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Pick It: Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk When to Watch: Saturday, May 18. Please note the earlier start time, as this show emanates from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia: Top Rank’s press release says the undercard begins at noon Eastern Time / 5 p.m. BST. Other…

Promoter Ben Shalom is excited about the future of Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and now welterweight world champion Lauren Price.  Price (7-0, 1 KOs) appeared in her native Wales in the capital, Cardiff, for the first time as a professional, impressing in victory against…

Lennox Lewis is widely regarded as the last undisputed heavyweight champion by virtue of beating Evander Holyfield in 1999. It’s certainly true if one applies the dictionary definition to ‘undisputed’ – nobody disputed that Lewis was the best, after all.  However, boxing is boxing…

Cherneka Johnson became a two-division world champion on Saturday night, yet the circumstances of the announcement of victory overshadowed the outcome. Lt. Dan Hennessey, the ring announcer, stated her opponent Nina Hughes had won the bout before correcting himself and announcing Johnson as the winner. …

Cherneka Johnson became a two-division world champion on Saturday night, yet the circumstances of the announcement of victory overshadowed the outcome. Lt. Dan Hennessey, the ring announcer, stated her opponent Nina Hughes had won the bout before correcting himself and announcing Johnson as the winner. …

George Warren wants Denzel Bentley to stay busy and build on the momentum he generated by stopping Danny Dignum at London’s York Hall on Saturday night.  Six months after losing his British middleweight title to an inspired Nathan Heaney, a calm, focused Bentley took…

Vasyl Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) returned to the top table of the lightweight ranks with an impressive 11th-round knockout of George Kambosos (21-3, 10 KOs) in Perth, Australia, to claim the vacant IBF world lightweight title.  Not only did Lomachenko impress in the one-sided…

Heavyweight Jett Blackwell is a regional fighter with big-city dreams but, for now, he is a full-time father, part-time gardener and happens to be living his father’s dream – which is being a professional boxer. Blackwell, 22, returns on a Westside Promotions card, on…

Australian heavyweight Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne has announced his retirement from professional boxing. Browne suffered a first-round defeat to New Zealand prospect Hemi Ahio on the undercard of Vasiliy Lomachenko-George Kambosos Jr. at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, leaving his final record at…