As previously announced, IBF welterweight champion Natasha Jonas will headline in her hometown of Liverpool, England against WBC champion Ivana Habazin in a unification clash. The bout's promoter, Boxxer, has announced that a Jonas victory on December 14th puts her on a collision course with WBA champion Lauren Price in...

WBA & WBO / NOV. 16, 2024... A two-belt cruiserweight unification bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday was won by Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez. Chris "CBS" Billam-Smith's WBO title was added to Ramirez's WBA version in an exciting but mostly one-sided contest. Ramirez, a southpaw, cut Billam-Smith over the left eye in round...

Two boxing shows with international flavor will stream live and exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+ this Saturday, Nov. 23rd. The action begins at Canopée Westfield Forum des Halles in Paris at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT. French junior middleweight Bakary Samake battles Australian veteran Wade Ryan in the twelve-round main...

Middleweight prospect Blazen Rocili (7-0, 6 KOs), a 6’3” southpaw from Las Vegas, is ready to light up the ring this Saturday, November 23rd, 2024, at the Alzafar Shrine Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas. Rocili will face Houston’s De Priest Johnson (2-2) in a scheduled four-round bout as part of an action-packed evening...

Tim Voessing of Germany and Erdogan Kadrija of Kosovo will fight this Saturday in a cruiserweight bout to be held in the Essen Coliseum in Germany. Voessing is 26 years old and has been moving up the boxing ladder at a good pace. He has power and has knocked out five of his last six opponents. Overall, Voessing is...

A Florida man named Ronald "Blue" Denton has sued Netflix in Florida state court, claiming he is entitled to monetary damages as a result of the streaming glitches Netflix suffered during Friday night's boxing broadcast, which was highlighted by Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano II and the disappointing Jake Paul-Mike Tyson...

Oliver McCall KO2 Stacy Frazier ... Oliver McCall got a win at age 59, and the knockout was about as bad as you would expect. McCall, a former WBC heavyweight champion, knocked out fellow 50-something Stacy Frazier with an amateurish punch in round two. Frazier hasn't won a fight since 2014, then lost seven in a row and...

Salita Promotions has signed undefeated heavyweight Pryce Taylor, a former amateur standout who, like his new promoter Dmitriy Salita, learned the sweet science in Brooklyn, New York. A pro for just under a year, the 28 year-old Taylor (4-0, 2 KOs) will be featured on the December 12th edition of “Big Time Boxing USA” in...

Tina Rupprecht, the WBC atomweight champion, will face Eri Matsuda, the WBA / WBO champion in a unification fight this coming Saturday, November 23rd at the Olympiastuetzpunkt in Heidelberg, Germany. The Japanese fighter will travel to the German’s home for a duel for three of the 102-pound championships. The fight is...

WBC interim light heavyweight Champion David “El Monstro” Benavidez and WBA regular light heavyweight champion David Morrell Jr. will meet in a battle of two of the sport’s most exciting 175 pounders in the primes of their careers. Benavidez-Morrell headlines a PBC pay-per-view event on Prime Video taking place Saturday,...

The teams of Eimantas Stanionis (pictured) and Shakhram Giyasov informed the WBA Championships Committee that they have reached an agreement for a mandatory title fight in the welterweight division. As a result, the purse bid scheduled for Tuesday afternoon was officially suspended. The contracts and details about the...

Daniel Dubois (pictured): "Hi Jake. Good business on the weekend but how would you feel fighting for the legitimate heavyweight championship of the world? This is Daniel Dubois calling you out. Let's get it on." Editor's note: Dubois is the IBF heavyweight champion, but NOT the legitimate heavyweight champion of the world....

Arnold Barboza W10 Jose Carlos Ramirez....  In a junior welterweight out in Saudi Arabia, Arnold Barboza Jr. remained undefeated in his 31st pro bout, defeating former two-belt champion Jose Carlos Ramirez (29-2). Barboza prevailed by ten-round unanimous decision, landing 15 of 55 punches per round compared to 11 of 40 per...

