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Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg covered a golden age of heavyweight boxing and 50 years ago today, he spent nearly two weeks in Zaire, Africa, where he was ringside to witness the historic Rumble in the Jungle. Now 94 years of age, Izenberg recalls the event, the…

BELFAST – Padraig McCrory and Leonard Carillo met for the penultimate time today at the final press conference ahead of their bout at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The contest that will be televised live on ProBox TV, in association with…

Heavyweight great Lennox Lewis was so inspired by the Rumble in the Jungle, he went about his own way trying to emulate it. Muhammad Ali famously toppled the previously indestructible George Foreman in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Africa, 50 years ago…

Marco Verde, a 2024 Olympic silver medalist, announced he will not wait to see the future of Olympic boxing and will instead enter professional boxing, enlisting Eddy Reynoso – the manager and trainer of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez – as his manager. However, Reynoso will…

In this week’s mailbag, we tackle your thoughts on two potential fights (Canelo Alvarez vs. Chris Eubank Jr. and Naoya Inoue vs. Murodjon Akhmadaliev) and on two fighters you feel should retire (Regis Prograis and Campbell Hatton). Want to be featured in the mailbag?…

Anthony Olascuaga’s first defense of his WBO flyweight world title had ended abruptly and anticlimactically. More than a week later, it has now officially gone down as an Olascuaga victory. Olascuaga, a 25-year-old from Los Angeles, won the vacant title in July by knocking…

Justis Huni is to fight Leandro Robutti of Argentina on the undercard of Conor Wallace-Asemahle Wellem on December 11 at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, Australia. The heavyweight, 25, is emerging as one of Australia’s most promising fighters, and fights for the 11th…

They’ve always been linked by Zaire and forever will be. U.S. Olympic gold medalists. Repeat heavyweight champions. Men of deeply religious conviction. American treasures. It was 50 years ago today when they each stepped in that ring in Africa as adversaries, when…

Junior featherweight Chavez Barrientes is set to put his unblemished record on the line when he faces Noah Contreras at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida on Friday. The eight-round bout between Las Vegas’ Barrientes, 9-0 (6 KOs), and Noah, 9-1 (4 KOs),…