WBA regular heavyweight champion Murat “Iron” Gassiev (pictured) will defend his secondary title against 2016 Olympic champion Tony Yoka at IBA Pro 19 on Saturday, July 11th at the VTB Arena in Moscow. For Gassiev (33-2, 26 KOs) , the bout will represent the first defense of the title belt he captured with a...

Matchroom Boxing announced that, in the wake of Ellie Scotney’s decision to vacate the WBC 122-pound title, interim title holder Skye Nicolson (16-1) of Australia has been elevated to full WBC champion. Matchroom added that terms have been reached for Nicolson to face former two-weight champion Miyo Yoshida (19-5) next,...

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says Agit Kabayel of Germany (pictured) will be the next opponent for world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. Saulaiman made his prediction at the WBC press event in Mexico when David Benavidez was presented with a special commemorative belt for defeating Gilberto ”Zurdo” Ramirez to...

Respected boxing attorney John Hornewer, who represents world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, posted his take on Usyk's eleventh-round technical knockout win against kickboxing legend Rico Verhoeven: "The event in Giza, [Egypt]... we will never see something like it again. In the locker room afterwards, Usyk looked around...

USA Boxing’s Elite High Performance Squad earned four gold medals, five silver medals, and four bronze medals at the 2026 Copa America. The United States concluded the competition with all 13 boxers earning medals. Deborah Grant was the first of the seven boxers to enter the ring on Monday, and the North Carolina native...

Featherweight knockout man Jordan Orozco (16-0, 16 KOs) returns to the ring on Saturday, June 13th at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, on an event promoted by Most Valuable Promotions in association with Boxlab Promotions, streaming live worldwide on DAZN. With a 100 percent knockout ratio, Orozco is...

For years, Floyd Mayweather Jr. told the world he was one of boxing's most successful businessmen. He even changed his nickname from "Pretty Boy Floyd" to "Money" and constantly reminded fans that he was as skilled at making money as he was at winning fights. Now, the multi-division champion claims that millions of dollars...

Former WBO 130-pound champion Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring won the vacant bare knuckle BKFC bantamweight (which is 135 pounds in BKFC) title at the sold-out Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California. The former United States Olympic team member accomplished the feat with a one-sided, unanimous decision victory over Michael...

On Wednesday afternoon, former two-time heavyweight champion Hasim "The Rock" Rahman will announce the onset of his quest to become the oldest heavyweight champion at a press conference at The Strathallan Hotel (550 East Ave.) in Rochester, New York. Rahman is 53 years old and has not won a fight since 2011 or even...

Hall of Fame boxing announcer Rich Marotta broke some sad news on social media: "I am greatly saddened to let you all know that Los Angeles boxing legend and my great friend Frankie Duarte passed away today at age of 71 from effects of a brain tumor. A raging warrior in the ring and the most lovable person outside of it....

Ermal Hadribeaj W12 Bakary Samaké. ... Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany saw a minor upset as experienced Ermal Hadribeaj scored a victory over touted French junior middleweight Bakary Samaké. Both men entered the WBC eliminator with undefeated records. In an intriguing and technical twelve-round fight,...

Angel Ayala Lardizabal KO5 Jayson Mama ... Over the weekend, an IBA Pro show in Mexico City was headlined by Angel Ayala Lardizabal, who stopped the Philippines’ Jayson Mama with a body shot in the fifth round of their bantamweight contest. From the opening round, the two fighters produced a fast-paced battle, with both men...

The WBA Championships Committee has officially ordered the mandatory lightweight title bout between reigning champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis and WBA #1 contender, Floyd Schofield. The sanctioning organization sent formal notification to both camps this Saturday, May 23rd, granting the parties a 30-day negotiation period...

The WBA promoted welterweight Rolando “Rolly” Romero from WBA champion to WBA super champion. The designation was originally created to accomodate unified champions faced with conflicting mandatory defense obligations, but the WBA promoted Romero so it could create an additional championship and collect more sanctioning...

