Chris Billam-Smith W12 Lawrence Okolie... In a crazy fight in Bournemouth, England, Chris Billam-Smith won the WBO cruiserweight champion from his fellow Brit, good friend and former sparring partner Lawrence Okolie. Billam-Smith scored thee knockdowns and Okolie was penalized two points for non-stop holding. But the...

Leigh Wood W12 Mauricio Lara ... In Manchester, England, Leigh Wood regained the WBA featherweight championship, taking advantage of an immediate remath clause to earn a unanimous decision over Mauricio Lara of Mexico. Wood scored a knockdown of Lara in the second round abd went on to win by scores of 118-109 (twice) and...

Luis Alberto Lopez KO5 Mick Conlan ... IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez got a huge win in enemy territory, traveling to Belfast, Northern Ireland and knocking out local hero Mick Conlan in round five. Lopez landed a right uppercut as Conlan bent low, putting Conalan flat on his back and out. This was Lopez's...

Terri Harper W10 Ivana Habazin... Terri Harper defeated Ivana Habazin on points in Manchester, England to retain the WBA junior middleweight champion. Official scores were 98-92 and 97-93 (twice). Harper, who also held a world title at 130 pounds, is now 14-1-1.  The Croatian Habazin, who accepted the fight on very short...

The pride of the Coachella Valley, Manuel “Gucci Manny” Flores (15-0, 11 KOs), will headline the Golden Boy Fight Night on DAZN card on Thursday, June 8th at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. He will face Arizona’s Walter Santibanes (11-2, 2 KOs) in a ten-round bantamweight fight. In the co-feature, former two-division...

Nick Ball W12 Ludumo Lamati ... On the Belfast undercard, featherweights Nick Ball (18-0, 11 KOs) of England scored a twelfth-round TKO win over South Africa's Ludumo Lamati (21-1-1, 11 KOs). Lamati's six-inch height advantage posed issues for Ball in the first two rounds of the fight, but by the third and fourth, Ball...

Sam Eggington TKO5 Joe Pigford... British veteran Sam Eggington slammed the gate on previously undefeated Joe Pigford, stopping him in the fifth round. Eggington's right eye was swollen, but in round five, his combinations were snapping Pigford's he'd around every which way to the point where Pigford (20-1) was basically out...

On a very busy day on boxing, here are Boxingtalk's Saturday fight predictions: Lawrence Okolie (19-0) vs. Chris Billam-Smith (17-1) (WBO cruiserweight title) … prediction: Okolie by unanimous decision; Luis Alberto Lopez (27-2) vs. Michael Conlan (18-1) (IBF featherweight title) … prediction: Conlan by...

Former world bantamweight champion Naoya “Monster” Inoue has recovered from his hand injury and has rescheduled his ambitious move up to junior featherweight where he will challenge WBC / WBO super bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton. The new date and venue for the super bout is July 25th at Ariake Arena in Koto-Ku,...

Is world lightweight champion Devin Haney considering jumping up in weight to challenge WBC junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis for his next fight? The following Twitter exchange suggests the answer to that question is yes: Prograis: "Yo Devin Haney, come pull up to the fight in New Orleans in three weeks. I got...

Here are the weigh-in results for Saturday's ESPN+-broadcast show from the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland: IBF featherweight championship — 12 rounds Luis Alberto Lopez 125.5 pounds. vs. Michael Conlan 125.9; Nick Ball 125.9 vs. Ludumo Lamatii 125.5 (12 rounds);IBO junior lightweight title— 12...

Former four-division champion Adrian “The Problem” Broner (pictured) returns to the ring on Friday, June 9th against [little-knwon but] upset minded Bill Hutchinson, who has not lost a fight in seven years. Broner-Hutchinson will be a ten-round welterweight bout promoted by Don King headlining a pay-per-view show from...

Kevin Hayler Brown W10 Julian Smith... At the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida, Cuba's Kevin Hayler Brown went ten rounds for the first time in his career, defeating Julian Smith (6-2) of Illinois. Hayler won the junior welterweight bout by scores of 98-92 and 96-94 (twice). The winner's record improves to 5-0...

