It’s fight week and UFC 250 is right round the corner. On Saturday, two-division champion Amanda Nunes will make the first defence of her UFC women’s featherweight championship against Canada’s Felicia Spencer. But that’s not the only fight to have a major implication on its weight class. The UFC 250 main card boasts three big-time bantamweight bouts which is sure ...

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury fully expects Deontay Wilder to move forward with their trilogy fight. They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December of 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Their rematch took place in February, at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, with Fury capturing the WBC title with a seven round stoppage of Wilder. ...

George Kambosos Jr. and Lee Selby both entered 2020 with the hope of facing each other for the right to land a title shot presumably by year’s end. At best, their head-on collision will serve as their lone piece of ring action this year. The aforementioned International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight title eliminator has been rescheduled for the second time ...

Claressa Shields was originally supposed to fight Marie-Eve Dicaire on May 9, but the showdown in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Michigan was scrapped due to the coronavirus global pandemic. Shields (10-0, 2 KOs), a three-division champion and two-time US gold medalist, is declaring that she will be delivering Dicaire (17 -0, 0 KOs) a rain check, and eventual beating, once the ...

Before his most recent fight last November, Adam Lopez said 2020 was going to be the year when all eyes would be on him. He was right, but what he couldn’t have predicted is that the reason everyone is looking at the featherweight up and comer now is that he is going to be one of the first boxers back ...

Ben Davison, the former trainer of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is still shocked with his former fighter’s ability to rise up in the twelfth round of his first contest with Deontay Wilder. The contest, which ended in a controversial twelve round split draw, took place in December 2018. Fury’s boxing style gave Wilder fits throughout the fight. But, Fury ...

Bob Arum advised anyone dissatisfied with the June fights ESPN and Top Rank have announced thus far to remain patient. The 88-year-old promoter’s company encountered unprecedented problems while putting together cards that ESPN will air throughout June, mostly on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights. Extensive COVID-19 testing for everyone involved in those shows is an enormous expense promoters and networks ...

Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, is very confident that we will see a unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury in 2021. “I think it’s a wonderful fight and I’m very, very confident that you will see one or two of those in 2021 and we’re working hard to deliver that,” Hearn said to ...

Oceania manager Tony Tolj has utilized his inner circle of contacts to gain the entry approval to the United States for Chilean flyweight sensation Andres Campos. Campos is undefeated in his professional campaign and has risen quickly through the flyweight ranks since linking up with Dragon Fire Boxing Latino alongside stables mates Ramon Mascarena, Raynel Mederos, and Luis Junior Cruzat.  ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Devin Haney have built a deeper and much closer relationship of late. The BWAA Fighter of the Decade has taken Haney under his wing in recent weeks, training with the Las Vegas resident at the Mayweather Boxing Club, flying together in his private jet and inviting him over to his house and giving him a first ...