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Eddie Hearn has heard enough. And on Tuesday, he made sure everyone knew it. In a wildly entertaining interview with IFLTV and a follow-up appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, the Matchroom Boxing chairman unloaded on Dana White across two separate interviews in the span of hours, formally accepting the UFC boss’s challenge, laying out […]

Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven came face to face in London on Tuesday for the official launch press conference ahead of their May 23 WBC heavyweight title fight at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The event, branded “Glory in Giza” and promoted by Ring Magazine, will stream globally on DAZN. Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) […]

Most Valuable Promotions brings its women’s boxing platform to American television for the first time Friday night when MVPW-02 airs live on ESPN from the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden. Unified junior lightweight champion Alycia Baumgardner (17-1, 7 KOs) headlines the all-female main card with a defense of her WBA, WBO, and IBF titles […]

By Larry Goldberg and Boxing Insider Staff Before Senator John McCain spent a decade trying to create a federal boxing commission. Before H.R. 4624 passed the House. Before anyone debated what a Unified Boxing Organization should look like. There was a question that Congress had been asking since the 1950s and still has not fully […]

By: Sean Crose “He looks so old,” my wife said Saturday when she got a look at former world heavyweight titlist Tyson Fury. My wife is no boxing fan, but being the spouse of a fight writer, knows well who Fury is. The truth was that I was thinking the same thing she was. He […]

Conor Benn did not wait long. Moments after his unanimous decision victory over Regis Prograis on Saturday night, the 29-year-old Brit grabbed the microphone and directed his attention to the fighter holding the belt he wants most. “I want Ryan Garcia next,” Benn said in the ring on the Netflix broadcast. “Garcia, keep my belt […]

Tyson Fury wasted no time after his dominant unanimous decision over Arslanbek Makhmudov on Saturday night. With Anthony Joshua seated ringside at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Fury grabbed the microphone on the Netflix broadcast and delivered the callout British boxing has been building toward for a decade. “10 years in the making. Let’s f*cking dance,” Fury […]

Tyson Fury returned from 16 months of inactivity and delivered exactly the kind of performance his critics said he no longer had in him. The former two-time heavyweight champion controlled virtually every minute of a 12-round unanimous decision over Arslanbek Makhmudov on Saturday night at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, winning 120-108, 120-108, 119-109 on the three […]

Conor Benn won a clear unanimous decision over former two-time super lightweight champion Regis Prograis on Saturday night at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, improving to 25-1 in his first fight under the Zuffa Boxing banner. All three judges scored the 10-round catchweight bout 98-92. The fight, contested at 150 pounds and broadcast on Netflix as the […]

By: Sean Crose Many people were undoubtedly shocked when Arslanbek Makhmudov literally lifted Tyson Fury in the air while the two men were rough housing at a Thursday press conference. Fury laughed it off, but all served to prove a point – Makhmudov was not going to be intimidated. Intimidation is something Fury is quite […]