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“Why do people criticize fighters attempting to carve out independent paths and facing opponents they consider bums when a big promoter builds fighters the same way?” It’s a hypothetical that Steve Johnson Sr. pondered as he was discussing his son, junior featherweight Steve…

Ryan Rozicki is scheduled to finally challenge cruiserweight titleholder Noel Mikaelian on Sept. 28 at Casino Miami. Mikaelian (27-2, 12 KOs), from Yerevan, Armenia, and fighting out of Miami, was originally scheduled to defend his world title against Canada’s Rozicki (20-1, 19 KOs) on…

Francis Ngannou may have fought two of the biggest-name heavyweight boxers in the world, but he no longer has plans of chasing a title in the ring. Ngannou, who made his transition from MMA to boxing when he fought Tyson Fury last year, is…

Angel Ayala opened a new chapter in his young career with an impressive sixth-round knockout of Dave Apolinario to earn a vacant flyweight belt Friday at Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City. Ayala (18-0, 8 KOs), from Texcoco, Mexico, showed…

Argi Cortes won a battle of wills by stopping Salvador Juarez in an entertaining encounter Friday at Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City, Mexico. The referee ended the junior bantamweight bout in a TKO win for Cortes (27-4-2, 11 KOs) after medics declared Juarez unfit to…

LAS VEGAS – It wasn’t Vergil Ortiz Jr. who had any trouble making weight. It was the final undercard fighter – winless junior featherweight James Mulder of Antioch, California – who experienced every ounce of the soul-crushing anguish that accompanies the hollow feeling of…

LOS ANGELES – All signs are showing that Saturday night’s slugfest between power-punching knockout artists Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Serhii Bohachuk will be a barnburner .  Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs) and the WBC interim junior middleweight titleholder Bohachuk (24-1, 23 KOs) will battle…

LOS ANGELES – All signs point toward Saturday night’s potential slugfest between power-punching knockout artists Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Serhii Bohachuk being a barnburner . Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs) and the WBC interim junior middleweight titleholder Bohachuk (24-1, 23 KOs) will battle it…

As we near the end of the 2024 Paris Olympics, four Olympic gold medals were handed out in the men’s welterweight, women’s flyweight, men’s heavyweight and women’s welterweight on Friday. Khelif claims gold for Algeria Algeria’s Imane Khelif has added a new title to…