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To avoid a conflict with UFC 302 on June 1, the pay-per-view light-heavyweight boxing match between former UFC brawlers Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal will be shifted to July 6 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, an official involved in the change told BoxingScene Tuesday.…

With one eye nearly shut, Mario Barrios survived a tough test and retained a secondary welterweight title on Saturday in his first defense. Barrios defeated Fabian Maidana, the younger brother of Marcos Maidana, on the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Jaime Munguia bill at T-Mobile Arena in…

WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo was arrested following a traffic collision Monday in Pearland, Texas, booked on suspicion of three misdemeanor counts (driving while intoxicated, fleeing a police officer and leaving the scene of a crash), according to news reports. BoxingScene reached out to…

Cruiserweight Jai Opetaia is backing his countryman George Kambosos “all the way” in this Saturday’s vacant IBF lightweight title clash with Vasiliy Lomachenko in Perth, Australia.  Kambosos (21-2, 10 KOs) has the chance to become a two-time world champion this weekend following a dubious…

Vasiliy Lomachenko is heading into Saturday’s world title fight against George Kambosos knowing that his career is approaching the end.   Lomachenko faces Kambosos this weekend (May 12) for the vacant IBF lightweight title, in what will be the Ukrainian’s first fight back after losing…

Robbie Davies Jr. has a young family, but was spending most of his time commuting to and from London to train with coach Shane McGuigan. Something had to change. Davies faces former IBF junior welterweight champion Sergey Lipinets in a 10-round main event on Wednesday…

WBO super lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez will fight next on June 29 in Miami. He will box Calgary’s Steve Claggett, 38-7-2 (26 KOs), in his first fight since an unspectacular outing against Jamaine Ortiz in Las Vegas in February.  The always outspoken Lopez…

Robbie Davies Jr (23-4, 15 KOs) and Sergey Lipinets (17-3-1, 13 KOs) have both made the agreed catchweight limit of 142 pounds.  Davies Jr hit the scale at 141.6 pounds, with Lipinets also coming in 141.6 pounds ahead of tomorrow’s 10-round main event…

NEWARK, N.J. (May 7, 2024) — Newark’s three-division king is ready to defend his crown on native turf. Shakur Stevenson will make the inaugural defense of his WBC lightweight world championship against Armenian-born German Olympian Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday, July 6, at Prudential Center in his hometown of Newark,…