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Boxing’s best division is ready to flex its depth as the plans for junior middleweight titleholders Sebastian Fundora and Bakhram Murtazaliev started to unfold Friday. Fundora, 21-1-1 (13 KOs), and former three-belt welterweight titleholder Errol Spence Jnr, 28-1 (22 KOs), are currently awaiting contracts…

Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing have announced the signing of 2024 Olympian Nishant Dev. Dev, a 24-year-old from India, claimed bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, but he lost in the quarterfinals of the Paris Games to Mexico’s Marco Verde.…

Junior welterweights Subriel Matias and Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela have been ordered to face each other in an elimination bout, with the winner becoming the mandatory contender for the IBF title currently held by Richardson Hitchins. BoxingScene obtained a copy of the letter the IBF…

Jamel Herring, a former junior lightweight titleholder, was arrested in Warren County, Ohio, on January 9 and accused of domestic violence. On January 8, Herring’s wife, Jennifer, reported an incident to the City of Mason (Ohio) Police Department that she said occurred at their…

The cut that initially postponed Sam Goodman’s fight with Naoya Inoue has now caused Goodman to pull out of their rescheduled date. Goodman was originally supposed to challenge Inoue, the undisputed junior featherweight champion, on December 24 in Tokyo. The fight date was pushed…

Former super middleweight titleholder David Benavidez Jnr had been seeking some of the biggest fights available before lining up a matchup with David Morrell Jnr for February 1, and that plan seems to remain unchanged for Benavidez even after that fight. A challenge for…

Callum Simpson considers Saturday’s fight with Steed Woodall the “toughest” of his career. Simpson, inevitably, has grown in confidence since winning the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles against Zak Chelli in his dream fight in August 2024 – at Oakwell Football Ground, the home…

The only thing worse than a southpaw is two of them. Watch as they fight for space, tread on each other’s toes, and experiment with angles and punches they would ordinarily neglect. Watch as they overthink. Watch as they forget to throw. Watch as people…

Promoter Ben Shalom has said Boxxer has made an offer for Liam Cameron to rematch with Ben Whittaker. The two light heavyweights met in Saudi Arabia last October in a fight the highly-touted former Olympian Whittaker was struggling in before the fighters crashed over…