Just as the thoughts heightened over what would happen in a Sebastian Fundora-Jaron “Boots” Ennis undisputed junior-middleweight title fight next year, the promoter stepped in and poured ice water to calm the exhilaration.
Promoter Sampson Lewkowicz says he disagrees with critics of referee Thomas Taylor’s decision to award WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora a last-round knockout over Ermal Hadribeaj on Saturday night.
The WBO Monday ordered negotiations to begin between its full minimumweight champion Oscar Collazo and interim champion Ryusei Matsumoto. Collazo 15-0 (12 KOs) suffered a rib injury last month prior to his planned attempt to capture the unified flyweight title from Ricardo Sandoval, who was promptly upset by replacement opponent Sergio Mendoza on October 10 in Chicago.
Four-division champion Shakur Stevenson is taking his talents away from Zuffa Boxing.
Teofimo Lopez’s team has launched a petition with the WBA to grant Lopez a welterweight unification bout with Ryan Garcia next.
With refreshing candor, Louie O’Doherty has admitted he didn’t deserve anything from Saturday’s highly contentious draw with Michael Gomez Jnr in London, England.
Liam Smith, the former WBO junior middleweight champion, appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Monday to face a charge of grievous bodily harm with intent
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has been training with Oleksandr Usyk in Spain ahead of his October 31 shot at WBC super middleweight titleholder Christian Mbilli.
Eric Raskin examines the relentless fascination with brining back yesterday's heroes and it's implications for boxing's tomorrow
Fabio Wardley is being advised to retire by Croatia’s Filip Hrgovic, the IBF heavyweight titlist who was ringside in London to witness the Englishman being brushed aside in two rounds by WBO boss Daniel Dubois.
Filip Hrgovic is expected to face Frank Sanchez in Croatia early next year rather than pursue a rematch with Daniel Dubois, according to the IBF heavyweight champion's manager, Keith Connolly.
aniel Dubois has opened the door to unifications and the big bucks such contests will bring with his destructive rematch win over Fabio Wardley.
Lawrence Okolie is planning to resume his career after the WBC closed its adverse finding case against the former cruiserweight beltholder without imposing a ban or any other sanction
Following a brutal and one-sided rematch loss to Daniel Dubois, Fabio Wardley immediately voiced his desire to fight again while admitting his preparation this time “wasn’t ideal”
Uncorking five hard left hands in the final seconds of the 12th round, Sebastian Fundora answered a game and unexpected challenge from Ermal Hadribeaj Saturday night to retain his WBC junior-middleweight belt.
Armando Resendiz spent all training camp working to rebuild himself from a world-title loss, so as Australia’s Koen Mazoudier raised the stakes with imposing power punches late in Saturday’s fight, Resendiz dug into that redemptive spirit.
Daniel Dubois emphatically dealt with Fabio Wardley, stopping the once iron-chinned fighter in two rounds of their rematch for the WBO heavyweight title at London’s O2 Arena
Michael Gomez Jnr was held to a controversial draw in his British and Commonwealth lightweight title fight with Louie O’Doherty at London’s O2 Arena.
![Bakhodir Jalolov [right] dominates Solomon Dacres on his way to a points win in London on October 17, 2026](/img/v1/1920?src=https%3A%2F%2Fphoto.boxingscene.com%2Fuploads%2FJalolovDacres.webp)
LONDON, England – Bakhodir Jalolov picked up a unanimous decision victory over Solomon Dacres on the undercard of Daniel Dubois-Fabio Wardley II at London’s O2 Arena.
Brandon Figueroa has withdrawn from his scheduled fight with Tomoki Kameda tonight due to falling ill following yesterday’s weigh-in.
Jorge Castro, the former WBA middleweight champion, died aged 59 on Wednesday, October 14, after collapsing at the Morón Bingo Hall in Argentina
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Audley Harrison believes minor adjustments from Fabio Wardley could see him upset the odds and gain revenge over Daniel Dubois inside the O2 Arena in London
Kevin Anton put an extended beating on Freudis Rojas on Friday night at Rawhide Event Center in Phoenix, winning by unanimous scores of 98-91 (judge Chris Wilson), 98-91 (Dennis O'Connell) and 97-92 (Paul Calderon), to improve to 15-0.
Justin Pauldo delivered a Friday night statement that he’s ready for the best his division can offer.
