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Zelfa Barrett is hoping to return to ring as soon as possible after seeing Saturday's proposed 10-rounder with Mexico's Cristian Bielma fall through. Regardless, the world ranked junior lightweight is still looking to tee up a big 2025.  In April, Barrett stopped Jordan Gill…

William Scull has been ordered to fight the winner of Diego Pacheco-Christian Mbilli, presuming they agree to fight, and then Vladimir Shishkin. As was previously reported by Boxing Scene the IBF denied a request from Salita Promotions for an immediate rematch between Scull and…

Sunny Edwards was narrowly lighter than Galal Yafai for Saturday's flyweight fight at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England. The 28-year-old Edwards was 111lbs. Yafai, 31, was 111.4lbs. The one-time amateur rivals fight in Yafai's home city on the occasion of Yafai's ninth professional contest,…

Jack Catterall has spent the last couple of weeks recuperating from his hard fought decision victory over Regis Prograis but the leading junior welterweight is ready to get back into the mix.  Catterall’s fight with Prograis was the first boxing event to take place…

Callum Simpson will defend his British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles against Steed Woodall at Sheffield’s Canon Medical Arena on January 11. On the undercard – on her 24th birthday – Caroline Dubois fights Jessica Camara at lightweight. It was in August when Simpson dethroned Zak…

In an effort to gauge the interest in this weekend’s flyweight fight between Sunny Edwards and Galal Yafai, I found myself in the comment section of an interview Yafai did with Tris Dixon for BoxingScene. In this section, where one should never linger, I discovered…

Fresh off a post-fight vacation in Zanzibar, Tevin Farmer returned to the US with plenty of thoughts — and no shortage of swa gger.  The former junior-lightweight titleholder narrowly lost a split decision to William Zepeda in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but the performance only…

Welterweight Anthony “Juice” Young refuses to let a setback define him. Eighteen months after suffering a knockout loss to Alexis Rocha, Young (pictured, right, above with Rocha) is determined to show he’s still a player in the welterweight division. On Saturday night, Young headlines…

Shakur Stevenson says he would only offer Floyd “Kid Austin” Schofield an opportunity to fight him if he can pass a test against Abdullah Mason. New Jersey’s Schofield, 22, has been chasing a fight with WBC 135-pound champ Stevenson – looking to replace William…