The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today recommended withdrawing recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA), in accordance with Rule 3.7 of the Olympic Charter (OC). This decision is based on the IOC Comprehensive Report on the Situation of the IBA dated June 2nd, which the...

Undefeated Chilean flyweight Andres Campos wants to create history by becoming his country’s first world champion when he locks horns with reigning IBF ruler Sunny Edwards at the OVO Arena Wembley this Saturday June 10th, live worldwide on DAZN. Campos’ clash with Edwards tops a triple-header of title action in the...

Light heavyweight Ali Izmailov has set his sights on the top of the 175-pound division as he hopes to improve his credentials with a victory over fellow unbeaten Charles Foster this Friday, June 9th in the ten-round main event headlining ShoBox: The New Generation from Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York....

Reyna Promotions will present an evening of professional boxing action this Saturday June 10th in Robstown, Texas. "Battle in the City" will consist of seven bouts in total. In the co-feature, Travis Crawford (3-2) of Corpus Christi, Texas looks to continue his three fight win streak against Michael Haynes (1-4) of San...

IBF cruierweight champion Jai Opetaia (22-0) won his title in July, but still has not even booked his first defense. On Tuesday, the IBF scheduled a purse bid for a mandatory defense between the 2012 Australian Olympian and Poland's Mateusz Masternak. The IBF purse bid will take place on Thursday, June 15th at noon...

British junior middleweight Anthony Fowler announced is retirement on Twitter, explaining, "I’m now officially retired. Big thanks to everyone who’s helped and supported me in my career, it’s a tough tough sport an I respect every fighter and you all should too. I’m excited for the rest my life watching my gorgeous family...

At a crowded celebration, the new WBO minimumweight champion Oscar 'El Pupilo' Collazo received his world belt from WBO president Francisco 'Paco' Varcárcel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Collazo won the title last Saturday, May 27th at the Fantasy Springs Resort in Indio, California and became [according to the WBO] the 65th...

On Saturday at the Halifax Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's Ryan Rozicki will face France's Jean Jacques Olivier in a cruiserweight bout. Rozicki (17-1) comes into this bout after defeating Latvian Arturs Gorlovs by third round knockout in February. His only loss was in a bridgerweight title fight to now-retired...

Regis Prograis is ready to bring big-time boxing back home to New Orleans – starting with his WBC 140-pound title defense against Danielito Zorrilla on Saturday June 17th at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans live worldwide on DAZN. Prograis (28-1 24 KOs) is looking to shine in his first fight at home since beating...

DiBella Entertainment has inked a promotional agreement with Texas featherweight Edward “Kid” Vazquez (14-1, 3 KOs). From Fort Worth, Vazquez hails from a fighting family. His grandfather and uncle were both fighters, along with several cousins. On his seventh birthday, Vazquez asked his father to take him to the local...

Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing has announced the signing of Mexican-American welterweight Freudis Rojas Jr. (10-0, 10 KOs) to an exclusive promotional contract. The 24-year old Rojas, known as Freddy to his friends, was an accomplished amateur boxer for the United States on the international stage, winning a bronze...

In the 122-pound division, Marlon Tapales of the Philippines holds the WBA and IBF titles, while Stephen Fulton of the United States holds the WBA and WBC versions. Next month, Fulton will fight world bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue in one of the biggest fights in this weight division's history. Today, the WBA announced...

Wndy Toussaint (now 14-2, 6 KOs) believes he was robbed of a win in Detroit on Saturday. Toussaint squared up with undefeated junior middleweight Ardreal Holmes, Jr. (14-0, 5 KOs) at Little Caesars Arena. The Holmes-Toussaint bout was the chief support of the DAZN -broadcast Claressa Shields vs. Maricela Cornejo...

Leandro Jose Blanc W10 Kervin Romero... 2016 Olympian Leandro Jose Blanc captured a unanimous decision win over Kervin Romero at the Club Atletico Huracan in Buenos Aires last weekend. The Argentinean flyweight prevailed on the scorecards by tallies of 99-90 and 97-92 (twice) over the Venezuelan visitor. Blanc knocked Romero...

