The official weigh-in ceremony for IBA Pro 19 took place in Moscow on July 10th, one day before the show at VTB Arena. and bare-knuckle bouts. The ceremony was attended by boxing legends Manny Pacquiao, Shannon Briggs and Dereck Chisora, adding international star power to the final pre-fight festivities. WBA...

Argentina's Edith Soledad Matthysse (21-16-1) will put her WBA interim junior welterweight championship on the line at the Coliseo Pedrín Zorrilla in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when she faces unefeated Mexican challenger Litzy Vázquez Ochoa in a clash of generations. Matthysse enters the ring at 45 years old, while the...

The July 14th fight card at ESL Ballpark in Rochester, New York featuring former heavyweight champion Hasim "The Rock" Rahman has been moved to Tuesday, August 18th at the same venue. The date was moved due a problem with the prospective opponent. With the issue resolved, he will be announced in the coming weeks. All...

Zuffa boxing announced a huge signing on Thursday, coming to terms with undefeated, four-division champion Shakur Stevenson. Zuffa social media provided the following quote from the 29 year-old Stevenson: "Now that I'm with Zuffa, we can make any fight happen. There are no restrictions. Boxing ain't the same anymore. Zuffa...

WBA welterweight champion Rolly Romero (pictured) and former two-division world champion Teofimo Lopez will go toe-to-toe in a high-octane summer showdown Saturday, August 22nd in a PBC pay-per-view event available on DAZN and Prime Video from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Romero and Lopez, two world class fighters meeting...

Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) announced a new deal that will bring PBC’s marquee fight nights to DAZN. The first event in the new agreement will take place on Saturday, July 25th with the return of Errol Spence Jr. taking on Australian superstar Tim Tszyu and will continue with another blockbuster event when Rolly Romero...

Zuffa Boxing returns to New York City on Sunday, July 26th, with ZB09 live from the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden. Headlining wil be a super middleweight showdown between Edgar Berlanga and Steven Butler, supported by a twelve-round welterweight co-feature matching ex-j140-pound champ Richardson Hitchins...

The official press conference took place in Moscow ahead of Saturday’s IBA show at the VTB Arena, where WBA heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev, representing Russia, will defend his title against late-replacement Peter Kadiru of Germany. The show will bring together traditional boxing and bare knuckle fights on a single...

On Friday, August 14th, BiYu Promotions debuts its premier boxing series, "Fights Under the Lights," at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas. The ten-round main event features a clash between light heavyweights Chavon Davis Stillwell (10-0, 8 KOs) of Mansfield, Ohio, now fighting out of Houston, Texas, and Izaiah...

Former three-belt heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with Matchroom – and his return to action live on DAZN will be announced this week. Ruiz Jr. (35-2-1 22 KOs) stunned the sporting world when he stopped Anthony Joshua at Madison Square Garden in New York in June 2019 to rip the...

On Saturday, July 18th, California's Adelaida Ruiz defends her WBC super flyweight championship against Ginny Fuchs of Houston at the Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino, California, aspart of a ProBox TV live broadcast. Fuchs (4-0) comes into this fight preceded by a brilliant amateur boxing career, where...

Pre-sale tickets will be available beginning tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT for the summer showdown between WBA welterweight champion Rolly Romero and former two-division world champion Teofimo Lopez as they square off Saturday, August 22nd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Pre-sale tickets for the live event are available...

Baku, Azerbaijan, will host an IBA pro boxing show at the Sea Breeze Resort on July 10th. The program will feature six professional bouts, bringing together boxers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus and the Philippines. Azerbaijani boxers will be represented in five of the six contests. World...

Two of boxing’s most exciting stars will go face to face at a press conference in Los Angeles as WBA welterweight champion Rolly Romero and former two-division world champion Teofimo Lopez officially announce their world title clash taking place Saturday, August 22nd in a PBC pay-per-view event available on DAZN and Prime...

