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Zuffa Boxing 09 – Berlanga vs Butler: Live streaming results and highlights!

Zuffa Boxing is back for their ninth show tonight, featuring the company debuts of Edgar Berlanga and Richardson Hitchins in separate bouts. Berlanga will face Canada’s Steven Butler in the de facto main event of the evening, with Hitchins taking on Ricardo Salas in Hitchins’ move to the welterweight division. The main card will also […]

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‘Time to go home’: Errol Spence announces retirement after loss to Tim Tszyu

Tim Tszyu revitalized the commercial side of his career with a win tonight in Sydney, Australia, against the returning Errol Spence Jr. Spence, a former welterweight titleholder and regular in various pound-for-pound top 10s for several years, just didn’t have it anymore, following a three-year layoff and a two-division jump in weight. The 36-year-old Spence […]

about 12 hours ago · 0 reads

Anthony Joshua knocked down twice, storms back to stop Kristian Prenga

Kristian Prenga nearly scored the upset of a lifetime. The 35-year-old Albanian-American underdog put former world champion Anthony Joshua down twice in the first round, but Joshua roared back to knock Prenga out at 2:43 of Round 2. Joshua (30-4, 27 KO) is now clear to pursue his long-awaited — and, really, clearly overdue — […]

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Errol Spence Jr vs Tim Tszyu: Live streaming results and highlights!

Errol Spence Jr and Tim Tszyu face off tonight in a 12-round middleweight main event from Australia, with Tszyu having home advantage and Spence returning to the sport after a three-year absence. Bad Left Hook will be here with live results and updates this evening, starting from 9:00 pm ET. Wil Esco will be leading […]

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Anthony Joshua vs Kristian Prenga: Live streaming results and highlights!

Anthony Joshua returns to action today in Saudi Arabia, facing Kristian Prenga in what is expected and hoped to be a final “tune-up” bout ahead of a meeting later in the year with Tyson Fury. Fury did his part on Friday, winning his easy stay-busy bout in Thailand, and now it’s up to AJ to […]

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Stephen Fulton overweight, Spence vs Tszyu loses another undercard bout

Stephen Fulton failed to make weight for his planned fight with Liam Wilson on the Spence vs Tszyu show, so now that show has lost a second featured undercard bout. Fulton (23-2, 8 KO) was contracted to fight Wilson with a 133 lb limit, north of super featherweight but south of lightweight. But it could […]

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‘I want to make this his last fight’: Tim Tszyu looking to retire Errol Spence

Errol Spence Jr is aware that there are questions about how he’ll perform on Saturday against Tim Tszyu, but is promising to return strong after a three-year absence from the boxing world. “There are definitely a lot of questions about how I’m gonna come back,” Spence said at the final press conference for the bout. […]

2 days ago · 0 reads

Tyson Fury wins in Thailand, stops Mariusz Wach: Watch highlights from the fight

There were no surprises in Tyson Fury’s tune-up bout today in Thailand, as he stopped 46-year-old Mariusz Wach after seven rounds, taking what should be the final step toward the autumn mega-fight with Anthony Joshua. Fury (36-2-1, 25 KO) seems to have had no trouble in the non-televised fight, where he was out-weighed on the […]

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Errol Spence vs Tim Tszyu Predictions: Who will win and how

Errol Spence Jr will return to boxing for his first fight in three years this weekend, when he travels to Australia to face Tim Tszyu in a 12-round, middleweight main event. Spence has been out of action so long that the guy he faced last has since won world titles in two other weight classes […]

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Takuma Inoue vs Tenshin Nasukawa rematch official for September 27th in Tokyo

As expected, WBC bantamweight champion Takuma Inoue and superstar Tenshin Nasukawa will run it back on September 27th at Tokyo’s Toyota Arena. Inoue (22-2, 5 KO) pushed past a tricky start to comfortably beat Nasukawa (8-1, 3 KO) by unanimous decision last November, snapping the younger man’s 53-fight, multi-sport winning streak in professional competition. They’ve […]

