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Oscar Collazo, the undefeated WBO strawweight champion from Puerto Rico, knows he has more than a belt on the line this Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This night is also about showing that the little guys belong on the big cards.  The unification fight…

Hall of Fame promoter Don King and Mike Tyson were once a dynamic duo who dominated boxing as “Iron” Mike became the youngest heavyweight champion of the world in 1986, then reigned supreme until a shocking night in Tokyo when Buster Douglas knocked him out…

IRVING, Texas – On his way to weigh in for his contest with Ben Askren in April 2021, Jake Paul turned to his team and mused, “Guys, I have a crazy idea: What if I fought Mike Tyson?” It was a notion that his trainer,…

Deep and vast as it is, even the internet lacks the capacity to contain all of boxing’s problems. Attempting to litanize them here is a Sysyphean task that, quite frankly, isn’t worth being crushed by the rolling mass of territorial promoters and three-letter leeches. Besides,…

Edgar Berlanga has stood at the sport’s mountaintop, relishing the ring walk before a filled arena and tasting the challenge of lasting 12 rounds against the most popular fighter of the generation, Canelo Alvarez. Creating a fitting encore to that is a daunting task.…

IRVING, Texas – Mike Tyson and Jake Paul both “made” weight for their Friday heavyweight headline event when they hit the scales at Thursday’s ceremonial weigh-in at the Toyota Music Factory. Tyson, who weighed in at 228.4lbs, will attempt to roll back the years…

So, did you hear about the fifty-something, formerly imprisoned, highly intimidating heavyweight about to return to the ring after a long layoff? No, the other fifty-something, formerly imprisoned, highly intimidating heavyweight about to return to the ring after a long layoff. …

Mike Tyson’s return to the boxing ring before 80,000 fans at AT&T Stadium in Texas while streamed to the nation without an extra charge would seemingly be the most positive development of the boxing year. Yet, there’s such great angst over this Friday novelty…

Chris Billam-Smith doesn’t believe that Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez’s promoters Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins have ever watched him fight – but he continues to take inspiration from Hopkins. De La Hoya and Hopkins, of Golden Boy Promotions, will be ringside on Saturday…