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Olympic boxing has launched the careers of some of the sport's greatest figures, including Sugar Ray Leonard, whose first great stride on his climb to the Hall of Fame and legendary status was a gold medal win. The Games provides fighters with a chance…

Claressa Shields and Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse both made weight Friday for their two-division title fight set for Saturday at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. For the headlining light heavyweight and heavyweight title fight, which is contracted at 175 pounds, Shields (14-0, 2 KOs) actually checked…

Women have been competing in Olympic boxing only since 2012, but there is now a generation of young fighters who have had the opportunity to grow up with the Olympic ideal demonstrated for them in real time. This Olympic Games might set the highest standards…

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might forget who’s running things in the heavyweight division. Yes, Oleksandr Usyk is the clear and – technically or not – undisputed heavyweight king. Tyson Fury, his predecessor,…

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has been stripped of his IBF super-middleweight title after confirming he will fight Edgar Berlanga on September 14. He had long been the undisputed champion at 168lbs, but having ignored the IBF’s demands to fight their number-one contender William Scull to instead…

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has been stripped of his IBF super middleweight title after confirming he will fight Edgar Berlanga on Sept. 14. He had long been the undisputed champion at 168 pounds, but having ignored the IBF’s demands to fight their number-one contender William Scull…