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We shouldn’t really be surprised that Tyson Fury is having trouble facing reality and accepting that Oleksandr Usyk defeated him in their massive May 18 unification showdown. As fans know, Usyk boxed brilliantly, the southpaw from Ukraine punishing Fury in the ninth round, with Usyk…

Nine-time United States (U.S.) National champion and four-time National Golden Gloves titleholder Morelle “Big Blessed” McCane qualified for the Paris (France) 2024 Olympics (in the welterweight division) in December 2023 when she finished second at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. She defeated…

Undefeated WBO featherweight champion Rafael Espinoza (25-0, 21 KOs) made it look easy in a voluntary defense of his title by obliterating Sergio Chirino (22-2, 13 KOs) by a fourth-round knockout on Friday night at the BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. The tall, stork-like Espinoza…

Dereck Chisora feels confident about victory in his 12-round heavyweight headliner contest next month against ‘The Juggernaut’ Joe Joyce at the O2 Arena in London. Joyce is a little less shopworn than Chisora, but he’s got the size, power and the jab to make mincemeat…

Ryan Garcia says he will find a way to continue boxing despite the New York State Athletic Commission’s one-year ban for his positive drug tests. Considering how popular Garcia is, he could find a way to circumvent the New York State Athletic Commission’s ban. Along…

Suspended as he is from the sport of boxing for a year (and also fined to the tune of a little over $1 million), Ryan Garcia thinks he has the answer: move into another sport, another combat sport – MMA. And so Garcia, who has…

Plenty of fights, if they are one of the following: great, controversial in nature in terms of result or simply fan-demanded, happen. Other times, however, they do not. Case in point: the terrific, bloody, action-packed, and it-left-a-fight-fan-craving-more heavyweight slugfest between Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko.…

Tim Bradley believes Ryan Garcia should have been given a two-year to life ban by the New York State Athletic Commission when they decided his case on Thursday instead of the one-year ban they handed down to him for his positive test for the banned…

Ryan Garcia is demanding Devin Haney give him back the $1.5 million he paid him for coming in 3.2 lbs overweight for their fight on April 20th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. No Fight, No Pay? There was a $500,000 per pound…