Details have been finalized and a date is now set for former unified WBO and IBF middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly to face Jacob Bank for the vacant WBO super middleweight championship, live on DAZN from Bank's homeland of Denmark on January 23.
Headlining Saturday’s edition of TNT and DAZN’s “The Fight” at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, WBC champion Sebastian Fundora, 24-1-1 (16 KOs), weighed 152.8lbs for his fourth title defense, this one against mandatory contender Ermal Hadribeaj, 23-0-1 (8 KOs), who weighed in at 152.4lbs.
'I'm chaos, so I'm just holding that chaos until the fight starts,' said Daniel Dubois ahead of his rematch with Fabio Wardley this Saturday at London’s O2 Arena.
Brandon Figueroa missed weight and lost his WBA featherweight belt on the scale at Friday’s official morning weigh-in from The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley were both at a career highest weight ahead of their rematch on Saturday.
Shakur Stevenson is “moving on” from negotiations with fellow unbeaten multi-division champion Devin Haney, an individual familiar with the negotiations told BoxingScene Friday.
Moses Itauma, after initially struggling to come to terms with his August loss to Filip Hrgovic, is now at peace with the first defeat of his professional career
Fabio Wardley believes Anthony Joshua’s return to Ben Davison is proof of the trainer’s credentials, writes Tom Ivers
The heavyweight division has had something of an overhaul in 2026, triggered by Oleksandr Usyk’s struggle with kickboxer Rico Verhoeven and his subsequent decision to relinquish three sanctioning body titles
On a card ripe with opportunity, Kevin Anton and Freudis Rojas made weight for the Friday night ProBoxTV main event at Rawhide Events Center in nearby Chandler. Anton, 14-0 (12 KOs), of Palmdale, California, weighed 152.9lbs and Las Vegas’ Rojas, 15-1 (11 KOs), came in at 151.4lbs for the WBC Continental Americas junior-middleweight belt.
Precedent exists for the “Canelo Alvarez-Christian Mbilli: Mexico vs. The World” event to be relocated rather than postponed, even with just over two weeks remaining before fight night
As the dust settles on what at one point seemed a never-ending saga over who would promote the upcoming tussle between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, Frank Warren has praised Dana White for helping organize a heavyweight battle that had escaped inception for a decade
LONDON, England – Tensions were high between Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley at the final press conference ahead of their rematch.
Rico Verhoeven is the latest fighter to be linked with Deontay Wilder, with the kickboxer claiming he is in talks to face the former WBC heavyweight champion on the December 11 undercard of Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury
Mike Tyson is known for his love of pigeons almost as much as he’s known for biting a chunk out of Evander Holyfield’s ear. So marketers must have thought they were on to something when they pitched an advertising campaign to Tyson that involved a giant pigeon and a dummy bearing the face of Holyfield
Recent heavyweight challenger Moses Itauma to stick with trainer Ben Davison, according to Frank Warren.
WBC revealed they have approved middleweight champion Carlos Adames’ petition to appear in an over-the-weight bout on Tuesday, November 1
Twelve years into the game, slotted at No. 5 in the WBC lightweight rankings at age 32 and freshly inspired by the birth of a new daughter. The urgency for Florida’s Justin Pauldo to fulfill his extensive labor in this un-coddled, unfavored journey has arrived fully.
Brandon Figueroa makes his first 126lbs title defense Saturday night on DAZN from The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, against former champion Tomoki Kameda in the co-main event to Sebastian Fundora’s latest WBC junior-middleweight title defense.
Fabio Wardley is taking confidence in dropping Daniel Dubois on two occasions of their first encounter ahead of their rematch on Saturday at London’s O2 Arena.
Derek Chisora is one of several already suggesting that Fabio Wardley could be facing retirement following Saturday’s rematch with Daniel Dubois
Kevin Anton's career as a boxer reaches a seminal point Friday night in Arizona when the unbeaten junior-middleweight headlines the ProBoxTV card (on YouTube) at Rawhide Events Center in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler.
Ellie Scotney has withdrawn with an unspecified injury from her November 8 challenge for the WBC featherweight title against Tiara Brown.
Naoya Inoue’s promoter, Hideyuki Ohashi, has shut down talk of the unified junior-featherweight champion fighting in April or May of next year.
Despite Saudi Arabia boxing financier Turki Alalshikh’s assertion that the fatal bombing of Riyadh’s airport will not dissuade him and Canelo Alvarez from staging the planned October 31 fight card in the city, others involved are less enthusiastic