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WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman, in speaking with Sky Sports, said that the winner of this Saturday night’s heavily hyped British grudge-match between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Junior “is going to be a major player in boxing worldwide.” And, as such, the winner of Saturday’s…

Devin Haney says he’s coming back “better than” he was before and will “beat Jose Ramirez on May 2nd in their welterweight co-feature fight at Times Square in New York City. The two are fighting on the Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero undercard, live…

Ring Magazine announced today that there will be two co-feature bouts, with Edgar Berlanga vs. Hamzah Sheeraz and Shakur Stevenson vs. William Zepeda on July 12th in New York City. Here’s the interesting part: Shakur-Zepeda will be “treated as the main event” the week of…

Eddie Hearn says he spoke with promoter Lou DiBella about the reports of Shakur Stevenson reportedly leaving Matchroom to sign with him for his next fight against William Zepeda on July 12th in New York. Hearn states that he reminded DiBella that WBC lightweight champion…

Genuine bad blood, or hype and nothing much more? The upcoming DAZN PPV fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Junior – do these two really hate each other? According to Benn, the hate is indeed real. Benn, speaking with Sky Sports, said of…

Undefeated super middleweight and current IBF world champion William Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) will take on the biggest challenge of his career on May 3rd: He’s set to fight the biggest name in boxing—Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs)—in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, live on DAZN. Canelo…

It wasn’t too long ago that Michael Nunn was in prison, sent there for the far too long term of 292 months, this for distributing cocaine. As was pointed out at the time, murderers are given lesser sentences. The jail time he served aside, Nunn…

Christian Mbilli (28-0, 23 KOs) will face #7 Maciej Sulecki (33-3, 13 KOs) in a clash for the WBC interim light heavyweight title on June 27th at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. The winner of the Mbilli-Sulecki fight will be in a stronger…

Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero will have the WBA ‘regular’ welterweight at stake for their 12-round headliner on May 2nd on DAZN PPV in New York City. Today, the World Boxing Association’s Championship Committee approved the WBA secondary welterweight title to be on the…