
Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr: 'I want to beat Jake Paul for Mike Tyson'
Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr says he’s training to defeat Jake Paul as payback to Mike Tyson – and for his own credibility with boxing fans.
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr says he’s training to defeat Jake Paul as payback to Mike Tyson – and for his own credibility with boxing fans.

Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington’s professional debut was on the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder III undercard, and his most recent fight was on the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul undercard – but he can’t decide which experience was more surreal.

In this week’s mailbag, coach Stephen Edwards looks back on the the light heavyweight clash between David Benavidez and David Morrell and compares and contrasts the achievements of heavyweight legends Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson.

Eric Raskin looks at examples of referees inserting themselves into the action and changing the course of boxing history

As 2024 gives way to 2025, we’re in an interesting place with these modern heavyweights – a place somewhat similar to where we were exactly 25 years ago, when 1999 became 2000 and all of our computers continued functioning despite great fears to the contrary.

According to at least one BoxingScene commenter, we are presently in the midst of the “worst heavyweight era ever.” Not all opinions are good ones, of course, and brief recourse to a history book – and to the series of heavyweight main events to which we’ve been treated over the past five years – should be sufficient to disabuse anyone of that particular viewpoint.

To commemorate the weird and wonderful world of boxing in 2024, Eric Raskin brings us the inaugural "Raskies"

Dainier Pero’s goal is to become the first Cuban heavyweight titleholder.

Moses Itauma has made it a habit of stopping all of his opponents in their tracks, as he did again Saturday in Saudi Arabia by flattening Australian Demsey McKean in the first round.

A timeline of significant happenings in the heavyweight division starting with Mike Tyson and bringing us to Oleksandr Usyk and Saturday's undisputed fight and rematch between Usyk and Tyson Fury.