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Canelo Alvarez and William Scull will battle for the undisputed gold at 168 on May 3rd in Turki Al-Sheikh’s card at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. All four super middleweight titles will be at stake for this contest, which sees Canelo putting up…

Heavyweight contender Derek Chisora (36-13, 23 KOs) showed that he has a little bit left in the tank at age 41, beating Sweden’s Otto Wallin (27-3, 15 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night in a competitive contest throughout to earn IBF mandatory…

The boxing career of Montana’s Tye Fields really was quite eventful and fun to watch. And, it should be pointed out that Fields, a guy who had zero amateur fights in the ring who started late at age 24, would go on to work with…

Fans have likely read about how aging British heavyweight sluggers Joe Joyce and Dillian Whyte are likely to get it on in a fight that is close to done for April 5 (or is actually a done deal at the time of writing). And whatever…

For a while there, some of us got a little worried Canelo Alvarez, for many the face of boxing, and for all a future Hall of Famer, really would take the ultimate cash-grab, this a fight with Jake Paul. Thankfully, this absolute slaughter of a…

By Michael Collins - 02/08/2025 - Comments Heavyweights Derek Chisora (35-13, 23 KOs) and Otto Wallin (27-2, 15 KOs) fight tonight in an IBF title eliminator scheduled for 12 rounds, live on DAZN in Manchester, England. Tonight’s action begins at 1:30 p.m. ET. Surprisingly, the 41-year-old…

Devin Haney, surprisingly, has been given a #1 ranking by the WBC at welterweight after a bad showing against Ryan Garcia and a 10-month layoff. The World Boxing Council has its way of ranking fighters that doesn’t make much sense to most fans, but it…

British heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Joe Joyce are reportedly closing in on getting a fight made for April 5th in Manchester, England. The fight would be shown in a headliner on DAZN. It’s a bit late in the game for Joyce and Whyte to be…

Turki Al-Sheikh said today that he didn’t want Canelo Alvarez to fight Jake Paul in May because he felt it wouldn’t “benefit” a match between him and Terence Crawford for September in Las Vegas. Fans overwhelmingly view Canelo vs. Crawford as a circus-level cash-grab type…