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Saturday, May 18 For those curious about the evolving fan experience on fight night in Saudi Arabia, when BoxingScene arrived at the remote Kingdom Arena for Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk there were fans having a flag confiscated, despite theirs being a flag dedicated to Usyk, and…

Saturday, May 18 For those curious about the evolving fan experience on fight night in Saudi Arabia, when BoxingScene arrived at the remote Kingdom Arena for Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk there were fans having a flag confiscated, despite theirs being a flag dedicated to Usyk, and…

German heavyweight Agit Kabayel produced a punch perfect performance against Cuba’s Frank Sanchez last night on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  Kabayel (25-0, 17 KOs) started quickly to ultimately stop Sanchez (24-1, 17 KOs) in the seventh round with…

A good chess player, it has been said, is someone who can recall patterns, understands tactics and strategies and can envision openings and endgames. One might ask what that has to do with one of the great heavyweight fights of modern times, but if…

Welterweight contender Blair Cobbs, who recently signed with Don King Promotions, has secured a matchup with former four-division titleholder Adrien Broner – a bout Cobbs has long sought. An intriguing twist emerged when the promotional poster for the bout carried a cryptic warning: "If Broner…

Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez (35-2, 32 KOs) returned to the winner’s column on May 11 when he stopped Daniel Lugo (27-3-1, 18 KOs) in seven rounds at the Palenque de la Feria en Aguascalientes, Mexico. The fight was streamed live on DAZN.  In Hernandez’s prior…

Confidence comes in many different forms. Some fighters announce themselves before they enter a room, loudly telling everyone within earshot what they are going to do, how they are going to do it and why nobody can stop them. Others keep things short,…

Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter Alex Krassyuk described the sense of escapism his winning the undisputed heavyweight title will have delivered to those in Ukraine who remain under siege. It is more than two years since Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian army to invade their neighbouring…

Oleksandr Usyk revealed the extent of the sacrifices he made to prepare for Saturday’s victory over Tyson Fury. The new undisputed heavyweight champion secured his status among the very finest fighters in history when at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia he earned…