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Due to the ongoing global pandemic, there will be no spectators allowed inside the 2300 Arena for tomorrow night’s RDR Promotions boxing event. Fans who purchased tickets will have refunds available at the point of purchase beginning on Sunday.

The show, which will feature a  battle between undefeated featherweights Donald “No Love” Smith (10-0, 6 KOs) and William Foster III (11-0, 8 KOs) will be still be streamed on PPV for $9.99. In the eight-round co-feature, undefeated welterweight Mark Dawson (7-0-1, 3 KOs) takes on Derrick Whitley Jr. (6-1-1).

The fights will be called by veteran broadcaster Marc Abrams and two-time cruiserweight world champion Steve “USS” Cunningham.

Future Hall of Famer Floyd Mayweather says he may do as many as three boxing exhibitions this year.

“This year I will focus on several exhibitions,” Floyd stated on social media. “I will have an exhibition in Tokyo, Japan again. Of course the one with Logan Paul and I; and if Jake Paul can get past his next opponent Ben Askren, I will have an exhibition with him as well.

“I also heard that 50 Cent would fight me but claims I’m too small. If he wants to lace up at the end of the year, we can do an exhibition then. I don’t care about weight class with any of these guys. The Paul brothers will make great money with the events, but with 50 cent It has to be ‘Winner Take All.'”

By  tmz.com

Jake Paul is flipping the script on Floyd Mayweather — issuing his own list of demands if Floyd is serious about wanting to fight him in 2021.

… so why does Jake feel like he’s got the upper hand?

Paul says it’s pretty simple … claiming Mayweather is an aging fighter who’s only taking exhibitions because he knows he would LOSE if he took another pro fight. Continue reading “Jake Paul: Floyd old, scared and probably broke”

The WBC Women’s Championship Committee has decided to appoint Jelena Mrdjenovich as Emeritus Champion in the featherweight division. This special honor and designation has been bestowed to very few outstanding fighters in the world including Vitali Klitschko, Floyd Mayweather and Ana Maria Torres.

The Committee also confirmed Amanda Serrano as WBC featherweight champion and will sanction the unification bout against Daniela Bermudez. The bout, now for the WBC/IBF/WBO titles is scheduled to take place on March 25 in Puerto Rico.

The 38-year-old Mrdjenovich also holds the WBA belt.

Brazilian middleweight contender Esquiva Falcao is coming back to America. After a pair of knockout wins last year in his home nation, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist will take on two-time world title challenger Artur Akavov in a 10-rounder Saturday, Feb. 20 from MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

In a junior welterweight special feature scheduled for eight or six rounds, knockout wizard Elvis “The Dominican Kid” Rodriguez will face Argentine veteran Luis Alberto Veron.

Falcao-Akavov, Rodriguez-Veron and additional undercard bouts will stream live on ESPN+. The evening continues live on ESPN with the all-Mexican showdown between WBC super featherweight world champion Miguel Berchelt and former world champion Oscar Valdez, and junior lightweight contender Gabriel Flores Jr. against former world title challenger Jayson Velez. Continue reading “Berchelt-Valdez undercard set”

It seems only appropriate that undefeated cruiserweight Richie “Popeye The Sailor Man” Rivera (18-0, 13 KOs) has found a new home in Orlando (FL), although his heart remains in his native Hartford (CT), since he followed his partner/head trainer Tony Blanco there nearly six months ago,

“I recently went to Universal Studios and it’s definitely Popeye-friendly,” the charismatic Rivera reported. “They had Popeye rides, souvenirs and novelties. I felt like it’s my part of town.” Continue reading “Rivera finds a new home in Orlando”

MTK Global won the purse bid on Thursday for the vacant IBF featherweight title fight between Jazza Dickens (30-3, 11 KOs) and Kid Galahad (27-1, 16 KOs). They will collide for the belt after Josh Warrington vacated it last month. The date and location for the fight is TBA.

Dickens and Galahad have previously met, with Galahad coming out on top when he won the vacant British super bantamweight title back in September 2013.

The World Boxing Association (WBA) named Jamal James as its welterweight champion after enforcing the rules and considering his boxing record. Through a resolution of the WBA Championships Committee, the body made the decision regarding James. The American won the interim title on August 8, 2020 by defeating Thomas Dulorme by unanimous decision, in Los Angeles, California.

James will now have to fulfill a mandatory commitment vs Radzhab Butaev in his next fight. Both parties have 30 days to negotiate the terms of the fight. Should a Purse Bid be necessary, it will be done under WBA rules, and the split will be 75% to the champion and 25% to the challenger. Continue reading “WBA promotes Jamal James to champion”

By Zach Hirsch

We caught up with four-division world champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner before AB’s comeback fight February 20 on Showtime.

