Most Valuable Promotions has announced the signing of Mikaela Mayer to a promotional contract. Mayer is a three-division champion, currently reigning as the unified WBA / WBC champion at 154 pounds and WBO champion at 147 pounds. She is also a 2016 U.S. Olympian who has spent most of her career promoted by Top Rank....

Rising Cuban junior middleweight Yoenis Tellez will square off against Brian Mendoza in a showdown between former interim champions on the March 28th a PBC pay-per-view event available on Prime from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. This fight replaces the previously announced IBF heavyweight eliminator between...

Two former interim champions, Yoenis Tellez of Cuba and Brian Mendoza  of New Meixco will box each other in the newly added cheif support bout for the March 28th PBC pay-per-view event taking place Saturday, March 28 at the the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.The 25 year-old Yoenis Tellez (11-1, 8 KOs) captured the...

Zuffa Boxing announced the main event for its fifth show, which is scheduled for April 5th. It will be a lightweight contest between Andres Cortes and Eridson Garcia, taking place, like its four predecessor shows, at the UFC's Apex in Las Vegas. Cortes is a popular local boxer, undefeated at 24-0 and on a run of quality...

On February 18th, the IBF ordered Paddy Donovan and Karen Chukhadzhian to begin negotiations for an elimination bout for the IBF #1 position in the welterweight division. An agreement was not reached, so the IBF has ordered a purse bid scheduled for March 24th. Donovan, from Ireland, is 14-2 and coming off back-to-back...

When we speak about structural models, it is not an abstract exercise. They determine where the leverage resides in a boxer's business negotiations. The term "leverage" influences contracting details including ourses, title shot access, activity frequency, income trajectory and career options.  The distinction...

Ex-featherweight champ Skye Nicolson kickstarts Matchroom Boxing’s new era on Kayo Sports in Australia in her first-ever headline show on Wednesday, April 29th. The WBC interim 122-pound title holder heads home to face ’The Golden Girl’, Mariah Turner in an all-Aussie title showdown at the Melbourne Pavilion –...

Here are the boxers' weights for ProBoxTV’s show at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida,  at 8 pm EDT on Friday, March 13th:  Najee Lopez 174.8 pounds vs. Manuel Gallegos 174.4;  Dominic Valle 130.6 vs. Eduardo Ramirez 130.8;  Dante Benjamin 173.6 vs. Angel Lozano 175.4;  Christian Chessa 115.2 vs....

Middleweight Francis "Frank the Tank" Hogan (21-0, 17 KOs) will return to ring action on Saturday, March 28th when he faces battle-tested Ghanaian veteran Patrick Allotey (45-10, 35 KOs) at the iconic North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. The eight-round bout headlines a CES Boxing eight-bout card. Tickets are...

Wise Owl Boxing has announced that lightweight Jalan “Skywalker” Walker (15-1) has officially signed a management agreement with the company, adding another exciting young talent to the Wise Owl Boxing roster. Walker enters the partnership as an established young fighter with a strong amateur pedigree. Known for...

At its core, the current transition in professional boxing is not about personalities. It is about architecture. Two distinct structural models are operating in parallel: (1) a centralized, vertically integrated framework — currently exemplified by the Zuffa Boxing venture operating within TKO Group Holdings and supported...

On Friday, March 13th, ProBox TV returns to Kissimmee, Florida with a ten-round main event featuring light heavyweight Najee Lopez getting tested against Mexico's Manuel Gallegos... Dominic Valle will take on battle-hardened veteran Eduardo Ramirez of Mexico, his toughest opponent yet, in the action-packed co-feature......

Former junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu (pictured) will square off against undefeated Denis Nurja in the  main event of PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video action on Saturday, April 4th (U.S. date and time) from the Wollongong Entertainment Centre in Australia. The event will begin at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, with...

WBC 154-pound champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora and former two-belt welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (pictured) previewed their world championship showdown during a virtual press conference on Wednesday before they headline a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video taking place Saturday, March...

