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Ahead of his crunch, must-win return fight with Oleksandr Usyk, former heavyweight champ Tyson Fury was asked to name his career-toughest ring foe. Speaking on a promotion to hype a new video game, 36-year-old Fury might have been expected to name Oleksandr Usyk as his…

Sometimes in the sport of boxing, it’s how you go out and forget all the great stuff that came before the fall. You know what I mean: the great Muhammad Ali, all but untouchable in his prime (or primes), but he went out on the…

Bill Haney, the father of Devin Haney, posted a rambling video on social media, gushing about YoutTuber turned boxer Jake Paul’s hustle, bringing in money, and becoming what he feels is the new “face of Boxing.” The gushing praise Bill gave to Jake seemed to…

Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis’ coach, Kenny Ellis, came to the defense of his fighter over the backlash from fans over his choice of super featherweight Lamont Roach Jr. for his next title defense of his WBA lightweight belt on December 14th in Houston. Fans view this…

Tyson Fury is a classic example of a person with a victim mentality going into his rematch with WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight champion Olekandr Usyk on December 21st. Fury still believes he was a victim of the judges last time he fought Usyk (22-0,…

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn believes his fighter, Dmitry Bivol, has a good chance of defeating Artur Beterbiev, using his ring IQ to outbox the knockout artist next week on October 12th. Hearn says the first six rounds will be important Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) because…

A former WBA super-bantamweight champ and the current WBA mandatory contender, Murodjon Akhmadaliev is putting yet more pressure on Japanese superstar and reigning pound-for-pound king Naoya Inoue to face him in the ring. Inoue, who holds all the gold at 122 pounds, is supposedly set…

Earlier today in Australia, two-belt middleweight champ Janibek Alimkhanuly of Kazakhstan retained both the IBF and the WBO 160-pound belts with a dominant ninth-round stoppage win over a game but outgunned Andrei Mikhailovich. The defending southpaw champ pretty much had things all his own way,…

Rios. This main event will be streaming live on ESPN+ in the States in case boxing fans hadn’t heard the recent news. If successful it appears the WBA has named former 122-champ Stephen Fulton as Nick Ball’s mandatory. Ball is the clear favorite with his…