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Jose Benavidez Sr. is already complaining about his son, David Benavidez, getting dropped by David Morrell. He says he thought it was a trip. The replays clearly showed Morrell (11-1, 9 KOs) landing a right hand, which caused Benavidez to go down in the 11th…

Ryan Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) and Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero (16-2, 13 KOs) will fight for the WBA secondary [‘regular’] welterweight title in May at Times Square. To note: Kingry & Rolly aren’t ranked in the top 15 by any of the four sanctioning bodies at…

Terence Crawford got the super fight he’s been campaigning for against Canelo Alvarez in September. Now the question is, can the older, smaller Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) win or even be competitive against Alvarez (62-2, 39 KOs)? Canelo-Crawford fits the definition of a mega-fight, but…

Superstar Canelo Alvarez and 154-lb champion Terence Crawford have agreed to a deal to meet for a fight at 168 in September in Las Vegas. It’s going to be an unusual type of fight, given that Crawford, 37, will be moving up two weight classes,…

There seems to at least something of a chance that a big heavyweight fight will take place in Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo] in October of this year, this between Martin Bakole and Anthony Joshua. If it happens, on the site of course of the…

Some fight fans call Salvador Sanchez the greatest Mexican fighter of them all. Some fight fans suggest Danny Lopez deserves to be ranked as one of the most consistently exciting lower-weight fighters of them all. On the day of February 2nd in 1980, the two…

If things fall into place, reigning super-bantamweight and, in the opinion of many, pound-for-pound champ Naoya Inoue could fight three more times this year. As fans know, Inoue drubbed a game late-sub in the form of Ye Joon Kim, this on January 24, Kim stepping…

WBC female heavyweight champion Claressa Shields (16-0, 3 KOs) made it look easy, defeating Danielle Perkins (5-1, 2 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision to become the undisputed champion on Sunday night at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan. The Scores 100-89 97-92 99-90…

Trainer Stephen Edwards says David Benavidez can hang with Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol and possibly beat them. Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) is now the WBC mandatory for undisputed light heavyweight champion Beterbiev’s WBC belt, and he could be fighting the winner of the Beterbiev-Bivol…