Middleweight Shane Mosley Jr. (22-4, 12 KOs) says he is officially  promotional free agent, and will end his successful tenure with Golden Boy Promotions. Mosley Jr., who is currently riding a five-fight winning streak, is ranked #1 by the WBA. His latest victory, a dominant ten-round unanimous decision against former...

WBA middleweight champion Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara will look to extend his three-fight KO streak when he faces off against former two-division champion Danny “Swift” Garcia in the chief supporting bout of the September 14th PBC pay-per-view show at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main event is a world...

Boxing comes to the Met Philadelphia on Saturday night, August 24th on an RDR Promotions show that marks the return of former heavyweight title contender Bryant Jennings (24-4, 14 KOs) of Philadelphia. Jennings went twevle rounds vs. Wladimir Klitschko in a failed 2015 championship bid and he holds a win over former...

Naoya “The Monster” Inoue (pictured) will make defense number two of his four-belt world super bantamweight championship against former title holder TJ Doheny on Tuesday, Sept. 3rd at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. In the co-feature, WBO bantamweight champion Yoshiki Takei (9-0, 8 KOs) will make his first title defense against...

Deon Nicholson W10 Sergio Jimenez ... In Tuscaloosa, Alabama last weekend, Deon Nicholson (21-1 with 17 KOs) won a light heavyweight bout, besting previously unbeaten Sergio Jimenez of Mexico at the Tuscaloosa Rivermarket. After ten rounds, the local man earned the unanimous decision via scores of 100-89, 99-90 and 98-91 in...

MVP today announced that 18 year-old boxer/actor Javon “Wanna” Walton (1-0-1, 1 KO) will face Erik Hanley (1-1, 1 KO) over four rounds at super featherweight on Friday, September 6th at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. The show will be available as part of the DAZN subscription package. The main event will be...

On July 31st, the IBF ordered its welterweight champion Jaron "Boots" Ennis (pictured) to begin negotiations for a mandatory title defense against IBF #1 ranked Karen Chukhadzhian. The fight would be a rematch. On August 16th, the IBF received a written certification from Christian Morales on behalf of Chukhadzhian...

UPDATE: The IBF announced that the William Scull vs. Vladimir Shishkin purse bid (for the vacant super middleweight title) scheduled for today, August 20th, has been cancelled because "all parties have reached an agreement." No further details concerning the fight have been released yet. Original story: With true world...

Mairis Briedis, who had three reigns as a cruiserweight champion and won the World Boxing Super Series tournament in 2020, has announced his retirement from boxing. Briedis leaves with a record of 28-3 and goes into the books as the best Latvian boxer ever. Briedis' only losses were certainly forgivable. His first title...

New Jersey junior middleweight Vito “White Magic” Mielnicki Jr. will return against once-beaten Romanian Daniel Buciuc in a ten-round battle on Friday, Sept. 27th at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mielnicki-Buciuc joins the ESPN+-streamed undercard headlined by the WBO welterweight title clash...

Denzel Bentley KO2 Derrick Osaze... On Saturday in London, former British middleweight Denzel Bentley champion obliterated Derrick Osaze via second-round knockout. Bentley won his second straight and improved to 20-3-1. Osaze drops to 13-2. Bentley's promoter, Frank Warren, said big fights lie ahead of Bentley: "Denzel...

Boxing is coming to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Wind Creek Event Center on Friday, September 20th as veterans Matt Conway and James Bernadin duel in an eight-round lightweight bout. In an eight-round co-feature, middleweight Euri Cedeno (9-0-1, 8 KOs) of Reading, PA takes on Aro Schwartz (23-8-1, 15 KOs) of Karlsruhe,...

“Gypsy” Jake Lindsey defeated Elvin “El Bandido” Brito via unanimous decision in the main event of BKFC Fight Night Kansas City on Friday at the sold-out Memorial Hall in Kansas City. All three judges scored the bout 49-46 in favor of Lindsey, who is now 5-1 under the BKFC banner.  Four of Lindsey's victories have come...

