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The return fight between female stars of the sport Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano was both a thriller and a controversial fight. Now, the fight holds another distinction: that of it being the single most-watched women’s sporting event ever. Not just boxing, but all women’s…

The golden oldies just keep on coming. Just a few days after a 58 year old Mike Tyson returned to the ring to go down on points against Jake Paul, former WBC heavyweight champ Oliver McCall made a ring return of his own. And McCall,…

David Morrell says he’s not worried about being knocked out by David Benavidez because he’s a volume puncher for their fight on February 1st. Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) wins his fights by landing an accumulation of shots, and that approach won’t work against the 26-year-old…

Floyd Schofield Jr. and his father, Floyd Sr., have confirmed that lightweight prospect Abdullah Mason’s recent two knockdowns he suffered earlier this month against the unheralded super featherweight Yohan Vasquez on November 8th were an indication that he has a weak chin. Schofield Sr. says…

WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion David Morrell and rather thick in the middle David Benavidez came face-to-face today and traded words for their February 1st match on PBC on Prime Video PPV. One thing that stood out in the face-off was the size of Benavidez’s…

Jake Paul has been offered a title shot by IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois for his belt. This is a fight that has very little chance of happening because Jake isn’t insane enough to accept it, and wind up getting seriously hurt. Dubois (22-2, 21…

And we thought the fight game could not get any more weird, or unsettling. After 58 year old Mike Tyson was made to look every inch his age against Jake Paul, a man who would not have lasted a minute with the peak Tyson, some…

For boxing fans who cannot get enough big fight action, even over the Christmas period, there is good news. As has already been announced, this a while back, unified super-bantamweight king Naoya Inoue will defend against IBF mandatory challenger Sam Goodman on December 24th, the…

As fans may have read, former heavyweight world title challenger Dillian Whyte will return to action on December 15, this against Ghana’s Ebenezer Tetteh, and Whyte is already calling for his next fight after that – one with old foe Derek Chisora. Whyte is 2-0…