The World Boxing Association’s KO Drugs International Boxing Festival, to be held on June 9th and 10th at the Buenos Aires Casino in the Argentine capital, promises two days of boxing with a  WBA super bantamweight championship fight headlining one day-- Mayerlin Rivas and Nazarena Romero-- and a 108-poud eliminator...

Kacper Meyna TKO9 Krzysztof Twardowski... In an all-Polish heavyweight bout, Kacper Meyna (11-1, 7KOs) defeated Krzysztof Twardowski (10-5,7 KOs) by ninth-round technical knockout in Zukowo. Twardowski’s strategy was to move, jab and try to avoid trading power punches, as Meyna had a weight advantage of close to 44 pounds and...

Claressa Shields W10 Maricela Cornejo... A crowd of 11,784 fans showed up at the first-ever boxing event at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit to watch undisputed world middleweight champion Claressa “G.W.O.A.T.” Shields continue her domination of women’s boxing with a ten-round unanimous decision over Maricela Cornejo of...

WBA / IBF / WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has signed a multi-fiight deal with Saudi Arabian promotional company Skill Challenge Promotions (SCP) established by His Highness Prince Khaled bin AbdulAziz in 2023 after hosting some of biggest boxing events in The Kingdom. Usyk recently fought in The Kingdom in August...

The following posts were made to the Twitter account of former IBF-champion Joseph "JoJo" Diaz during the wee hours of Saturday night / Sunday morning: "I am sorry to all my fans that have been rooting for me. I feel like I let you guys down. These past few years I’ve been an alcoholic.. it’s been killing me. I’m trying...

The education of Greg Hardy continued with a stoppage loss to Alexander Flores. He played six seasons in the NFL, has beaten Hasim Rahman Jr. as a pro boxer and has also fought in the UFC and in bareknuckle boxing. Lately, he's been part of the Team Combat League, where he holds a stoppage winover Norman Neeley (14-1)....

Ardreal Holmes Jr. W8 Wendy Toussaint ... The co-feature on the Claressa Shields undercard in Detroit featured an entertaining ten-round scrap between Ardreal Holmes Jr. (14-0, 5 KOs) of Flint and Wendy Toussaint (14-2, 6 KOs) of Huntington, New York. Unfortunately, the bout was cut short when an ugly cut on the forehead...

Gabriela Sánchez Saavedra W10 Ángela Nolasco... Gabriela Sánchez Saavedra, known as “Bonita” Sánchez, narrowly won a ten-round flyweight bout on Friday, defeating Ángela “Chiquita” Nolasco in Mexico City. The WBC reports Sanchez dominated Nolasco but the judges awarded her a majority decision via scores of 96-94 (twice) and...

Emperor’s Palace near Kempton Park in South Africa will host a boxing show on Saturday September 2nd. That night, the vacant IBO 115-pound title will be contested by South Africa's Ricardo Malajika (11-2) and Argentina's Kevin Luis Munoz (16-0-1). The title was last held by Georges Ory of France. In the main event,...

Boxingtalk's predictions for a quiet Saturday of boxing: Claressa Shields (13-0) vs. Maricela Cornejo (16-5) (world middleweight championship)… prediction: Shields by unanimous decision; Ardreal Holmes Jr. (13-0) vs. Wendy Toussaint (14-1) (junior middleweights) … prediction: Holmes Jr. by unanimous...

On June 17th in his hometown of New Orleans, Regis Prograis defends his WBC junior welterweight championship on a Matchroom-promoted show. Prograis is heavily involved with two other bouts on this card: an all-Lousiana bout between New Orleans’ Jeremy Hill (18-3 11 KOs) and Baton Rouge’s Mark Davis (19-1 5 KOs) over eight...

World middleweight champion Claressa “G.W.O.A.T.” Shields and her opponent, Maricela Cornejo both made weight on Friday before their ten-roundchampionship bout today (June 3rd) at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit and streamed live on DAZN in the U.S. and Canada. Shields came in at 159.6 pounds, a bit heavier than...

Erik Bazinyan W10 José de Jesús Macías ... Super middleweight Erik Bazinyan defeated Mexico's José de Jesús Macías by unanimous decision on Thursday at the Casino de Montreal, in Canada. The scorecards were 98-92 (twice) and 97-93 for Bazinyan a 28 year-old Armenian with Canadian citizenship. Macias tried his best to...

