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Daniel Dubois and Anthony Joshua will tangle on Saturday in London for the IBF heavyweight championship in a scheduled 12-round bout. The main Joshua vs. Dubois fight card at Wembley Stadium is scheduled to start around 11 a.m. ET, with Joshua and Dubois making the ring walk several hours later. This will be the first meeting […]

Anthony Joshua enters Saturday’s bout with IBF champion Daniel Dubois with the opportunity to become a three-time world heavyweight champion. The pair meet in the main event of a pay-per-view card emanating from Wembley Stadium in London. After winning the IBF interim title in his most recent outing, an eighth-round TKO win over Filip Hrgovic, […]

Heavyweight gold is on the line on Saturday when Daniel Dubois puts the IBF championship on the line against two-time former unified champion Anthony Joshua. As important as the championship is, the fact that the winner is positioned for a massive potential fight with the winner of the upcoming rematch between unified champ Oleksandr Usyk […]

Daniel Dubois will make his first IBF heavyweight title defense on Saturday when he takes on former three-belt champion Anthony Joshua in a 12-round bout at Wembley Stadium in London. The main card is expected to get underway approximately 11 a.m. ET. Dubois, who has won 91% of his fights, is coming off a TKO […]

For as crafty as former titleholder TJ Doheny was in order to stay in the fight on Tuesday morning, the power of undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue eventually caught up to him.  One fight removed from suffering the first knockdown of his career in the early going against Luis Nery, Inoue (28-0, 25 KOs) […]

Naoya Inoue, arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing, returns to action Tuesday when he defends his undisputed junior featherweight title against TJ Doheny. The fight will go down from Tokyo’s Ariake Arena. The fight will be Inoue’s second defense as undisputed champion at 122 pounds as well as his first fight since stopping Luis […]

Getty Images After a 20-month layoff, an introspective Danny Garcia made a successful debut in the 154-pound division Saturday night, successfully outboxing Jose Benavidez Jr. at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Garcia (37-3, 21 KO) had been out of action since December 2020, but he showed very few signs of rust as he outboxed Benavidez from the […]

One of the best fights in the last few years is set for its second chapter. Two of the best bantamweights of this era will throw down in Japan on Tuesday when unified champion Naoya Inoue takes on WBC titleholder Nonito Donaire at the Saitama Arena (5 a.m. ET, ESPN+). The pair first met in […]

David Benavidez entered his fight with David Lemieux on Saturday night as a heavy favorite to win the WBC interim championship and put himself in line as a mandatory challenger to undisputed 168-pound champion Canelo Alvarez. He also knew a simple victory would not be enough to increase the demand for that fight. Benavidez responded […]

Jermell Charlo became the first four-belt undisputed champion at 154 pounds on Saturday after knocking out Brian Castano in the 10th round of their thrilling rematch at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.   Nearly one year after fighting to a disputed draw that most felt he had won, Castano (17-1-2, 12 KOs) came […]