Floyd Mayweather will fight an exhibition against the grandson of a mafia leader on August 24th at the Mexico City Arena. Saturday will mark Mayweather's first appearance in Mexico when he faces John Gotti III for the second time. The fight poster for this show also indicates that former welterweight champion Victor...

Noted Philadelphia trainer and boxing historian Stephen "Breadman" Edwards is sold on IBF welterweight champion Jaron "Boots" Ennis (pictured) and his chance to transcend his era and go down in the sport's history. Here is a Facebook comment the Breadman made over the weekend: "I believe Terence Crawford is an all-time great....

The national federations for boxing in Taiwan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Fiji and Ecuador have become the latest five countries to join World Boxing, the new international federation which [is replacing IBA] and has been established in hopes of keeping boxing in the Olympic games. The new additions provide a significant boost to...

Christian Mbilli W10 Sergiy Derevyanchenko... Montreal’s super middleweight contender has earned a title shot. Is world champion Canelo Alvarez brave enough to give him one?  Christian “Solide” Mbilli (31-0 including the World Series of Boxing),) defeated three-time world title challenger Sergiy “The Technician”...

Guido Vianello TKO8 Arslanbek Mahkmudov ... Italian Olympian Guido Vianello (20-6-1 including the World Series of Boxing) registered the most important win of his career by upsetting [overrated] Arslanbek Mahkmudov (32-5 including the World Series of Boxing) via eighth-round TKO victory in the Quebec City co-feature on...

Osleys Iglesias TKO2 Sena Agbeko... Former IBO super middleweight champion Osleys Iglesias (12-0, 11 KOs) of Cuba remained undefeated, making quick work of Sena Agbeko (28-4, 22 KOs). Iglesias dispatched the Ghanaian veteran via TKO in the second round. He connected with a right hook that dropped him in round one, then unleashed...

Here are Boxingtalk's predictions for Saturday's ESPN show in Quebec City: Christian Mbilli (27-0) vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko (15-5) (super middleweights) … prediction: Mbilli by decision; Arslanbek Makhmudov (19-1) vs. Guido Vianello (12-2-1) (heavyweights) … prediction: Makhmudov by early to mid-round...

The WBA has scheduled a second purse bid for August 27th at its Houston offics. The WBA will conduct the bidding process to determine the promotional right for a mandatory cruiserweight championship bout between reigning WBA champion Gilberto Ramirez (pictured) and former IBF champion Yuniel Dorticos, which will take place...

WBC regular junior welterweight titleholder Alberto Puello will make his first title defense against Sandor Martin of Spain. No date or venue has been announced yet, but according to the WBC, the parties have agreed to the terms for Puello's mandatory defense of the world championship. In his most recent fight, the...

Here are the boxers' weights for the Quebec City show on ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT: Christian Mbilli 167.4 pounds vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko 167.1 (ten rounds); Referee: Michael Griffin; Judges: Efrain Lebron, Pasquale Procopio, and Steve Weisfeld Arslanbek Makhmudov 260  vs. Guido Vianello...

History making siblings, WBC / WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora (pictured) and his sister, IBF flyweight champion Gabriela Fundora, will be in attendance at the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame’s 8th Annual Awards & Induction Weekend to be held at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City from On September...

Yaroslav Mykhalushko TKO6 Serhii Shvets... Yaroslav Mykhalushko, a 23 year-old Ukrainian from Ivano-Frankivsk city defeated Serhii Shvets (8-2, 4 KOs) in a domestic welterweight title fight on August 3rd at the Kyiv Sports Palace. From the first round, Mykhalushko (7-0, 6 KOs) confidently dominated and actively attacked...

The WBA has ordered a mandatory title fight between bridgerweight (224-pound) champion Muslim Gadzhimagomedov and challenger Leon Harth of Germany.  The organization sent the statement to both parties, informing that both will have 30 days to negotiate, which will end on September 14th. Championships rule C.11 ‘vacant...

