Undisputed super middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has rejected the possibility of facing Terence Crawford at a catchweight. Last month, Crawford stopped Errol Spence to become the undisputed world champion at welterweight. On September 30 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Canelo will defend his crown against the undisputed junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo, who moves up in weight by ...
Undisputed Super Middleweight World Champion Canelo Álvarez and Undisputed Junior Middleweight World Champion Jermell Charlo will be on full display in Midtown Manhattan today at 1 p.m. ET when their New York City press conference streams live on two outdoor billboards overlooking Times Square. The press conference will be visible to thousands on the Paramount Twins LED Billboards at 1515 ...
The future of Gary Russell Jr. is still very much in the air. For the former WBC featherweight champ, his recent run of inactivity far surpasses the norm for him. Like clockwork, roughly once a year for more than half a decade he’s prepared himself for battle. And, more times than not, he’s come out on the winning end. His ...
David Benavidez has spent most of his career taking on the bottom feeders of the super middleweight division. That, of course, was never his intent. For the 26-year-old, he simply wanted to face the best of the best. Now, things are finally falling into place. Earlier this year, the current WBC interim champ faced his first elite opponent in Caleb ...
Legacy Fighting Alliance will make its debut in Northern California this weekend, with a middleweight clash set for the main event in Santa Cruz. LFA 165’s headliner will pit two of the promotion’s top middleweight contenders head to head, as local star Daniel Compton takes on Brazil’s Renato Valente in a three-round main event at the Kaiser Permanente Arena on ...
There is no case in 2023 for Anthony Joshua being the best heavyweight in the world. In retrospect, there may never have been. But Joshua is still a star and stars matter in boxing. There are few bigger ones than Joshua even after his consecutive losses to Oleksandr Usyk. Chapter two of the rebound from those defeats unfolded Saturday in ...
The co-main event of UFC 292 will see the women’s strawweight championship on the line, as Chinese star Weili Zhang takes on Brazilian challenger Amanda Lemos for the 115-pound title. Zhang is back on top of the women’s 115-pound division after rebounding well from back-to-back losses to Rose Namajunas in 2021 by defeating two former champions in decisive fashion to ...
KSW’s two featherweight champions will face off to determine the one true 145-pound king in the main event of KSW 85 this weekend in Nowy Sacz, Poland. Reigning featherweight champion Salahdine Parnasse and current interim champion Robert Ruchala will go head to head at the Amfiteatr Parku Strzeleckiego in Ruchala’s home town, with the winner set to leave the KSW ...
The Arely Mucino-Gabriela Fundora IBF flyweight title fight will head to a purse bid hearing. BoxingScene.com has learned that the August 13 negotiation period for the mandatory bout came and went without the two sides able to reach a deal. They will now wait for an assigned date to determine promotional rights for the intriguing matchup. Mucino was represented in ...
In a rematch of one of the more entertaining fights of the year, heavyweights Joey Dawejko and Colby Madison will once again do battle on Friday night, September 15th at The Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia. The card is promoted by King's Promotions. The first crowd pleasing bout took place on May 2nd and saw Dawejko pound out a six-round ...