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Anthony Joshua vs Kristian Prenga Predictions: Who will win and how

Anthony Joshua returns to the ring on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, facing Albanian-American club fighter Kristian Prenga as a tune-up for a likely (?) fight with Tyson Fury later this year. Being honest up front, this is not the most interesting matchup on paper, but we’ll take a look at it anyway. Does Prenga […]

3 days ago · 0 reads

Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli gets new official date in October

Canelo Alvarez’s fight with Christian Mbilli will now be held on October 31, Canelo told Ariel Helwani today. The bout had originally been scheduled for September 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but a postponement was announced about three weeks ago, with no direct reason given. Canelo now says that “some problems in (his) family” came […]

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Jai Opetaia sues IBF, alleges wide-ranging conspiracy

Darshan Desai at Uncrowned reports that former IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia has filed suit against the sanctioning body, alleging a conspiracy on the part of the WBA, WBC, WBO, former promoter Eddie Hearn, and others to punish him for signing with Zuffa Boxing. The IBF stripped Opetaia (30-0, 23 KO) of the belt ahead […]

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Janibek Alimkhanuly moving to 168, Denzel Bentley elevated to full champion

The WBO announced that middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly, currently serving a suspension for a failed drug test, has vacated the belt ahead of a move to super middleweight. Interim champion Denzel Bentley “shall immediately succeed” Alimkhanuly at 160. Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KO) tested positive for meldonium, one of the more common PEDs in Eastern European […]

5 days ago · 0 reads

Riku Masuda, Kenshiro Teraji, Shokichi Iwata pick up wins in Tokyo

U-NEXT’s Tokyo tripleheader this morning saw Riku Masuda and Shokichi Iwata retain their titles, while Kenshiro Teraji picked up the vacant WBO super flyweight belt to become a three-weight world champion. Masuda (11-1, 9 KO) was looking to build off of last March’s dominant finish of Nonito Donaire, which earned him the secondary WBA bantamweight […]

6 days ago · 0 reads

Former title challenger Hannah Rapp killed by motorist

26-year-old featherweight contender Hannah Rapp, who challenged Tiara Brown for the WBC title last month, was struck and killed by a motorist while bicycling over the weekend. Per KBTX, authorities allege that driver Charles Eric Medina passed Rapp and her fellow cyclist, slammed on the brakes, then reversed into her. He currently faces charges of […]

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Jermall Charlo fails to get visa, pulled from Spence vs Tszyu card

Jermall Charlo’s trainwreck of a career is once again off the rails, as multiple outlets confirm that Australian authorities denied him a visa for his scheduled appearance on PBC’s July 26th Errol Spence Jr vs Tim Tszyu show. Per Dan Rafael, Charlo’s (34-0, 23 KO) “past legal issues” caused the issue. Our own John Hansen […]

9 days ago · 0 reads

‘They need Devin Haney’: Eddie Hearn says Zuffa may have to dig deep make fight with Shakur Stevenson, talks Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talk about some recent news in the boxing world, including Shakur Stevenson’s recent signing with Zuffa, and Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn, which was just formally announced. Regarding the former, Hearn says Zuffa has paid so money to Shakur that they are in an unenviable position where they need to secure […]

9 days ago · 0 reads

Vergil Ortiz Jr and Golden Boy reach settlement, Boots Ennis fight still targeted

Vergil Ortiz Jr will be remaining with Golden Boy Promotions, as the sidelined fighter has reached a settlement with the company. Ortiz, who was meant to fight Jaron “Boots” Ennis prior to his issues with his promoter, says he’s still got his sights on that bout. “I’m very grateful that Golden Boy and I were […]

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Claressa Shields still pursuing negotiations to face Lauren Price

Even though Claressa Shields made a public showing of going to Cardiff to have a face off with Lauren Price a few months ago, a fight between them still has yet to be finalized. So while Shields is currently scheduled to take on Kaye Scott next month, her promoter Dmitry Salita is still hoping to […]

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