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Kenneth Sims Jr. will make his ring return in a 10-round junior welterweight contest against Jair Valtierra on Saturday in Las Vegas. The fight, which will be featured on the Vergil Ortiz Jr.-Serhii Bohachuk undercard at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, will be…

Bantamweight Jordan Fuentes is set to embark on the second act of his career—his professional career—after winning the Olympic Trials following the tragic death of his sister, Jolissa Fuentes. Fuentes will enter the professional ring for the first time on Saturday, having signed with…

Renowned trainer Bob Santos has described a possible Terence “Bud” Crawford and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez showdown at 168 pounds as a “step too far” for the newly-crowned WBA junior middleweight champion. Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) became a four-division world champion after a unanimous decision…

Trainer Rudy Hernandez believes that three-division titleholder Junto Nakatani, who has held titles as a flyweight and junior bantamweight before becoming the bantamweight champion, will be the best he has ever trained.  In July, Nakatani knocked out Vincent Astrolabio in the first round to…

As if two fighters nearing a title shot, bringing close to a 100 percent knockout rate isn’t enough, Saturday’s Vergil Ortiz-Serhii Bohachuk junior-middleweight bout now has the full attention of the sport’s new fight-making wizard, Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh. Texas’ Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs),…

On Sept. 21, Anthony Joshua will face IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium. Should Joshua, 28-3 (25 KOs), beat his fellow Londoner, he will recapture the belt he first won against Charles Martin more than eight years ago. Yet this is a…

JK Rowling screamed ‘brutal injustice’, multiple half-baked reports were published on websites and even broadcast on news bulletins, and before we knew it a man had beaten up a woman inside a boxing ring. The power of social media is currently in the spotlight,…

The Olympic boxing tournament is building towards a crescendo in Paris. At recent editions of the Games, medallists from Team GB have stepped down from the podium to find professional promoters waiting with open cheque books. Things will be different this year and that…

Terence Crawford proved why he is one of – if not the – greatest pound-for-pound fighters in the world after winning a world title in a fourth division. Crawford secured a unanimous decision victory over Israil Madrimov to steal his junior middleweight…