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Abass Baraou’s mandatory defense of the EBU junior middleweight title against Frenchman Milan Prat (25-1) has been postponed from February 12 to March 22 and will now go ahead in Paris, France, and not Grenoble as previously announced. If the fight is to go…

To watch Naoya Inoue in a mismatch is to watch Aretha do a vocal warm-up, or Hendrix tune his guitar, or Dylan scribble what he can recall of last night’s dream on a restaurant napkin. It is not to be confused with experiencing the fighter…

Curmel Moton announced via social media that his next opponent will be Frank Zaldivar. The fight will be a six-round junior welterweight bout taking place on the preliminary card of David Benavidez-David Morrell pay-per-view on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.…

The biggest threat to Martin Bakole in May is not Efe Ajagba, his next opponent, but instead his own complacency and the temptation to look beyond his next opponent.  That’s according to Billy Nelson, Bakole’s trainer, who has been with the Congolese heavyweight since…

Super lightweights Dalton Smith and Walid Ouizza both successfully made weight ahead of their vacant European title fight on Saturday (January 25) in Nottingham, England. Smith, the favourite, recorded a weight of 140 pounds at this afternoon’s weigh-in, while Ouizza came in a touch…

Ireland's Michael Conlan is set to begin the mission to salvage his career on March 7 when he takes on Asad Asif Khan in Brighton, England. The eight-rounder will be on the undercard of Harlem Eubank-Tyrone McKenna. From India, the 19-5-1 (5 KOs) Khan has…

TOKYO, Japan - The smile that South Korea's Ye Joon Kim flashed at the camera as he stepped into the ring and awaited the arrival of Naoya Inoue inside the Ariake Arena wasn't fooling anyone. Facing Inoue, one of the sport's premier badasses, is a…

Highly ranked welterweight Jin Sasaki won a 12-round war with old friend Shoki Sakai but did little to prove he's ready to take on the division's best - even though he's sitting pretty in the ratings of all four sanctioning bodies. The unanimous scores in…

It has been something of a roller-coaster couple of years for Jose “Rayo” Valenzuela. In March 2023, coming off his first career defeat – a third-round knockout to Edwin de los Santos – he lost again, highly controversially, dropping a unanimous but razor-thin…