Manny Pacquiao successfully retained the WBA ‘Regular’ welterweight championship of the world, rolling back the years with an emphatic unanimous decision victory over Adrien Broner. In his much-anticipated return to American shores on pay-per-view, the Filipino soundly dominated from the outset with his trademark hand speed and blistering combinations, befuddling his younger counterpart with his rapid in-out movement […]
Demetrius Andrade has successfully retained his WBO middleweight championship with a resounding victory over Artur Akavov in New York City; albeit one that was stopped in controversial fashion in the final round. The Providence native dominated from the outset, showcasing surgical accuracy from the southpaw stance and maintaining a measured pace as he was able […]
Light-heavyweight contender and former WBC super-middleweight champion Badou Jack continues his trend of seeking out the most formidable challenges for his career, when he faces undefeated counterpart Marcus Browne for the WBC ‘silver’ championship at the MGM Grand. The winner will find themselves in prime position to challenge Ukrainian Oleksandr Gvozdyk, who captured the title […]
This Saturday night, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada hosts unquestionably the biggest fight of the year so far, as Manny Pacquiao defends the WBA secondary welterweight championship against Adrien Broner live on Showtime pay-per-view stateside and ITV4 in the UK. Following a destructive seventh-round dismantling of Lucas Matthyse last July in […]
On April 20th at a location yet to be determined, Amir Khan will be challenging pound-for-pound superstar Terence Crawford for the latter’s WBO World welterweight championship after negotiations seemingly broke down for a highly-anticipated domestic showdown with longtime nemesis Kell Brook. A win over Crawford would surely represent a significant upset, making Khan a two-weight […]
Jose Uzcategui headlines the first major show of the year at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles – live on Fox stateside and ITV in the UK – defending his IBF super-middleweight championship against undefeated American challenger Caleb Plant. The Venezuelan-born Mexican is a powerful and athletic pressure fighter who in 2018 made a statement […]
A little over five years after his debut, Anthony Joshua is the unified heavyweight champion of the world and the man seemingly on everybody’s lips; routinely attracting tens of thousands of fans to football stadiums – and many more on pay-per-view – to watch him defend his titles. As Joshua becomes an increasingly significant figure […]
After a disappointing December 2017 loss to Vasyl Lomachenko, Guillermo Rigondeaux is set to make his ring return in an eight-rounder on the PBC platform. On a January 13 Los Angeles card headlined by Caleb Plant’s IBF super-middleweight title challenge against Jose Uzcategui, Rigondeaux faces obscure Mexican opponent Giovanni Delgado in an eight-rounder. Fans are […]
As the curtain comes down on another stellar year for boxing, Boxing Social‘s Navi Singh reflects on the ‘Top 10 Fights of 2018’ … 10: Dereck Chisora vs Carlos Takam It is fiendishly difficult to beat Dereck Chisora at his own game; something Carlos Takam discovered to his detriment when the two fighters met on the […]
In front of a capacity crowd at a Saitama Stadium gala spectacle on New Year’s Eve – a date traditionally associated with combat sports events in Japan – Floyd Mayweather will be partaking in an exhibition against MMA prodigy Tenshin Nasukawa. The welterweight bout, contested under the RIZIN promotional banner, will consist of three three-minute […]
Tommy Fury has registered his first professional victory against Latvian Jevgenjis Andrejevs, courtesy of a scorecard of 40-36 after four rounds of action. It was a scrappy yet thoroughly comfortable affair for the teenager, who stalked his opponent throughout the fight but failed to kickstart his career in the explosive fashion he presumably would have […]
Liam Williams has captured the vacant British middleweight title with a dominant display, stopping Mark Heffron in the tenth round of a thoroughly one-sided contest. Despite the competitive nature of their pre-fight verbal sparring, Williams asserted authority from the outset, circling the static Heffron and immediately getting to work with a busy jab and sharp […]