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Arguably the pick of the fights in Saturday’s “5 vs. 5” event pits heavyweight big hitters Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang against one another. Both are coming off defeats to New Zealand’s Joseph Parker, and the loser faces a long way back to contention.…

While his British promotional rivals are in Saudi Arabia this week, Boxxer’s Ben Shalom admits there is an inevitability about his stable of fighters joining the lucrative shows in the Middle East. In an interview with Boxing Social, Shalom said that the goal of…

A rash of injuries has derailed WBC, WBO, and IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev's career in recent years.  Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) was supposed to square off against WBA beltholder Dmitrii Bivol (22-0, 11 KOs) on Saturday in a highly anticipated fight for…

Commonwealth super lightweight champion, Jack Rafferty, will step up to the welterweight division in Liverpool on June 29. Rafferty will fight India’s Sabari Jaishankar, 11-2 (5 KOs), for the IBO Continental welterweight title on a Conlan Boxing show and will be broadcast live on DAZN. …

It has been reported that former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who turns 58 in June, suffered a ‘medical emergency’ during a flight from Miami to Los Angeles. Tyson’s representatives have confirmed that he became nauseous and dizzy on Sunday (May 26) while on…

Each day, ahead of the 5 x 5 bill in the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia, BoxingScene will look forward to the bill and preview one of the major fights, culminating on Saturday with Dmitrii Bivol’s WBA light-heavyweight title defense against Milak Zinad. Few are…

Heavyweight Cassius Chaney is looking to build off his spectacular knockout of Trevor Bryan last November. Chaney faces former 2012 U.S. Olympian Michael Hunter as part of Don King’s “Fists of Fury” event on June 7, at the Hard Rock Live at Seminole…

Cuban junior welterweight Kevin Brown is trying to do the impossible and make an ordinary name extraordinary. Brown boxes Idalberto Umara on Friday (May 30) at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida, in a bout that will be telecast on DAZN. Brown…

Promoter Paco Damian, CEO of Paco Presents Boxing, has signed junior bantamweight contender Jonathan Rodriguez to a multi-year promotional contract. Rodriguez is ranked No. 6 by the IBF, No. 12 by the WBO and No. 13 by the WBC. His new promoter…