casino at The Meadows in Washington, Pennsylvania The first episode will air on a one-day delay, April 20th at 5:30 PM, and again on April 21st at 7 PM on Sportsnet Pittsburgh as well as on...

Asa Stevens to headline Fight Club OC show

Press Release A solid pro boxing / mixed martial arts lineup awaits fight fans on Thursday, April 17th as Fight Club OC gears up  for a night of action inside The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, California. This show is set to feature Golden Boy Promotions' rising super bantamweight Asa Stevens (7-0) in a six-round...

Queensberry reveals more details on Josh Taylor comeback show

Press Release On Saturday May 24th, Queensberry Promotions brings boxing to Glasgow with a clash between former undisputed world junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor and former British welterweight champion Ekow Essuman. A hero in Scotland, Taylor is known as the "Tartan Tornado." Coming off a loss to Teofimo Lopez, he hopes to...

Mayer vs. Ryan II presser quotes

Press Release Six months after a tremendous and controversial fight, WBO welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan faced off in advance of Saturday's rematch at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas. The war of words evolved into a long, steely staredown Wednesday afternoon outside of the Bleaulive Theater. In the co-feature, Brian...

WBA orders Tsutsumi to defend vs. Vargas

Source: WBA The WBA Championship Committee has ordered a mandatory showdown for the bantamweight title between reigning champion Seiya Tsutsumi and interim titleholder Antonio Vargas, the division’s official challenger. The WBA issued the formal notice to both camps this Wednesday, granting them a thirty-day negotiation window that...

It's Zepeda vs. Farmer II fight week in Cancun

Source: WBC William Zepeda and former junior lightweight champion Tevin Farmer are set for a highly anticipated rematch that takes place Saturday, March 29th at Poliforum Benito Juárez Gymnasium in Cancún, Mexico. Zepeda's interim WBC lightweight title will be on the line after their closely contested first encounter that Zepeda won....

Reintroducing Uprising Promotions

Press Release After taking some time away to restructure and develop a focused strategy for the future, Uprising Promotions is returning to the boxing scene for a May 29th show at the Léman Ballroom located at 41 Broad Street in New York City. "Broad Street Brawl" will feature boxing for a cause, with all funds going to Bigvision...

Cacace to face Wood in Nottingham on May 10th

Source: Queensberry Promotions The Queensberry-DAZN partnership will rock up for their second show together in Nottingham, England on Saturday May 10th at the Motorpoint Arena, where local hero and former WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wood makes his return to the ring to challenge IBO junior lightweight champion Anthony Cacace (who recently gave up...

Navarrete books Suarez for next title defense

Source: Top Rank Mexican three-division king Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete (pictured) will defend his WBO junior lightweight championship against undefeated Filipino contender Charly Suarez on Saturday, May 10th at Pechanga Arena San Diego. The co-feature will be an IBF interim lightweight title between SoCal native Raymond Muratalla and...

Welcome to Mayer vs. Ryan II fight week

Source: Top Rank Fight week has arrived for the continuation of one of the fiercest rivalries women's boxing has ever seen. Two-weight champion Mikaela Mayer (pictured, 20-2, 5 KOs) will defend her WBO welterweight title in a rematch against former champion Sandy Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) this Saturday, March 29th at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. In...

Introducing super bantamweight Sheldon Vallotton

Press Release Christy Martin Promotions has announced the signing of undefeated super bantamweight Sheldon Vallotton to a promotional contract. The 20 year-old Vallotton (3-0, 2 KOs) hails from New Orleans, Louisiana. He turned professional in September of last year after becoming a three-time Louisiana Golden Gloves Champ and...

Robert Guerrero III up to 6-0

Press Release Robert Guerrero III TKO2 Sean Armas... Robert “El Pistolero” Guerrero III (6-0, 3 KOs), the 18 year-old lightweight and son of former multi-division champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, continued his undefeated streak with a second-round TKO victory over Sean Armas (6-2, 3 KOs) on Saturday night in Las Vegas. After a...

New promoter says Don King put the kibosh on Hunter vs. Lovejoy

Press Release Showtime Boxing Promotions announced that a scheduled heavyweight showdown between Michael “The Bounty” Hunter (24-1-2, 17 KOs) and Christopher Lovejoy (20-1-1, 20 KOs), which was booked April 19th at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California, has been cancelled due to contractual differences between the fighters (Hunter...

