Former three division world champion Badou Jack was ringside last Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, where he witnessed the big 'Day of Reckoning' card in Riyadh. In the main event, former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua battered and stopped Otto Wallin in five rounds. The co-feature saw one of the biggest upsets of 2023 play out, as Joseph Parker outboxed ...
Kazuto Ioka is set for his latest year-end tradition. The four-division titlist will headline his twelfth career New Year’s Eve show as he defends his WBA junior bantamweight title versus Venezuela’s Josber Perez. Both boxers made weight for their scheduled twelve-round title fight atop an ABEMA TV stream this Sunday from Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo. Ioka and Perez both ...
Andy Cruz will enjoy a quick ring return, even in the midst of an active lawsuit. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the 2020 Olympic Gold medalist and fast-rising lightweight will land on the February 24 DAZN show at Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Cruz will face Mexico’s Brayan Zamarripa in a scheduled ten-round contest. “The Diamond continues the climb towards ...
A once promising super middleweight prospect was found dead over the holiday season. BoxingScene.com is saddened to report the untimely passing of Cem Kilic, a Turkish boxer who died at just 29 years of age. An apparent drug overdose was the cause, as Kilic battled substance addiction and mental health issues for several years. “We have learned the news ...
Defunct management company MTK Global, the company founded by alleged Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan, was using the bank accounts of their signed fighters to funnel vast sums of money of up to $1 million, it was claimed in a court hearing. Earlier this week, The Sunday World, an Irish outlet that has closely tracked the developments of the Kinahan ...
Former undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor believes that he's more than capable of getting revenge if a rematch takes place with Teofimo Lopez. Earlier this year, Lopez capture the WBO title by outboxing Taylor in a one-sided fight at New York's Madison Square Garden Theater. Taylor felt he started well in the early rounds. "I started off really well. ...
Don’t expect Terence Crawford to remain neutral as the boxing peanut gallery ruminates on who deserves to be the Fighter of the Year. As far as the kingpin of the welterweight division is concerned, he is the runaway favorite. In a recent post on his social media, Omaha, Nebraska’s Crawford offered full-throated endorsement of himself as the past year’s top ...
When it comes to talking trash, Chris Colbert is one of the best around. The Brooklyn native, for most of his career, has always backed up his brazen words but when he took on Hector Luis Garcia in 2022, he couldn’t. Colbert (17-2, 6 KOs) is a loud personality. So, simply coming back against another 130-pound contender wouldn’t do enough ...
Junior welterweight titlist Subriel Matias is doing his part to whip up hard feelings toward Teofimo Lopez. Matias, the IBF 140-pound titlist from Puerto Rico, and Lopez, the WBO 140-pound titlist from Brooklyn, New York, are reportedly in talks to meet in the ring next summer for a unification of their junior welterweight belts. Matias (20-1, 20 KOs) indicated in ...
When it comes to teaching the sport of boxing and creating champions, Derrick James is known as one of the best. His championship stable might be thinner nowadays, but The former Trainer of the Year still has a handful of notable names. Ryan Garcia, after falling woefully short against Gervonta Davis, believed he needed to make a change. Although he ...