It is the blockbuster news bulletin that fans across the globe have been waiting to hear, WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will take on WBO/WBA/IBF champion Oleksandr Usyk (pictured)in an epic showdown to crown the division’s first undisputed champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999. The biggest fight in world boxing will...

London's Jordan Thompson (15-0) challenges IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia at the OVO Arena in Wembley (London) on Saturday, live on DAZN. Opetaia is unbeaten in 22 fights, and he had been expected to fight mandatory challenger Mateusz Masternak and then Richard Riakporhe, but both fighters pulled out before a...

Nigerian heavyweight Efe Ajagba (pictured) hopes to take a giant leap towards a title opportunity when faces upset-minded Australian Joe Goodall in the ten-round main event Saturday, Nov. 4th at Tahoe Blue Event Center in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. This will be the first boxing event at the venue, which opened earlier this...

Mayerlin Rivas will defend her WBA super bantamweight title against Erika Cruz at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday November 18th, live worldwide on DAZN. Rivas (17-4-3 11 KOs) puts the title on the line for the third time in her second outing of 2023, with the first ending prematurely in a technical draw after...

Boxers stepping into the ring as part of Saturday’s Saul "Canelo" Alvarez vs. Jermell Charlo pay-per-view undercard faced off Thursday at the final press conference before they enter the ring on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The press conference included Jesus “Mono” Ramos Jr. and Erickson “Hammer” Lubin, who meet...

Former WBC 130-pound champion Miguel “El Alacrán” Berchelt (38-3) returns to Yucatan to face Diego “El Profeta” Ruiz in a lightweight match on October 14th, live on DAZN. The fight will take place at the Poliforum Zamna in Merida, Mexico. The duo headline Golden Boy Fight Night on DAZN: Mexico Edition, with Berchelt...

The WBA Championships Committee ordered a purse bid for the super bantamweight world eliminator bout between former champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev (pictured) and Kevin Gonzalez, and scheduled the bis to take place on October 9th in Houston.  After the period of negotiations was completed without the parties reaching...

October 7th in Magdeburg, Germany, Osleys Iglesias will defend his IBO super middleweight title against Artur Reis at the Maritim Hotel. The Cuban-born Iglesias lives in Berlin. He is listed as undefated, but 11-1 is more accurate as he lost in World Series of Boxing action. Iglesisas picked up the vacant IBO title...

Here are the boxers' weights for Friday night's R&B Promotions show at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia:  Tevin Farmer 131.9 pounds -vs.- Oscar Barajas 133.6; Oluwafemi Oyeleye 153.3 -vs.- Jimmy Williams 153.1; Carlos Rosario 131.9 -vs.- Diuhl Olguin 127.9; Joshua Jones 134.6 -vs.- Jonathan Perez 137.5; Allen...

 Sana Hazuki TKO5 Denise Castle... In an atomweight (102 pounds) fight held at the Spaceplus in Bangkok, Sana Hazuki defeated Denise Castle, when Castle retired after five rounds. Hazuki (10-8-1) is 39 years old, but she is a spring chicken compared to the 51 year-old Castle. From Bournemouth, England, Castle (3-4)...

Unbeaten British heavyweights Fabio Wardley and David Adeleye will meet in a high-stakes clash Saturday, Oct. 28th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The twelve-round battle will serve as the chief support to the event between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and ex-UFC MMA heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. Also on the...

Undisputed world champions Saul "Canelo" Álvarez and Jermell Charlo went face to face Wednesday at the final press conference before their historic pay-per-view showdown this Saturday, September 30th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez will put his world super middleweight championship on the line against world...

“Colonel” Bob Sheridan, a/k/a The Voice of Boxing, has died at the age of seventy nine, leaving a legacy of legendary commentaries, most notably the Rumble in the Jungle, The Thrilla in Manila, The Buster Douglas victory over Mike Tyson and the second Tyson vs. Holyfield (ear bite) fight. Bob, who’s parents emigrated to...