[Troubled] Ryan Garcia will make a return to the ring for an end-of-year attraction in Tokyo as Rizin and Fanmio present a special exhibition showdown against Japanese kickboxer Rukiya Anpo on Monday, December 30th at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT (U.S. date and time). The event will be available worldwide on Fanmio...

WBC welterweight champion Ivana Habazin will be matched against IBF champion Natasha Jonas in a unification showdown on Saturday, December 14th at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool, England. Habazin hails from Croatia, and outpointed Kinga Magyar to capture the vacant WBC title in April. Now 35 years old, she has shared...

This Tuesday night at The Troubadour in Nashville, Tennessee, former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall-- age 59-- takes on veteran Stacy Frazier (16-22) in a bout scheduled for four rounds.  McCall will break the record for being the oldest former heavyweight champion to compete in a sanctioned fight. The record was...

This Monday it was officially announced that WBA super flyweight champion Fernando “Puma” Martinez (pictured) will return to Japan for a second consecutive fight against the great Kazuto Ioka on December 31st. The Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, will be the venue for the rematch between the Argentinian and the...

Dillian Whyte (30-3) is set to return to the ring on December 15th as he plots a return back to the business end of the heavyweight division.  After [failing] a drug test last year that forced his bout with Anthony Joshua to be postponed, Whyte has largely been absent from the heavyweight picture. Once one of British...

Flyweight Yankiel "El Doctorcito" Rivera (6-0, 2 KOs) will take on Angel "Set it Off" Gonzalez (14-0, 7 KOs) on Saturday, December 7th at the Roberto Clemente Coliseo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The bout will be televised live worldwide on DAZN as part of a huge night of action headlined by Liam Paro defending his IBF...

Mario Barrios D12 Abel Ramos ...  Mario “Azteca” Barrios managed to retain his WBC welterweight belt in his first defense, after drawing with Abel Ramos on the historic card starred by Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano II and Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It was an exciting and bloody battle...

The WBO has ordered Mizuki Haruta to make a mandatory defense of her 115-pound title against Carla Ayelen Merino. Haruta, from Japan, is 6-0 and won the WBO world title in her fourth pro bout. Merino, from Argentina, is the South American champion and has a record...

Justin Figueroa TKO4 Omar Rosales... On Saturday at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, New Jersey, hometown favorite Justin Figueroa (11-0) thrilled his fanbase with a fourth-round stoppage of junior middleweight Omar “El Charro” Rosales (9-4-1, 5 KOs). Figueroa's record improved to 11-0. The 25 year-old Figueroa came out firing...

Tommy Fury and mixed martial artists Darren Till will meet in a crossover boxing match in Manchester, England on January 18th live on DAZN pay-per-view. Misfits Boxing comes flying out of the blocks for 2025 with Fury, who returns to the ring for the first time since his win over KSI last year. Fury has also beaten Jake...

Charles Martin KO1 Matthew McKinney.... Former IBF champion Charles Martin took a successful first step back into heavyweight contention on Saturday. Martin hadn't fought in about sixteen months since losing to Jared Anderson, but he didn't need much warm-up time against Matthew McKinney. Martin scored a first-round knockout...

Lightweight contender William Zepeda remained undefeated, defeating former junior lightweight champion Tevin Farmer in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. But Farmer complained that neither fighter was drug tested after the fight. He said, "Why wasn’t me and Zepeda drug tested? I ask multiple times in the locker room before we...

Mike Tyson reflects on his experience losing to Jake Paul at age 58: "This is one of those situations when [I] lost but still won. I’m grateful for last night.  No regrets to get in ring one last time.  I almost died in June. Had eight blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25 pounds in hospital and had to fight to get...

Gilberto Ramirez W12 Chris Billam-Smith... A two-belt cruiserweight unification bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday was won by Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez. Chris "CBS" Billam-Smith's WBO title was added to Ramirez's WBA version in an exciting but mostly one-sided contest. Ramirez, the smaller of the two men, prevailed...

