The brackets have been announced for the World Boxing Challenge Grand Prix Usti Nad Labem (Czech Republic). The competition begins today (Wednesday) with two of Team USA’s eleven athletes in action on the opening day. Jajaira Gonzalez (women’s lightweight) and Rene Camacho (men’s welterweight) will start things off for...

UPDATE: The IBF has yet again postponed a purse bid for a proposed heavyweight elimination bout between Frank Sanchez and Filip Hrgovic.  Already delayed from May 15th to May 22nd and again until June 10th, the new scheduled date for the auction process is now June 17th. PRIOR COVERAGE: May 22, 2025: The IBF has again postponed...

 The IBF received official notification on June 5th that Vasily Lomachenko was retiring from the sport of boxing, thereby relinquishing his title as IBF lightweight world champion. The IBF is proud and honored to count Mr. Lomachenko among its roster of former champions. His achievements in the ring, as both a professional...

A wave of hometown pride swept through Guayabitos, Nayarit, Mexico, as Armando “Toro” Rezendiz (16-2, 11 KOs) returned home following his career-changing win over Caleb “Sweethands” Plant to capture the WBA interim super middleweight title. In a packed press conference followed by a parade attended by family, friends, fans,...

The WBC and Commonwealth Boxing Council are reporting that former European and British super middleweight champion James Cook MBE has lost his battle with cancer. According to Wikipedia, Cook was 66 year old. Cook turned pro in 1982 and won the British super middleweight title in 1990 away from home against Belfast's...

Star Boxing hosted a live press conference at Empire Harley Davidson in New Rochelle, New York to previewing this Saturday’s fight card at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. The card’s featured contestants—Rajon “Picasso” Chance and undefeated Yan Carlos “El Baka” Perez —stood face-to-face in a tense...

Kansas super middleweight Marco “El Tiburon” Romero (7-0, 6 KOs) started his pro career a year ago on Father’s Day Weekend in Portland, Maine, and on Saturday, he returns for his third fight in The Forest City. Despite the Cross Insurance Arena being more than 1,500 miles from his home in Olathe, Kansas, the 19-year old...

David “Redneck” Mundell made history on Friday by defending his Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) middleweight title for the record fourth time with a dominant unanimous decision over Donald Sanchez at the sold-out Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mundell entered fight night atop the media’s...

Netflix announced that the highly anticipated world super middleweight championship bout between defending champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and undefeated multi-dvision champion Terence "Bud" Crawford will take place on September 13th and will be shown on the Netflix streaming service. This was Netflix's tweet: "Two...

World junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez posted a social media video of himself wearing a PBC baseball hat. Lopez did not speak in the video, but there was a graphic on the video reading "8.16" an apparent reference to the tentative date for a big PBC show that will hopefully feature Tank Davis-Lamont Roach II....

Junto Nakatani TKO6 Ryosuke Nishida ... Junto “Big Bang” Nakatani demonstrated his dominance in the 118-pound weight class by defeating Ryosuke Nishida on Sunday at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum. The win gave Nakatani the IBF bantamweight crown, unifying it with the WBC version he already owned. From the early rounds, Nakatani...

Labinot Xhoxhaj W12 Mourad Aliev... The Universum Gym in Hamburg, Germany, witnessed Labinot Xhoxhaj defeat fromer French Olympian and previouisly undefeated Mourad Aliev over twelve rounds by unanimous decision. Xhoxhaj, who is listed as 6'0" tall compared to 6'7" for Aliev, successfully defended the European...

Mike Pérez TKO9 Steven Ward... Former heavyweight and cruiserweight contender Mike “The Rebel” Pérez, now 39 years old, took a step towards returning to the world level on Saturday night in Ipswich, England. Reminding the boxing world that he’s still a force in the cruiserweight division. The Cuban veteran broke down...

