Tim Tszyu is prioritising a fight with the IBF junior-middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev over attempting to win over Turki Alalshikh, according to his promoter. The Australian, 29, hopes to fight Murtazaliev before the end of 2024, and should he do so and succeed he will have established himself as a significant figure in what is
By: Sean Crose He’s been a unified world heavyweight champion and remains one of the biggest names in the fight game. In other words, when Anthony Joshua talks, people listen. This is especially true when it comes to Tyson Fury and undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. Joshua has lost to Usyk twice, after all –
IT WAS expected to be a Fight of the Year contender and it delivered. Super-welterweight Vergil Ortiz Jr and Serhii Bohachuk traded huge shots for 12 rounds at the Mandalay Bay leaving fans enthralled but the losing side angered at the judges’ verdicts. Eric Armit looks back at how the fight unfolded while delivering his
Eddie Hearn sat down for a softball interview with his crew at Matchroom HQ this morning, and while it produced very little of substance, he did give us one interesting bit of info. Though it’s not done quite yet, Hearn claims he’s “working hard” to finalize Sunny Edwards vs Galal Yafai and hopes to make
Vergil Ortiz Jr. deserved the decision over Serhii Bohachuk. He won more rounds. He spent more time in control than Bohachuk. And he showed some good boxing skills. The two knockdowns he suffered were legitimate. But he recovered well from them – especially the second, in Round 8, when he won the remainder of the
Chris Eubank Jr still says he has his sights set on a meeting with Canelo Alvarez, who’s currently scheduled to take on Edgar Belanga on September 14. Eubank Jr tells Sky Sports that he believes he and Canelo could land a fight fight May 2025 while he continues to seemingly haggle with Canelo’s team about
Chris Eubank Jr. is back and he sounds determined to make up for lost time. Eubank, 33-3 (24 KOs), hasn’t stepped foot in the ring since last September when he impressively rebounded from the first stoppage defeat of his career to even the score with Liam Smith, stopping the Liverpudlian in the 10th round of
CHRIS EUBANK JR swerved a September showdown with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez because he did not want to face the Mexican off the back of a year out. The Brighton middleweight last month emerged as a surprise candidate to face Canelo on Mexican independence weekend. However Canelo instead opted to take on Edgar Berlanga, his WBA
THERE is no denying the heavyweight division is on the brink of a sea change. Undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk is now 37 while Tyson Fury, who will attempt to win the hardware back at the end of the year, turned 36 on August 12. Anthony Joshua, who is eyeing a crack at the winner of
With Danny Garcia set to take on Erislandy Lara on a Sept. 14 fight in Las Vegas, Garcia takes some time to talk about having the last two years off, why he doesn’t expect to have much ring rust, and why this fight was the right one for him at this point in his career.
Junior featherweight boxer Elijah Pierce has embraced the moniker “WXXXLF,” using it as a way to reflect on the challenges he’s faced. Pierce (19-2, 17 KOs), of Lawrenceville, Ga., will take on Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin (35-8-1, 21 KOs) on Friday, Aug. 30, as part of OTX 10 at the OTE Arena in Atlanta. Pierce, 27,
It was the question that loomed large over the competition at Paris 2024: Will boxing still be on the schedule when they light the Olympic torch in Los Angeles in four years’ time? The simple answer is that, right now, nobody really knows. Since its introduction to the Olympic program in 1904, boxing has been
As expected, Terence Crawford is officially done with the welterweight division. The WBO announced today that “Bud” confirmed his intentions to stay at 154, prompting them to elevate interim champion Brian Norman Jr to full champion. This leaves the WBA “super” title as Crawford’s last remaining hardware at 147. They’ll presumably strip him and elevate
Trainer Rudy Hernandez believes that three-division titleholder Junto Nakatani could one day face undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue, although no timeline has been set, and the thought of the matchup gives him a light-hearted scare. In July, Nakatani defended his WBC bantamweight title with a first-round knockout of Vincent Astrolabio in Japan, sparking comparisons
THE days of Terence Crawford fighting at welterweight are now definitely over. After becoming undisputed world champion at 147lbs in July 2023 Crawford was stripped of his IBF title a few months later. A decision which appalled “Bud” but elevated interim belt holder Jaron Ennis to full champion status. Two months ago Mario Barrios was
Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya gave his immediate reaction to Vergil Ortiz’s majority decision win over Serheii Bohachuk and says while he believes it was a close fight, he does think Ortiz deserved the win. Check out some of what he had to say down below. De La Hoya on the Bohachuk vs
Roman Gonzalez has hit out at speculation that he might meet fellow future International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Nonito Donaire. Over the weekend, Donaire had said there had been talks between the camps, but today Gonzalez has taken to X to say that whatever talking there had been had stopped. Filipino great Donaire, 41,
GOLD medal winner Imane Khelif has reportedly filed a formal legal complaint following the Olympic boxing gender row. The participation of Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, who also won gold in Paris, became a worldwide story due to their 2023 expulsion by IBA for failing ‘gender eligibilty tests’. The likes of Elon Musk and JK Rowling
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