Zuffa Boxing 08 happens on June 28th  at The Cosmopolitan In Las Vegas. The main event features Dominican southpaw Edwin De Los Santos (17-2, 15 KOs) against the Mexican-born Jose "Rayo" Valenzuela (15-3, 9 KOs) in a ten-round rematch of their memorable 2022 battle. In their first meeting, De Los Santos stepped in on one...

Former four-division champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will challenge Christian Mbilli for the WBC super middleweight title on September 12th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Mexican launched his latest bid for the summit at a press conference on Saturday ahead of his bout with Christian M'billi. After he lost his world...

Oleksandr Usyk TKO11 Rico Verhoeven,... Oleksandr Usyk had a very difficult time with kickboxer Rico Verhoeven, and wound up retaining his world heavyweight championship with the help of a quick stoppage by the referee. Verhoeven was seemingly on the verge of an upset of historic proportion when Usyk landed an uppercut with...

Mizuki Hiruta W10 Mail Soliman... Fight fans unfamiliar with Mizuki Hiruta got a chance to see the talented Japanese world champion in action on Saturday night with the Glory in Giza main card. She has held the WBO super flyweight title since 2022. On the big Egyptian card, Hiruta (11-0, 2 KOs) recorded her seventh title...

Hamzah Sheeraz KO3 Alem Bagic... In the final supporting bout before the main event, Hamzah Sheeraz defeated Alem Bagic by third-round knockout to win the vacant WBO super middleweight title. The title was vacated by undisputed world champion Terence Crawford who retired after dethroning Saul "Canelo" Alvarez last year. In...

Frank Sanchez KO2 Richard Torrez Jr. ... Cuban heavyweight Frank Sanchez pulled off a significant upset, knocking out Richard Torrez Jr. in the second round in Giza, Eqypt. The fight was an IBF final eliminator, putting the veteran Sanchez in line for a title shot, something he has been chasing for several years....

Jack Caterall W12 Shakram Giyasov.... Jack Caterall defeated Shakram Giyasov via unanimous twelve-round decision to gain the vacant WBA regular welterweight title in Egypt. It was an emotional win for Caterall, who in 2022 appeared to have defeated Josh Taylor to become world junior welterweight champion, only to get...

Amari Jones KO3 Vincenzo Gualtieri ... Amari Jones is now a legitimate middleweight contender thanks to a third-round knockout of Germany's Vincenzo Gualtieri on Friday in San Jose, California. Jones, originally from Oakland, California, is 17-0 and ready for a title fight in one of boxing's weaker divisions. Gualtieri...

MF Pro has announced its first American boxing event, “Pugilist Revolution,” set to take place on Friday, June 19th at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California. The event will stream live worldwide on DAZN. Headlining will be an all-Southern California showdown as Long Beach native Ashton "H2O" Sylve (13-1, 10 KOs)...

This Saturday, May 23rd, ProBoxTV is going international with an important show emanating out of the Willy-Jürissen-Halle in Oberhausen, Germany (12:00 pm EDT). Presented by Ahmet Oener's Arena Box Promotions, it will feature an eight-round battle of undefeated 175 pounders, as Badien Hasso (22-0, 11 KOs) of Germany...

The second of two international ProBoxTV shows to stream this Saturday will come from Arena La Paz in Baja California Sur, Mexico (9 pm EDT). In the ten-round featherweight main event, Luis "The Twist" Nunez (23-0, 15 KOs) of the Dominican Republic will take on rugged Carlos "Gatito" Perez (19-4-1, 6 KOs) of Jalisco,...

A Fight Club OC event is set for Thursday, June 18th in Costa Mesa, California, featuring five boxing and two mixed martial arts bouts. Ex-UFC fighter turned pro boxer Jack "The Outlaw" May (11-1 with 10 KOs) returns to The Hangar, to be featured against Phillip Triantafillo (4-4 with 1 KO). Triantifillo is coming off a...