Zayas named WBO mandatory contender for Fundora

By Scott Shaffer The WBO has designated Puerto Rico's undefeated Xander Zayas as its mandatory challenger in the junior middleweight division, stating "Champion Sebastian Fundora must fulfill his WBO mandatory title defense obligation in his next bout against Zayas. Failure to do so will result in [the WBO Cjhampionship] Committee proceeding...

New champion alert: Jasmine Artega claims WBA 115-pound title

Source: WBA Jasmine Artiga W10 Regina Chávez... Jasmine Artiga is the new WBA super flyweight champion after earning a hard-fought majority decision victory (96-94, 98-92, 95-95) over Mexico’s Regina Chávez in San Bernardino, California. It was a tightly contested battle with momentum shifting throughout, but Artiga managed to take control...

Abel Mina a no-show for Junior Younan fight

Source: Star Boxing Star Boxing issued the following announcement: "Regrettably, the Junior Younan versus Abel Mina fight [scheduled for last Saturday in Huntington (Long Island), New York was canceled at practically the last minute. Mina was brought in from Ecuador earlier in the week. He refused to leave his hotel room [or] come down to...

Star Boxing results from New York

Press Release Micky Scala W6 Mario Zabojnik... On Saturday's Star Boxing show at the Paramount Theater in Huntington (Long Island), New York, Micky Scala (12-0, 6 KOs) earned a hard-fought six-round decision over a determined Mario Zabojnik (12-2, 6 KOs) of Slovakia. Both fighters were willing to stand in the pocket and bang, trading...

Rest In Peace Ras-I Bramble

Source: WBA As the boxing world mourns the loss of the legendary George Foreman, another champion has left the earth. The WBA reports the passing of former lightweight champion and 1980s standout, Ras-I Bramble, a/k/a Linvingstone Bramble. Born Ras-I Alujah Bramble in Saint Kitts and Nevis, he made a name for himself with...

Next British heavyweight title fight: Adeleye vs. TKV

Source: Queensberry Promotions The British heavyweight title will be on the line when English champion David Adeleye faces London rival Jeamie TKV Tshikeva on Saturday, April 5th in Manchester at the recently built, Co-op Live Arena. The show, which will be headlined by the previously announced heavyweight bout between Filip Hrgovic and 2016 Olympic...

Venue named for Canelo's first fight outside North America

Press Release Mexico's Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, will set about his attempt to regain the fourth belt in the super middleweight division on May 3rd at the ANB Arena in Riyadh in the first of four fights Canelo will enter into as part of Riyadh Season. Alvarez, whose claim the the true world 168-pound championship cannot be seriously...

Cherneka Johnson retains WBA bantawmeight title

Source: WBA Cherneka Johnson TKO6 Nina Hughes...  Cherneka Johnson successfully defended her WBA bantamweight title in dominant fashion over the weekend, forcing Nina Hughes’ corner to throw in the towel in the sixth round of their bout at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. The Australian champion faced little resistance from her...

BKFC results from Philadelphia

Press Release Dustin “The Disciple” Pague upped his record to 4-2 with a technical knockout victory over Andrew Angelcor in the BKFC Fight Night main event in Philadelphia. The ringside doctor called a stop to the welterweight (165-pound in BKFC) fight at the conclusion of the second round due to a large cut on Angelcor’s forehead....

Fundora retains titles with TKO4 of Booker

Source: PBC Sebastian Fundora TKO4 Chordale Booker... WBC / WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora made a successful first defense of his world titles with a fourth-round stoppage of Chordale Booker on PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video Saturday night at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las...

Ramos and Garcia win in Vegas

Source: PBC Jesus Ramos Jr. TKO7 Guido E. Schramm ... In the PBC co-feature in Las Vegas, Mexico's Jesus Ramos Jr. (23-1, 19 KOs) dominated from start to finish on his way to a seventh-round TKO of Argentina’s Guido Emmanuel Schramm (16-4-2, 9 KOs) in junior middleweight clash. "I had some obstacles,” said Ramos. “I hurt my hand in the...

