Fighting

During a video interview with Fight Hype, welterweight contender Jaron Ennis talks about his upcoming interim title fight with Karen Chukhadzhian before going on to talk about his difficulties in securing the biggest names at welterweight. Ennis admits he may need to be more outspoken in order to force their hand, but believes his talent

Regis Prograis talks to Fight Hype about a number of topics, including an announced fight between Adrien Broner and Ivan Redkach. Prograis, who is obviously not blind, says he really has no idea about what weight Broner and Redkach could possibly meet consider the size of Broner at this current time. Prograis on Broner vs

Teofimo Lopez might be in his own head even worse than we thought. After Lopez’s split decision win over Sandor Martin over the weekend — a fight many thought he should’ve lost — Lopez doesn’t want anyone to see the chinks in his armor. In particular there was a moment captured by ESPN cameras where

Scratch a very good fight from the upcoming schedule. Keith Idec reports that Occar Valdez has been forced out of his February 3rd vacant title fight with Emanuel Navarrete due to injury, while Mike Coppinger brings word that “Vaquero” has agreed to face Liam Wilson in his stead. Valdez will be next for the winner.

Naoya Inoue is now the undisputed bantamweight champion of the world, which probably won’t last very long, after knocking out Paul Butler on body shots in the 11th round. Butler, who came in defending the WBO title against Inoue’s WBC, WBA, and IBF belts, mostly was in survival/defensive mode throughout the bout. He looked very

The WBA are sticking to their promise to reduce their mountain of “world titles,” as the sanctioning body officially ordered “super world” heavyweight titleholder Oleksandr Usyk to defend against “world” heavyweight titleholder Daniel Dubois. This is another wrinkle in the title reign of Usyk, who also has the IBF and WBO belts, and was recently

Shakur Stevenson caught up with Marcos Villegas over the weekend and spoke a bit about what he’s got planned for his move to 135 lbs, mentioning that some of the names he’s been targeting have been flatly turning down offers to fight him. Check out some of what he had to say below. Stevenson on

Rankings go up on Mondays. There will not be another update until Monday, Jan. 2. Ranked fights the next three weeks: Super Middleweight: (10) Christian Mbilli vs Vaughn Alexander, Dec. 17 Lightweight: (10) Michel Rivera vs Frank Martin, Dec. 17 Junior Featherweight: (7) Takuma Inoue vs Jake Bornea, Dec. 13 Bantamweight: (1) Naoya Inoue vs

The reported fight between Ryan Garcia and Mercito Gesta, meant as Garcia’s January tune-up for Gervonta Davis in April, is now reportedly signed for Jan. 28 in Phoenix, which could also mean Glendale, Ariz. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reports that both fighters have signed the contracts, and the fight will be at 140 lbs. Garcia plans

ESPN+, 2:30 am ET, Naoya Inoue vs Paul Butler. For undisputed! at 118 lbs, as Naoya Inoue brings his three belts and Paul Butler his one belt, and they’ll git-r-done, as Laurence Cable says. This doesn’t have quite the undercard of, say, Teraji vs Kyoguchi from earlier this year, but it’s not bad. Yoshiki Taikei

Teofimo Lopez notched an official win tonight in ESPN’s main event, but expect the criticism to follow as he was arguably very lucky to escape with a win over Sandor Martin. Lopez (18-1, 13 KOs) started the fight aggressively as usual, but he really struggled to find the range on his punches, and consistently walked

Results Felix Cash PTS-8 Celso Neves (77-75) Josh Warrington will return home to Leeds, England, to defend his IBF featherweight title against the dangerous Luis Alberto Lopez today on DAZN. It’s an odd card construction today, as the prelims will start at 9:30 am ET and run until 2 pm ET, at which point the

Terence Crawford returns tonight for a hometown bout against David Avanesyan, where Crawford will defend the WBO welterweight title in Omaha, Neb. We’ll be here with LIVE coverage starting from 9 pm ET for the full pay-per-view card, which also includes Cris Cyborg in a definitely sanctioned boxing bout, plus Arnold Khegai vs Eduardo Baez,

Ilunga Junior Makabu will defend his WBC title against Noel Mikaelyan on Saturday, Jan. 21, headlining a Don King-promoted card at Casino Miami Jai-Alai. King has titled the card, “Let Freedom Ring! Clash of the Champions!” because he always has to name it something goofy and couldn’t settle on one thing. Makabu (29-2, 25 KO)

As Manny Pacquiao starts his exhibition circuit he joins a virtual interview alongside Ray Flores and Ryan Garcia and is specifically asked about his thoughts on wanting a rematch with Floyd Mayweather, to whom he lost in convincing fashion in 2015. “I don’t think he will do a rematch with me,” Pacquaio said. “I don’t

We’re coming down to the wire! Three of the four prediction combatants are right in the race to pull this thing out with just a handful of fights left to pick! Who will it be? Not me! But someone! Let’s get to this weekend’s picks. Josh Warrington vs Luis Alberto Lopez Scott Christ (87-38) As

Mike Coppinger, confirming an earlier report from Keith Idec, brings word that Josh Taylor’s planned February 4th rematch with Jack Catterall has been postponed, with organizers now targeting March. Per Idec’s conversation with Bob Arum, Sky Sports wanted to put a bit of distance between this fight and Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Smith on

Teofimo Lopez sat down with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV to talk about his upcoming fight against Sandor Martin, expecting a dominant performance, and goes on to talk about potentially facing Regis Prograis next after Prograis had some things to say about him on social media. “We’ve been going back and forth somewhat,” Lopez