Four-weight world champion Leo Santa Cruz is not concerned that Gervonta Davis will fail to make the contracted 130lbs weight limit for their October 24 clash at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. The WBA has somehow sanctioned the bout...

The highly confusing WBC lightweight title picture took another complicated turn after Jorge Linares tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of his August 28 fight with Javier Fortuna. Linares was supposed to meet Fortuna for the WBC’s ‘Diam...

A heavy favourite, Terri Harper appeared a touch fortunate to hold on to her WBC super-featherweight title with an entertaining draw against an inspired Natasha Jonas at Matchroom’s Fight Camp in Brentwood, Essex, on Friday night. Scores ...

Hall of fame trainer Freddie Roach recently, and perhaps mischievously, namedropped Gennady Golovkin as a potential opponent for his most famous student – the age-defying Manny Pacquiao. Roach mooted an eye-rubbing catchweight encounter w...

The WBC has reiterated that the winner of Tyson Fury’s trilogy bout with Deontay Wilder must face mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte in early 2021. Brixton’s Whyte (27-1, 18 KOs) needs to first overcome former WBA champion Alexander Pov...

Thomas Dulorme has been around the block in boxing. The Puerto Rican has fought some of the best names around welterweight, but says competing for the glory of his fighting nation is what drives him on. On Saturday at the Microsoft Theater ...

Top Rank has confirmed that WBC/WBO 140lbs champion Jose Ramirez will finally meet mandatory challenger Viktor Postol at ‘The Bubble’ in the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, on August 29. Ramirez and Postol (31-2, 12 KOs) were originally set to fi...

Jessica McCaskill believes victory over undisputed world welterweight champion Cecilia Brækhus will propel her towards greatness in women’s boxing. The duo clash in a rescheduled showdown on the streets of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Au...

Two former world super-bantamweight champions will meet for the WBO crown recently vacated by Shakur Stevenson at featherweight, with the sanctioning body ordering a fight between rising Mexican star Emanuel Navarrete (32-1, 28 KOs) and Las...

WBO super-featherweight champion Ewa Brodnicka has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing.  Poland’s Brodnicka (19-0, 2 KOs) is already targeting the winner of Friday night’s WBC super-featherweight title fight...

It is one of the most eagerly anticipated fights in boxing – the pound-for-pound No.1 fighter vs one of the sport’s rising stars.  Yet if a fight with IBF 135lbs champion Teofimo Lopez does not take place, it will not be the fa...

On the brink of breaking Joe Louis’ 72-year-old record of 25 successful world title defences, Cecilia Brækhus says trainer Abel Sanchez has transformed her into a more dangerous fighter. Undisputed welterweight champion Brækhus (36-...

When American Travis Kauffman meets heavyweight contender Otto Wallin at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on August 15, late trainer Naazim Richardson will be foremost in his thoughts.  The greatly respected Richardson was hospitalis...

Top Rank have made a major move in the heavyweight division with the signing of rising Nigerian star Efe Ajagba. Previously promoted by Al Haymon and Premier Boxing Champions, puncher Ajagba has signed a long-term promotional agreement. He...

Following Frank Warren’s surprise proposal to pit the best fighters of Queensberry Promotions against the leading lights of Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom organisation, the promotional heavyweights have traded further verbal blows today. O...

The tantalising lightweight showdown between unified world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and unbeaten IBF title-holder Teofimo Lopez is under threat. Lomachenko-Lopez had been tentatively scheduled for October 3, but the IBF champion is unsat...

With Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua otherwise engaged, former WBA Super, WBO and IBF champion Andy Ruiz Jr. is being offered another route back into the heavyweight title picture. WBA Regular champion Manuel Charr (31-4, 17 KOs) has revealed...

It is, in theory, an eight-round exhibition bout, but Roy Jones Jr. is expecting nothing less than serious business from a rejuvenated Mike Tyson when they meet in Carson, California, on September 12. Andy Foster, head of the California Sta...

Hall of fame promoter Frank Warren has challenged arch-rivals Matchroom Boxing to pit their star fighters against the leading boxers in his stable to decide who is the ‘best of British’. On Tuesday night, Warren issued an extraordinary ...

WBC super-featherweight champion Terri Harper has vowed to ‘break down’ rival Natasha Jonas when they meet at Matchroom’s Fight Camp in Brentwood, Essex, on August 7. Denaby’s Harper (10-0, 5 KOs) rose to prominence with a hard...

Super-featherweight Aqib Fiaz plans to make the most of his high-profile slot on Matchroom’s Fight Camp series with a stylish victory over Kane Baker in Brentwood on Friday (August 7). Trained by Jamie Moore at the V.I.P Gym in Astley, a...

Ireland’s Kevin McBride, who famously sent Mike Tyson into retirement in 2005, has expressed his interest in a rematch, saying: “Let’s get it on!” Tyson, 54, has captivated the boxing and wider world with his physical transformation...

WBA Super, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is likely to defend his crowns against mandatory contender Kubrat Pulev in the first week of December, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. Originally scheduled for June 20 at Tottenh...

Commonwealth cruiserweight champion Chris Billiam-Smith has warned Welshman Nathan Thorley that he faces a big step up in class when they meet in the second instalment of Matchroom’s Fight Camp series in Brentwood this Friday (August 7). ...