On November 15th, VADA notified WBC junior welterweight 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. Several anti-doping result management authorities have set thresholds for the presence of Ostarine...

In a surprise to no one, the WBA’s 104th Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida saw the reelection of Gilberto Jesús Mendoza as president of the organization for a new five-year term. With this mandate, Mendoza extends a leadership run that now spans a full decade at the helm of boxing’s oldest sanctioning body. According to...

Jasmine Artiga W10 Stephanie Silva... In Orlando as part of the WBA’s 104th annual convention, Jasmine Artiga (15-0-1) successfully defended her WBA  super flyweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Venezuela’s Stephanie Silva (10-2). The scorecards were 99-91, 97-93 and a lopsided 100-90. From the opening bell,...

Justin “The Stallion” Cardona (10-1, 5 KOs) has wrapped up training camp as he readies himself for the biggest opportunity of his professional career. Cardona will face dangerous Avious Griffin (17-1, 16 KOs) in an eight-round welterweight bout on Friday, December 19th at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. The bout will...

Kevin Brown W10 Amos Cowart ... On Saturday night at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, Kevin Brown (9-0, 3 KOs) junior welterweight Kevin Brown cruised to a unanimous decision victory over lte replacement Amos Cowart (13-3-1, 10 KOs) [after repeat offender Cletus Seldin reportedy failed yet another drug test]....

Marko Čalić W10 Nikodem Jezewski ... Croatia's Marko Čalić (17-2, 10 KOs) got a big road win at the Hala 100-lecia Sopotu, Poland. The bridgerweight defeated the hometown fighter Nikodem Jezewski (26-3-1, 12 KOs) by unanimous decision after ten rounds, via scorecards of 98-92, 98-93...

Split-T Management signed amateur standout Adrian Salazar to an exclusive management contract. Salazar, from Tyler, Texas, was a 2022 USA Boxing National champion and 2023 National Golden Gloves champion. His amateur career spanned over 50 bouts and he was a three-time Texas State Golden Gloves champion. “I chose to sign...

On Tuesday, Salita Promotions and Wynn Records will host an in-person press conference in the Times Square area of New York City to officially announce a bout between Claressa Shields  (17-0, 3 KOs)  and Franchon Crews-Dezurn (10-2, 2 KOs) for the women's world heavyweight championship. The fight, a rematch, is set for...

On November 20th, the IBF junior middleweights Brandon Adams and Caoimhin Agyarko to begin negotiations for an IBF eliminator for the organization's #1 contender position. An agreement was not reached within the time set forth by the IBF, so a purse bid has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 30th at 12 Noon. At 26-4, Adams...

Noel Mikaelian W12 Badou Jack... Noel Mikaelian (28-3, 12 KOs) regained the WBC world cruiserweight championship by defeating Badou Jack (29-4-3, 17 KOs) in California over the weekend. The fight was a rematch of a disputed decision that Jack won by majoriy decision in May. The judges’ scorecards were 115-111 and 116-110...

Jose Salas TKO7 Landile Ngxeke ... In Mexico City over the weekend, Jose "Chapulin" Salas claimed the vacant IBF bantamweight championship. Salas defeated South Africa's Landile Ngxeke by seventh-round technical knockout. The stoppage was premature, as the referee jumped in while Ngxeke was taking long range punches in a...

Joe Cordina W12 Gabriel Flores Jr.... Wales' Joe Cordina (19-1) scored a unanimous decision victory over Gabriel Flores Jr. (27-3) on Saturday night to keep his title bid on track for 2026. The former IBF junior lightweight champion won for the second time this year at lightweight in convincing fashion in Stockton. This win...

Oleksandr Hrytsiv TKO2 Serhiy Radchenko... Heavyweight Oleksandr Hrytsiv defeated Serhiy Radchenko by technical knockout in the second round of their bout held in Lviv, Ukraine. Both men are Ukrainian. The contest, which was expected to be competitive, turned out to be one-sided from the opening bell. Hrytsiv (12-0)...

