Zuffa Boxing has announced that WBC cruiserweight champion Noel Mikaelian will face Jai Opetaia (pictured) on September 12th as the chief supporting bout for the Ryan Garcia vs. Conor WBC welterweight championship main event. The social media post did not state whether Mikaelian's WBC title will be at stake, and Opetaia...

Olympic hopeful Gilbert “Tonka” Kabamba has traveled a long journey to become the first super heavyweight representative of Massachusetts to go for Olympic gold. The Bay State has had three  heavyweight champions in the pros, but neither John L. Sullivan (Roxbury section of Boston), Rocky Marciano (Brockton) nor John Ruiz was...

Frank Sanchez, the IBF's #1 heavyweight contender, has agreed to step aside, a move that clears the way for the August 29th fight between Moses Itauma and Filip Hrgovic to determine the next IBF heavyweight champion. The fight is scheduled to take place at London's O2 Arena. The IBF title became vacant earlier this year...

A night of boxing is in store at Manchester’s Co-op Live on Saturday, September 19tn, live worldwide on DAZN, as Matchroom's Eddie Hearn today announced an undercard featuring Shabaz Masoud. John Hedges and Pat Brown headline at the state-of-the-art venue when the two undefeated rivals collide for the British and...

The WBA. corrected a serious error in the publication of its July heavyweight rankings, which incorrectly listed Jarrell Miller as the WBA’s official mandatory challenger. On Monday, the WBA stated that WBA heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev has one official mandatory challenger-- Moses Itauma (pictured) of the United...

The WBA has ordered a purse bid for the vacant lightweight world title bout between Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi. The bidding is scheduled for Tuesday, August 11th in Cypress, Texas. The title was recently stripped from Gervonta "Tank" Davis, who had not defended it since March 2025 and is in over his head in legal...

Former 108-pound champion Germán Torres is in stable condition and recovering smoothly after successfully undergoing a catheterization procedure at a hospital in Celaya, Mexico. The medical procedure was performed after Torres suffered a mild heart attack. Thanks to the prompt attention of the medical staff, the procedure...

O‍n Saturday, Bradley Taylor became the inaugural BKFC United Kingdom bantamweight champion, beating Lewis “The Leprechaun” Garside for the vacant title in Newcastle, England. (In BKFC, bantmawieght is 135 pounds). Taylor recorded the sole knockdown of the night in the opening round, paving the way to the unanimous...

William Zepeda W12 Lamont Roach...  Mexico has a new champion after William Zepeda won the vacant WBC lightweight title, live on DAZN.  On Saturday night, Zepeda 34-1) faced America's Lamont Roach Jr. in Las Vegas and on paper was a near 50-50 bout. However, Zepeda's all-action, relentless fighting style had him on top...

Raymond Muratalla W12 Robson Conceicao...Before Roach and Zepeda went head-to-head in Las Vegas, another version of the lightweight championship was on the line. Raymond Muratalla made the first defense of his IBF lightweight title, defeating Brazil's Robson Conceicao. Now 21-4-1, the Brazilian Conceicao failed to make the most...

According to the WBC, junior middleweight Sebastian Fundora (pictured) could make another defense of his WBC title on October 17th against top-ranked contender Ermal Hadribeaj of Albania. The American, known as “The Towering Inferno,” owns a record of 24 victories, 1 defeat, and 1 draw, and is coming off a successful...

WBC junior lightweight champion Caroline Veyre will make the first defense of her title against undefeated IBO title holder Bernice Ferreira in a bout that will pit two champions against each other with the goal of establishing themselves as the best in the division. The WBC did not announce the date or venue for the...

Shay Segev, DAZN's CEO, made the following announcement on social media: "A landmark moment for boxing! Proud to welcome Teofimo Lopez to DAZN on an exclusive multi-fight agreement - a groundbreaking partnership between athlete and broadcaster, with no promoter involved. Teofimo is a generational talent, and this...