Tickets are on sale now for June 6th at Bournemouth, England's International Centre, where two of  boxing's cruiserweights collide. Hometown hero and ex-champion Chris "The Gentleman" Billam-Smith puts his title ambitions on the line against Canada's Ryan "The Bruiser" Rozicki in the headline event of Zuffa Boxing's...

Boxlab Promotions announced that featherweight Reina Tellez (13-1-1, 5 KOs) is set to return to action on May 30th in a scheduled eight-round bout against Juliana Basualdo (14-7, 3 KOs) at the County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. The event will be part of a card presented by Most Valuable Promotions and marks Tellez’s...

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has expressed interest and readiness to stage a professional boxing bout for former UFC light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion Jon Jones. The announcement follows recent comments from the decorated American fighter, who revealed he is seriously considering a transition into...

Just several days away from their highly anticipated showdown, undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (pictured) and kickboxing legend Rico Verhoeven met face-to-face on Egyptian soil. The stage could not have been more imposing at the base of the ancient Pyramids of Giza, where the pair exchanged a glare before...

Amari “The Reaper” Jones (16-0, 14 KOs) will headline in front of a hometown Bay Area crowd against former champion Vincenzo “Il Capo” Gualtieri (25-1-1) of Germany in a twelve-round middleweight fight on Friday, May 22nd at SAP Center in San Jose, California. The event will stream live worldwide on DAZN. “It’s a different...

IBA Pro 18, which will take place in Mexico City on Thursday’ night at Arena CDMX, will be broadcast live on the official IBA YouTube channel. The weigh-in was staged at Plaza Garibaldi, one of the capital’s most recognisable cultural locations, adding a distinctly Mexican atmosphere to fight week. With mariachi music,...

BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing unveiled its explosive Summer of BKB plans - a series of four international events heavy on former traditional boxers. The ambitious summer schedule highlights BKB’s rapid global momentum and its efforts to attract both established legends and next-generation talent. ‍Mike Vazquez, Founder of BKB,...

Heavyweight Gustavo "The Cuban Assasin" Trujillo (10-0, 9 KOs) is entering the next phase of his boxing journey with purpose and determination as he prepares to face Sergio Ramirez Marin (22-8, 12 KOs) in a scheduled ten-round heavyweight bout on May 30th at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The...

It is very rare that a boxer with one pro fight gets a shot at a world title (Olympic champion Pete Rademacher famously did it in his pro debut vs. Floyd Patterson in 1957), but that is exactly what will happen at the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt this weekend when kickboxer Rico Verhoeven tries to defy some very long odds...

Undisputed super bantamweight champion Ellie Scotney (12-0) has made the official decision to move up a weight class and pursue new challenges in her professional career. Scotney confirmed herself as one of the best female fighters in the world by unifying all the 122-pound titles, but she advised the WBC she would...

Savage Life Promotions has admitted, on a GoFundMe page, that it failed to pay professional boxers who fought on their show. The show took place on April 25th in Rochester, New York, and the failure to pay the fighters will likely have criminal consequences. Here is the shocking admission from the disgraced promotional...

BKFC 89 goes down Friday at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California, live worldwide on DAZN. Former WBO 130-pound champion Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring and Michael “Papa G” Larrimore collide for the vacant BKFC (bare knuckles) championship in BKFC's bantamweight division. [BKFC recognizes different weight classes...

Boxing Insider Promotions returns to the Tropicana in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, June 13th, as undefeated South Jersey heavyweights Bruce Seldon Jr. and Josh Popper headline in an all Garden State battle. First bell 7:30 PM ET. Tickets are on sale now. Popper (7-0) is from Egg Harbor Township and trains...

"Fight Night at Fenway" in Boston is back for round two on Saturday, June 6th. For the second year in a row, the walls of Boston's legendary baseball stadium will echo with the boxing bell. Situated in the confines of Fenway Park's "Big Concourse", the event will showcase a distinguished lineup of bouts, promising...