Kajetan Kalinowski TKO8 Pawel Stepien... In a showdown that will be remembered as the “Fight of the Year” in Poland, held at the Hala 100-lecia Sopotu, light heavyweight Kajetan Kalinowski emerged victorious, defeating Pawel Stepien by technical knockout in the eighth round. The bout was a highly contested battle from the...

Diego Pacheco W12 Kevin Lele Sadjo ... Diego Pacheco defeated French-Cameroonian Kevin Lele Sadjo in a twelve-round super middleweight battle of unbeatens at Adventist Health Arena in Stockton, California on Saturday night. The fight was streamed live on DAZN. Sadjo, eleven years older than Pacheco and much shorter, started...

Dante Kirkman W6 DePriest Johnson ... Stanford University graduate Dante “The Inferno” Kirkman (7-0, 3 KOs), delivered another winning performance this past Thursday night, scoring a unanimous decision victory over DePriest Johnson (4-9, 0 KOs) as part of Roy Englebrecht’s acclaimed Fight Club OC series in Orange...

Badou Jack will defend his WBC cruiserweight world title against Noel Mikaelian tonight (Saturday). Jack weighed in at 199.8 pounds while Mikaelian weighed in at 199.8. Jack is a familiar face within the WBC. His first professional world title came in 2015, when he defeated Anthony Dirrell by majority decision. With...

Murat Gassiev KO6 Kubrat Pulev... Murat Gassiev knocked out 44 year-old Kubrat Pulev in round six of their heavyweight battle in Dubai. With the win, Gassiev, a former cruiserweight champion, takes the WBA regular heavyweight championship back to Russia. Pulev was ahead on the scorecards at the time of...

Boxing trainer Bob Santos is stepping into a new role ringside, this time behind the microphone. Santos will join the broadcast team for Boxlab Promotions’ “Night of Champions XIII,” at the 104th annual WBA convention at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.vThe event, scheduled for Saturday, December 13th, will...

Kevin Lele Sadjo is confident he can knock out Diego Pacheco when the pair meet in Stockton, California on Saturday night.  Broadcast live on DAZN, Pacheco is looking to continue rising through the ranks at super middleweight, but Sadjo poses a different test for the American. Sadjo is a man known for his knockout power,...

Nataly Delgado W10 Arlen Lisset Sánchez... Nataly Delgado (19-7-2, 5 KOs) secured a unanimous decision victory over Mexico’s Arlen Lisset Sánchez (8-8-4, 1 KO) to claim the WBA interim super flyweight title. Jasmine Aratga remains the WBA super flyweight champion. The bout, staged before an energized crowd in Panama,...

WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball (pictured) will make a fourth defense of his title when he takes on American mandatory challenger Brandon Figueroa on Saturday, February 7th at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool. Since seizing the WBA belt from Raymond Ford in June 2024 in Riyadh, the 28 year-old Ball has registered...

The WBC has updated its official mandatory status list after the WBC's 63rd annual convention as follows:HEAVYWEIGHT  Champion Oleksander Usyk granted a voluntary defense... Interim champion Agit Kabayel has a title defense on January 10th in Germany vs Damian Knyba... Final elimination ordered between Lawrence Okolie...

A showdown vs. 20 year-old Moses Itauma could rest in the balance when Kubrat Pulev defends his WBA regular heavyweight title against Murat Gassiev on Friday, live on DAZN. The winner of the matchup at Duty Free Tennis Stadium in Dubai could very likely advance to face Itauma as long as the young knockout artist...

Former 154-pound champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout kept his spotless bare knuckes record intact and earned a BKFC lightweight (155-pound) championship fight by defeating Luis “Baboon” Palomino in a rematch on BKFC 85 last Friday at the sold-out Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. The ringside doctor called a stop to the...

On day 5 of the IBA 2025 amateur world championships at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, two-time Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan opened his campaign with a 5-0 unanimous decision win over Turkey’s Samet Gumus despite absorbing a handful of sharp counters. Dusmatov is also an accomplished pro, awaiting...

