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A potential slugfest is brewing under the surface of Saturday night’s “Latino Night” as junior welterweight puncher Oscar Duarte faces Batyr Akhmedov, a late replacement for Duarte’s original opponent, Kenneth Sims Jnr. The two will clash in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with DAZN broadcasting the…

Shakur Stevenson has described the much-anticipated slugfest between Terence “Bud” Crawford and Jaron “Boots” Ennis as the fight he doesn’t want to see happen. Crawford, 37, has yet to announce his next opponent after snatching Israil Madrimov’s WBA junior middleweight title in August. Crawford,…

Dalton Smith may have to move on from his long-planned EBU title fight with Jon Fernandez but the undefeated junior welterweight is determined to remain positive.  The vacant title fight with Fernandez, 26-3 (22 KOs), was initially scheduled for September but Smith was ruled…

Chris Billam-Smith’s trainer, Shane McGuigan, has described the night that the Bournemouth man was crowned WBO cruiserweight champion as ‘the proudest moment as a coach.’ In May 2023, Billam-Smith condensed years of determination and desire into 12 gritty rounds of concentration and hard work…

Jai Opetaia is targeting the winner of Saturday’s unification cruiserweight title fight between Gilberto Ramirez and Chris Billam-Smith. “Zurdo” and Billam-Smith contest their respective WBA and WBO titles at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aware that Australia’s Opetaia remains most widely regarded…

Jesse Hart will face Ricardo Luna in an eight-round light heavyweight bout on Friday, November 22, at the Liacouras Center at Temple University in Philadelphia.  The card features five Philadelphia fighters, two from Pennsylvania, and three from nearby New Jersey. Hart, 31-3 (25…

Marquis Taylor will return to the ring on December 13 in Houston, Texas, to face undefeated Petr Khamukov at the Red Owl Boxing Arena.  The fight will be broadcast live on DAZN. Taylor, now trained by former titleholder Shawn Porter, hasn’t lost in…

Matchroom Boxing and Golden Boy Promotions are already regularly featured on DAZN. Queensberry Promotions will join forces with the streaming service in April. And with Top Rank’s deal with ESPN set to expire in summer 2025, that company is looking at the…

It has been 19 years and five months since Mike Tyson last stepped into the ring for a sanctioned fight. It was a different time in many ways: Barack Obama was a newly elected senator, the United Kingdom was in the European Union, Floyd Mayweather…