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Dereck Chisora feels confident about victory in his 12-round heavyweight headliner contest next month against ‘The Juggernaut’ Joe Joyce at the O2 Arena in London. Joyce is a little less shopworn than Chisora, but he’s got the size, power and the jab to make mincemeat…

Ryan Garcia says he will find a way to continue boxing despite the New York State Athletic Commission’s one-year ban for his positive drug tests. Considering how popular Garcia is, he could find a way to circumvent the New York State Athletic Commission’s ban. Along…

Suspended as he is from the sport of boxing for a year (and also fined to the tune of a little over $1 million), Ryan Garcia thinks he has the answer: move into another sport, another combat sport – MMA. And so Garcia, who has…

Plenty of fights, if they are one of the following: great, controversial in nature in terms of result or simply fan-demanded, happen. Other times, however, they do not. Case in point: the terrific, bloody, action-packed, and it-left-a-fight-fan-craving-more heavyweight slugfest between Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko.…

Tim Bradley believes Ryan Garcia should have been given a two-year to life ban by the New York State Athletic Commission when they decided his case on Thursday instead of the one-year ban they handed down to him for his positive test for the banned…

Ryan Garcia is demanding Devin Haney give him back the $1.5 million he paid him for coming in 3.2 lbs overweight for their fight on April 20th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. No Fight, No Pay? There was a $500,000 per pound…

Devin Haney was celebrating a storm tonight, reacting to the New York State Athletic Commission handing down a one-year ban to Ryan Garcia as part of the settlement for his positive drug tests. Record Restored, But Victory Hollow On social media, Haney posted a clip…

The New York Athletic Commission has decided to ban rising star Ryan Garcia from boxing for one year, losing $1.1 million of his guaranteed purse, and the fight ruled a no-contest for his victory over Devin Haney on April 20th. Haney’s unbeaten record has been…

Lionell Thompson, super middleweight, predicts newly crowned WBC interim light heavyweight champion David Benavidez will be crushed when he faces Artur Beterbiev for all the belts at 175. Thompson feels that Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) has no chance against IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion Beterbiev (20-0,…