ORANGE, California – Diego Pacheco couldn’t quite keep a proud grin from emerging as he watched his brother sign with Golden Boy Promotions, and considered his own bright future. Pacheco, the WBO’s No.1-rated super middleweight to champion Canelo Alvarez, may be bound to join…

All of the fighters on the DAZN-streamed portion of Saturday night’s 11-bout Golden Boy Promotions card at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, made weight on Friday. Main-event junior welterweights Oscar Duarte, 28-2-1 (22 KOs), and his replacement opponent and Mexican countryman Miguel Madueno, 31-3…

Following in the slipstream of welterweight stars Errol Spence and Terence Crawford, Cleveland prospect Abdullah Mason looked up to both. They met in a definitive showdown in 2023, when Crawford – at his very best – dismantled Spence in a Las Vegas showpiece fight.…

Jack Catterall narrowly outweighed Arnold Barboza Jnr ahead of Saturday’s WBO interim junior-welterweight title fight at the Co-op Live in Manchester, England. The rivals – Catterall is 31 and his opponent 33 – fight to earn the status of mandatory challenger to the full champion…

The San Diego native and Team USA amateur Julius “Juju” Ballo will make his professional debut at featherweight against the undefeated Brandan Ayala at San Diego’s Sycuan Casino Resort on March 22. Ayala, 19 years old, is 2-0, having stopped one of his two opponents. …

ORANGE, California – Oscar Duarte’s time with Golden Boy Promotions started by him saying “Yes” to a far more problematic request, so accepting a second consecutive replacement opponent for his main event on Saturday night was really not an imposition. Duarte, 29, enters his…

The Danish super middleweight Oliver Zaren is back in action in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 8, on a Danish Fight Night promotion. His opponent is to be confirmed. Zaren, 15-0 (6 KOs), and 25 years old, was previously promoted by Wasserman Sports, and has fought…

The 2020 Olympian Rohan Polanco is looking to make a big statement in an old weight class. Polanco, from the Dominican Republic, turned professional at welterweight and had a run at junior welterweight, but to start 2025 he will look to campaign for a…

I’m pretty excited about Denys Berinchyk-Keyshawn Davis. Davis looks like a sure thing when you watch him – he looks very, very good. And Berinchyk, though not always pleasing on the eye, is a tough guy to look good against. He can be awkward; make a…