BOXING had perhaps its best 12 months in 2023 with fans finally treated to the fights they want to see – and this year could be even better. Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr finally settled who was the best welterweight on the planet last July. Meanwhile, Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia put on a […]
Arnold Barboza Jr. is pleased with the end result to an otherwise forgettable 2023 campaign. The unbeaten junior welterweight contender is confident that he is exactly where he belongs as part of the Golden Boy Promotions family. The Oscar De La Hoya-headed outfit is based out of his Los Angeles hometown, one of several factors […]
Sportswashing, the use of an athletic event by an individual or a government, a corporation, or another group to promote or burnish the individual’s or group’s reputation, especially amid controversy or scandal. The term was coined in 2015 as a portmanteau of sports and whitewash to describe Azerbaijan’s use of the European Games to divert international attention away from concerns over human rights in […]
Boxlab Promotions has announced the signing of unbeaten heavyweight Dainier “The Fear” Pero (5-0, 3 KOs). Pero was a top amateur, winning the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championship in 2016, 2018 Teofilo Stevenson Cup and the Cuban National Championship in 2018 and 2019. He represented Cuba at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning his first match […]
WBA, IBF 122-pound champion Marlon Tapales (37-3, 19 KOs) arrived in Japan today (Tuesday) to participate in an ultimate unification bout with WBC, WBO counterpart “Monster” Naoya Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs) at Ariake Arena, Tokyo next Tuesday. Having dethroned Murodjon Akhmadaliev to wrest the WBA and IBF belts this April, Tapales will welcome a big […]
Peter Kahn, President of Fight Game Advisors, has announced today the signing of undefeated featherweight prospect John Laryea, (12-0-1, 10 KOs), from the boxing rich country of Ghana. Ranked #15 by the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the 23-year-old Laryea has already claimed victory in four bouts scheduled for twelve rounds. Most recently he defended the […]
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Executive Committee has approved the creation of a new super cruiserweight division in a vote called by the president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza. This new division will be between 200 and 224 pounds, matching the bridgerweight division created by the WBC three years ago. The WBA made several analyses during recent […]
Boris van der Vorst has been elected as the first President of World Boxing at its inaugural Congress in Frankfurt. The Dutchman secured 63 percent of the vote against Elise Seignolle from USA Boxing and will serve an initial two-year term. In his inaugural Presidential speech following the election, Boris van der Vorst, said: “I […]
The International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) continues to be resilient in the face of economic pressures of recent years. Following the tumultuous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the cancellation of on-site events, including the revered Annual Hall of Fame Weekend in 2020 and 2021, IBHOF made a triumphant return with the historic Trilogy Induction […]
Boxing’s two heavyweight world champions will finally meet to crown the one and only undisputed champion of the world. WBC champion Tyson ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury will fight WBO/IBF/WBA unified champ Oleksandr Usyk in a history-making showdown on Saturday, February 17, at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fury and Usyk came face-to-face at a […]