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Claressa Shields has reinvented herself in her attempts to achieve light heavyweight and heavyweight glory. The undisputed middleweight champion, widely recognised as the finest female fighter of all time, on Saturday fights at 175lbs for the first time when she attempts to dethrone Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse…

Joe Joyce has defended Derek Chisora’s right to remain active. The rival heavyweights fight on Saturday at London’s O2 Arena, in an occasion that has increased concerns surrounding the 40-year-old Chisora’s health. Across the course of 47 fights – 324 rounds and 13 defeats, including four…

Justis Huni wants to build on the “domino effect” he believes is elevating Australian boxing. The heavyweight, 25, on Thursday fights his fellow Australian Troy Pilcher at Brisbane’s Fortitude Hall. He does so at a time when it is hoped that Tim Tszyu…

Australia’s leading junior-featherweight contender Sam Goodman is hoping for one more fight this year – providing the hands he injured last month against “Rock Man” Worawut have sufficiently healed. That fight could even come against the winner of the clash in September clash between…

Rare is the moment in boxing when two supremely talented fighters are in their 20s, unbeaten, three-division champions, and free to fight each other. Lightweight champions Gervonta Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) and Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) are. Days after the veteran IBF lightweight…

Rare is the moment in boxing when two supremely talented fighters are in their 20s, unbeaten, three-division champions, and free to fight each other. Lightweight champions Gervonta Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) and Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) are. Days after the veteran IBF lightweight…

Lightweight Karlos Balderas and flyweight Daniel “Chucky” Barrera have been added to the “Hollywood Fight Nights” event scheduled for Aug. 31 at Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.  Balderas (14-2, 12 KOs), of nearby Santa Maria, California, will return against Dominican veteran William…

Purse bids for the fight between Tim Tszyu and Erickson Lubin have been cancelled. Representatives of Lubin, 28, informed the IBF that their fighter wouldn’t be “medically fit” to fight, BoxingScene understands; a date of July 30 had been set for purse bids for…

Vergil Ortiz Jr has dismissed suggestions he still needs to prove himself at junior middleweight when he fights Serhii Bohachuk on August 10. The 26 year old challenges Bohachuk for the Ukrainian’s WBC interim title at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay, in what represents his third…