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Unbeaten junior lightweight Austin Brooks (12-0-1, 5 KOs) fought to a split draw with Aram Avagyan (11-1-3, 5 KOs) in the main event of the “EQC Fight Night” card at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington.  Brooks, 28, from San Diego, needed a strong…

David Benavidez fully intends to sign an appeal letter keeping him positioned as Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s WBC super middleweight mandatory challenger, his father-trainer, Jose Benavidez Sr., told BoxingScene on Monday. “Already been talked about, ready to go,” Benavidez Sr. said of the letter. …

Lightweight Karlos Balderas will make his 360 Promotions debut on July 26 at the Commerce Casino in Commerce, California, but he has his eyes set on future revenge against Rene Tellez Giron – the first man to defeat him as a professional. Balderas, a…

Naoya Inoue doesn’t feel obligated to adhere to a mandatory junior featherweight title assignment because he’s not long for the division, his American promoter Bob Arum told BoxingScene on Monday. Arum was talking about the likely 2024 schedule for Japan’s Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs),…

Pick It: Rafael Espinoza vs. Sergio Chirino When to Watch: Friday, June 21, 10 p.m. Eastern Time  How to watch: ESPN+ Why to Watch: Espinoza is coming off a big upset — so big that it was named BoxingScene’s Upset of the…

Representatives of lightweight champions Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko plan to meet “shortly” to discuss the possibility of staging a unification bout in the late fall, Lomachenko promoter Bob Arum told BoxingScene on Monday. “Very good, powerful kid, good puncher, and he wasn’t…

Errol Spence Jr. has kept a mostly low profile since suffering a one-sided stoppage defeat by Terence Crawford for the undisputed welterweight title.  Spence was thrust back into the spotlight over the weekend in Las Vegas, this time as a promoter backing his charge,…

Hamza Uddin is relishing the support he is receiving in his attempts to become the first ever British-Bangladeshi world champion. The flyweight, 20, on Saturday at Birmingham's Resorts World Arena – near his hometown of Walsall – fights Jose Maria Hernandez on the undercard of…

Time has a strange way of enhancing and exaggerating some memories, while others get put to the back of the mind and fade away. The European middleweight champion, Tyler Denny, hasn’t allowed time to dull his image of Felix Cash.  Denny makes the…