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Promoter Eddie Hearn says he’s not sure if Tim Tszyu is “elite-level” after watching his back-to-back defeats in 2024 to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev and Sebastian Fundora. Rebuild Tszyu Hearn feels that Tszyu’s promoters believed he was better than he actually was and…

Born in poverty, former world heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston died of an overdose on December 30, 1970. The only thing is he made it known before this: “I’m afraid of needles!” Was this an accident, or was something more sinister in play? Liston’s life was…

Unbeaten IBF World Welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis wants to stay at welterweight to unify the titles. The only problem is that the three other organizations’ champions are unwilling to unify by fighting him. Coming off a not-impressive win, though without a doubt the winner,…

Zab Judah and Anthony Dirrell both feel that WBC interim light heavyweight champion David Benavidez has too much experience for David Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) and will defeat him in their 12-round headliner fight on February 1st at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. 12…

The undefeated Japanese Naoya Inoue, at 31 years old, will face the British Sam Goodman on January 24 at the Ariake Arena, Koto-Ku, in Tokyo, Japan. In a fight that looks like a formality for Inoue, and should easily win. Goodman (19-0, 8 KOs) is…

Jai Opetaia predicts he will “hurt” David Nyika and “put him to sleep” on Wednesday night in their headliner at the Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach, Australia. Opetaia’s Anger IBF cruiserweight champion Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) went from 1 to 10 on the anger scale…

Sparring partner Kevin Johnson says Shakur Stevenson will be in trouble if his surgically repaired right-hand breaks down in his fight against Floyd ‘Kid Austin’ Schofield on February 22nd in Riyadh. Johnson predicts a victory for Stevenson if he’s healthy, but he could lose if…

Devin Haney showed off his fancy footwork on social media, preparing for his comeback on March 25th on BLK Prime. Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) posted a video of him working on a grassy field, using football-like moves with his feet. The Left Hook Problem How…

Jai Opetaia says he would have liked to have seen Tyson Fury do more in his loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21st in Riyadh. He’d hoped that the former WBC champion Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) would have shown a “different version”…