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Saudi Arabia and His Excellency Turki Alalshikh want to change the sport by creating a global boxing league. The idea is to unite the promotional companies by having one boxing league with 200 best fighters in twelve weight classes competing. Fans on social media are…

Rewind to earlier this week, and former heavyweight champ Tyson Fury was about as far away from training hard in a boxing gym as he could possibly have been. The 35-year-old was instead unable to stand as he splashed out of a bar in his…

During this time of stacked cards and a ‘you’ve never had it so good’ outlook from boxing promoters, it’s worth remembering some of the great cards we fight fans were treated to back in the 1980s. On this day in 1986, at Madison Square Garden,…

Errol Spence is confident his fighter Frank Martin will dethrone WBA ‘regular’ lightweight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis this Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Martin’s Calculated Risk Pays Off Martin (18-0, 12 KOs) is getting his opportunity to show the…

Teofimo Lopez recommends that Frank Martin take the fight to WBA ‘regular’ lightweight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, attack him to the body, and not show fear in their fight this Saturday night on PBC on Premier Prime PPV in Las Vegas. WBO light welterweight champion…

Twenty years ago today, Marcos Maidana – for plenty of fight fans one of the most go-to warriors of the 2000s in terms of seeing guaranteed action – punched out his pro debut. Maidana, after having a good amateur career, during which time he fought…

As fight fans know, we have seen some stacked cards take place as of late, the big Saudi money machine serving to give us the fights we want again and again. And the trend doesn’t look like it will come to an end any time…

How many great fighters have been handed the silver screen treatment, either posthumously or while still living? Plenty, that’s for sure. And while some of these films/movies/biopics have been nothing short of great: see ‘Raging Bull,’ ‘The Fighter,’ ‘The Joe Louis Story,’ and maybe one…

Oleksandr Gvozdyk has the physical advantages to test David Benavidez in their fight this Saturday night for the WBC interim light heavyweight title on June 15th on PBC on Prime Video PPV at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs)…