Garry Jonas, CEO ProBoxTV and the universally respected Mr. Akihiko Honda, president of Teiken Promotions, announced they have reached a co-promotional agreement for bantamweight contender Katsuma “El Cuete Japonecito” Akitsugi. Despite being a Japanese native, Akitsugi (14-0, 4 KOs) has never fought exclusively in the...

Welterweight Michael “The Problem” McKinson (27-2, 4 KOs) returns to the ring on Friday, May 1st in Lagos, Nigeria, when he faces unbeaten Algerian Mohammed Sahnoun (8-0, 6 KOs) on a card promoted by Amir Khan Promotions that will be televised live worldwide on DAZN. The bout marks McKinson’s long-awaited return to action...

Wise Owl Boxing announced the signing of undefeated junior middleweight Ebenezer “The Stuntman” Griffith to its growing roster. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Griffith now trains and resides in Denver, Colorado. He will enter this next chapter of his career with an impressive professional record of 7-0, following...

WBO president Gustavo Olivieri announced that Charly Suarez (18-0) of the Philippines will be getting the next title shot at 130 pounds. Olivieri tweeted: "Please be advised that the WBO World Championship Committee has unanimously voted to order negotiations between unified WBO/IBF junior lightweight champion Emanuel...

Executive Summary: Professional boxing is entering a decisive structural transition. Capital concentration, vertical integration, media consolidation and legislative recalibration are converging simultaneously. When these forces align, negotiating dynamics shift and institutional leverage recalibrates. At the center of...

Boxing is at an inflection point. The sport has historically operated within a decentralized marketplace. Promoters such as Matchroom Boxing, Queensberry Promotions, and Golden Boy Promotions negotiated events independently.
Sanctioning bodies including the WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO governed championship recognition...

This year’s British Board of Boxing Control (BBBofC) Awards ceremony took place on Sunday March 8th in London. Listed below are the award winners, which celebrated boxing in the United Kingdom during the year 2025: Boxer of the Year – Fabio Wardley (pictured); Contest of the Year – Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn I...

Last week, BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing announced the signing of ex-welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (33-7-3) to a multi-fight, multi-year agreement. The former WBC champion and crossover star (Dancing With The Stars, Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables, and Hawaii Five-0) will bring his power, championship pedigree, and...

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has confirmed that the IBA Asia U23 [age 23 and under] and Youth Championships, scheduled to take place in Jakarta, Indonesia, will be postponed due to the current and evolving situation in the Middle East. Following careful assessment of the prevailing circumstances, the IBA has...

UPDATE: After several postponements, the IBF has canmcelled the Bivol vs. Eifert purse bid and announced that the two sides have reached an agreement for world light heavyweight champion Dmitrii Bivol (pictured) to make his next defense against Michael Eifert of Germany. The fight is rumored to be headed to the Oleksandr...

Here is a look at the recent lineage of the major championships in the cruiserweight (200-pound) division. The current champions are  Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (WBO and WBA), Jai Opetaia (Zuffa) and Noel Mikaelian (WBC). The IBF title is vacant, having been stripped from Opetaia over a silly dispute between Zuffa and the...

Zuffa Boxing sits at the center of a new alignment between Saudi governmental capital and TKO’s global media platform. Boxing is no longer being shaped by individual promoters alone. It is being reorganized through institutional capital, sovereign strategy, and corporate sports infrastructure. At the center of that shift...

In season six of The Sopranos, Patsy Parisi tries to shake down a new Starbucks-type coffee chain the same way the mob always extorted the local spots. The manager doesn’t flinch. It’ll have to go through corporate in Seattle, he tells them. They try to intimidate him with threats of vandalism and violence, asking...

