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Promoter Oscar De La Hoya believes the World Boxing Council (WBC) acted hastily by expelling Ryan Garcia in reaction to his racist tirade on social media on Thursday. De La Hoya says nobody knows whether Ryan has a psychological problem or if he was on…

Lightweight contenders William Zepeda and Giovanni Cabrera both weighed in successfully at Friday’s weigh-in for their main event match on Saturday night, live on DAZN. (Credit: Golden Boy / Cris Esqueda) Zepeda-Cabrera will meet at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. The event begins at…

Shakur Stevenson successfully weighed in on Friday for the title defense of his WBC lightweight title against upset-minded Artem Harutyunyan for their headliner on ESPN. The card will be shown live on ESPN this Saturday, July 6th, starting at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT. (Credit:…

The official weights are in for tomorrow night’s expected fun fight, a slugfest between heavyweights Alen Babic and Johnny Fisher. Taking to the scales moments ago in London, both men look to be in fine physical shape. “Romford Bull” Fisher, the younger man at age…

A fight, a match-up that would have proven far more interesting had it somehow taken place a few years back, has been ordered by the WBA. Newly crowned WBA cruiserweight champ Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez has been ordered to defend his first title against former two-time…

Fight fans may have heard the news by now, of it being possible that British star Chris Eubank Junior could be the next man to fight Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez. And those fans who have heard the news have made their feelings clear. To be…

The Ryan Garcia car crash, or if you prefer, train wreck, continues. But now, after Garcia’s latest outburst, this in the form or racial and Islamophobic comments from the once oh, so promising fighter, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has had enough. Sulaiman took to X…

WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson needs a “Floyd Mayweather moment,” according to Teddy Atlas, to build his popularity in the boxing community. Atlas points out that earlier in his career, Mayweather beat up and stopped a big puncher, Diego Corrales, in a fight that increased…

On paper, two of the three main events this weekend appear to have long odds in favor of the ‘A’ side. The one standout as a headliner is a unification bout between Kazuto Ioka and Fernando Martinez. (Photo credit: Golden Boy / Cris Esqueda) Although…