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LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. needed this. The junior middleweight contender went to war with Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday night, going through hell, going the 12-round distance for the first time in his professional career.  Heck, this was only the third time…

Turki Alalshikh has ruled out working with former junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu and hit back at Canelo Alvarez’s recent comments.  Alalshikh announced that he had cut ties with Tszyu after Vergil Ortiz Jr. defeated Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday (August 10). Tszyu and Ortiz…

LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. is just coming off a hard fight — easily the hardest fight of his career, given that Ortiz’s close win over Serhii Bohachuk was the first time that the junior middleweight contender had gone the distance. …

So much of what we’ve heard about Vergil Ortiz Jr. from Golden Boy Promotions’ executives in recent weeks is about some of the other junior middleweights Ortiz could face, whether it’s Terence Crawford or Tim Tszyu . Of course, Golden Boy…

It had been almost 15 months since Kenneth Sims Jr. last entered the ring. But now that the junior welterweight contender has returned — stopping late replacement opponent Jonathan Romero after five rounds on Saturday night — Sims feels ready to get back…

Although Vergil Ortiz will have adequately trained for it, and indeed one day expected it, still nothing can fully prepare a puncher for the first time their opponent soaks up everything they throw at them and hardly blinks. It is usually in this mome nt…

When Anthony Joshua walks to the ring to fight Daniel Dubois for the IBF heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on September 21, 3,088 days will have passed since Joshua breezed past Charles Martin to first win the famous red belt.  Lots…

Camille Estephan’s journey to becoming the premier promoter in Canada began, appropriately enough, in a boxing gym. Estephan grew up in Lebanon where, he told BoxingScene recently, “my father – and in fact the whole family on my father's side – boxed.” But he…

Adam Booth insists he and Josh Kelly aren’t relying on a perceived decline in Liam Smith defining their date at Wembley Stadium of September 21.  Their middleweight contest was an unexpected inclusion on the undercard of the IBF heavyweight title fight between Anthony Joshua…