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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,…

TOKYO – I don’t know what I was expecting, but it’s fair to say I wasn’t expecting that. The pitch of the cheers was different, the weigh-ins, the pageantry, the respect, the routines, it was all different. Spending a few days in Tokyo…

Dan Azeez, the former British, Commonwealth and European light heavyweight champion, will return to the ring on the June 15th undercard of Chris Billam-Smith-Richard Riakporhe II at Selhurst Park. It will mark a quick turnaround for the 34-year-old, who lost for the first time as…

By the time Terence Crawford steps into the ring to face Israil Madrimov in a Los Angeles soccer stadium on Aug. 3, he will have been inactive for 371 days. That’s one year, plus a leap day, plus five ordinary days. That’s 53 weeks. …

Former WBO featherweight champion Heather Hardy (24-3, 4KOs) is facing retirement after expressing concern regarding cumulative concussions.  Hardy, who held the WBO title from 2018 to 2019, last fought in August 2023 against Amanda Serrano - a contest that left her with blurred vision…

Manny Pacquiao’s advisor Sean Gibbons has said the Filipino legend has given himself a nine-month window to fight again before hanging up his gloves for good. The 45-year-old has not boxed since a 2021 loss to Cuban Yordenis Ugas, but the 72-fight veteran and…

Talk to enough boxing lifers and they’ll say one of the most revealing elements of a champion’s mettle is how they perform once they’re knocked to the canvas. Funny, how at the same Tokyo Dome where Mike Tyson thumbed for his mouthpiece and succumbed…

TOKYO – Luis Nery might have cut a dejected figure this morning.  There was discolouration around his eyes but as he sat in the hotel lobby, he posed for pictures and signed autographs for the fans. He smiled more than he had all week. …