Time is a precious thing. It's one of the few things you can never get back. Lamont Roach Jr. can never get 2025 back, even though he'd like to steal that time back. A former 130-pound champion, Roach gets the opportunity to wipe out the year that was on Saturday night when he meets William Zepeda for the vacant WBC...

The WBO announced that Top Rank submitted the winning bid of $8,550,000 million to secure the promotional rights for the proposed WBO welterweight championship bout between champion Devin Haney and mandatory challenger Keyshawn Davis. Top Rank plans to hold the fight on October 3rd at one of the following three...

PBC announced that three bouts have been added to the Rolly Romero vs. Teofimo Lopez pay-per-view broadcast, which is scheduled for Saturday, August 22nd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Yoenli Hernandez (10-0, 9 KOs) faces Francisco Daniel Veron (17-1-1, 10 KOs), Victor Santillan (16-2, 7 KOs) defends his interim WBA...

Most Valuable Promotions and mixed-martial arts organization Professional Fighters League (PFL) have merged to create a new global combat sports platform. The combined company will operate under the MVP banner, bringing together boxing, MMA, live events, athlete development and worldwide content distribution, creating a...

This week, the recently retired undefeated, five-division champion Terence "Bud" Crawford, answered random questions from fans on Twitter. Here is what he had to say: Q: Who inspired you coming up and who or what inspires you now? Terence Crawford: Being the best. That's it.Q: How would you manage coming up in boxing with...

WBC junior featherweight champion Skye Nicolson (16-1, 3 KOs) has signed with Most Valuable Promotions under the company's strategic alliance with Matchroom Boxing. Nicolson will make her MVP debut on August 29th at bp pulse Live in Birmingham, England, defending her title against Miyo Yoshida (19-5, 1 KO) in a ten-round...

A rematch between Troy Williamson and Callum Simpson will tsake place on Saturday, August 8th at the First Direct Bank Arena in Leeds. The bout follows their first meeting in December which saw Williamson (22-4-1) flooring Simpson (18-1) four times in the tenth round before forcing a stoppage to secure a TKO victory,...

Junior middleweight contenders Giovani Santillan and Abass Baraou are well aware of the career implications of winning or losing their ten-round main event on Friday, September 11th, live on ProBoxTV (8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT) from Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California. In the co-feature, former IBF featherweight champion...

Jahyden Britton (9-0, 6 KOs) meets Bruno Pola Ruiz (11-4-2, 9 KOs) in a super middleweight contest on Friday, August 14th, at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas. The scheduled eight-round bout serves as the co-feature of BiYu Promotions' "Fights Under the Lights" card. "This is going to be a tough fight. Bruno Ruiz is...

IBA will hold its IBA.Pro 20 card on August 14th in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia. The main event is a battle of undefeated super middleweights, Djambulat Bizhamov (3-0) of Russia vs. Serbia's Vladimir Mironchikov (8-0, 6 KOs). Sergey Lubkovich (20-0-2, 12 KOs) meets Uzbekistan's Khavasbek Asadulaev (8-0, 5 KOs) in a...

Kevin Walsh TKO1 Dannis Aguero Arias ... On Friday night at Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Arena, Kevin Walsh (21-0, 11 KOs) took a stay-busy fight against Dannis Aguero Arias (20-6, 17 KOs) of the Dominican Republic. Walsh has been a very active boxer, racking up 21 wins in his five-year pro career. Over that period, the...

Boxingtalk joins the WBC in wishing world light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol a swift, effective and complete recovery following what has been reported as successful scheduled elbow surgery. Across Bivol's social media platforms, he offered a reassuring message to the boxing community: “Scheduled elbow surgery is...

The IBF announced that it will host a joint convention with the WBO, a first in boxing. An IBF e-mail stated, "The International Boxing Federation is proud to partner with the World Boxing Organization for the historic, first-ever unified convention from Dec 9th through 13th at the Caribe Royale Resort in...

The WBA Championships Committee has stripped René Santiago of his 108-pound championship and demoted him to champion in recess. The WBA also ordered a championship bout between Japan’s Daiya Kira, and Venezuela’s Carlos Cañizales on September 2nd in Yokohama, Japan to determine Santiago's replacement. Santiago, also the...