Here are the boxers' weights for Saturday night's pro-am show at the Newtown Sports and Event Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania: Paul Kroll 153.6 pounds -vs.- Eduardo Rafael Reyes 157.9; Samuel Teah 138.9 -vs.- Andrew Rodgers 137.9; Isaiah Johnson 143.5 -vs.- Marquis Hawthorne 143.1; Erron Peterson 160.9 -vs.-...

WBA 122-pound champion Mayerlin Rivas is preparing for another defense of her world title. On June 10th at the Casino Buenos Aires in Argentina. The Venezuelan Rivas (17-4-2) will face the local Nazarena Romero in the main event of the WBA's KO Drugs festival. After an arduous camp in Colombia and Mexico, Rivas is still...

Mauricio Lara has been stripped of the WBA featherweight championship after failing to make the 126-pound limit on Friday. He weighed in at 129.6 pounds. However, the Mexican will still step into the ring in Macnester, England on Saturday to face Leigh Wood. If Wood emerges with a victory, he will become the new WBA...

Yesterday, it was reported that world middleweight champion Claressa Shields will face Maricela “La Diva” Cornejo on June 3rd in Detroit because the planned opponent, Hanna Gabriels, tested positive for a banned. performance-enhancing substance. Gabriels' promoter Lou DiBella confirmed Gabriels' positive test and blamed it on...

K2 Promotions won a WBA purse bid for the promotional right to a heavyweight title between WBA / WBO / IBF champion Oleksandr Usyk of the Ukraine and WBA regular champion Daniel Dubois of the United Kingdom. The purse bid took place on Thursday, May 25th in Houston and was attended by WBA President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza...

TGB Promotions won a purse bid for the promotional rights for a WBA championship fight between super featherweight champion Hector Garcia and his mandatory challenger, Lamont Roach Jr. The purse bid was held on Thursday, May 25th in Houston. TGB Promotions, the company representing Garcia, represented by Phil Weiss at...

Texas Boxers and Brawlers in association with House of Champions are set to put on "Friday Night Fights" in San Antonio, the Alamo City.  Famed trainer Roberto Garcia will be on hand to guide his fighters this Friday night at the Smoke Sky Bar. Several undefeated fighters set to lace up the gloves. The main event will see...

Luis Alberto “El Venado” Lopez and Michael “Mick” Conlan are set to clash for Lopez's IBF featherweight world title this Saturday, May 27th, at a sold-out SSE Arena in Conlan’s hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lopez (27-2, 15 KOs) will make the first defense of his title after capturing the crown against Josh...

Cuban junior welterweight Kevin Hayler Brown (4-0 including the World Series of Boxing) and Julian Smith (6-1) of Illinois will step into the ring at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida tonight (Friday) as part of the Most Valuable Promotions and Boxlab Promotions event. Age 29, Brown is a talented boxer who has...

On Friday, June 9th, Nazarena "Capricha" Romero of Argentina will challenge the (very beatable) WBA super bantamweight division champion, Mayerlin Rivas of Venezuela, as part of the WBA's KO Drugs International Festival, to be held at the Buenos Aires Casino. “This opportunity represents everything for me,” said Romero, who...

PBC's website has posted a short announcement that the world welterweight unfication fight that everyone is waiting for has been signed. According to the website, WBA/ IBF/ WBC champion Errol Spence Jr. and WBO champion Terence Crawford will get it on for 147-pound supremacy on Saturday July 29th at the T-Mobile Arena in...

Two-division undisputed world champion Claressa Shields will now face Maricela “La Diva” Cornejo on Saturday, June 3rd at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Scheduled opponent Hanna Gabriels was originally slated to face Shields. However, based on the results of a May 2nd VADA test done as part of the WBC Clean Boxer...

King Artur and his three world titles will be on the line in Canada. Montreal resident Artur Beterbiev, the unified WBC/WBO/IBF light heavyweight champion, will defend his belts against WBC mandatory Callum “Mundo” Smith on Saturday, Aug. 19th at Videotron Centre in Québec City. Promoted by Eye of the Tiger and Top Rank,...

Wasserman Boxing announce that British junior middleweight champion Josh Kelly has signed a new multi-year deal with the company. Kelly (13-2 including the World Series of Boxing) hopes to become the next British boxer to break onto the world stage and Wasserman Boxing will be in his corner bidding to take his career goes...

