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WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury believes Oleksandr Usyk is too small to withstand his punching power. Fury, who holds a significant advantage in size and weight, is slated to face Usyk, who holds the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight titles, in the first quarter of the new year. Their handlers are in talks and inching closer

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards tackling topics such as Jose Ramirez turning down a Regis Prograis shot, Terence Crawford vs. Errol Spence, weight issues in boxing, the career of Daniel Dubois, and more. What are your thoughts on Jose Ramirez turning down the WBC title shot vs Regis Prograis because he

Dmitry Bivol entered the biggest fight of his career as a man without a country. The starting point of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine created a ripple effect in boxing. The WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO presented a joint ruling on February 24 to not sanction any boxing events taking place in Russia or Belarus

Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says a deal is inching closer for an undisputed fight with WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. Earlier this month, Usyk was ringside at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, as he watched Fury batter and stop Derek Chisora to retain his belt. After the fight, Fury and Usyk

Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez has emerged as a breakout star over the course of the past year. The only thing left for the San Antonio native to do in 2022 is to watch his older brother join him in the winner’s circle. Joshua Franco—Rodriguez’s older brother by two years—will have to overcome a 16-month inactive stretch

For a while, the March 12 bout for the WBA featherweight title between champion Leigh Wood and challenger Michael Conlan was a guilty pleasure, something we talked about in admiration but didn’t celebrate. The matchup at Nottingham Arena was like other great UK fights – Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan, Chris Eubank vs Michael Watson

Apparently even Conor Benn is fed up with all the deliberation surrounding his positive drug tests. The embattled British welterweight went on social media Thursday to plead with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency and the World Boxing Council to speed up their investigation on his case. It was through VADA that Benn tested for the banned

Franco on Ioka Unification: I’ve Been Off 16 Months But Always Been Ready For A Fight Like This   Sat, Dec 24, 2022 12:59 am Jake Donovan ([email protected])To:you + 5 more Details By Jake Donovan For all the talent in his weight division, Joshua Franco always banked on landing a significant opponent for his next

Without a fight scheduled, Hector Luis Garcia remained in the gym at this time last year. The Dominican southpaw hoped he would get the chance to change his career and his life, yet Garcia wasn’t assured of anything, let alone a televised main event. That’s why the little-known Garcia immediately accepted an opportunity to face

Tickets are on sale now to see two-division world champion Rey Vargas and top contender O’Shaquie Foster battle for the vacant WBC Super Featherweight World Championship on Saturday, February 11 live on SHOWTIME from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in a Premier Boxing Champions event. Tickets for the live event, which is promoted by

Although both Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. have done their best to clear out the logjam near the top of the welterweight division, fighters such as Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Eimantas Stanionis have grown restless. So, while winning a world title is of the utmost importance, Ortiz and Stanionis have decided that facing each

Gervonta Davis was arrested Tuesday evening and awaits a bond hearing on an alleged domestic violence incident less than two weeks from his next planned fight.   According to Broward County (Florida) inmate records, Parkland police placed the unbeaten WBA lightweight titlist under arrest on one count of Battery Causing Bodily Harm. Davis is due

Jermell Charlo has already taken steps to silence those who’ve questioned the validity of his untimely injury. The undisputed junior middleweight champion still has work to do with at least one sanctioning body. A Notice of Medical Certification was issued to Charlo by the WBO, who has called for a detailed report on the broken

Adrien Broner apparently wasn’t pleased when his former longtime handlers informed him of a slight tweak to his risk-reward calculus.   For the longest time, the career of Broner, the multi-division champion from Cincinnati, was essentially determined by his adviser, Al Haymon, the founder of Premier Boxing Champions, the company which has an exclusive output

Claressa Shields didn’t need a win over Savannah Marshall to consider herself worthy of GWOAT status. It certainly helped plead her case, as well as collect year-end awards—including BoxingScene.com’s honor as the 2022 Women’s Fighter of the Year. The unbeaten three-division champion capped the best year of her already stellar pro career by avenging the

Stephan Shaw has accepted a more daunting assignment than he had for January 14. St. Louis’ Shaw was scheduled to box unbeaten Italian heavyweight prospect Guido Vianello in ESPN’s 10-round co-feature that night at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. BoxingScene.com has learned, though, that Shaw instead has agreed to replace injured Oscar

Terence Crawford made the hard choice to face David Avanesyan for the sake of getting in at least one fight in 2022. High on the priority list of the unbeaten three-division champion and pound-for-pound entrant is to break the trend of settling for one fight per year. “I am making it a goal to fight

These days, there is precious little boxing that takes place over the holidays, save for the customary late-year shows in Russia and Japan. For promoters, it’s a financially perilous decision to stage a show at this time of year, with potential ticket buyers and broadcast viewers’ time and money already allocated in many places. For