San Antonio super bantamweight Ramon “Dinamita” Cardenas (27-2 with 15 KOs) will face Panama's Leonardo Carrillo (20-1-1 with 9 KOs) in one of three new ten-round televised fights added to ProBoxTV’s broadcast (7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT) on Saturday, August 29 from the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Also added to The Contender...

The heavyweight division will be in the spotlight in Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday, July 11th. Undefeated José Kadima will headline for the first time in his career when he faces dangerous puncher Herbert Matovu. The battle, scheduled for ten rounds, will be the main event of the Golden Gloves card dubbed “Magic At...

The WBO World Championship Committee has ordered world light heavyweight champion Dmitrii Bivol (pictured) to commence negotiations for a mandatory defense of his WBO championship against WBO interim champion Callum Smith. Bivol and Smith have twenty days to reach an agreement, failing which purse bid proceedings may...

On very short notice, German heavyweight Peter Kadiru will face WBA regular heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev. Kadiru, age 29 and with a pro record of 23-1 with 13 KOs, steps into a main event to be held on Saturday, July 11th at VTB Arena in Moscow. Kadiru replaces Tony Yoka of France, who was forced to withdraw due to a...

Yamato Hata W10 Tsubasa Narai... Yamato Hata (19-2-1) successfully defended his OPBF junior lightweight crown, overcoming fellow Japanese Tsubasa Narai (18-3) via a razor-thin majority decision. The iconic Korakuen Hall in the Japanese capital provided the backdrop for this high-stakes clash on July 4th, hosted under the...

Australian heavyweight Teremoana Teremoana faces his most dangerous fight yet when he headlines an action-packed card – including a brand new Matchroom Boxing signing, Michael Zerafa – on the Gold Coast on Wednesday, August 12th, live on Fox Sports and DAZN’s Kayo Sports (plus, DAZN for the rest of the world). A 2024...

BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing, announced the signing of former boxing champion Joseph “JoJo” Diaz Jr. The decorated Southern California native will make his bare knuckle debut on the BKB 56 undercard on Saturday, July 18th live at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. The undercard will stream exclusively live and free on BKB’s...

Abdullah Mason TKO12 Albert Bell... Abdullah Mason (21-0, 18 KOs) defended his WBO lightweight championship against Toledo native Albert Bell (28-1, 9 KOs) with a twelftth-round TKO Saturday evening in front of a hometown crowd of 10,101 at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. The 22 year-old southpaw started...

Bruce Carrington W12 Rene Palacios... In the co-feature from Cleveland, Brooklyn, New York’s Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington (18-0, 10 KOs) defended his WBC featherweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Mexico's Rene Palacios (19-1-1, 10 KOs). Carrington began the fight from a shoulder-roll stance, throwing quick...

Fighting in his hometwon on Saturday's Top Rank show, Cleveland nativeTiger Johnson (18-0, 8 KOs) used a disciplined jab to control Christopher Guerrero (16-1, 9 KOs) en route to a ten-round unanimous decision in the welterweight divsion. Johnson established his jab from the opening bell, mixing in right hands and...

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) kicked off the July 4th holiday weekend at the sold-out Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. former BKFC interim lightweight champion Ben “The Bomber” Bonner knocked out former boxing and recent BKFC welterweight champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout to win the vacant BKFC world...

On Friday’s BKFC show in Philadelphia, Florida's Britain Hart defended her BKFC women’s strawweight title for a fifth time against the previously unbeaten Dr. Sarah “TNT” Shell. Two judges scored the fight 48-47 for Hart, and one judge scored the contest 48-47 for Shell. Hart is now 11-3; Shell, who represents Phoenix...

Two-time light flyweight champion Shokichi Iwata defends his WBC title against Erick “Mini PacMan” Badillo of Mexico on Monday, July 20, at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo. Iwata (16-2) captured the vacant WBO light flyweight title in 2024 but lost it in his first defense. At the beginning of 2026, Iwata dethroned...

