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Getty Images It’s been a wild year so far in the boxing ring. The first four-belt undisputed heavyweight champion was crowned after Oleksandr Usyk outboxed Tyson Fury. Undisputed (at the time) super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez returned to score a spirited win over countryman Jaime Munguia before returning in September to outbox Edgar Berlanga. And […]

As far as world title bouts between Mexican-born warriors are concerned, the expectation is always that of two-way carnage, intensity and perseverance.  When three-division champion and WBO junior lightweight titleholder Emanuel Navarrete faced off against former two-division king Oscar Valdez in August 2023, the pair of all-action fighters provided fans with just that as Navarrete […]

The WBO super featherweight championship will be on the line Saturday in a 12-round match when Emanuel Navarrete battles Oscar Valdez in a rematch of their Aug. 12, 2023, WBO junior lightweight championship bout. The preliminary Navarrete vs. Valdez fight card from Footprint Center in Phoenix gets underway at 5:30 p.m. ET, with the main […]

Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino icon and the only male boxer to win world titles in eight divisions, headlines the 2025 International Boxing Hall of Fame induction class.  The 45-year-old Pacquiao, who last fought professionally in 2021, joins a pair of former two-division champions, Vinny Paz and Michael Nunn, in the men’s modern category as part […]

More than a week after Jake Paul’s convincing, if uninspired, win over Mike Tyson, some online chatter claiming the fight was “fixed” remains. On Monday, Paul’s promotion, Most Valuable Promotions, put out a statement attempting to squash any remaining talk that the fight was not entirely on the level. The fight, which was a professional […]

Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson was one of the year’s biggest sporting events, but the outcome left much to be desired. The headliner’s labored efforts had many calling the fight boring at best and suspicious at worst. Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, Paul’s manager and co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, pushed back against any fight-fixing claims […]

If you were one of the 74 million live viewers globally who watched Friday’s thrilling Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano rematch on Netflix, which amounts to the largest audience to ever watch a women’s professional sporting event in the U.S., there is good news.  The best and biggest fight that either Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs), the 38-year-old […]

Getty Images One of the greatest fictional boxers to grace the big screen has weighed in on the recent boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. Sylvester Stallone, who played the iconic character “Rocky Balboa,” posted on Instagram that Tyson gave “one of the great Oscar-winning performances of all-time” in Friday’s fight against the […]

Getty Images Fans tuning in to Wednesday’s press conference for Friday’s highly-anticipated fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul hoping for fiery words were certainly left disappointed. While Paul tried to bait Tyson into trash talk, Tyson had almost nothing to say to his opponent or in response to any media questions. Tyson seemed largely […]

For Mike Tyson, the idea of having nine lives has never been enough.  Throughout nearly six decades on this earth, Tyson has already lived the lives of at least 10 different people. He has shapeshifted so consistently from unknown to legend, pariah to boxing ambassador, and from being the youngest heavyweight champion in history to […]