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The year 2025 is already more than two weeks old. Somebody should probably let the sport of boxing know. Yeah, it’s been a slow January in our sport. Real slow. Like, Nicolay-Valuev-loading-up-on-an-overhand-right slow. Larry-Merchant-pondering-the-start-of-a-postfight-soliloquy slow. Ashton-Sylve-getting-up-from-that-Lucas-Bahdi-combo slow. There haven’t been any…

Former light heavyweight titleholder Joe Smith Jnr will headline the 50th edition of the Rockin’ Fights series on February 13 at The Paramount in Huntington, New York. Smith, 28-5 (22 KOs), from Long Island, New York, will face an opponent to be named in…

The WBO Thursday issued a show-cause notice to its No. 3-ranked junior-featherweight Dennis McCann, who was forced off a Dec. 21 Riyadh Season card after an adverse finding for banned performance-enhancing drugs. The WBO’s world championship committee will give England’s 24-year-old McCann, 16-0-1 (8…

‘Retirement – the action or fact of ceasing to work.’ There has been much talk about retirement in recent days, with Tyson Fury uttering the word for the umpteenth time to more fanfare than it will likely turn out to merit. Sitting in a…

It takes a lot to shock and disturb when it comes to boxing these days, but occasionally one is unpleasantly surprised. There are, it seems, still some unopened doors and unoccupied rooms inside the dystopian world we all call home.  Today, for example, a…

Heavyweight Zhilei Zhang declined to make a pick between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury should the two British fighters decide to slug it out later this year. Fury announced his retirement from the sport on Monday despite rumors suggesting that he could lock horns…

SOUTHAMPTON – “If I lose March 1st there’s nothing for me,” said Southampton’s Ryan Garner. “The Piranha” was speaking ahead of his March 1 Bournemouth fight with Salvador Jimenez for the vacant European junior lightweight title, knowing that a win at the Bournemouth International…

In this week’s mailbag, we tackle the latest retirement announcement from former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder’s comeback foe, Naoya Inoue’s late replacement opponent, Artur Beterbiev’s short turnaround time, Teofimo Lopez turning down Subriel Matias, and Erislandy Lara’s run of knockouts. Want to…

Lightweight Raymond Muratalla knows he has a difficult task ahead of him against Zaur Abdullaev. That business has to be handled before even thinking of facing IBF lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko. California’s Muratalla, 28, is reportedly negotiating an interim IBF lightweight title fight against…