Professional boxing is not facing a temporary promotional rivalry. It is navigating a structural transition. Capital concentration, media consolidation and legislative recalibration are reshaping how authority, leverage, and opportunity are distributed across the sport. The implications vary by stakeholder. Let's take...

Long-time sports promoters Kalle and Nisse Sauerland, together with a strategic European investor, have taken over the former roster of Wasserman Boxing which is to be rebranded with immediate effect as MF Sports. [Editor's note: Casey Wasserman's name recently surfaced in connection with the infamous Jeffrey Epstein...

DAZN announced that a multi-year broadcast deal has been signed with American promotional outfit Top Rank, further cementing DAZN as the global home of boxing.  Set up by Bob Arum, Top Rank has been a staple in the sport for 60 years, and along with the live shows, it will also provide boxing fans with classic fights from...

For the first time in six and a half years, Let’s Get It On Promotions and the Silver Legacy Resort & Casino will present an evening of world-class professional boxing, this Friday, March 20th in downtown Reno, Nevada. The fight card will feature Northern Nevada’s top talent, with world-renowned trainer Eddy Reynoso and...

Scale in professional boxing has historically been cyclical. What distinguishes the current environment is the magnitude and concentration of capital entering the sport. The emergence of the Zuffa Boxing venture, supported by Saudi governmental capital operating through Sela, represents a level of financial alignment...

Jarrell Miller (pictured) and Lenier Pero will clash in a WBA heavyweight eliminator at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas on Saturday April 25th, live worldwide on DAZN. Miller (27-1-2 22 KOs) returned to the ring in New York in January at Madison Square Garden, beating Kingsley Ibeh over ten rounds via split decision in a...

Sampson Boxing and Eric Ibarra's TM Boxing announced the signing of junior welterweight José Ángel Guerrero to a co-promotional agreement. The deal paves the way for the heavy-handed Guerrero (11-0, 9 KOs), from Tijuana, to make more appearances on global boxing platform ProBoxTV in the coming months. Guerrero, age 21,...

In contemporary combat sports, distribution is not merely a commercial partnership. It is considedered infrastructure because television and streaming platforms influence revenue scale, fighter visibility, sponsorship potential, promotional viability and global reach.
Without durable media alignment, even...

Shokichi Iwata W8 Knockout CP Freshmart... Japan's Shokichi Iwata secured a landmark clear cut victory by dethroning two-division champion Thammanoon Niyomtrong a/k/a Knockout CP Freshmart via eighth-round technical decision, to win the WBC light flyweight title. Iwata (16-2) is now a two-time champ at 108 pounds, having...

USA Boxing’s Youth High Performance Team earned four gold medals and one silver medal on Sunday at the 2026 World Boxing Futures Cup in Bangkok. Team USA's 2026 World Boxing Futures Cup journey comes to an end after securing nine medals overall. Guadalupe Ruiz (women’s 54 kg, Anaheim, Calif.) was the first American boxer...

ProBoxTV’s show on Saturday, March 21st will be headlined by a WBC super middleweight interim title fight between Lester Martinez and Immanuwel “The Chosen One” Aleem from the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, California. It will be broadcast live on ProBoxTV (7:00 pm EST/4:00 pm PST). While Martinez (19-0-1 16 KOs) will...

Pavel Sosulin TKO8 Victor Nagbe... The IBA 15 show in St. Peterburg, Russia last weekend concluded with junior middleweight Pavel Sosulin defeating Victor Nagbe (12-3). Sosulin (now 17-0 including IBA PRo and World Series of Boxing bouts) entered hoping to keep the pressure on for a shot at the WBA / WBO champion Xander...

Miami, Florida is set to host the high-stakes Dirty Boxing Championship (DBX6) on Friday, April 10th, at the James L. Knight Center. The event will feature a clash for the interim heavyweight title between Michael Garcia and Rob "The Wolf" Perez. This unique combat sports spectacle blends boxing with MMA-style clinch...