On Saturday's big show in Las Vegas, former WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas (pictured) and Mario “El Azteca” Barrios will go toe-to-toe for the interim WBC welterweight title. The show is headlined by Saul "Canelo" Alvarez's world super middleweight title defense against world junior middleweight champion...

On Saturday in London's York Hall, British boxer Caroline Dubois looks to write the next chapter in her career when she meets Magali Rodriguez for the IBO lightweight title. Dubois is 7-0 and is coming off a solid win over Yanina del Carmen Lescano in June. Magali, from Mexico, is 22-6-4 for her career, including 1-0-2 in...

Boxers competing on Saturday’s Canelo Álvarez vs. Jermell Charlo undercard showed off their skills for fans at a media workout before they enter the ring this Saturday, September 30th from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The workout featured boxers on the Showtime pay-per-view undercard that will see undefeated Jesus “Mono”...

Shakur Stevenson (pictured) will attempt to become a three-weight champion when he takes on the Dominican Republic's Edwin De Los Santos for the vacant WBC lightweight world title Thursday, Nov. 16th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. [The title was stripped from world champion Devin Haney by the WBC after Haney announced his...

On Thursday, Nov. 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Mexico’s Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete defends his WBO junior lightweight belt against Brazil's Robson Conceição. Navarrete-Conceicao will be the chief supporting bout on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT. The main event is a WBC lightweight title...

ARTWORK COURTESY OF RICHARD T. SLONE (official artist of the International Boxing Hall of Fame).  World super middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Álvarez and world junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo made their grand arrivals in Las Vegas on Tuesday as they kicked off fight week events for their historic...

On Saturday, September 30th, at the Hamilton Convention Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Ryan Rozicki (18-1-0, 17 KOs) faces Alante Green (10-1-1, 7 KOs) in a cruiserweight main event. The co-feature matches John Michael Bianco (5-0) against Samuel Moses (6-0) for the Canadian super middleweight championship. Three Lions...

Super middleweight contender Vladimir Shishkin will return to action this Friday, September 29th as he duels Mexico’s Ramon Ayala (25-8-1) in an eight-round matchup from Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida. Ayala has lost three straight. Shishkin has worked his way into position for a world title fight...

World lightweight champion Devin Haney (pictured) will move up five pounds in weight and challenge Regis Prograis in a WBC junior welterweight blockbuster at Chase Center in San Francisco on Saturday December 9th, live on DAZN pay-per-view in North America and on DAZN worldwide. Prograis (29-1 24 KOs) puts his WBC title on...

Sofiane Oumiha TKO6 Nicolas Blanco... French lightweight Sofiane Oumiha defeated Nicolas Blanco of Argentina by technical knockout this Saturday at the IBA Night of Champions held in Monaco. Oumha, a 2016 Olympic silver medal winner, is listed as 4-0, but 10-0 is more accurate given he had six paid wins in the World Series...

The International Boxing Association (IBA) announced that it will hold an International Cup in honor of Nelson Mandela, called the Mandela Cup, from October 9th to 14th in Durban, South Africa.  The event will have competitions in 13 weight categories in the men’s division and 12 in the women’s division. In addition,...

Golden Boy Promotions and lightweight contender Ryan Garcia (pictured) have agreed to put their lawsuit on hold and will attempt to work out their differences with a mediator. Garcia’s attorney, Guadalupe Valencia, also a defendant in the lawsuit filed by Golden Boy, will also participate on the mediation (as a party, not as...

Matchroom Boxing confirmed an agreement with Rakuten Ticket, Inc. and international company NSN (Never Say Never) that will bring a series of major events to Japan. The milestone deal will see Matchroom stage three major world-class events per year in Japan – all live worldwide to DAZN subscribers (excluding Asia) – over...

On Friday night, former junior lightweight champion Tevin Farmer gets back into the ring for the second time in three months when he takes on Oscar Barajas in an eight-round lightweight bout at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. The seven-bout card is promoted by R & B Promotions. Farmer, from Philadelphia, is 31-5-1 with...

