Arum’s current stable is one of the deepest in the business. It includes WBC featherweight champion Bruce Carrington, unified super welterweight titlist Xander Zayas, lightweight champions Abdullah Mason and Raymond Muratalla, multi-division champion Emanuel Navarrete, O’Shaquie Foster, and Keyshawn Davis — a roster that will now be seen exclusively on DAZN across the globe.
DAZN CEO Shay Segev framed the announcement as a step change in how premium boxing reaches a global audience. Arum, with characteristic brevity for a man celebrating sixty years in the business, said the fit between the two organisations was self-evident. The financial terms were not disclosed publicly, though multiple sources reported licensing fees in the region of $1 to $1.25 million per event, with Top Rank expected to stage eight to ten shows per year. For DAZN, which already carries Matchroom, Queensberry, and Golden Boy, this is significant consolidation of market position.
Zayas Wants Boots — But MSG Availability Is the Problem
The fight that welterweight and super welterweight fans want most is getting closer — with one logistical complication sitting in the way.
Top Rank president Todd DuBoef confirmed on The Ariel Helwani Show on Wednesday that his company is actively in discussions with Matchroom about making Xander Zayas versus Jaron “Boots” Ennis — the two most exciting young champions in the lower weight classes. Zayas wants the fight. DuBoef wants the fight. The issue is venue: in an ideal world, he said, the fight belongs at Madison Square Garden, where Zayas has fought on all four of his New York cards and is developing a genuine fanbase. But Garden availability is tight, and DuBoef acknowledged that scheduling is the current constraint.
Zayas, 23 and 23-0, unified the WBO and WBA super welterweight belts in January with a thriller against Abass Baraou. Boots, 29-0, remains one of the most feared punchers in boxing and had been tracking a fight with Vergil Ortiz before that collapsed due to Ortiz’s legal dispute with Golden Boy. Now both men are pointed at each other. The Top Rank-DAZN deal removes one structural barrier. The venue conversation is what remains.
Romero vs Haney: Two Boxing Experts Say It’s Closer Than You Think
The fight being discussed for May 30 in Las Vegas — Rolando “Rolly” Romero defending his WBA welterweight title against Devin Haney’s WBO belt in a unification — is getting serious attention this week from people inside the sport who say the outcome is far less certain than the odds suggest.
Keyshawn Davis, a WBO lightweight champion and 2020 Olympic silver medallist, told reporters he sees the fight as exactly even. Roy Jones Jr., speaking to Fight Hub TV, made the same call from a different angle: Romero, he said, is the kind of fighter who can rearrange a night if he catches you clean early — a quality he compared, with only partial seriousness, to Prince Naseem at his most explosive. Both experts landed on the same conclusion: if Haney is the favourite when betting opens, that number will be wrong.
Romero’s case is built on his remarkably mature decision win over Ryan Garcia last year — disciplined, volume-heavy, tactically sound in a way nobody predicted from him. Haney’s case is built on his resume and his exceptional ring intelligence. The fight, if it happens on May 30, is the best welterweight matchup available right now.
Fundora: Thurman Is Just Another Fight — But He’ll Be Ready for the Best One
Sebastian Fundora, who defends the WBC super welterweight title against Keith Thurman on March 28 in Las Vegas on Amazon Prime Video PPV, told reporters this week that he is treating the challenge the same way he treats every challenge — with specific preparation and zero reverence for reputation.
Thurman, a former unified welterweight champion whose only professional loss came on split cards against Manny Pacquiao in 2019, has publicly stated that a win over Fundora would be his Hall of Fame moment. Fundora’s response was measured but pointed: he has trained for the best Thurman, because that is what preparation demands. Whether the 37-year-old who has fought three times in four years arrives at MGM Grand in that condition, Fundora cannot control. What he can control is his own readiness — and on that, he expressed the kind of settled confidence that comes from two successful defences and a rematch stoppage of Tim Tszyu.
Conlan Dreams of Carrington — But Walsh Comes First
Michael Conlan, speaking from his Sheffield training camp ahead of Friday night’s defence of the WBC International featherweight title against Kevin Walsh at the SSE Arena in Belfast, told Boxing Social this week that a fight with WBC world champion Bruce Carrington in New York is a genuine ambition — and potentially a realistic one in the near future.
Carrington, 17-0, claimed the WBC featherweight world title against Carlos Castro in January and is a Top Rank fighter — meaning the newly announced Top Rank-DAZN deal creates the promotional bridge that would make the fight commercially viable. Conlan’s history with Madison Square Garden, where he has headlined six times, gives the matchup a natural home. Conlan also noted a personal dimension: he has known Carrington since the American trained in Belfast as a teenager under Conlan’s father John. He described him as a genuinely good person, an excellent champion, and — pointedly — “someone I would love to face.”
First, Walsh. The 33-year-old from Brockton arrives unbeaten in nineteen professional contests and travels to Belfast as an unknown quantity — dangerous precisely because so few on the island have seen him in person. Conlan, ranked ninth by the WBC, knows a convincing win moves him several places in the rankings and puts the Carrington conversation on a firmer foundation. The dream is clear. The job is Friday.
All information correct as of March 19, 2026. For full results, fight coverage, and the latest boxing news, follow Boxing Social.
