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With Agit Kabayel set to defend his interim WBC heavyweight title against Damian Knyba this weekend in Germany, DAZN takes fans behind the scenes of his training camp in the time leading up to the fight. “Motivation is good but I think in one month, two months — the motivation is not for a long […]
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Oleksandr Usyk was on hand for Naoya Inoue’s latest win on Night of the Samurai in recent days, and immediately following he spoke to Mike Coppinger on behalf of Ring TV to discuss his future in the sport of boxing as he continues to look towards putting together a fight against former champion Deontay Wilder. […]
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Tuesday, January 6th CountryBox247.com, 7:00 pm ET, CountryBox: Where Music Meets Boxing. From The Texas Troubadour Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. And if you didn’t already know, you’d better learn, as they seem to be rebranding it “The Troubadour.” It’ll forever be The Texas Troubadour Theatre for CountryBox: Where Music Meets Boxing originalists, though. All six […]
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In a social media message co-posted by Tyson Fury and Ring Magazine, Fury has publicly announced that he will return to the ring to continue his career. Fury had made his most recent retirement announcement after losing back-to-back decisions against Oleksandr Usyk in 2024, still believing he was hard done by on the scorecards — […]
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Amanda Serrano successfully defended her WBA and WBO featherweight titles, beating a game Reina Tellez by unanimous decision over 10, three-minute rounds, in front of a lively crowd in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Serrano (48-4-1, 31 KO) was chasing Christy Martin’s KO mark of 32, but didn’t quite get there, though she did press hard […]
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Holly Holm attempted to win her first boxing world title in over a decade tonight, and came up short, losing to WBA lightweight champ Stephanie Han by technical decision. The bout was stopped in the seventh round due to Han (12-0, 3 KO) suffering a cut on an accidental clash of heads. The cut maybe […]
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Amanda Serrano will defend her pair of featherweight world titles and Holly Holm will look to win her first boxing title in over a decade tonight in separate bouts from Puerto Rico. Serrano will be putting her WBA and WBO belts on the line against Reina Tellez, while Holm is challenging WBA lightweight titlist Stephanie […]
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Amanda Serrano will return to defend her WBA and WBO featherweight titles this Saturday, but her homecoming bout in San Juan has seen a fair few issues in the run-up. First, originally scheduled opponent Erika Cruz was taken out of the bout two weeks ago after an “atypical” drug test finding. Serrano vs Cruz was […]
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With Hayato Tsutsumi nursing an eye injury, newly minted WBA super featherweight champion Jazza Dickens will instead make his inaugural defense against former IBF titlist Anthony Cacace on March 14th in Dublin, Ireland. Dickens (36-5, 15 KO) is in career-best form at 34 years old, starting 2025 with an upset of Zelfa Barrett in the […]
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So long and good riddance to that Berlanga fight, apparently. Fernando Sabatini reports that the WBA has officially elevated former interim super middleweight champion Jose Armando Resendiz to replace the departing Terence Crawford, ordering “Toro” to take on mandatory challenger Bektemir Melikuziev in the process. Resendiz (16-2, 11 KO), a longtime middleweight whose best prior […]
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With Keyshawn Davis set to return from his layoff in a January 31 fight against Jamaine Ortiz on the undercard of Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson, he talks to Ring Magazine’s panel about what this fight means to him and where he’s looking to take his career going forward. Here are some excerpts of what […]
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Four-division champion Kazuto Ioka snapped a two-fight losing streak and secured his first win since 2023 with a fourth-round knockout of Maikel Ordosgoitti in his bantamweight debut. Ioka (32-4-1, 17 KO), who dropped back-to-back bouts against Fernando Martinez to end his super flyweight title reign, used his legendary body attack to break Ordosgoitti (15-2, 14 […]
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Eye of the Tiger Management’s Camille Estephan claims that the IBF has ordered Canelo Alvarez to face top contender Osleys Iglesias for the super middleweight title Terence Crawford left behind. Jake Donovan clarifies that the IBF “has submitted invitations to enter negotiations,” giving the pair three days to accept or decline. As a finer mind […]
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Former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is most recently coming off a knockout win over Jake Paul in a Netflix special event that would presumably lead into a showdown with Tyson Fury in the coming year, but it’s now been reported by ESPN that Joshua was involved in car crash in Nigeria today where he […]
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Saturday, January 3rd DAZN, 8:00 pm ET, Most Valuable Promotions. From San Juan, Puerto Rico. Main event features Amanda Serrano defending her unified WBO and WBA featherweight titles against Reina Tellez, in what MVP are promoting as 10 scheduled three-minute rounds. HOWEVER, the last time Serrano was scheduled to headline an MVP show in Puerto […]
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IBF flyweight champion Masamichi Yabuki turned in another standout performance in Aichi this morning, handing the ultra-tough Felix Alvarado his first stoppage loss in nearly 50 pro fights. Though known for his offense, Yabuki (19-4, 18 KO) reportedly overpowered Alvarado (42-5, 35 KO) off the back foot before sending the Nicaraguan to the mat with […]
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Naoya Inoue is still the undisputed super bantamweight world champion, dominating his fight with Alan Picasso to win by unanimous decision in Riyadh. Inoue improves to 32-0 (27 KO), and an incredible 27-0 in world title bouts in his career. The Japanese star likely now has a date set with countryman Junto Nakatani, who was […]
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Junto Nakatani didn’t have an easy time in his move up to 122 lbs, but he pulled out the win in a tremendous fight with Sebastian Hernandez, and set up a likely 2026 clash with Naoya Inoue. Nakatani started sharp and crisp in the bout, but after two rounds, the underdog Mexican warrior dug in, […]
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The full undercard has been announced for the Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson “Ring 6” card set to take place on January 31 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Here’s a rundown of the fights currently set. You’ll be able to tell fairly quickly that this is a Top Rank-heavy card, and is officially co-promoted […]
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Naoya Inoue defends his undisputed world championship against Alan Picasso at “Night of the Samurai” in Riyadh today. The fight will headline a full card of action in Saudi Arabia, which also features Junto Nakatani moving up to the same division as Inoue, and is meant to set up a mega-fight between the two in […]
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“The Monster” is back. Naoya Inoue returns to the ring on Saturday, headlining a Riyadh card titled “The Night of the Samurai,” where the Japanese superstar and pound-for-pound contender defends his undisputed super bantamweight world championship against Alan Picasso. The show will stream live on DAZN on December 27, starting at 4:00 am ET, and […]
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Shakur Stevenson takes some time to discuss his upcoming junior welterweight title fight with Teofimo Lopez, how it came together, and why he believes this is going to be his true coming out party. Shakur is already considered one of the most talented technical boxers in the sport right now, but looks to bolster his […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
If Mario Barrios vs Ryan Garcia didn’t satisfy your craving for awful title fights, have I got some good news for you. Per Julius Julianis, newly elevated WBA super middleweight champion Jose Armando Resendiz will make his inaugural defense against Edgar Berlanga on that same February 21st undercard. The WBA has been Up To its […]
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The post-Crawford reconstruction of the super middleweight division is slowly getting into gear, as the WBO has ordered Hamzah Sheeraz to face Diego Pacheco for their now-vacant title. The pair have 20 days to negotiate. It’s an appealing fight between two of the division’s taller members, but odds are it’s dead in the water. Sheeraz […]
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Jake Paul survived for longer than most expected in his weekend fight against Anthony Joshua, and even though the fight came to its invariable conclusion in the sixth round when Joshua landed a right hand across Paul’s jaw that would break it in multiple places, Paul is still keeping a positive attitude about his performance […]
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