Universally respected combat sports writer Thomas Gerbasi passed away suddenly earlier this week. His death came just days after the publication of his latest book, The 100 Greatest Fighters. Fellow journalist Kevin Iole wrote this tribute to Gerbasi: "I am devastated by the unexpected passing of my long-time friend...

At a press conference for his rematch vs. Conor Benn, Chris Eubank Jr. blasts  the British boxing commission and its General Secretary: "I want to talk about the British Boxing Board of Control and more specifically, a man by the name of Robert Smith. This is the big boss behind the scenes, the head honcho. The man with all...

WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora will look to make another huge statement in the loaded 154-pound division when he takes on former unified welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman on a PBC pay-per-view on Prime Video taking place Saturday, October 25th at the MGM Grand Garden...

WBC president Mauricio Sulaimán announced that Chantelle Cameron will face Sandy Ryan for the newly vacated WBC 140-pound championship. The title was vacted yesterday when world champion Katie Taylor was transferred to the WBC's "emeritus champion" or "champion  in recess" designation. “She [Taylor] let us know that she...

Waterford, Connecticut native Elizabeth Mueller, who won the International Women’s Boxing Federation world lightweight title in 2001, heads the 2025 induction class for the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame. Matt Godfrey, Scott Pemberton, Peter Manfredo Sr., Joe Cusano and Steve Epstein will join Mueller as part of the class...

Lightweight knockout artist Scooter Davis(8-0, 8 KOs), the latest talent to emerge from Washington, D.C., has signed a long-term promotional contract with Top Rank. The 23-year old trains with Barry Hunter at the Headbangers Boxing Gym, a capital city landmark that has developed generations of world champions and...

Lightweight Kaipo Gallegos (9-0-1, 7 KOs) steps into the ring for an eight-round showdown against Puerto Rican veteran Alberto Mercado (17-8-1, 4 KOs) on Friday, September 19th at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. The bout is part of Boxlab Promotions’ “Night of Champions” series and will be streamed live on...

According to WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman, the WBC Board of Governors unanimously voted in favor of appointing Katie Taylor to WBC emeritus champion status. Taylor, the world champion at 140 pounds, last fought in April, defeating multi-divison champion Amanda Serrano for the third time. The WBC's move allows the...

UPDATE: According to a Sky Sports social media post, Efe Ajagba has withdrawn from the IBF elimination process, opening the door for rising heavyweight Moses Itauma to join the mix for an IBF eliminator against Frank Sanchez. It remains unknown if Sanchez would agree to an Itauma fight. On August 26th, Sampson Lewkowicz's...

Former two-division champion Danny "Swift" Garcia announced that his return to the ring will stream exclusively on Millions.co with a pay-per-view broadcast on Saturday, October 18th from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The broadcast can be purchased for $50 here. Titled "Farewell to Brooklyn," the event marks Garcia's final...

Azerbaijani heavyweight Taryel Jafarov will take on Venezuela's Klismans Bolano on September 27th in Fethiye, Turkiye. The fight serves as the chief support to the Hasan Kubilay Alcu vs. Luciano Falcao cruiserweight main event, which headlines the card promoted by TJ Boxing Promotions. Jafarov (39-8 with 37 KOs) turned pro...

Netflix reports that the broadcast of Terence Crawford's win over Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on Sautrday was "the most-viewed men’s championship boxing match this century. It also broke Allegiant Stadium’s attendance records with 70,482 visitors at the Las Vegas event... In an unforgettable night at Allegiant Stadium this...

Salita Promotions and heavyweight boxer Jermaine Franklin have mutually agreed to end a promotional agreement effective immediately. Franklin is fresh off last weekend's career rejuvenating win over two-time Olympic medal winner Ivan Dychko. Dmitriy Salita, president of Salita Promotions, said, "at Salita Promotions, we...

Junior welterweight Kevin Brown (7-0, 3 KOs) returns to the ring on Friday, September 19th at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida on a Boxlab Promotions show that will be streamed live on BXNGTV. Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com. The Cuban Brown will face Mexico's Juan Meza Angulo (9-2, 6 KOs) in a...