Award-winning sportswriter, author, and Hall of Fame inductee Bernard Fernandez has just released the fourth book of his popular boxing anthology, Championship Rounds, Round 4 (RKMA Publishing), a history-spanning compilation of Fernandez's finest work covering the sweet science, with a foreword by Ron Borges....

Jessica McCaskill W10 Sandy Ryan ...  This Saturday at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, world welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill of Chicago and Sandy Ryan of England drew after ten tremendously competitive rounds. Ryan took advantage of her loftier height and her extra reach,  using her jab and combinations to tag...

Austin Williams W10 Steve Rolls ... Middleweight Austin Williams continued his climb up the division by defeating veteran Steve Rolls (22-3 with 12 KOs) on Saturday at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Williams, from Milwaukee won via unanimous decision, with three 97-93 scorecards from the judges The Milwaukee...

Pierce O’ Leary W10 Kane Gardner ... Irish junior welterweight Pierce O’ Leary (13-0) defeated British boxer Kane Gardner (16-3) under the bright lights of Wembley Stadium in London over the weekend. The fight took place on the undercard of the Zhilei Zhang-Joe Joyce II event presented by Queensbury Promotions. Despite...

Undisputed world junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo received a hometown send-off in Houston on Saturday before he headed to Las Vegas to challenge undisputed world super middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Álvarez headlining a pay-per-view show on September 30th from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.  Charlo’s big day...

Heavyweight Joe Joyce was put to the canvas for the first time courtesy of a howitzer of a shot from Zhilei Zhang, who more than lived up to his nickname of Big Bang on Saturday at Wembley. Joyce was attempting to win back his valuable WBO interim title bargaining chip from following a first career setback in an April fight...

Hard-hitting Erickson “Hammer” Lubin will look to catapult himself right back to the top of the 154-pound division with a victory over unbeaten Jesus “Mono” Ramos on the Canelo vs. Charlo pay-per-view broadcast on Saturday, September 30th from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “Ramos is nothing that I haven’t seen before, and...

Richardson Hitchins W10 José Zepeda ... 2016 Haiti Olympian and rising junior welterweight Richardson Hitchins defeated José Zepeda by unanimous decision on Saturday in Orlando, Florida. The win makes Hitchins (17-0 a legitimate contender at 140 pounds. Now 37-3, Zepeda's only prior losses were in world title bids against...

Batyrzhan Jukembayev W10 Hugo Roldan ... Kazakhstan's Batyrzhan Jukembayev (21-1) defeated Argentina’s Hugo Roldan on Wednesday night in Plant City, Florida. Jukembayev won the junior wlterweight contest by split decision, with the judges’ cards reading 92-97, 96-93 and 95-94. Now age 32, Jukembayev had a big fight in May...

Zhilei Zhang KO3 Joe Joyce...  For the second time in five months, Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zang stopped Joe Joyce. In April, Zhilei's repeated lefts closed Joyce's eye but this time at London's Wembely Arena, Zhang scored a one-punch knockout with his right hand. After the third-round knockout, a barely touched Zhang called...

Here are Boxingtalk's predictions for Saturday's fights: Zhilei Zhang (25-1-1) vs. Joe Joyce (15-1) II (WBO Interim heavyweight title) … prediction: Zhang by mid to late knockout; Jessica McCaskill (12-3) vs. Sandy Ryan (6-1) (WBC, WBA, WBO, world welterweight titles) … prediction: McCaskill by split...

Heavyweight contender Frank “The Cuban Flash” Sanchez will highlight the three-fight Showtime pay-per-view countdown show as he takes on Scott Alexander over ten rounds on Saturday, September 30th leading up to the Canelo Álvarez vs. Jermell Charlo pay-per-view event taking place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The line-up...

Toronto's Steve Rolls steps back into the ring this Saturday, September 23rd, facing Austin "Ammo" Williams for ten rounds of action. Presented by Matchroom Boxing in association with DiBella Entertainment, this middleweight contest will be broadcast live on DAZN at 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT, from the Caribe Royale in...