Year: 2022

Another ordered fight, another set of stalled talks for Janibek Alimkhanuly. A purse bid hearing has been called to determine promotional rights for the WBO-ordered interim middleweight title fight between Alimkhanuly and Danny Dignum. The ten-day negotiation period failed to produce a deal between the unbeaten contenders, prompting the WBO to schedule a purse bid for March 28 at its ...

Unbeaten rising prospect Joey Spencer will battle Ravshan Hudaynazarov in an eight-round middleweight attraction that highlights the non-televised undercard lineup on Saturday, March 26 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from The Armory in Minneapolis. Top super welterweight contender and rising star Tim Tszyu will make his long-awaited U.S. debut in the main event when he takes on U.S. Olympian ...

Tim Tszyu would have loved nothing more than for his next fight to have been for a world title. When that couldn’t happen, the unbeaten second-generation boxer settled for the next best thing—simply, a fight. Australia’s Tszyu (20-0, 15KOs) will make his U.S. debut when he faces Cleveland’s Terrel Gausha this Saturday, live on Showtime from The Armory in Minneapolis, ...

It took nine title fights, and ten more rugged rounds, to send Japan’s Kenshiro Teraji to the ranks of former beltholders. It took three rounds for Teraji to remind everyone that anyone can have a bad night, especially in the aftermath of COVID. Saturday in Kyoto, Teraji brought the fight to his conqueror Masamichi Yabuki, stalking, feinting with the left, ...

Devin Haney hadn’t agreed to the financial offer from George Kambosos Jr.’s promoter as of Monday night. The unbeaten WBC world lightweight champion indicated, however, that there is no way he’ll pass on the opportunity to become boxing’s first fully unified lightweight champion of the four-belt era. Haney responded emphatically on Twitter to Kambosos’ Tweet about the length of a ...

Here’s an advantage of being old. When you see something that’s topical these days, you have enough memories stored away in between your wrinkles that you can adeptly connect it to something you saw a generation ago. A new TV show reminds you of an old TV show. A new musical act reminds you of an old musical act. And ...

As BoxingScene.com reported earlier today, Vasiliy Lomachenko has been ruled out from a potential clash with IBF, WBC Franchise, WBO, WBA lightweight champion George Kambosos. Although a deal had been reached, Lomachenko returned to his home country of Ukraine to assist with the local resistance against the ongoing invasion by Russia. Kambosos' handlers were made aware that Lomachenko had opted to ...

Vasiliy Lomachenko’s courageous commitment to his country has forced him to withdraw from his shot at George Kambosos Jr.’s lightweight titles. Lou DiBella, Kambosos’ promoter, informed BoxingScene.com on Monday afternoon that Egis Klimas, Lomachenko’s manager, informed him earlier Monday that Lomachenko will not leave war-torn Ukraine to train for a June 5 fight against Kambosos in Melbourne, Australia. DiBella and ...

Promoter Eddie Hearn, who works with heavyweight contender Derek Chisora, has made an initial offer to get his boxer a fight with former unified world champion Andy Ruiz. Chisora has been out of the ring since last December, when he lost a twelve round unanimous decision to Joseph Parker in their rematch. Chisora took a lot of punishment in the ...

Promoter Frank Warren sees a lot of chinks in Anthony Joshua’s armor that he believes his client, Joe Joyce, can take advantage of. Talk of a fight between the British heavyweights has been brewing ever since Joshua, the former unified titlist in the division, hinted that he may take a stay-busy, interim bout as he waits for the Ukraine-Russia conflict ...