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Eye of the Tiger boss Camille Estephan has said talks are underway to match his super middleweight contender Christian Mbilli with Diego Pacheco. Mbilli is 28-0 (23 KOs) and promoted by Eye of the Tiger who partner with Top Rank; Pacheco is 22-0 (18…

Brian Norman Jnr isn’t just eyeing his next opponent—he’s measuring himself against the welterweight division’s elite. Norman, the undefeated WBO welterweight titleholder from Conyers, Georgia, recently found himself sidelined due to an injury that forced him to withdraw from a scheduled bout with Derrieck Cuevas. …

Some of the show headlined by Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul was definitely great. Some of the show was definitely not.  One particular part thankfully didn’t go worse. Tyson didn’t get hurt. That’s about the only consolation after eight rounds in which…

Former WBA super middleweight belt-holder Callum Smith will return to the ring on November 30 in Birmingham, England, it was announced today (November 17). Now a light heavyweight, Smith, 29-2 (21), last boxed back in January, when he was stopped inside seven rounds by Russia’s…

We cannot blame the viewers for the disaster that was Jake Paul-Mike Tyson, though I catch myself wanting to. There were too many of them. They did not know the extent of the damage which Mike Tyson had taken in the past, perhaps – the…

There might not be many better performances in a British ring this year than the 12-round clinic put on by Shabaz Masoud in Birmingham against Liam Davies. Beforehand, the heavy-punching Davies was talking about nearing a contest with Naoya Inoue, but he is now…

William Zepeda needed to dig deep to get past Tevin Farmer, but that didn’t shake his confidence in his readiness to face Shakur Stevenson next. Mexico’s Zepeda, 32-0 (27 KOs), edged out Philadelphia’s Farmer, 33-7-1 (8 KOs), in a close split decision in Riyadh,…

Junior welterweight Ernesto “Tito” Mercado was preparing for his Matchroom Boxing debut on the Jaron Ennis-Karen Chukhadzhian undercard on November 9 in Philadelphia.  However, his opponent, Jesus Saracho, derailed those plans by arriving at the weigh-in seven pounds overweight, dissolving the planned bout and…

Denzel Bentley is once again preparing to put everything on the line, but the exciting middleweight wouldn’t have it any other way.  Bentley, 20-3-1 (17 KOs), is ranked at number two with the WBO and with the only man above him, Hamzah Sheeraz, apparently…