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Of course Murodjon “MJ” Akhmadaliev wants to be identified as a world champion again, but more than that, he longs for the opportunity to step in the ring against undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue. In a Monday interview with BoxingScene discussing his current…

Former two-division champion Miyo Yoshida returns to the ring in an eight-rounder on Saturday (February 1). Following her contentious loss to bantamweight champion Shurretta Metcalf last October, the 17-5 Yoshida will fight in an eight-rounder at Newark’s Prudential Center against Slovakia’s Beata Dudek, 5-5…

The countdown is on before Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz hopes he can get the momentum back into his career. His wings were clipped last August when he lost his WBA junior welterweight title to Jose Valenzuela but he returns Saturday (February 1) against Angel Fierro…

Ellie Scotney believes her impressive performance in victory on Saturday over Mea Motu owes to the spiritual “growth” she underwent while inactive for so much of 2024. The IBF and WBO super-bantamweight champion resisted a cut suffered by her left eye in the first…

Pick it: David Benavidez vs. David Morrell When to Watch: Saturday, February 1 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (1 a.m. GMT) How to watch: Pay-per-view via Amazon’s Prime Video, PPV.com and traditional cable and satellite outlets.  A free preliminary broadcast…

The lightning-quick fists of Adam Azim have whisked him to nine stoppage wins in his first 12 fights, and they might be faster than anything Sergey Lipinets has seen. They fight on Saturday (February 1) in Wembley Arena and while the 18-3-1 (13 KOs)…

Patrick Killian was barely an adult when he looked down at his hands and knew he had a choice to make. The pain he felt as he clenched them meant that if he continued to box, he would have to sacrifice his dreams of being…

Featherweight Runqi Zhou left his homeland of China five months ago to move to Australia to train with the Moloney Brothers – Jason and Andrew.  The decision paid off on January 8 when he upset previously unbeaten Australian Tony Ingram on the undercard of…

Trainer Robert Garcia believes Jaron “Boots” Ennis’ team felt it was too dangerous to move up straight into a fight with Vergil Ortiz Jnr, leading to the breakdown of their much-anticipated bout. Ennis and Ortiz were reportedly negotiating a clash at 154lbs on…