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Former heavyweight titleholder Charles Martin returns to the ring November 16, facing Matthew McKinney in an eight-round fight at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. The event, promoted by Patrick Ragan’s Westside Promotions, marks their sixth show since launching the promotional entity in…

Featherweight John Laryea is set to arrive in Florida on Friday ahead of his U.S. debut against Alexander Mejia on November 1. Ghana’s Laryea, 24, will face Mejia at Caribe Royale Orlando in Orlando, Florida, as he looks to announce himself to the American…

Naoya Inoue’s dominance of the junior featherweight division is such that his title defenses have grown into showcases of his talent rather than threats to his unblemished record. Such will be the case on Christmas Eve in Tokyo when unbeaten four-division champion Inoue will…

Shurretta Metcalf secured her first career title in a competitive rematch against bantamweight titleholder Miyo Yoshida on Wednesday at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.  Metcalf, who had previously defeated Yoshida last to become the IBF bantamweight mandatory challenger, won the close bout on…

Junior welterweight Mykquan Williams continued his impressive 2024 campaign with an eighth-round knockout of Lavisas Williams on Wednesday in the co-feature at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mykquan Williams, 26, of East Hartford, Connecticut, knocked out Lavisas Williams, 33,…

In this week’s mailbag, we tackle your thoughts on what comes next for Tim Tszyu after the three-round drubbing he took at the hands of Bakhram Murtazaliev; we stay with the junior middleweights to talk about the year Serhii Bohachuk has had and whether he…

Nicklaus Flaz will face Christian Gomez in a 10-round junior lightweight bout at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, on November 9. The event, promoted by ProBox TV, begins at 7 p.m. ET and will stream on the ProBox TV app. Flaz, 13-2,…

Jared Anderson was being built up by Top Rank as a potential heavyweight contender – and then Anderson came crumbling down. He was stopped in five rounds by Martin Bakole in August in Los Angeles on the undercard of Israil Madrimov-Terence Crawford –…

For so long the comparisons were kind, flattering, focused only on the positives. They centred largely on the way he stood – upright, steady, poised – and the way he threw his right hand nice and straight, just like his old man.  They also…