Here are the boxers' weights for the Jeter Promotions card at The Parkview Inn in Allentown, Pennsylvania: Jonathan Rodriquez 118 pounds -vs.- Brian Cannady 118; Francis Oran 212 -vs.- Raphael Carolina 212; Joel Flores 133 -vs.- Hakim Smith 134; and Thanjhae Teasley 147 -vs.- Benjamin...

2016 Olympian Leandro Jose Blanc and Venezuela’s Kervin Romero (7-2) will square off in a flyweight contest this Saturday at the Club Atletico Huracan in Buenos Aires. Fighting in his home country, the 30 year-old Blanc is listed as 7-0 but 13-5 is more accurate taking the World Series of Boxing...

British junior middleweight Pat McCormack will face Tony Dixon on July 1st at the Sheffield Arena in England. McCormack is 10-0 including the World Series of Boxing, where he defeated Gary Antuanne Russell. Age 27, McCormack will be in his first ten rounder. The Welsh-born Dixon is 14-4. Age 30, Dixon has been a pro since...

WBC middleweight interim champion Carlos Adames will battle former unified champion Julian “J-Rock” Williams in the twelve-round main event live on Showtime on Saturday, June 24th at The Armory in Minneapolis in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. The Showtime Championship Boxing broadcast will begin at 9 p.m....

The Baltimore Banner is reporting that boxing superstar and WBA regular lightweight title holder Gervonta “Tank” Davis was taken into custody in his home town of Baltimore on Thursday. Davis had previously been sentenced to three months of house arrest due to his role in a hit-and-run car crash. UPDATE: A second report from...

Australia's Tim Tszyu will defend his WBO interim 154-pound title against Mexico's Carlos Ocampo live on Showtime on Saturday, June 17th (Sunday, June 18th in Australia) from the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Broadbeach, Queensland. The Showtime telecast will begin begin at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT and will...

Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Ryan Garcia, issued a rant against Garcia on Twitter on Thursday... "Wtf, Ryan Garcia. It’s been almost two months [since you got stopped by Gervonta "Tank" Davis] and youre still crying about the post-fight presser? The blame for your loss is on YOU and your advisor Lupe [Valencia]. He is the...

Two Ohio-born boxers have joined the ESPN+cundercard leading up to the July 1st heavyweight doubleheader featuring Toledo’s  Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson against Kazakhstan’s Zhan Kossobutskiy in a ten rounder at Toledo’s Huntington Center. Cleveland native Abdullah Mason will make his third appearance of 2023 in...

The undercard is now set for June 11th in Sunrise, Florida when undefeated boxing Hall of Famer Floyd “Money” Mayweather returns in an exhibition showdown against professional fighter John Gotti III, the grandson of infamous gangster John Gotti. The crossover boxing show plus musical performances will be available on...

Boxing returns to Baltimore on Saturday, June 24th as Ponytail Promotions and CNC Entertainment presents a big night at The Patapsco Arena. In the featured contest, Mack Allison IV takes on Patrick Ayi Ayree in a eight-round super featherweight bout. Ayree of Accra, Ghana is 22-2-2 with 13 knockouts. The 27 year-old is...

Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions has signed former amateur star Sam King to a promotional contract. The 22 year-old middleweight, who has a National Championship and seven International titles to his name, trains out of the new Peacock Gym in Epping, to where he commutes from his home town of Luton. “I’ve got my...

Sampson Lewkowicz (pictured), promoter of WBC interim super middleweight title holder David Benavidez, wrote: "Dear Eddy Reynoso [trainer/manager of world champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez]: Since you have chosen to conduct our negotiations for David Benavidez to face Canelo in public, I’m forced to correct a few mistakes you made...

In a match-up that will go down in boxing history as one of the most significant title fights of all time, unified WBC, WBA and IBF welterweight champion Errol “The Truth’’ Spence Jr. will take on WBO champion Terence “Bud’’ Crawford (pictured) for the undisputed world welterweight championship on Saturday, July 29th in...