Gustavo Trujillo KO1 Phillip Penson... Heavyweight Gustavo “The Cuban Assassin” Trujillo (10-0, 9 KOs) delivered another quick victory this past Saturday night, stopping Phillip Penson (8-6-3, 2 KOs) of Orlando, Florida, with a first-round knockout in the main event at the Hilton in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The event...

Sammy Contreras, a 14-time national amateur champion from Los Angeles, has signed a multi-year promotional contract with Top Rank. The 21 year-old lightweight will return on Saturday, March 21st, in a six-rounder against Cesar Cantu at the National Orange Show Event Center in San Bernardino, California. Contreras (5-0, 2...

The supporting bouts are taking shape for ProBoxTV’s big show on Saturday, March 21st, headlined by WBC Lester Martinez’s WBC interim super middleweight title fight against Immanuwel “The Chosen One” Aleem from the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, California and broadcast live on ProBoxTV (7:00 pm EST/4:00 pm PST)....

Steven Butler KO2 Ramadan Hiseni...  At the Casino de Montreal last week, Canadian super middleweight Steven “Bang Bang” Butler crushed Switzerland’s Ramadan Hiseni with a second-round knockout. True to his aggressive style and fueled by the roar of the home crowd, Butler (38-5-1) stormed out at the opening bell determined...

Francis Ngannou is returning to mixed martial arts, and he will be doing it on a big Netflix show. After crossing over to boxing events (and going 0-2 vs. Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua) and then scoring a dominant PFL championship victory in 2024, Ngannou returns to MMA to face Brazil’s Philipe Lins (18–5, 4 submissions,...

Jai Opetaia W12 Brandon Glanton... Zuffa Boxing returned to the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, where Jai Opetaia punished Brandon Glanton for twelve rounds to claim the inaugural Zuffa cruiserweight championship.  All three official scores were 119-106, and it should be considered a shutout, as Opetaia had a point deducted and...

Vlad Panin TKO9 Shinard Bunch ... “Superbad” Vlad Panin got his Zuffa Boxing career off to a winning start with a ninth-round technical knockout victory over Shinard Bunch (22-4-1) in their welterweight matchup. Panin started swiftly, fighting on the front foot and taking the initiative in the early rounds, while Bunch seemed...

Karol Welter TKO3 Evander Castillo... The Hotel Terminal in Wroclaw, Poland provided the perfect setting for local favorite Karol Welter. In a middleweight contest, Welter delivered in front of his hometown crowd by stopping dangerous Venezuelan Evander Castillo with a third-round technical knockout. The bout opened with...

Here the boxers' weights for the Zuffa show in Las Vegas on Sunday:Twelve-round Zuffa cruiserweight title bout:  Jai Opetaia (199.5 pounds) vs. Brandon Glanton (200) Ten-round welterweight bout: Ricardo Salas (145.5) vs. Jesus Saracho (146.5); Eight-round featherweight bout: Adan Palma (125.5) vs. Pablo...

Sadly, the IBF will strip cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia of its title over a dispute with Zuffa Boxing, who is planning to offer its own version of boxing championships. Here is the IBF's statement: The International Boxing Federation (IBF) has withdrawn sanction of the optional defense of the IBF cruiserweight...

Japanese boxing is preparing for one of the most important nights in its history when undefeated four-division champ Naoya Inoue faces undefeated three-division champ Junto Nakatani for Inoue's world super bantamweight championship on May 2nd at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. Inoue enters the fight as one of the...

The historic May 2nd Tokyo Dome card will also feature Japanese legend Kazuto Ioka seeking to make in Japanese history. At 37 years old, Ioka (32-4-1) will attempt to make history by challenging Takuma Inoue for Inoue's WBC 118-pound title. Inoue (21-2) is the brother of world super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue,...

Welterweight Shinard “Showtime” Bunch (22-3-1) just can’t quit his passion. Bunch will introduce himself to a wider audience on Sunday night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, where he’ll take on Vlad Panin (23-2) in a ten-round welterweight bout.  The 26-year old admits that he’s come close to walking away from boxing before,...