Combat sports star Nate Diaz will face “Platinum” Mike Perry in a professional mixedmartial arts bout on Saturday, May 16th at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. Diaz-Perry is added to the inaugural Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) MMA card that will stream live globally only on Netflix at no additional cost to the platform’s...

Zuffa's proposed Unified Boxing Organization (UBO) framework under the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act (H.R. 4624) represents a significant evolution in how professional boxing could be governed at the federal level. It combines recognition of vertically integrated governance structures with baseline compensation...

In a purse bid held on Friday, the WBC conducted a purse bid for a mandatory fight between the WBC flyweight champion Ricardo Sandoval and interim champion Galal Yafai. The session was presided over by WBC Vice President Alberto León, with the participation of Matchroom Boxing and Golden Boy Promotions. On behalf of...

Gabriela Fundora TKO6 Viviana Ruiz Corredor... American starGabriela “Sweet Poison” Fundora successfully defended her undisputed world flyweight championship by stopping Colombia’s Viviana Ruiz Corredor (10-3) in the sixth round. The bout took place on  Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and goes down as...

Former BKFC heavyweight champion Mick Terrill won the inaugural BKFC United Kingdom heavyweight title on Saturday at the sold-out Utilita Arena in Newcastle, England. The North Shields, England product Terrill needed just 53 to stop the previously unbeaten Jay McFarlane, who couldn’t continue due to vision issues. Terrill...

Oscar Collazo TKO6 Jesus Haro... Oscar Collazo stopped unqualified challenger Jesus Haro to retain his WBA and WBO world 105-pound titles. After sx one-sided rounds, Haro's corner advised the referee their man was not coming out for the seventh. The Puerto Rican champion is now 14-0 and deserves further unification...

Arnold Barboza Jr. W12 Kenneth Sims Jr.... Former junior welterweight contender Arnold Barboza Jr. kicked off a new chapter in his career on Saturday. Starting his campaign as a welterweight, Barboza defeated Kenneth Sims Jr. in Anaheim, California.  Barboza dominated the contest and was declared the winner on all three...

Anthony Cacace W12 James Dickens... Anthony Cacace became a two-time junior lightweight champion at the 3Arena in Dublin. Cacace used his power and range to lift the WBA title from James Dickens by unanimous decision. Official scores were 116-112, 116-113 and 115-113. It is the second time that Cacace has won a title at 130...

Mikaela Mayer, who recently signed with Jake Paul's MVP Promotions, said goodbye to her longtime promoter Top Rank: "I want to thank my Top Rank family for an amazing nine years together. I absolutely would NOT be in this position today if it wasn’t for their guidance. They helped develop me into a three-division champion and...

Professional boxing in the United States has operated under a federal law named the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act since 2000. The Ali Act was enacted to address historical abuses in a fragmented marketplace. Its core principles emphasized: financial transparency, required promoter revenue disclosure; limitations...

Najee Lopez KO8 Manuel Gallegos... In a light heavyweight war, rising Najee Lopez stopped the relentless Manuel Gallegos (22-3-1, 19 KOs) in eight unforgettable rounds to win a blood-soaked battle at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida. Fighting live on ProBoxTV, Lopez (16-0, 13 KOs) of Ellenwood, Georgia, and...

The Honda Center in Anaheim, California, will play host today (March 14th) to an anticipated title fight in the l105-pound weight class. Puerto Rico’s Oscar “El Pupilo” Collazo (13-0) is set to step into the ring to defend his WBA and WBO minimumweight championships against American challenger Jesús Haro (13-3). Collazo,...

Yesterday, PBC announced that its March 28th pay-per-view event had a new opening bout, with Armenian heavyweight hopeful Gurgen Hovhannisyan set to fight Cesar Navarro in a ten-round showdown.  An Armenian-native now living and training in Los Angeles, Hovhannisyan (9-0, 8 KOs) has made his rise under top trainer Joe...

Fighters First Management officially announced today that its former president Jolene Mizzone has left the company to return to the promotional side of the business. CEO Adrian Clark will continue to lead the company after a banner 2025 that saw their fighters compete on the sport’s biggest stages. "You can't replace a...

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...