Floyd Mayweather Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
On Saturday, the WBC lightweight champion and free agent star Stevenson was in Philadelphia for the Matchroom Boxing show headlined by Jaron “Boots” Ennis’ hometown fight and stoppage win against David Avanesyan.
It might be Manny Pacquiao – a living legend whose career speaks for itself – but after a layoff of three years, at 45 years old he should not be invited to bypass all of the contenders and walk straight into a world-title fight.
Shakur Stevenson’s free agency tour officially launched Thursday as the unbeaten three-division and WBC lightweight titleholder engaged in an afternoon Zoom call with Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions.
The latest, unmissable Daily Bread Mailbag covers a lot of ground with training at altitude, bad decisions, AI in boxing, the greatest upsets, the potential of Bam Rodriguez and a fantasy matchup between Hector Camacho and Floyd Mayweather Jr just a few of the subjects up for discussion.
Deric Davis, set to fight Friday in Washington, D.C., on ProBox TV, witnessed the rise of another Maryland local – Gervonta “Tank” Davis – and learned that his own dreams of becoming a pay-per-view star are possible.
On Thursday, we began our look at the Top 20 fights in the MGM Grand's storied history by listing numbers 11-20 plus a few honorable mentions. Time now for the Top 10.
Leonard Ellerbe has resigned from his position as CEO of Mayweather Promotions and will be succeeded by former Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced Thursday.
David Benavidez and his supporters have painted a picture that undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez is scared of fighting him. One of the sport’s leading promoters is not sold on the narrative.
Three days before the biggest fight of his career, against Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas in April 2023, Gervonta Davis was nowhere to be seen at the public workout he had been scheduled to perform to help to promote the fight at the T-Mobile Arena, and instead was simply said to be elsewhere at the MGM Grand.
Oscar De La Hoya made it so easy. On his way out the door, as his physical capability faded, he transferred the gift that is truly the last thing to go for top fighters — not the punching power, as the cliché mistakenly states, but rather the earning power — directly to boxing’s next two superstars.