Year: 2022

David Benavidez and his team now claim there is no path to a fight with Caleb Plant in September. They are not wrong about that, though not for the suggested reasons. BoxingScene.com has learned that a deal has been reached between Plant and Anthony Dirrell in what would be a matchup of former super middleweight titlists. A target date has ...

Promoter Eddie Hearn believes Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez is facing the best boxer in the light heavyweight division, WBA world champion Dmitry Bivol. Canelo will challenge Bivol on May 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Currently the undisputed world champion at super middleweight, Canelo had fought at 175-pounds back in 2019 - when he moved up and knocked out ...

Deadwood Mountain Grand in Deadwood, S.D. - In the Showtime telecast opener, highly regarded prospect Giovanni Marquez (1-0) became the seventh fighter in the history of ShoBox to make his professional debut on the series, extending the streak to 7-0 in those bouts as Marquez scored a four-round unanimous decision over a game Nelson Morales. The scores were 40-36, and 39-37 ...

Deadwood Mountain Grand in Deadwood, S.D. - In the Showtime televised co-main event, heavy-hitting lightweight Edwin De Los Santos (14-1, 13 KOs) scored a devastating second-round knockout against Luis Acosta (12-1, 11 KOs), who suffered the first loss of his career. Acosta became the 211th fighter to have his undefeated streak snapped in the 21-year history of the prospect series. ...

Former junior lightweight titlist Jamel Herring apparently won’t be on the sidelines for much longer. Herring, who held the WBO 130-pound title before losing it to Shakur Stevenson by 10th-round stoppage last October, said he will move up to the 135-pound division in his next fight but may go back down again, depending on the opportunities before him. After the ...

Nottingham - Former world champion Erica Farias bounced back from last year's decision loss to Mikaela Mayer, with a ten round split decision over unbeaten Sandy Ryan. (photos by Mark Robinson) Farias had lost his last three fights, all by decision, to Mayer and back to back wars with Jessica McCaskill. All three were world title fights. One judge scored ...

The Majestic Casino, in Panama, saw an evening of all female fights. It was the first night of the 37th edition of the KO Drugs and in which the Mexico's Jessica Nery became the new World Boxing Association (WBA) women’s bantamweight world champion by dethroning the Argentinian star Yesica Bopp. A split decision of 97-93, 93-97 and 96-94 was evidence ...

Magomed Ankalaev extended his winning streak with a unanimous decision victory over Thiago Santos as he continued his rise up the UFC’s light heavyweight division. In a tight, cagey main event affair, Ankalaev claimed the judges’ verdict after five competitive but controlled, rounds, with scores of 49-46, 49-46, 48-47 giving the Russian contender the 17th win of his career, and ...

An unbelievable finish, as Michael Conlan seemingly ahead on all cards and outlanding Leigh Wood 171-135 in total punches, got caught on the ropes and was send head first out of the ring. Wood showed unbelievable grit, as 80 of Conlan's 171 landed punches were body shots. Conlan landed 44% of his power shots. Wood landed 33% of his power ...

Nottingham - In a mandatory showdown, for the WBA's "regular" title at featherweight, Leigh Wood (26-2, 16 KOs) recovered from near disaster and was certainly down on the cards, came back in the twelfth and final round to knock unbeaten Michael Conlan (16-1, 8 KOs) out cold and out of the ring. Wood started the first by coming forward and ...