Luis Alberto “El Venado” Lopez will make the first defense of his IBF featherweight world title against Michael “Mick” Conlan this Saturday, May 27th, at The SSE Arena in Conlan’s hometown of Belfast. Lopez-Conlan and the undercard bouts listed below will stream live and exclusively on ESPN+ in the U.S. beginning at 1:30...

Devin Haney tweeted that he was fined $400,000, presumably by the Nevada Athletic Commission, for shoving Vasiliy Lomachenko at Friday's weigh-in. Haney went on to win the fight by a very narrow decision. On Wednesday tweeted:"This guy is a f*cking sore loser.. Get this privilege sore loser out of boxing he makes excuses as...

Liam Smith postponed his rematch with Chris Eubank Jr. to allow for a full recovery from a nagging injury, Their first fight took place in January with Smth stopping Eubank in four. The planned July 1st show will go ahead at the AO Arena in Manchester, England with a worls championship main event. England's Savannah...

IBO super featherweight champion Anthony Cacace (20-1) is becoming a big name in Poland, having enjoyed the distinction of being called out live on national television. The man doing the calling out, Damian Wrzesinski, gets his wish this weekend when he challenges Cacace for his belt in Cace's homeotwn, Belfast...

On his journey to become a champion in his seventh pro bout, Oscar “El Pupilo” Collazo (6-0, 4 KOs) hosted a media workout last week at Wolf Elite Boxing in his native Puerto Rico. Collazo will challenge current WBO minimumweight champion Melvin “Gringo” Jerusalem (20-2, 12 KOs) of Santos City, Philippines on DAZN. If...

Joseph Parker TKO1 Faiga Opelu.... In Melbourne, Australia, former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker got a very easy win against undersized heavyweight Faiga Opelu. Parker enjoyed a 26-pound advantage over the 214-pound Opelu and stopped him in the first round. WBC heavyweght champion Tyson Fury made the trip to Australia...

Teddy Atlas, the Hall of Fame boxing analyst, trainer, podcast host, and philanthropist, has seen a lot throughout his career in boxing…and he has seen enough.  Today, on The Fight with Teddy Atlas, the podcast he co-hosts with Ken Rideout, Atlas called for the establishment of a federal boxing commission and posted an...

Liam Dillon and Qais Ashfaq will clash for the vacant British super featherweight crown at the Vertu Motors Arena, on Saturday June 24th in Newcastle, England as part of the bumper show headlined by Josh Kelly against Argentinean visitor Gabriel Corzo. The Wasserman Boxing event will be broadcast by DAZN. The British title...

Super flyweight John “Scrappy” Ramirez (11-0, 8 KOs) returns to action this Saturday night against Fernando “Leoncito” Diaz (12-3-1, 4 KOs) in a ten-round match to open the DAZN stream, starting at 9 pm. ET / 6 p.m. PT, live from Fantasy Spring Resort Casino in Indio, California. The 26 year-old Ramirez, fighting out of...

Junior middleweights Marlon Harrington and Gheith Karim will clash on June 3rd at the Little Ceasars Arena in Detroit. Headlining that night wil be world middleweight champion Claressa Shields defending her titles against Costa Rica´s Hanna Gabriels, a former multi-division champion. A hard-punching Detroit native...

Mea Motu W10 Tania Walters... Boxingtalk belatedly recognizes the accomplishment of undefeated New Zealand super bantamweight Mea Motu, who back in April took a unanimous decision victory over Tania Walters (4-2) of Canada to become the IBO women's super bantamweight champion. Motu, age 33, is already 16-0 despite turning pro...

The Inaugural Shelito’s Way All-Female Tournament, presented by retired professional boxer Shelly “Shelito’s Way” Vincent (pictured) has announced an amateur boxing tournament for females only on July 1st and 2nd at Whaling City Athletic Club in New London, Connecticut. The tournament, sanctioned by USA Boxing, is open...

Junior middleweight Xander Zayas (15-0, 10 KOs) will have an extra source of motivation for his upcoming fight. The 20-year old will fight Ronald “Diablo” Cruz (18-2-1, 12 KOs) on Saturday, June 10th for the second annual Miguel Cotto Award, which is presented by Top Rank and Madison Square Garden Entertainment. The...