Turki Alalshikh, who bankrolled last weekend's Terence Crawford vs, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez world super middleweight championship fight, paid a visit to the now ex-champion, Alvarez, and tweeted the followjng: "I just visited the champ in his place. He will soon start his vacation with his family. He has two fights left...

Boxing Insider Promotions returns to Sony Hall in Times Square on Friday, September 19th with lightweight Kurt Scoby headlining and heavyweight Josh Popper making his New York City debut in the revived "Broadway Boxing" series. Scoby (17-1) returns in the main event against Alex Martin (19-8), who is coming off a big win...

Tiara “Dark Menace” Brown will defend her WBC featherweight championship on September 20th. Her opponent will be Emma “Valkyria” Gongora of France in a bout to be held at the Bayou Music Center in Houston as the co-feature of the OTX 16 event. Brown won the title earlier this year after defeating Skye Nicholson by...

Heavyweight Kingsley “The Black Lion” Ibeh (15-2-1, 13 KOs) will ride a ten-fight win streak into this Saturday night’s (Sept. 20th) show presented by Toro Promotions at Gimnasio Nacional Adolfo Pineda in San Salvador, the capital and largest city in El Salvador. te and organize the first international pro boxing event in...

Sunday was the final day of action at the World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool, England. Kazakhstan’s Aibek Oralbay defeat Jahhongir Zokirov of Uzbekistan in the 520th and final bout of the competition to win the super-heavyweight gold medal and ensure his country topped the final medal table with seven golds,...

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez issued this social media comment after his loss to Terence Crawford: "I feel very proud of everything I've achieved so far; we always want to win, but I accept this defeat with humility and learning. I am very grateful to my team for all the sacrifices we've made together over all these years. I already...

Yoseline Perez concluded her run at the 2025 World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England, with a silver medal. Perez earned the honor after narrowly falling 3-2 to Chinese Taipei’s Hsiao-Wen Huang in the woen's bantamweight title match on Sunday inside M&S Bank Arena. The Houston native concluded the event as the...

Japanese boxer Umi Ishikawa is the WBC female interim minimumweight champion. She achieved this feat on May 3, 2024, in Pathum Thani, Thailand, by defeating Thailand’s Sothita Sitthichai with a second-round knockout. Born on March 21, 1984, in Tokyo, Ishikawa is currently 41 years old, an uncommon age to shine in the...

SEPT. 14, 2024: A weekend that was a celebration for boxing ended in tragedy with the announcement of the death of Ricky Hatton at age 46. Hatton was a two-division champion and an iconic and beloved figure in British sport. He was a working class hero in the city of Manchester, England and his 2005 victory over Kostya Tszyu...

Terence Crawford W12 Canelo Álvarez ...  On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Terence Crawford made boxing history, becoming an undefeated five-division champion by defeating Saul "Canelo" Álvarez in a battle of future Hall of Famers. Moving up two weight divisionssincehis last fight, Crawford won by unanimous decision in front of...

Naoya Inoue W12 Murodjon Akhmadaliev...  World 122-pound champion Naoya Inoue was supposed to be given the toughest test of his super bantamweight reign. In the end, it was just another dominant night at the office. Inoue defended his undisputed crown Sunday with a one-sided unanimous decision over former unified champion...

Christian Medina TKO4 Yoshiki Takei ... In Nagoya Japan, Mexico's Christian Medina (26-4, 19 KOs) dethroned Yoshiki Takei (11-1, 9 KOs) by fourth-round TKO to win the WBO bantamweight title. Medina dropped Takei in the opening round, then finished him off with a flurry of uppercuts in the fourth to pull off the major upset....

Christian Mbilli D10 Lester Martinez... In an absolute thriller of a fight between undefeated super middleweights, Christian Mbilli (pictured) and Lester Martinez (19-0-1, 16 KOs) battled to a split draw after ten action-packed rounds. Although he does not get the hype he deserves, Mbilli, a former French Olympian now fighting...

