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Fight fans will get some bonus Sunday night action at the weekend, this when former world heavyweight title challenger Dillian Whyte returns to the ring live on DAZN. Whyte, who has boxed just twice since being KO’d by Tyson Fury in April of 2022, will…

Serhii Bohachuk’s coach, Manny Robles, says this week’s illness-related pullout by Israil Madrimov was a “slap in the face” for his fight. Bohachuk will now be fighting British fighter Ishmael Davis (13-1, 6 KOs) on December 6th in a 12-round co-feature spot. Illness Or Excuse?…

Journalist Colin Hart sees Tyson Fury losing again to Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch in 11 days on December 21st. He doesn’t think Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) has improved since his 12-round split decision defeat to Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) on May 18th. Colin believes…

Teofimo Lopez says he’s taking the fight with IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis because he’s “Doing what is right” as a world champion. Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs) and Boots (33-0, 29 KOs) are in negotiations for a cross-promotional, joint broadcast DAZN & ESPN event…

In terrible news, it has been reported that former two-weight world champion Bobby Czyz has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The 62-year-old, who fought the likes of Robbie Sims, Mustafa Hamsho, Slobodan Kacar, “Prince” Charles Williams, Dennis Andries, Virgil Hill, Robert Daniels, Donny Lalonde, and…

Former world champion Amir Khan is giving back to the sport in a huge way, one that will hopefully enforce some big and important changes to the whole combat sports world. Khan has co-founded a boxing union, entitled Global Fighters’ Boxing Union (GFU), with it…

Via his always entertaining YouTube channel ‘Froch on Fighting,’ former super-middleweight ruler Carl Froch interviewed Terence Crawford this week, the interview taking place in Dubai. There was clear mutual respect on display, and a smiling Crawford answered questions on a number of subjects. Froch asked…

It’s a thrilling thing seeing a badly beaten fighter, a fighter who has pretty much been beaten up all night long and is way behind on the scorecards, come back to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. We think of great turnarounds legends such…

Fight fans have heard about the possibility of former heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko making a return to the ring, this at age 48 (Wlad will turn 49 in March). The idea, the “dream” of Saudi money man Turki Alalshikh, is for Klitschko to come back…