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Tyler Denny has criticised the “weird agendas” he believes means observers want Anthony Joshua to fail. Joshua, on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, challenges Dubois for the IBF heavyweight title on the occasion of the 27-year-old Dubois’ first title defence. Not unlike when at…

Junior lightweight Robson Conceicao, who captured Brazil’s first Olympic boxing gold at the 2016 Rio Games, now holds the WBC junior lightweight title after three previous failed attempts. Conceicao will face former titleholder O’Shaquie Foster (22-3, 12 KOs) in a rematch on November 2 at…

On Friday afternoon, Josh Warrington will step onto the scales beneath the famous arch that loops over London’s Wembley Stadium and weigh in ahead of his fight with the IBF junior lightweight titleholder Anthony Cacace.  The last time Warrington weighed close to the junior…

It was the worst retirement ever.  Joey Dawejko laughs, knowing that statement is correct, considering that since he walked away from the sport in 2022, he’s had eight fights and eight one-rounders for the Team Combat League.  What happened? “I was always…

The criticism of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s competition, if it hasn’t already peaked, is sure to reach a deafening pitch after his dismantling of Edgar Berlanga in Las Vegas on Sunday. For all Alvarez’s post-fight defiance, literally no one has claimed he doesn’t take on younger…

When analyzing the long arc of middleweight titleholder Erislandy Lara’s career, context is everything. To casual fans, he may be just another fighter. But to the hardcore fight crowd, the 41-year-old Lara is quite literally a national treasure. That Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) picked…

As he surveys his list of champions, one in particular is special to World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman. Unbeaten super-flyweight champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez “is a sensational, out-of-this-world phenomenon,” Sulaiman told BoxingScene hours after it was revealed at the weekly WBC news conference…

Video footage of three-belt heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in handcuffs and being escorted by police at John Paul II International Airport in Krakow, Poland, set off alarms, but has been quickly followed by statements that Usyk is freed. “Dear Friends: A misunderstanding took place.…

  Adam Azim believes a win over Ohara Davies on October 19 will elevate him to world level.   Azim, 22, fights Davies at London’s Copper Box Arena in his first big step-up since winning the European junior-welterweight title. He is familiar with his opponent…