Callum Walsh W10 Fernando Vargas Jr. ... Irish junior middleweight Callum Walsh (15-0, 11 KOs) remained unbeaten with a unanimous decision victory over Fernando Vargas Jr. (17-1, 15 KOs). After ten rounds, Walsh prevailed on the scorecards by tallies of 99-91 (twice) and 100-90. However, the fight was more competitive than...

 Jermaine Franklin W10 Ivan Dychko... In a heavyweight fight where neither man was conditioned to fight ten hard rounds, Michigan's Jermaine Franklin defeated ex-Olympic medal winner Ivan Dychko by unanimous decision at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium. Dychko did well early, but tired over the second half of the fight. Dychko...

In a bit of a surprise, Cuban born Raiko Santana (13-4, 7 KOs) stopped Steven Nelson in the first round of a light heavyweight bout. Nelson is from Nebraska and a gym-mate of Terence Crawford, but he falls to 20-2 with 16 KOs... Saudia Arabia's Mohammed Alakel (5-0), a protege of Turki Alalshikh, made a successful...

Yoseline Perez continued her run at the 2025 World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England, earning a unanimous decision over Italy’s Sirine Charaabi on Saturday. With this win, Perez advances to the bantamweight final against Chinese Taipei’s Hsiao-Wen Huang on Sunday, the last day of competition. Perez outmaneuvered...

Here are the weigh-in results for the big show in Nagoya, Japan featuring world 122-poud champion Naoya Inoue vs. former two-belt champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev. The action can be viewed at 4 a.m. ET/1 a.m. PT live on Top Rank's Facebook Channel in the U.S., UK & The Philippines.Undisputed world super bantamweight championship...

When two pound-for-pound kings step into the ring, history doesn’t wait — it swings. On one side: the undisputed face of Mexican boxing. On the other: an undefeated American technician with something to prove. Tonight, Canelo Álvarez and Terence Crawford meet in a once-in-a-generation showdown, streaming live only on...

This wasn’t just another weigh-in — it’s the moment that sets the stage for one of boxing’s biggest events in decades. Saul "Canelo" Álvarez is a four-division world champion and the first fighter in history to unify all four major titles at super middleweight. At 35, he remains one of the sport’s most dominant stars,...

Anthony Olascuaga TKO2 Juan Carlos Camacho... Anthony Olascuaga retained his WBO flyweight title with a second-round stoppage over Juan Carlos Camacho in Las Vegas. Olascuaga punished Martinez against the ropes until the referee intervened. The fight was the headline attraction in The Ring’s new series, The Underdog....

The highly anticipated undisputed world super bantamweight championship showdown between reigning king Naoya Inoue and former two-belt champion Murodjon “MJ” Akhmadaliev, taking place Sunday morning (US time), Sept. 14th at IG Arena in Nagoya, Japan will stream live and exclusively in the U.S. and UK on the Top Rank...

The opening press conference took place to promote next month's the heavyweight showdown between WBO interim champion Joseph Parker and his WBA counterpart, Fabio Wardley. The fight is set to happen at the 02 London on Saturday October 25th. A shot at world champion Oleksandr Usyk is the prize for the winner, with both...

On September 13th, the Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland will host a pivotal showdown on the European circuit, as undefeated Irishman Caoimhin “Black Thunder” Agyarko (17-0, 7 KOs) takes on Britain’s Ishmael “The Black Panther” Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) in a junior middleweight contest....

Takeshi Ishii W10 Jake Amparo ... Takeshi Ishii successfully defended his OPBF 105-pound title at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, defeating Jake Amparo of the Philippines by unanimous decision. The official scorecards read 98-91 (twice) and 99-90. From the opening bell, Ishii (11-1) set the pace, puncturing with hard left hooks to...

IBO junior welterweight champion Adam Azim has signed a new contract with Boxxer, committing his future to the next-generation boxing promotion. The British Azim first signed with Boxxer in 2021, just one fight into his professional career. Since then, the electrifying 23-year old has established himself as one of the...