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Juan Francisco Estrada believes his upcoming rematch with Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez will be an even better fight than their first battle as they clash for the WBC and WBA world super flyweight titles on Saturday March 13 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, live worldwide on DAZN.

Estrada and Chocolatito first clashed in November 2012 in Los Angeles, with Chocolatito successfully defending his WBA light flyweight title via unanimous decision, and now over eight years later, they will meet again. Continue reading “Estrada: Rematch will be better than first fight”

World ranked Melvin “Melo” Lopez (21-1, 12 KOs) of Nicaragua (now based in Miami) makes his 2021 debut March 26th. Lopez will take on Carlos Jorge Luis Sardinez (16-2, 2 KOs) of Argentina in a 10 round main event at the Four Ambassadors Hotel in Miami, Florida. The World Boxing Organisation Latino bantamweight title will be at stake. The card will be promoted by M&R Boxing Promotions( Laura Ching). Continue reading ““Melo” Lopez returns in Miami March 26″

World Boxing Council bantamweight champion Nordine Oubaali (17-0, 12 KOs) plans to defend his crown on March 13 in Paris, France, if conditions allow. Oubaali’s opponent could be ABCO champion Nawaphon Por Chokchai (50-1-1, 40 KOs), who in 2017 contested the WBC fly crown against former world champion Juan Hernández. For Oubaali this would be the third defense of the title he won by defeating Rau’Shee Warren in January 2019 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Undefeated IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) scored big on Saturday night when he successfully defended his title against Caleb Truax and drew a peak audience of 2.019 million viewers during the FOX PBC Fight Night live broadcast from Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles. The main event portion of the telecast, which featured Plant scoring a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Truax, averaged 1.887 million viewers.

The entire FOX PBC Fight Night three-fight main card averaged 1.608 million viewers and ranks as FOX’s best PBC Fight Night performance since December 21, 2019 (Jermell Charlo-Tony Harrison II – WBC super welterweight title bout). Earlier in the day, PBC’s preliminary bouts peaked with 1.221 million viewers and averaged 871,000 viewers. Continue reading “2 million+ tune into Plant-Truax”

By Gabriel F. Cordero

The 24-year-old light heavyweight star “Bek Bully” Bektemir Melikuziev (6-0, 5 KOs) will meet “big Chief” Morgan Fitch (19-4-1, 8 KOs) on Golden Boy Promotions’ February 13 world title twinbill on DAZN from Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. Melikuziev, who currently holds the WBO Inter-Continental and WBA Continental Americas belts, was slated to face former world champion Sergei Kovalev last Saturday, but that fight was scrapped after Kov failed a drug test.

Fanmio CEO Fanmio Solomon Engel has finally confirmed that the Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul PPV exhibition boxing match will not be happening on February 20. “After an absolutely tremendous response to the fight announcement, we’re hoping to announce a new date very soon along with some new exciting details,” Engel said in the statement to various outlets.

As of this writing, the Fanmio is still selling subscriptions for the original date. Pricing for the webcast goes on sliding scale with the price increasing to $79.99 for the last ten days prior to the fight. By contrast, the recent Tyson-Jones exhibition was $49.99.

Thompson Boxing Promotions will return on Sunday, February 21 with the first 2021 edition of its 3.2.1. Boxing series with three fights taking place at the Omega Products International Event Center in Corona, CA. The free stream will air live on the Thompson Boxing Promotions website and their Facebook and YouTube pages.

Undefeated welterweight Saul Bustos (13-0-1, 7 KOs) will return to the ring against Todd Manuel (18-17, 5 KOs) in an eight-round main event. In the six-round co-feature, middleweight Richard “Cool Breeze” Brewart Jr. (8-0, 4 KO) will face fellow undefeated foe Nathan Weston (6-0-2, 2 KOs). In the opening four-rounder, middleweight Nelson Oliva will be making his pro debut against a TBA.

The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced today that due to the many unknowns of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic between now and June and the remaining months of year, the 2021 Induction Weekend will be postponed until next year.

Next year’s celebration is scheduled for June 9-12, 2022 and will be themed a Hall of Fame Weekend Induction Trilogy. The event will honor the Classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022 when an international event the scale of the Induction Weekend can be done safely and without restriction in “Boxing’s Hometown.” Continue reading “IBHOF inductions postponed for 2nd consecutive year”