Josh Kelly KO1 Flavius Biea... British junior middleweight Josh Kelly stopped Flavius Biea of Romania inside the opening round at Utilita Arena Newcastle to deliver a two-minute victory to his fans. Kelly threw a left hook that had Biea on his knees. Biea (24-2) started to rise but sunk to all fours as the referee reached the...

Bryce Mills KO1 Aaron Aponte... Every so often--but not often enough--something happens to make me fall in love all over again with the sometimes wonderful, sometimes wretched world of professional boxing. That's what happened to me last Friday night at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, when a straight right hand from...

World title action returns to the Big Apple when IBF 140-pound champion Richardson Hitchins (pictured) attempts to defend his belt against former world lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr. After beating Liam Paro to win the IBF  belt in December, Hitchins (19-0) will be looking to add another win over an Australian to...

WBO president Gustavo Olivieri explained his organization's procedure that will be followed to determine a new champion. In particular, the WBO lightweight (135 pounds) title is vacant because Keyshawn Davis failed to make weight for his scheduled title defense last weekend. According to Oilivieri, here are the WBO...

CES Boxing celebrates Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Paz [a/k/a Vinny Pazienza] on his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 7th in Canastota, New York.  A two-division champion, Paz's induction marks a key milestone in his storied career, highlighting his enduring influence and...

Fabio Wardley TKO10 Justis Huni... Fabio Wardley marked the occasion of fighting in the centre circle of Portman Road - home of his beloved Ipswich Town - by becoming the WBA interim heavyweight title holder. The 30-year old is now undefeated in 20 professional fights following a come-from-behind tenth-round destruction...

Abdullah Mason TKO5 Jeremia Nakathila... Abdullah Mason, age 21, became a main event fighter by default on Friday after Keyshawn Davis failed to make weight and saw his fight cancelled. This last-minute development allowed Mason, a lightweight from Cleveland to make his headlining debut. He delivered a dominant...

Bonginkosi Nhlapo W10 Nelson Mbhele ... Bonginkosi Nhlapo narrowly defeated fellow South African Nelson Mbhele on Saturday night. The South African light heavyweights headlined a show at Event City in Middelburg, in South Africa´s Mpumalanga province, promoted by Rise Boxing Promotions. It was an evenly contested bout,...

King's Promotions has postponed the June 19th fight card at The Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It will be rescheduled for Friday, September 5th. The card was postponed due to injuries suffered by fighters that were scheduled for the card. "Sometimes these things happen in boxing, but we already have...

Mickey Bey TKO3 Oscar Escandon... Former lightweight champion Mickey “Time Machine” Bey reasserted his presence in the division with a TKO wing over Oscar Escandon at 2:03 of round three in the main event from the Newtown Sports & Events Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia. Bey (26-3-1, 14 KOs) a native...

Irish junior middleweight Callum “King” Walsh will defend his undefeated records against Elias “Latin Kid” Espadas on June 26th at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. Walsh picked up a big win in 2024 when he knocked out Dauren Yeleussinov in the ninth round. Since then, he's rung up three early KOs over...

Brandon Moore W5 Stanley Wright... Rising American heavyweight Brandon Moore (18-1, 10 KOs) triumphed in the main event of “Hall of Fame Fight Night,” live on DAZN at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Moore faced undefeated Stanley Wright (14-1, 11 KOs). A member of Salita Promotions’ heavyweight roster,...

Franchon Crews-Dezurn W10 Citlali Ortiz... In her promotional debut with Salita Promotions, Franchón Crews-Dezurn (10-2, 2 KOs) put her unified super middleweight championship on the line against Citlalli Ortiz (4-2, 1 KO) in the Verona, New York's Turning Stone Casino. Representing Mexico in the 2024 Olympic Games, Ortiz...

Wendy Toussaint W10 Joseph Hicks... On a night built to celebrate boxing greatness during the International Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Weekend, junior middleweight Wendy Toussaint carved his own personal laegacy, scoring an upset over previously undefeated Joseph Hicks Jr. The bout took place last night (June 6) at the...