Former two-belt 122-pound champion Stephen Fulton Jr. will take on Carlos Castro in a 126-pound clash that will headline a three-fight PBC on Prime Video lineup on Saturday, September 14th from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The live-streaming action will begin at 6:00 p.m. ET/3:00 p.m. PT and be available via free access to...

Two super middleweight punchers are poised for a high-octane showdown with world title implications. Montreal-based contender Christian Mbilli will take on three-time world title challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko in the ten-round main event this Saturday, Aug. 17th at Videotron Centre in Quebec City. In the ten-round...

Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko talks candidly about the war in Ukraine and his role as mayor of Kyiv. He intends to get his message across in a new film released by Sky Documentaries on Thursday. "Klitschko: More Than a Fight" opens on August 15th on Sky Documentaries and streaming service. "I want to bring...

On August 6th, the IBF ordered its middleweight champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly to begin negotiations with Andrei Mikhailovich for Alimkhanuly's mandatory defense. On August 7th, the IBF received a written certification from Matt Rose on behalf of Mikhailovich indicating that they were no longer willing to participate...

Boxingtalk salutes former 130-pound champion Jamel Herring, an ex-Marine who provided this update on his post-boxing life: "I miss the ring and doing commentary, but I’ve been channeling my energy into something positive by working on an app that supports veterans and others facing mental health challenges with...

Welterweight Dante Kirkman (1-0), a native of Palo Alto, CA, has entered into the professional boxing world while balancing an academic career at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Kirkman, a 22 year old who made his professional debut in May of this year, is currently a senior at Stanford University....

WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball will make a first defense of his title in a Liverpool, England homecoming fight on Saturday October 5th at the M&S Bank Arena, exclusively in the UK on TNT Sports. Tickets go on sale on Thursday August 22nd at 10am from ticketquarter.co.uk. The last two fights for the 27-year-old Ball ...

Former WBA 140-pound champion Rolando “Rolly” Romero is promising to fight with an all-action style when he takes on the hard-hitting Manuel Jaimes in the opening bout of a PBC pay-per-view broadcast on Prime Video Saturday, September 14th from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “This fight is about making a statement and...

UPDATE: The IBF announced that the William Scull vs. Vladimir Shishkin purse bid (for the vacant super middleweight title) scheduled for today, August 15th, has been postponed to Tuesday, August 20th. Original story: With true world super middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez having been stripped by the IBF, the next...

After Serhii Bohachuk lost a debatable decision to Vergil Ortiz over the weekend, Bohachuk's promoter, Tom Loeffler, got into a Twitter beef with Ortiz's dad, Vergil Ortiz Sr. Here are the dueling tweets: Loeffler: Fights aren’t judged by CompuBox. Even if they were, Bohachuk dropped him in rounds one and eight and landed...

Top Rank Boxing on ESPN will be presented live this Saturday, August 17th, at 10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT on ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN+. The event takes place at Videotron Centre in Quebec City.  In the ten-round main event, unbeaten Montreal-based contender Christian “Solide” Mbilli will face three-time world title...

The great Julio César Chávez Sr., Mexican boxing's most iconic superstar, announced the launch of a reality show that will be called “Los Chávez” offering an unprecedented view of his family life, exposing on television the triumphs and controversies that marked his professional and personal life. He announced on his...

Boxingtalk salutes South African welterweight Chris Van Heerden, a former IBO champion, has announced his retirement at the age of 37. Van Heerden, who ends up with a 28-3-1 record, has not fought since 2022, but made it official on Wendesday with the following announcement: "After much reflection, I have decided to announce...

Brooklyn super middleweight Junior Younan will squares off in a battle of unbeatens vs. Luzlim Bajrami in a ten-round main event on a Star Boxing show scheduled for September 14th at The Paramount in Huntington (Long Island), New York. Younan, age 28, is 20-0-1 with 12 knockouts. He made his Star Boxing debut on May 11th with...