Ricky Burns stands as one of the greatest boxers spawned in Scotland, not on the same level as Hall of Famers Benny Lynch and Ken Buchanan,...
International Brotherhood of Prizefighters Rankings: Week of August 27, 2023 Heavyweight Oleksander Usyk successfully defended his lineal title and extended his record to 21-0 with a ninth...
A masterful storyteller, Lance Pugmire spent nearly two decades covering sports for the Los Angeles Times. He is the most-recent recipient of the prestigious Nat Fleischer...
For several rounds it seemed Ireland’s undefeated Callum Walsh was faced with his toughest foe in Juan Jose Velasco, but then the Argentine suddenly retired in...
Toledo’s Jared Anderson, widely considered the best of the new crop of heavyweights, took care of business tonight on a Top Rank card in Tulsa, improving...
On a rainy night at a 45,000-seat soccer stadium in Wroclaw, Poland, Oleksandr Usyk successfully defended his IBF, WBA, and WBO world heavyweight titles with a...
Callum Walsh. Is he the one? Ireland’s undefeated Walsh (7-0, 6 KOs) meets Argentina’s Juan Jose Velasco (24-4, 15 KOs) in a middleweight match at Commerce...
WROCŁAW, Poland (Aug. 24, 2023) — Ukraine’s unified WBA/WBO/IBF world champion, Oleksandr Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs), puts his heavyweight hardware on the line against London’s Daniel Dubois (19-1, 18 KOs) this Saturday,...
Some folks in Australia think that Nikita Tszyu has a bigger upside than his older brother. That’s high praise as Tim Tsyzu is currently the WBO...
International Brotherhood of Prizefighters Rankings: Week of August 20, 2023 Cuban heavyweight Luis “King Kong” Ortiz re-enters to fill slot number 10. One division south finds...
On the two-year anniversary of winning the Olympic gold medal, an animated Galal Yafai blasted past former British champion Tommy Frank by technical knockout in less...
An interesting Friday menu of boxing got off to a rousing start with a barnburner at venerable York Hall in gritty East London. The scheduled 12-round...
It’s rare when the Friday boxing slate is stronger than the Saturday schedule, but that’s the case this weekend. There are no world title fights on...
Canelo Alvarez and Jermell Charlo Face Off at Their LA Presser BEVERLY HILLS-Only in Beverly Hills. Shouts echoed inside the ritzy halls of the Beverly Hills...
Former world heavyweight title challenger Roy Harris passed away last week at the age of 90. This coming Friday, August 18, marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of...
International Brotherhood of Prizefighters Rankings: Week of August 13, 2023 There’s a small change at heavyweight this week as Filip Hrgovic (Croatia) leapfrogs the inactive Andy...
On August 9, I listened in on the recording of an interview with Vitali Klitschko that will air on August 19 and August 20 on the...
Puerto Rico’s Emmanuel Rodriguez floored Nicaragua’s Melvin Lopez several times in capturing the IBF bantamweight title by a wide unanimous decision on Saturday. Near the nation’s...
Emanuel Navarrete successfully defended his WBO 130-pound world title tonight with a hard-earned unanimous decision over Oscar Valdez in an all-Mexican barnburner on the Arizona desert....
With one punch, Anthony Joshua salvaged a dismal card at the O2 Arena in London. The first seven rounds were tedious. Joshua was reluctant to let...
