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Weight issues aside, Canelo and Chavez ready for tough fight

Unbeaten prospect Caleb Plant looks to continue his march towards world title contention when he battles Ghana’s Thomas Awimbono in the 10-round main event of of Premier Boxing Champions on FS1 and FOX Deportes Saturda...

By Jim Dower: WBC Silver light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez (21-0, 10 KOs) will be in action this Friday night on February 24 to face former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (32-3-1, 25 KOs) in a World...

By Scott Gilfoid: Gerald Washington (18-0-1 12 KOs) will be coming in as a replacement opponent to face WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) on Saturday night, but he believes he's going to get the vict...

This Friday night at Videotron Centre of Quebec City WHAT: “BUTE VS. ALVAREZ” WHEN: Friday, February 24, 2017 WHERE: Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. WHO: WBC Silver Light Heavyweight Championship & Mandatory...

World light heavyweight contender Joe “The Irish Bomber” Smith, Jr. (23-1, 19 KOs) and ringside physician Dr. Robert Polofsky are this Thursday night’s (Feb. 23) guest speakers at Ring 8’s monthly meeting, starti...

Joshua-Klitschko love-in needs some action

Two-division world champion Canelo Álvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) and former WBC World Middleweight Champion Julio César Chávez, Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) will host a press conference in New York on Tuesday, February 21st at Har...

Glynn Evans surfs the net to extract titbits on the seriously chiselled Russian who has designs on toppling our WBO lightweight king at Manchester Arena on April 8th. Petrov was born in Ryazan, an oil refining city and e...

Bellew: I'll 'smack' Haye pre-fight if I have to

By Dan Ambrose: Alfredo Angulo hints that Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) lacks the heart, which is why he's chosen to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1 32 KOs) in his next fight on May 6 instead of middleweigh...

By Jermill Pennington: Adrien "The Problem" Broner (33 -2-24ko) was in the ring this past weekend Versus a formidable foe in Adrian "Tigre" Granados (18-5-2). Granados’ claim to fame is knocking off the highly touted p...

By Jeff Aranow: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Saul Canelo Alvarez met on Monday for their international press tour in Mexico City, Mexico to hype their May 6 fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casually dr...

By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Eddie Hearn says his fighter IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) told him that he's going to be knocking out challenger Errol Spence Jr. (21-0, 18 KOs) in their fight on May 27 ...

By Mauricio Sulaiman: WBC President - Jose Sulaiman's son. This weekend has been very special for me and my wife, Christiane, as we visited our son, Jose, during parent's weekend at Tabor Academy in Massachusetts. To sit...

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