Oscar Collazo KO7 Thammanoon Niyomtrong... A rare minimumweight unification bout was held in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The 105-pound battle of unbeaten champions was won by Puerto Rico's Oscar Collazo, who had a surprisingly easy time with Thailand's Thammanoon Niyomtrong a/k/a Knockout CP Freshmart. Now 11-0, Collazo scored...

William Zepeda W10 Tevin Farmer...  Lightweight contender William Zepeda remained undefeated, defeating former junior lightweight champion Tevin Farmer in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. It was only a ten-round fight but the WBC apparently relaxed its rules and awarded Zepeda the interim championship. Farmer (33-7-1) performed very...

On February 1, 2025 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, light heavyweight stars will go face-to-face. WBC interim champion David “El Monstro” Benavídez (pictured) and WBA regular champion David Morrell Jr. will hold a Los Angeles press conference to formally announces their showdown that will headline a PBC pay-per-view event....

Jake Paul W8 Mike Tyson... If you are a Mike Tyson fan, be happy for him. Tyson looked every bit of his age (58) fighting Jake Paul last night, and the truth is Paul probably could have knocked out Tyson if he wanted to. But he didn't instead cruising to a wide unanimous decision over eight two-minute rounds in Arlington,...

Katie Taylor W10 Amanda Serrano... In a thrilling world championship fight, Amanda Serrano appeared to get the short end of the stick from the judges, as she lost a decision to world junior welterweight champion Katie Taylor by the narrow margin of 95-94 on all three official scorecards. Boxingtalk scored it 96-93 for Serrano....

Four division champion, and current WBA 154-pound title holder Terrence Crawford was not impressed with Mike Tyson's performance in losing to Jake Paul last night... and that is even taking Tyson's age (58) into account. Crawford tweeted: "I love Mike Tyson, but they [are] giving him too much credit. He looked like trash......

World light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev would like to make some of that Jake Paul money. The undefeated 175-pounder opened the door to an offer from Pau, wh normally fights at cruiserweight but was well over 200 pounds for last night's win over Mike Tyson. Beteribeiv wrote: "Jake Paul, what can you do in [the]...

Here are Boxingtalk's fight predictions for Saturday's show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Gilberto Ramirez (46-1) vs. Chris Billam-Smith (20-1) (WBA & WBO cruiserweight titles) … prediction: Ramirez by decision; Oscar Collazo (10-0) vs. Thammanoon Niyomtrong (25-0) (WBA & WBO minimumweight titles) … prediction: Collazo...

Amateur flyweight star Ruth Huntley will turn professional, having signed promotional terms with Frank Warren and Queensberry. The Gillingham-based 18-year-old had 17 fights in the amateurs, losing just two and winning eight by stoppage. The product of West Ham won two National titles and multiple Box Cup tournaments. She...

Here are Boxingtalk's predictions for tonight's action in Texas: Jake Paul (10-1) vs. Mike Tyson (50-6) (heavyweights) … prediction: Paul by early knockout; Mario Barrios (29-2) vs. Abel Ramos (28-6-2) (WBC welterweight title) … prediction: Barrios by unanimous decision; Katie Taylor (23-1) vs. Amanda Serrano (47-2-1)...

After two postponements, the IBF has cancelled today's purse bid for a heavyweight elimination bout between Agit Kabayel and Martin Bakole. No reason was given for the cancellation, but it appears the fight will not happen, as per a tweet from Billy Nelson, Bakole's trainer. Nelson tweeted, "Unfortunately I’m hearing...

Boxing Insider Promotions is bringing boxing back to Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk this Saturday night at Tropicana. All the action will be streamed live on DAZN starting at 7 p.m. ET.  Because it’s happening on the famed Atlantic City Boardwalk, promoter and Atlantic City native Larry Goldberg is presenting...

Former HBO boxing executive Mark Taffet, through his company Mark Taffet Media LLC, has entered into a management agreement with 2024 Puerto Rican Olympian Ashleyann Lozada and her team headed by advisor Miguel Ortega-Nunez.  Lozada’s decision to turn pro comes just months after she became the first woman ever to...