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Power-punching Subriel Matias showed why he’s become one of boxing’s most vaunted knockout artists as he stopped the previously unbeaten Jeremias Ponce after five rounds to win the vacant IBF 140-pound World Championship Saturday night live on SHOWTIME from The Armory in Minneapolis headlining a…

International superstar Jake Paul (6-1, 4 KOs) finally faced a “real” boxer for the first time, and it was a bit more than he could handle as Tommy Fury (9-0, 4 KOs) handed him his first defeat via eight-round split decision Sunday night at Diriyah Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.…

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has created a new special commemorative ‘Tamaulipas II’ belt to be handed out to the September 14th winner of the Canelo Alvarez vs. Edgar Berlanga fight. It’s unclear what impact the belt will have on the winner. Another Belt in an…

Two-time Olympian Zhilei Zhang predicts a knockout victory for IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois over Anthony Joshua on September 21st at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Zhang feels that the 26-year-old Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) is surging right now with his recent knockout win over…

It has been said a man is not dead until he is forgotten. In that case, Willie Pep lives on. More than a decade-and-a-half after his body was laid to rest, eighty-plus years after he first became a world champion, the man generally considered the…

The official weights are in for tomorrow’s super bantamweight clash that will take place at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Unified 122 pound champion Naoya Inoue tipped-in at 122 pounds even, this the heaviest of his career if it means anything. Australian-based Irishman TJ…

Fight fans have long since been having a moan and a groan about the seemingly skyrocketing pay-per-view fees they have to fork out in order to, as one fan put it on a social media post, “just watch a bit of boxing.” And a good…

We all know Floyd “Money” Mayweather is still punching in some rounds and is collecting some good paydays on the exhibition circuit, but is there a chance the 47-year-old all-time great could win an actual “real” fight? One man who has trained the best says…

Edgar Berlanga says he can’t wait to “shock the world” by defeating the superstar Canelo Alvarez to prove everyone wrong when they fight on September 14th at the T-Mobile Arena in La Vegas. Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) is seen by the U.S. population as not…