After some false alarms, Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez have made their light-heavyweight bout official for October 21 at London’s O2 Arena. The two unbeaten Londoners will face off on the BOXXER card, with the loser’s hopes of a world title anytime soon knocked down a peg or two. Buatsi, 30, was last out against […]
Oleksandr Usyk believes there is no comparison between his previous opponent, Anthony Joshua, and his next one, Daniel Dubois. The Ukrainian became unified world heavyweight champion by beating Joshua over the distance in 2021, and retained those belts in a slightly closer contest one year on. Despite attempts to make an undisputed fight with Tyson […]
Devin Haney confirmed he would move up to 140lbs to challenge champion, Regis Prograis, but put in a request with the WBC to hold on to his 135 belt whilst doing so. Typically, when a beltholder decides to jump up in weight, his or her titles become vacant as the new campaign begins. The 24-year-old’s […]
Regis Prograis has signed his contract to defend his WBC super-lightweight title against Devin Haney, and plans to hurt the 24-year-old ‘real bad.’ Following his victory over Vasily Lomachenko to retain his undisputed lightweight title, Haney was faced with a decision to defend in that division or make a long-awaited move up to 140lbs and […]
Andy Ruiz Jr remains confident that he will be in the ring with Deontay Wilder this year – a fight that would determine the WBC’s number one ranked contender. The two former titlists were ordered to face off last November, but very little movement came for months. That changed at the start of summer as […]
Tyson Fury will face MMA star Francis Ngannou in a crossover contest on October 28 in Saudi Arabia, meaning it’s highly likely that he won’t defend his WBC World Heavyweight title at all this year. The sanctioning body has granted its champion special permission for the contest, which will be fought over ten rounds and […]
Daniel Dubois has it all to do against undefeated unified heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk, come August 26 in Wroclaw, Poland. The 25-year-old Brit has bounced back from a sole career loss against Joe Joyce with four straight knockout wins to find himself as the WBA’s mandatory challenger. It will be Usyk’s second defence of the […]
Leigh Wood will defend his WBA World Featherweight title against domestic rival, Josh Warrington, on October 7 at the Utilita Arena, Sheffield. The fight was made possible by a recent WBA ruling that allowed the champion to put his mandatory, Othabek Kholmatov, on hold with the condition that the winner of this bout would face […]
Devin Haney has made a decision on defending his lightweight undisputed titles or moving up a division to challenge for a new belt. The 135lbs champ recently retained his belts against Vasily Lomachenko, and will ignore calls for a rematch to move up and face WBC 140 beltholder, Regis Prograis. The tentative date for the […]
Terence Crawford comprehensively beat Errol Spence Jr in Las Vegas, the ninth round stoppage crowning him undisputed welterweight champion of the world. The fight was tipped as a pick ’em, with plenty of pundits believing Spence’s size and strength would cause ‘Bud’ Crawford problems. When it came down to it, the Omaha man controlled things […]
Terence Crawford beat Errol Spence Jr via ninth round stoppage to become the undisputed welterweight champion and perhaps the best fighter in the world today. Crawford flipped the script that it was a pick ’em fight by picking off Spence throughout, dropping him three times on the way to a referee’s stoppage that wasn’t a […]
Fans at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas witnessed a genuinely elite performance from Terence Crawford, who broke Errol Spence Jr down and stopped him in the ninth to become undisputed welterweight champion. Both men entered the ring undefeated, Spence the WBA, WBC and IBF champion, Crawford the WBO. It was a fight a long […]