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Chris Billam-Smith’s trainer, Shane McGuigan, has described the night that the Bournemouth man was crowned WBO cruiserweight champion as ‘the proudest moment as a coach.’ In May 2023, Billam-Smith condensed years of determination and desire into 12 gritty rounds of concentration and hard work…

Jai Opetaia is targeting the winner of Saturday’s unification cruiserweight title fight between Gilberto Ramirez and Chris Billam-Smith. “Zurdo” and Billam-Smith contest their respective WBA and WBO titles at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aware that Australia’s Opetaia remains most widely regarded…

Jesse Hart will face Ricardo Luna in an eight-round light heavyweight bout on Friday, November 22, at the Liacouras Center at Temple University in Philadelphia.  The card features five Philadelphia fighters, two from Pennsylvania, and three from nearby New Jersey. Hart, 31-3 (25…

Marquis Taylor will return to the ring on December 13 in Houston, Texas, to face undefeated Petr Khamukov at the Red Owl Boxing Arena.  The fight will be broadcast live on DAZN. Taylor, now trained by former titleholder Shawn Porter, hasn’t lost in…

Matchroom Boxing and Golden Boy Promotions are already regularly featured on DAZN. Queensberry Promotions will join forces with the streaming service in April. And with Top Rank’s deal with ESPN set to expire in summer 2025, that company is looking at the…

It has been 19 years and five months since Mike Tyson last stepped into the ring for a sanctioned fight. It was a different time in many ways: Barack Obama was a newly elected senator, the United Kingdom was in the European Union, Floyd Mayweather…

Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez has accomplished a lot in less than three years. He went immediately from being a flyweight prospect to becoming a junior bantamweight titleholder. He took out two of the “Four Kings” of 115, moved back down to 112 to add…

On and off for five years now – depending on the volume of new talent in that year’s class – I’ve put a check by the name of an unforgettable Mexican fighter I had the honor of watching from ringside, Israel Vazquez. Full disclosure:…

Stevenson says he’s confident that a fight with Gervonta “Tank” Davis will happen in the near future. The 27-year-old Stevenson, of Newark, New Jersey, revealed that his team held discussions with Baltimore’s Davis, 30, but failed to seal a deal for a WBC and…