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LAS VEGAS – With a wealth of options in boxing’s deepest division, Oscar De La Hoya said the latest talks point a victorious Vergil Ortiz Jr. toward his first title against Tim Tszyu. Much still needs to transpire, with Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs) entering…

Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez have been the talk of the boxing world over the last week.  First, Crawford beat Israil Madrimov in a narrow unanimous decision to claim the WBA junior middleweight title on Saturday and become a four-division champion.  …

Usually, the discomfort experienced by someone watching a boxer cut weight is exceeded only by the discomfort of the boxer having to actually cut the weight. It is, for the bystander, a unique, unnerving experience, both voyeuristic and to a degree perverted. It can be…

Undefeated Sam Noakes (14-0, 13 KOs) is looking to return to knockout ways when he defends his European lightweight title against mandatory challenger Gianluca Ceglia (21-4-1, 4 KOs) at London’s York Hall on September 6. Noakes won the title with a dominant 12-round points victory…

Following a weekend of heightened drama connected to the U.S. debut Riyadh Season card in Los Angeles, the fallout/backlash has provoked a search for solutions and peace this week. On Wednesday’s string of BoxingScene’s Top Stories on ProBox TV, analysts Paulie Malignaggi and Chris…

Jarrett Hurd is well aware of what people have been saying about him. The reader comments under the Boxing Scene article from last week announcing his next fight, on Aug. 21 on ProBox TV against fellow former titleholder Jeison Rosario, offer a representative…

Jarrett Hurd is well aware of what people have been saying about him. The reader comments under the Boxing Scene article from last week announcing his next fight, on Aug. 21 on ProBox TV against fellow former titleholder Jeison Rosario, offer a representative…

Tim Tszyu is confident he and his team will be able to iron out any perceived differences with powerbroker Turki Alalshikh as he continues in his career. The junior middleweight contender from Australia lost for the first time in his career when beaten by…

The World Boxing Organization (WBO), in tandem with the Jake Paul-managed non-profit organization Boxing Bullies, inaugurated the newly rehabilitated Titanes Boxing Academy gym at Luis Martínez Lago Park in Morovis, Puerto Rico. The center’s facilities were modernized through the combined work of the WBO…