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Floyd Schofield says Shakur Stevenson is an emotional, hyper-sensitive “Diva” with a developmental level of seven years. Besides that, he says he doesn’t like Shakur because he’s “ignorant.” Schofield (18-0, 12 KOs) will challenge the highly hyped but untested Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) for his…

As boxing fans may have read, Manchester’s trainer of champions – and be certain, Joe Gallagher thoroughly deserves the accolade – is right now battling bowel and liver cancer. Gallagher, at just 56 years of age, has been fighting the disease since November, and he…

Artur Beterbiev may need a knockout to retain his undisputed light heavyweight championship in his bout with crafty ex-WBA 175-lb champion Dmitry Bivol in their rematch this Saturday night, February 22nd, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Turki Alashikh has spoken, making it known that…

Over the years, over the decades, we have seen two great fighters who were best buddies fight one another (off the top of my head, I recall the Simon Brown-Maurice Blocker welterweight title from 1991, while going further back, Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Ellis were…

If things fall into place, and as long as the fighter does his job, both in the ring and outside of it, Ryan Garcia could enjoy one heck of a big comeback this year. And Garcia’s promoter Oscar De La Hoya is plenty excited about…

Saturday night’s IBF heavyweight title fight between defending champ Daniel Dubois and challenger, former WBO heavyweight champ Joseph Parker, is a big deal as it is, yet the winner will almost certainly face unified heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk next. And that will be really big,…

IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis says he’s going into his “Mr. Catchabody mode” as he begins preparing for his unification fight against WBA 147-lb champion on April 12th at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event…

By Tim Compton - 02/16/2025 - Comments Teofimo Lopez says Ryan Garcia needs to be careful with the power of Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero when they fight on May 2nd in New York. Lopez knows Rolly (16-2, 13 KOs) well and what he can do with his…

By Jeepers Isaac - 02/16/2025 - Comments Abdullah Mason (17-0, 15 KOs) says he wants to fight for a world title this year against any of the four lightweight champions following his fourth-round knockout victory over Manuel Jaimes (16-3-1, 11 KOs) last Friday night at the…