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Jai Opetaia (27-0, 21 KOs) made easy work of the previously unbeaten #10-rated David Nyika (10-1, 9 KOs), knocking him out in the fourth round in brutal fashion to retain his IBF cruiserweight title on Wednesday night at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broadbeach,…

In Australia and New Zealand, watch the fight on DAZN PPV as a one-off cost. For the UK, US and rest of the world, this fight is part of the regular DAZN subscription. Date: Wednesday, January 8 – Watch LIVE on DAZN Time: 8am GMT; 3am ET;  6pm AEST…

How do we best remember former middleweight king Carlos Monzon? The Argentine ring warrior was a great, great fighter, for sure. Unfortunately, Monzon was also a murderer, a man with an extreme violent side, especially when he was drinking, which was far too often. A…

Promoter Eddie Hearn says his plan to maneuver Jai Opetaia into a big fight against unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is to have Jai capture all the belts at cruiserweight first. Hearn wants Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) to follow the same route that Usyk did…

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn believes a fight between the aging former heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is the biggest fight “Commercially” in boxing. People in the U.S. and even in the UK disagree. They feel that the moment of high interest in the…

Top Rank made it official today by announcing that WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk will defend against their hoped-for next star, Keyshawn Davis, on Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14th, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York. The event will be shown live on…

Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will be fighting for career survival against Stephan Shaw in April on BLK Prime PPV in Atlanta, Georgia. Junkyard Bound ‘The Bronze Bomber’ Wilder (43-4-1, 42 KOs) is badly in need of a pick-me-up to revive his sinking career,…

It seems we have not yet seen the last of former WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder, even if we may well have seen the last of his once-vaunted, indeed lethal punching power. Wilder, who has not scored a KO win since back in October of…

Arguably one of the most avoided big men of the sport today, Congolese giant Martin Bakole has taken out some of his apparent frustration on former two-time heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua. Bakole – who is headed to an IBF final eliminator against Efe Ajagba, 20-1(14)…