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The Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol Rematch will happen a year from now, in October 2025, during the Riyadh Season. Promoter Bob Arum revealed that undisputed light heavyweight champion Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) and Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) will have interim fights before meeting next…

Postponed from the late summer, this Saturday night’s fight between 140-pounders Jack Catterall and Regis Prograis could prove to be a surprisingly fun affair. With precious little hype, no real trash-talk from either side, and no world title on the line, it’s probably fair to…

Top Rank boss Bob Arum reports that Naoya Inoue vs. Sam Goodman is being finalized for Christmas Eve on December 24th in Tokyo, Japan. This is another defense for undisputed super bantamweight champion Inoue (28-0, 25 KOs), who will take on #1 IBF and WBO…

Oscar De La Hoya likes the idea of matching his fighter Vergil Ortiz Junior with Errol Spence Junior, this some time next year, the fight to take place at the Cowboy Stadium in Texas. De La Hoya took to social media to pitch the fight:…

Tim Tszyu, who is in a bad place right now due to his crushing defeat at the hands of Bakhram Murtazaliev, already has a possible comeback fight in the offing. A fight with fellow Australian warrior Michael Zerafa “will happen” some time next year, Zerafa…

Keith Thurman says Tim Tszyu is a “broken and distraught” fighter after his third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev last Saturday night in Orlando. The loss leaves Tszyu’s career in shambles, given that it’s his second straight defeat, and it puts…

Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) has got to make a lot of changes in his game for him to successfully come back from his third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) from last Saturday night at the Caribe Royale…

Sergio Mora is blaming Tim Tszyu’s third-round TKO loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) on “bad matchmaking” for taking on this killer last Saturday night in an ill-advised fight at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. The commentator and…

Last night in Brandenberg, Germany, William Scull picked up the vacant IBF super middleweight belt courtesy of a largely dull, fun right at the end, 12 rounder that he won via close unanimous decision, this over Vladimir Shishkin. Scores were 116-113, 116-112 and 115-113, all…