Year: 2022

The one-sided nature of their first fight and direct competition from a boxing pay-per-view show apparently impacted viewership of the Devin Haney-George Kambosos Jr. rematch Saturday night on ESPN. Nielsen Media Research revealed that their second 135-pound championship match drew an average audience of 935,000. Viewership peaked at 970,000 for a main event that ended approximately five minutes before Deontay ...

Dillian Whyte’s return to the ring from his knockout defeat to Tyson Fury has been scheduled for November 26 in London. BoxingScene.com has confirmed multiple reports out of the United Kingdom that stated England’s Whyte will meet American Jermaine Franklin in a 12-round fight that night. DAZN is expected to stream Whyte-Franklin as a main event from OVO Arena Wembley. ...

Alycia Baumgardner doesn't believe Mikaela Mayer will ever get over her loss. Last Saturday night in front of a sell-out crowd at the O2 Arena in London, Baumgardner defeated Mayer over 10 rounds via close split decision to add Mayer’s WBO and IBF junior lightweight titles to her existing WBC and IBO versions. The fight was the chief support to ...

Junior welterweight contender Jack Catterall is ready for the opportunity to avenge his controversial twelve round split decision loss to Josh Taylor, which took place back in February. There was a public outcry in the aftermath. Taylor suffered the first knockdown of his career and had a lot of trouble with the tricky boxing style of Catterall. The two fighters ...

Competing in the squared circle appeared to be a thing of the past for Abner Mares. Following a fairly invasive surgery to repair a detached retina in 2018, the likelihood of the California resident returning to the ring was slim to none. However, as his desire to perform underneath the bright lights intensified, Mares impetuously dusted off his pugilistic gloves ...

An all-Filipino clash is in store to determine the next mandatory challenger to the IBF junior flyweight title. Unbeaten contenders Mark Vicelles and Regie Suganob have both accepted an invitation to enter negotiations for a final IBF title eliminator, an IBF spokesperson confirmed to BoxingScene.com on Tuesday. A negotiation period has been ordered, with the two sides given until November ...

Undefeated Icelandic heavyweight Kolbeinn “The Ice Bear” Kristinsson roared back to life last Saturday with a second-round demolition of South American former world title challenger Santander Silgado Gelez at the Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida. Appearing on a card presented by promoter Joseph Samara, Kristinsson moved his record to 13-0, 7 KOs by lowering the boom on Gelez (31-14, ...

Peter McGrail will have “unfinished business” on his mind when he fights on the undercard of a monster show in Japan this December. The gifted super bantamweight has secured a place on the undercard of the undisputed world bantamweight title showdown between Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler in Tokyo. McGrail returns to Japan on December 13 ready to draw a ...

Women’s boxing delivered two events in 2022 that had all the ingredients one could ask for. In Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano, and then this past weekend, fight fans could look forward to fights that had proper but not overlong builds, genuine competitive animosity, and then delivery in the ring. On Saturday, Claressa Shields and Alycia Baumgardner were the victors in a ...

Irish boxer Katie Taylor’s big win earlier this year against Amanda Serrano apparently has had big marketing implications.  London-based media company SportsPro released its annual list of the most marketable athletes in the world on Monday, and Taylor was ranked No. 47 – the first boxer to appear on the list.  Other pugilists on the top 100 list included undisputed ...