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Once a wide-eyed child walking Hall of Famer Andre Ward to the ring, David Lopez, now 20 years old, is making strides with his own professional career. The junior welterweight will fight Pedro Pinillo on Friday at the Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta – a…

Kurt Scoby is a formidable junior welterweight prospect and, like many around the world, a commuter. After losing his most recent fight, Scoby, a former football player, is now seeking to prove that his boxing ambitions are valid. That loss also led to a change…

Former junior lightweight titleholder Tevin Farmer believes a lightweight unification superbout between titleholders Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko is anybody’s to lose. Farmer (33-5-1, 8 KOs), who is billed to fight Raymond Muratalla (20-0, 16 KOs) on Saturday in a Top Rank…

LOS ANGELES – Shakur Stevenson’s free agency tour officially launched Thursday as the unbeaten three-division and WBC lightweight titleholder engaged in an afternoon Zoom call with Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions. “I believe there’s absolutely an opportunity [to sign Stevenson],” De…

LOS ANGELES – The scrap between knockout artists Serhii Bohachuk and Vergil Ortiz Jr. is shaping up to be a scintillating slugfest, and the headliners gathered Thursday at Golden Boy headquarters to start stewing interest for their summer showdown. Bohachuk (24-1, 23 KOs), a…

The stage is set. All that’s left is for Jaron “Boots” Ennis to do what Jaron “Boots” Ennis does. This Saturday, the undefeated Ennis – the man many believe to be boxing’s next pound-for-pound great – will return to his native Philadelphia to make…

Unified middleweight titleholder Janibek Alimkhanuly sat stoically as challenger Andrei Mikhailovich stole the show at their press conference with lively comments contrasting Alimkhanuly's typically professional, monotone responses. The two will fight for the titles on Saturday at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. …

Before he ever laced up boxing gloves, George Foreman was emerging from childhood by taking work at the job corps in Pleasanton, California, where he sat alone after his shift, hoping he could bum a ride home off one of the older counselors and maybe…

Jalil Major Hackett and Peter Dobson had to be separated when they came head-to-head before they fight for real in Philadelphia on Saturday.  After some light-hearted exchanges during today’s press conference, Hackett pushed Dobson away by the neck and Dobson tried to slap him…