The great George Foreman passes away

Source: Top Rank The entire boxing world is mourning the passing of George Foreman, one of the biggest punchers and personalities the sport has ever seen. Foreman, a product of Houston's Fifth Ward, was a 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist and captured his first heavyweight championship in 1973. In 1987, after nearly a decade away from the...

FightBook launching soon

Press Release FightBook, a social network for the fight industry launching soon, welcomed Tim VanNewhouse as a business development advisor. A respected figure in boxing, VanNewhouse brings years of experience and deep relationships within the sport, which he will leverage to help expand FightBook’s goal to become an essential platform...

New champion alert: Tiara Brown's moment finally comes

Source: DAZN Tiara Brown W10 Skye Nicolson... One of the most avoided women boxers, Tiara Brown, is the new WBC featherweight champion after she defeated Skye Nicolson in Sydney on Saturday.  Fighting in Nicolson's home country, there was a lot of excitement, but Brown was on the hunt for Nicolson from the opening bell. While Brown was on...

Kambosos on track for junior welterweight title shot after defeating Wyllie

Source: DAZN George Kambosos Jr. W12 Jake Wyllie ... Former world lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr had a successful homecoming in Sydney where he beat fellow Australian Jake Wyllie by unanimous decision. Wyllie was brought in to face Kambosos on five days' notice after Daud Yordan was forced to withdraw due to medical reasons,...

Weigh-in report from Las Vegas

Source: PBC The boxers' weights are in for Saturday's Las Vegas show headlined by unified WBC and WBO 154-pound champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora defending against Chordale Booker on PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video. The insanely tall Fundora weighed 152.8 pounds, while Booker will challenge him at...

Shields apparently exonerated of drug-related allegations

By Scott Shaffer Based on the following tweet, world heavyweight champion Claressa Shields has apparently been exonerated of any drug-related charges in connection with her last fight: "Hey WBO, I’m sure y’all got the news! Make that apology as loud as y’all disrespect was! I’ve been a champion for y’all organization for many years so...

New opponent for Abdullah Mason

Source: Top Rank Abdullah Mason, the touted Cleveland-born lightweight will now face Mexican southpaw Carlos "Chinito" Ornelas in a ten-round contest on Saturday, April 5th at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Ornelas replaces Giovanni Cabrera, who withdrew from the bout due to injury. Mason-Ornelas is part of a show headlined by the...

Freudis Rojas faces Maurice Lee on Vegas undercard today

Source: WBA The Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas is set to host a junior middleweight undercard battle today (Saturday), as Freudis Rojas and Maurice Lee square off in advance of the championship main event between Sebastian Fundora and Chordale Booker. Fighting out of Las Vegas, Rojas enters the ring with a...

KSI postpones celebrity boxing bout

Source: Misfits Boxing Due to illness to social media star KSI, Misfits Boxing's Unfinished Business crossover boxing show, scheduled for March 29th in Manchester, England has been postponed. KSI was scheduled to fight Dillon Danis, in KSI's first ring action since 2013. Misfits Boxing promised further news, including a new date for the fight,...

Guatemala vs. Costa Rica featherweight action today

Source: WBA Guatemala is set to host a featherweight clash this Saturday, March 22nd, as Alex Miller and Joshua Jiménez go head-to-head. Miller, a hometown favorite from Guatemala, enters the ring with a 10-1 record, boasting eight knockouts. A skilled and composed technician, Miller believes the energy of his home crowd will be the...

Weigh-in results from Atlantic City, NJ

Source: Boxing Insider Here are the boxers' weights for Saturday night's Boxing Insider card at The Tropicana in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This event will air on DAZN and doors will open at 6:30 PM ET. Vlad Panin 152 pounds -vs.- Brian Arregui 153; Justin Figueroa 156 -vs.- Mario Gastron Rios 153; Bruce Seldon Jr. 230 -vs.- Gabriel...

Brian Norman prepares for first title defense

Source: Top Rank Brian Norman Jr. says a champ isn’t a champ until he defends his belt, and he’s ready to do just that. Norman will put his WBO welterweight world title on the line against Puerto Rican challenger Derrieck Cuevas on Saturday, March 29, at BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.  Norman-Cuevas will be the co-feature to...