Dalton Smith is moving ahead with plans to challenge Subriel Matías for the WBC 140-pound world title even though Matias recently tested positive for a small amunt of the banned performance enhancing substance ostarine. Smith successfully completed the WBC's regulatory pre-weigh-in, registering 155.6 pounds. The...

Fans can tune in to DAZN to watch Friday’s IBA Pro 13 card, topped by the WBA regular heavyweight title showdown between defending champion Kubrat Pulev and challenger Murat Gassiev, starting at 2pm GMT on 12th December, The next day, DAZN will stream Saturday’s IBA 2025 men’s (amateur) world boxing championship finals...

Boxlab Promotions junior welterweight Kevin “Alfa” Brown (8-0, 3 KOs) is preparing for the biggest moment of his professional career as he takes on faded, ex-PED user Cletus “The Hebrew Hammer” Seldin (29-1, 23 KOs) for the WBA interim title on Saturday, December 13th. According to Wikipedia, "On April 6, 2017, Seldin...

Day four of the IBA 2025 men's amateur world championships saw Uzbekistan emerge as the biggest winner of the day across multiple weight divisions. The session, held across Rings A and B at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, also saw pro brigerweights in action. Russia’s Muslim Gadzhimagomedov, the reigning WBA...

Abdourahmane Ndiaye W10 Mohamed Zouaki ... In Pont-Sainte-Maxence, France, Abdourahmane “The Lion” Ndiaye defeated Mohamed Zouaki in a super bantamweight contest. Ndiaye (10-0) showed why he is nicknamed “The Lion.” Throughout the rounds, the French boxer exhibited a combination of power and tactical control, using his reach...

Day three of the IBA world amateur championships saw more elite boxing in Dubai. Tajikistani flyweight Meroj Sufijonov opened the action with a controlled 5–0 uThe evening session delivered a high-level lightweight clash as Serik Temirzhanov of Kazakhstan defeated two-time Olympian Tsendbaatar Erdenebat (15-0 as a pro...

UPDATE: Brooklyn-born Teofimo Lopez (22-1, 12 KOs) will defend his world junior welterweight championship against Newark native Shakur Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs) on Saturday, January 31st at Madison Square Garden in New York City.As previously reported on Dec. 1, 2025: Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the General Entertainment...

ProBox CEO Garry Jonas congratulates former WBA junior lightweight champion Lamont Roach Jr., for his courageous performance Saturday night, December 6th. Fighting in the PBC pay-per-view main event against WBC interim junior welterweight Champion Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz in front of 10,230 Cruz fans at the Frost Bank Center in...

MF Pro says the sport has entered a new age after it launched with the signing of British cruiserweight champion Viddal Riley (13-0). MF Pro is a new promotion which emerges from crossover boxing organization, Misfits Boxing, but is focused on developing a new generation of world champions in the professional ranks....

Joe Cordina of Wales believes his experience will outweigh Gabriel Flores Jr. when the pair step into the ring together in Stockton, California this Saturday. The former IBF 130-pound champion will continue his career, now in the 135-pound category, away from home as he heads to California, live on DAZN. Cordina, previously...

Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian's MVP Promotions has announced the signing of WBC lightweight champion Caroline Dubois to a promotional contract. MVP quickly added her to next week's Anthony Joshua vs. Paul undercard, where she will defend her title against Camilla Panatta. The show takes place in Miami, Florida at the...

One week before stepping into the ring in Stockton, California, on Saturday, December 13th, Skye Nicolson and Yulihan Luna Ávila successfully passed the WBC-mandated seven-day pre-weigh-in, confirming that both fighters are on track physically for their WBC interim super bantamweight title showdown.  Nicolson, known for...

WBC cruiserweight champion Badou Jack (pictured) officially registered 205 pounds in his seven-day pre-figth weigh-in ahead of his upcoming fight against Norair Mikaeljan. That fight is scheduled for Saturday, December 13th at Ace Mission Studios in Los Angeles. The report confirms that the champion is following a stable...

Happy 94th birthday (Dec. 8th) to Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum. A one-time practicing attorney, Arum worked for Robert Kennedy Sr. in the tax division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He promoted his first card on March 29, 1966. Muhammad Ali defended the heavyweight world title...