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“King” Callum Walsh and Carlos Ortiz have sold out their show, the 360 Promotions’ Hollywood Fight Nights at the Chumash Casino Resort on Friday. Junior middleweight prospect Walsh (10-0, 8 KOs), who is trained by Freddie Roach, faces 14-5 (14 KOs) Ortiz (14-5, 14…

Should Chris Billam-Smith gain revenge over Richard Riakporhe at London's Selhurst Park and successfully defend his WBO cruiserweight title for the second time, he will likely take aim at the other belt holders in the division. Billam-Smith (19-1, 13 KOs) won the title in…

Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon, a former two-division titleholder at 105 and 108 pounds who helped pioneer the mainstreaming of boxing’s lower weight divisions, will later this week be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having pushed through a difficult childhood in Puerto Rico,…

Welterweight Cody Crowley will reportedly no longer face IBF titleholder Jaron “Boots” Ennis on July 13 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Crowley was forced to withdraw from what would have been the first title fight of his career after failing a pre-fight eye…

The fame of newly crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is rapidly growing. Having dethroned WBC champion Tyson Fury last month, and promptly agreed to a rematch on December 21, Hollywood has come calling. Usyk has been cast alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson…

Three-division women’s champion and current undisputed middleweight champ Claressa Shields will move up to light heavyweight to challenge current heavyweight titleholder Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse on July 27 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Shields, despite her unrivaled amateur and professional accomplishments, has often struggled to…

Dalton Smith expects Sunny Edwards to prove he has moved on from the disappointment of his first defeat when he fights Adrian Curiel on June 29. The 28-year-old Edwards lost for the first time when in December he was stopped by Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez in…

When Adrien Broner was late to Tuesday’s press conference Don King was left asking his staff: “Where’s our problem child?”  For the poster advertising Broner’s fight on Friday with Blair Cobbs, slated for the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood on Friday,…

The WBC has requested further information from Ryan Garcia regarding his failed drugs tests for his fight with Devin Haney. Garcia, 25, came in overweight, and therefore was ineligible to win the sanctioning body’s super-lightweight title that Haney was defending for the first time,…