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Golden Boy prospect welterweight Joel Iriarte is preparing for his fifth fight in eight months, scheduled for November 2 in Las Vegas as part of the Floyd Schofield-Rene Tellez Giron undercard.  The 21-year-old Iriarte from Bakersfield, California, is balancing his boxing career with a…

The non-title heavyweight fight between former cruiser king Murat Gassiev, 30-2 (23 KOs) and unbeaten Dane Kem Ljungquist, 18-0 (11 KOs) that was set for Vienna on October 19 has been postponed as Gassiev, out of action since losing to Otto Wallin last year, couldn't…

Tim Tszyu will try to become a two-time 154-pound titleholder on Saturday when he takes on IBF beltholder Bakhram Murtazaliev at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida on Prime Video.  Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs), the son of Hall of Fame boxer Kostya Tszyu, suffered…

Three-division champion and WBO junior lightweight ruler Emanuel Navarrete will run it back with old foe Oscar Valdez on a card that will feature another premier rematch, between Rafael Espinoza and Robeisy Ramirez, Top Rank announced today. The event will take place at Footprint Center…

Lamont Roach Snr isn’t just shaping fighters at NoXcuses Boxing Gym, he’s also carving out a path as a promoter, committed to helping the next generation of boxers develop. His next step comes with his prospects card on Saturday—his second show to be broadcast on…

Though it is not a prerequisite of them happening, rematches, by their very nature, tend to be examples of things fans want to see repeated. This hunger can be due to a controversy, either in the scoring of a fight or the way it ended,…

Adam Azim has spent the past few months holed up in the gym working on his game, blissfully distant from boxing politics and repetitive questions about other fighters.  On Saturday night, the unbeaten super lightweight returns from an eight month injury lay-off and fights…

Wales' Liam Williams, a former two-weight world title challenger, is retiring from boxing at the age of 32, having grown increasingly concerned about concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain condition linked to repeated blows to the head.  This condition, which gradually gets…

Tim Tszyu’s younger brother Nikita will work his corner for Saturday’s fight against Bakhram Murtazaliev following the withdrawal, at late notice, of his long-term cut man Mark Gambin. Tszyu, 29, challenges Murtazaliev for the Russian’s IBF junior-middleweight title at the Caribe Royale in Orlando,…