Bob Arum advised anyone dissatisfied with the June fights ESPN and Top Rank have announced thus far to remain patient. The 88-year-old promoter’s company encountered unprecedented problems while putting together cards that ESPN will air throughout June, mostly on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights. Extensive COVID-19 testing for everyone involved in those shows is an enormous expense promoters and networks ...

Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, is very confident that we will see a unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury in 2021. "I think it's a wonderful fight and I'm very, very confident that you will see one or two of those in 2021 and we're working hard to deliver that," Hearn said to ...

Oceania manager Tony Tolj has utilized his inner circle of contacts to gain the entry approval to the United States for Chilean flyweight sensation Andres Campos. Campos is undefeated in his professional campaign and has risen quickly through the flyweight ranks since linking up with Dragon Fire Boxing Latino alongside stables mates Ramon Mascarena, Raynel Mederos, and Luis Junior Cruzat.  ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Devin Haney have built a deeper and much closer relationship of late. The BWAA Fighter of the Decade has taken Haney under his wing in recent weeks, training with the Las Vegas resident at the Mayweather Boxing Club, flying together in his private jet and inviting him over to his house and giving him a first ...

Undefeated super lightweight star Jack Catterall isn’t letting any distractions get in the way of his desire to become world champion in the near future. Catterall (25-0, 13 KOs) is the mandatory challenger for Jose Ramirez’s WBO super-lightweight title, with the Chorley star cementing himself as one of the best 140lb fighters in the world after wins over the likes ...

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury made attempts to get in touch with division rival Anthony Joshua and his promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom. Fury has been angling for a unification with Joshua, who holds the WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO world titles. Joshua is going to make a mandatory defense against Kubrat Pulev in the coming months, while Fury has a ...

One year ago, on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, heavyweight contender Andy Ruiz pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of his weight class. Coming in as a late replacement for Jarrell Miller, the Mexican boxer dropped Joshua four times to secure a seven round TKO win to capture the WBO, IBF, ...

While Top Rank has made its first two cards on June 9 and June 11 official as it returns to doing live boxing events without crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company is also busy putting together a slew of other fights for ESPN shows planned for the rest of June and July. One of those fights, which has ...

Starting in July, MTK Fight Night events are set to take place once a month for the foreseeable future and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ in association with Top Rank. Discussions are also currently ongoing with other broadcasters. Initial events will be held behind closed doors under the jurisdiction of the British Boxing Board of Control and will strictly ...

If Tyson Fury remains the WBC heavyweight champion and Dillian Whyte keeps winning, a Fury-Whyte fight must happen at some point. Whyte is the mandatory challenger for Fury’s title. Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed every boxer’s schedule, the WBC announced that Whyte would have to get that title shot by February 2021. Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of the WBC, told ...