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Not long to go now until tonight’s potentially explosive card in Las Vegas. Tank Davis will of course get it on with Frank Martin, while up at 175 pounds, having move there, “Mexican Monster” David Benavidez will face battle-hardened veteran, former WBC champ Oleksandr Gvozdyk.…

Over the course of a decade, the ‘Four Kings’ thrilled the world. The various styles, characters, and personalities of the four greats – Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Duran – served up one of the hottest, most followed, in fact unmissable…

Promoter Eddie Hearn says Liam Paro will need to find a way not to fall behind early tonight against IBF light welterweight champion Subriel Matias at the Coliseo Juan Aubin Cruz Abreu in Manati, Puerto Rico. Avoiding an Early Deficit Hearn feels that if Paro (24-0,…

Lightweight contenders Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenko have a fight in talks for November says Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. If the fight gets made, the IBF and WBA 135-lb titles would be at stake. Lomachenko has wanted this fight for years since moving up…

Gervonta Davis, Frank Martin, David Benavidez, and Oleksandr Gvozdyk all weighed in successfully on Friday at the weigh-in for their card on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Gervonta Davis’s Energetic Weigh-In Tank (29-0, 27 KOs), the WBA ‘regular’ lightweight…

The weights are in for what just might be not only the fight of a pretty stacked weekend of boxing but also perhaps the Fight of the Year. Dubbed “the most dangerous man in boxing” today, reigning IBF 140-pound champ Subriel Matias will face unbeaten…

As fight fans may have read by now, unified 122-pound King Naoya Inoue has been ordered to face former two-belt super bantamweight champ Murodjon Akhmadaliev next. Inoue and Uzbekistan’s Akhmadaliev have until July 14 to reach an agreement. Inoue, 27-0(24), has spoken in the past…

Oleksandr Gvozdyk says he’s not going to run away from David Benavidez on Saturday night when the two battle for the WBC interim light heavyweight title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Benavidez’s fans believe the victory for him is virtually a…

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has revealed that CEO Leonard Ellerbe has stepped down from his position in Mayweather Promotions and has been replaced by Richard Schaefer. This will be a new era, with Ellerbe replaced by former Golden Boy Promotions boss Schaefer. There had been rumors…