Undefeated junior welterweight Carlos Utria (14-0, 11 KOs) and middleweight Marco Romero (14-0, 12 KOs) have signed with Premier Boxing Champions. Information regarding Utria's and Romero's PBC debuts will be announced at a later date. The 22 year-old Utria won the WBC Boxing Grand Prix in December with a unanimous...

The IBO will sanction a junior lightweight final eliminator when undefeated "Sugar Boy Roy" Royston Barney-Smith and "Bomber" Reece Bellotti meet in Dublin on Saturday. The winner gets the opportunity to fight for the IBO world title, currently held by Jono Carroll, who is Irish. Barney-Smith is 16-0 with five reasonably...

BKB heavyweight champion Gustavo "The Cuban Assassin" Trujillo (8-0, 8 KOs) will once again put his streak of eight consecutive first-round knockouts on the line when he defends his championship against Mark "The Veteran" O'Neil (3-4) at BKB 58 on Saturday, August 29th at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida....

Steven and Daniel Grandy, reached a major milestone this past Friday, July 24th, celebrating their 18th birthday and beginning the next chapter of their promising careers. Now eligible to compete as adults, the twin brothers are eager to showcase the growth they've achieved inside and outside the ring when they return to...

Tickets are now sale for WBC interim super middleweight champion Lester Martinez’s fight against Luka “The Thunder” Plantic, 13-0 (10 KOs) of Croatia. Martinez (20-0-1, 16 KOs), of Guatemala City, and Plantic (13-0, 10 KOs), will meet in the twelve-round main event of a ProBox Promotions show on Saturday August 29th at...

Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and Matchroom Boxing announced a landmark strategic alliance that brings together two of boxing’s most influential promotional organizations in a long-term collaboration focused on accelerating the continued global growth of women’s boxing. The alliance brings together MVP’s...

Boxingtalk salutes former three-belt welterweight champion Errol Spence, Jr., who announced his retirement following last weelend's decision loss to Tim Tszyu. Spence addressed his future while giving Tszyu credit for his performance. “It was a good fight and congratulation to Tim. It’s been a great event and everyone...

WBO president Gustavo Olivieri wrote: "upon joint written request of the representatives for [WBO welterweight champion] Devin Haney and [WBO mandatory contender] Keyshawn Davis, the WBO Championship Committee has approved a 72-hour extension of the negotiation period for the ordered WBO Welterweight Championship...

Anton Kadushin, coach of WBA heavyweight world champion Murat Gassiev, has stated that no negotiations regarding the boxer’s next bout are currently underway. “At the moment, there are no negotiations concerning Murat’s next opponent. Murat is taking time to rest and recover after a bout for which he spent four months...

Tickets are on sale through axs.com for The Ring card headlined by Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn, which takes place September 12th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Garcia, of Victorville, California, will make his first defense of the WBC 147-pound championship against England’s Benn in their twelve-round bout. Garcia (25-2,...

Callum Dan TKO3 Poramin Saengpak... Super middleweight Callum Dan (8-0) of Great Britain stopped Poramin Saengpak (23-16) at 1:54 of the third round Saturday at World Siam Stadium in Bangkok. Dan controlled the super middleweight bout from the opening bell and led 20-18 on all three scorecards after two rounds. In the third...

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) made its South American debut Saturday at Antel Arena in Montevideo, Uruguay. In the main event, Gaston "Tonga" Reyno stopped Josh "Jarhead" Krejci at 1:29 of the first round to improve to 4-0. Reyno dropped Krejci twice before the referee halted the lightweight bout. "I'm...

Edgar Berlanga TKO7 Stephen Butler... At Zuffa Boxing 09 in New York City, local favorite Edgar Berlanga triumphed by seventh-round technical knockout over Stephen Butler of Canada. Berlanga landed a hard combination in the center of the ring but Butler was still trading punches when the referee jumped in and basically...