The Keyshawn Davis-Edwin De Los Santos fight has been canceled after Davis failed to make weight earlier today. Davis has been stripped of the WBO lightweight world title. Tomorrow’s card at Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia, will proceed with a new main event, the ten-round lightweight showdown between the unbeaten...

With the Keyshawn Davis vs. Edwin De Los Santos main event canceled after Davis failed to make weight, here are the boxers' weights for Top Rank's ESPN show in Norfolk, Virginia: Abdullah Mason 134.5 pounds -vs.- Jeremia Nakathila 134.8 (ten rounds); Kelvin Davis 140  -vs.- Nahir Albright 139  (ten rounds);  Tiger...

Keyshawn Davis (13-0, 9 KOs) returns to Norfolk’s Scope Arena this Saturday, June 7th to defend his WBO lightweight title against heavy-hitting Dominican Edwin De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KOs). Davis captured the crown in February with a fourth-round stoppage of Denys Berinchyk. Three months earlier, he electrified the...

Salita Promotions will present a night of fights on today (Friday, June 6th) at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, as part of International Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Weekend. "Hall of Fame Fight Night," will be broadcast live worldwide on DAZN. The event is headlined by heavyweight Brandon Moore (17-1,...

Hall of Fame boxing legend Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and WBC welterweight champion Mario “El Azteca” Barrios squared off for the press earlier this week in order to preview their showdown taking place Saturday, July 19th on a PBC pay-per-view event on Prime Video at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Here is what...

Former 122-pound champion Brandon Figueroa (25-2-1) will face perennial contender Joet Gonzalez (27-4) on July 19th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Figueroa, who was also "e-mailed" the WBC championship by getting upgraded from interim titlist, is coming off a loss to Stephen Fulton earlier this year....

Bantamweight Eros Correa (15-1, 9 KOs) of San Jose, California, is set for one of the biggest fights of his career as he squares off against Michael Angeletti (13-0, 8 KOs) of Spring, Texas. The ten-round bout is part of the ProBox TV event, taking place on Saturday, June 7th at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San...

Boxlab Promotions’ newly signed middleweight Sebastian Juarez (7-0, 5 KOs) of Brownsville, Texas, takes on hard-hitting Shaquille Cameron (7-4, 6 KOs) from Gadsden, Alabama in a scheduled six-round bout. The fight is part of the action-packed Most Valuable Prospects 13 card promoted by MVP, set for Saturday, June 7th, at...

Connecticut's Parker Porter is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the BKFC (bare-knuckle) heavyweight division. The West Hartford, CT big man needed just 44 seconds to steamroll fellow Ultimate Fighting Championship vet Chase Gormley in February.  He makes his return to the squared circle against Dillon Cleckler...

Two-time Olympic gold medal winner, and multiple weight class pro champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has announced his retirement from boxing. Lomachenko leaves the sport as the reigning IBF lightweight champion. The announcement came in a video posted on social media by Ring Magazine. Lomachenko's record is listed as 18-3...

As great as his career was, Nonito Donaire has not won a fight since 2021. He's coming back at age 42 next week to face a decent opponent, former flyweight title challenger Andres Campos, who has never fought at bantamweight. Unfortunately, the WBA decided to sanction Donaire-Campos for its interim bantamweight championship,...

Top Rank Boxing returns to The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday, July 26th. In the main event, Puerto Rico's Xander Zayas will take on upset-minded Mexican puncher Jorge Garcia for the vacant WBO junior middleweight championship. In the co‑feature, Brooklyn native Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington...

Shocking news is being reported by the Kyodo news agency in Japan... former four-division champion Kosei Tanaka has unexpectedly retired due to vision issues in both eyes. The 29-year old held a press conference in which he admitted that he had been fighting with retinal detachment in recent years. He said he underwent...