Here are the weigh-In results from Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The following featured bouts will be shown on TNT, truTV, & DAZN at 8 p.m. ET: Abdullah Mason 135 pounds vs. Albert Bell 134.9 (for Mason's WBO lightweight title); Bruce Carrington 124.9 vs. Rene Palacios 125.5...

The IBA announced that Murat Gassiev's planned defense of his WBA regular heavyweight title will go on. The uly 11th show in Moscow was thrown into jeopardy yesterday when French heavyweight Tony Yoka was forced to withdraw with a back injury. But the IBA quickly announced, "IBA Pro can confirm that the show on Saturday...

Former champion Muslim Gadzhimagomedov returns to action on July 11th against Mexico’s Kevin Martinez. One of Russia’s most accomplished boxers, Gadzhimagomedov was the WBA bridgerweight (224-pound) champion until a fews days ago, when the WBA announced it was abolishing the new weight class. He will now face...

Abdullah Mason will defend his WBO lightweight title against unbeaten Toledo native Albert Bell in an all-Ohio clash this Saturday, July 4th at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. In the co-feature, Bruce Carrington puts his WBC featherweight title on the line against Mexico’s Rene Palacios. Additionally,...

French heavyweight Tony Yoka has withdrawn from his bout against Russia's Murat Gassiev, which was scheduled for July 11th in Moscow for Gassiev's WBA regular title. The move was caused by an injury to Yoka, according to reports by journalist Dan Rafael and L’Équipe. [The IBA later called it a back injury]. Yoka is on a run...

The WBC has confirned the locale for July 24th, when former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury tunes up against Poland's Mariusz Wach. The bout, which will mark Fury’s second appearance of 2026 following two losses to Oleksandr Usyk, will take place in Pattaya, Thailand. Fury has stated that the event will also have a...

On July 18th at the James L. Knight Centerl in Miami, Florida, the IBA will present a bare knuckle fight card. The event will feature a bout between Javier Fortuna (pictured), a Dominican professional boxer, and former WBA regular champion, and Colombia's Alejandro Munera. Known in the ring as “El Abejon” (“The Bumblebee”)...

The WBA has officially eliminated the bridgerweight (224-pound) division, effective immediately as of June 30, 2026. The decision was communicated directly to the division’s reigning champions and is now being made public through this official statement. The move was approved by WBA president and the organization’s...

The WBO Championship Committee has officially ordered a WBO mandatory title defense in the welterweight division between champion Devin Haney (pictured) and WBO #1 rated Keyshawn Davis. Haney (33-0) acquired the WBO title in November by defeating Brian Norman Jr. That win made Haney a three-division champion. Davis (15-0) is...

The BBC and other outlets are reporting that former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will fight 46 year-old Mariusz Wach of Poland on July 24th in Thailand. The bout, which is not expected to be competitive, will serve as Fury's tune-up for a British super fight vs. Anthony Joshua, also a former heavyweight champion....

The undercard for Katie Taylor’s final dance is confirmed for a show that is expected to draw 80,000 fans to Dublin’s iconic Croke Park on Saturday, September 5th – live worldwide on DAZN. The event will see boxing return to Ireland’s historic home of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the first time since the late,...

Will Guilmette TKO1 Andrei Pereira... Headlining the CES show in Rhode Island last weekend, local super middleweight Will "The Ghost" Guilmette wasted little time blasting out late replacement Andrei Pereira (0-2) in just 57 seconds to improve to 3-0 with 3 knockouts. The 24-year old, trained by Peter Manfredo Sr., stormed...

Mary Romero W10 Ewelina Pekalska... In San Isidro de Níjar, Spain local veteran Mary Romero made a triumphant return to the squared circle by capturing ta flyweight bout againts Ewelina Pekalska (9-2) of Poland by unanimous decision. The ten-round bout saw Romero, a three-time European super bantamweight champion, dig deep in...