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Unbeaten #1 ranked William Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) outdueled #2 Vladimir Shishkin (16-1, 10 KOs), winning a questionable 12-round unanimous decision to capture the vacant IBF super middleweight title on Saturday night at the Stadthalle in Falkensee, Germany. Shishkin, 33, was the aggressor throughout, landing…

Coach Stephen Edwards says he doesn’t agree that the Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach fight is a Cherry pick, as many people do about their clash on December 14th at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. While Edwards doesn’t think Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) will…

We know all about the wrecking ball of a great heavyweight he was as a pro, but David Tua was also a fine amateur, as he learned his craft at a small gym in Mangere Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand, before he went on to…

Tim Tszyu is taking on a punching machine in IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev Tonight at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) is facing a powerful knockout artist in the main event, hoping to become a two-time 154-lb champion.…

Despite being sensationally, almost unbelievably stopped with just those two famous clicks left on the clock, this in the final round of his titanic battle with Julio Cesar Chavez, it’s possible, indeed likely, that many fans have no qualms in calling Meldrick Taylor a great…

Tim Tszyu takes on the dangerous puncher IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev tonight in a must-win for the former WBO champ at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. There’s an argument to be made that Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) didn’t need to take…

Promoter Bob Arum is furious about the IBF ordering undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev to defend his IBF belt against little-known mandatory Michael Eifert next. Arum feels that it’s silly for the International Boxing Federation to order Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) to a “non-entity”…

Ryan Garcia posted a long, detailed reason for why Devin Haney lost their fight on April 20th, and it had nothing to do with PEDs. Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) says that the left hook that he nailed Haney within 30 seconds of the fight hurt…

Though he has yet to confirm, officially at least, whether he will actually fight again, former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s name has remained in the headlines since his last fight, this a June stoppage defeat at the hands of Zhilei Zhang. There have been…