Right then — Skye Nicolson has officially gone from interim to full WBC super bantamweight champion after Ellie Scotney vacated to move up. Miyo Yoshida is the first defence. Australia has a two-weight world champion.
Adam Azim returns to BBC Two on Saturday May 30 at the OVO Arena Wembley against forty-fight veteran Steve Claggett. Free-to-air, twelve rounds, the BOXXER showpiece of the spring. Azim's coronation as a top ten 140 pounder is the goal.
Canelo Alvarez has told the room that Hamzah Sheeraz and Osleys Iglesias need to fight each other first — and the winner gets him. It sounds reasonable. It is also the oldest stalling move in the book and Sheeraz should not bite.
O'Shaquie Foster defends his WBC super featherweight title against Raymond Ford on Saturday May 30 at the Fertitta Center Houston. The hometown champion meets the Camden southpaw in a sleeper of a Saturday night, live worldwide on DAZN.
Four days from Yekaterinburg. Dmitry Bivol fights for the first time since beating Beterbiev in February 2025. Michael Eifert is the German mandatory — high tempo, no power. The Bivol back, the Benavidez prize, and the question of whether 35 is too old to come back from the surgery.
Canelo Alvarez told the room in Cairo that Christian Mbilli has zero per cent chance on September 12. The Franco-Cameroonian champion's reply — you'll be surprised — was the right one. Three months out from Riyadh, the temperature has been set.
Frank Warren went on the record over the weekend — Tyson Fury's August opponent gets named this week. The Wembley showdown with Anthony Joshua in November is locked. Fury wants one more night before the biggest fight in British boxing history.
Holly Holm is 44, holds the WBA women's lightweight title, and walks into El Paso on Saturday for the immediate rematch with Stephanie Han. The first fight was a robbery according to half the room. The second one nobody is sitting on the fence on.
Jack Catterall outboxed Shakhram Giyasov over twelve at the Pyramids — first world title in the locker, vacant WBA welterweight strap home, the Uzbek's unbeaten run over.
Right then. Jack Catterall has done everything the WBA asked of him. Now Teofimo Lopez has thirty days to either fight him or explain why not.
Five days on from being flattened in two rounds in Las Vegas, Conor Benn has had a four-weight world champion tell the world he has not got it and never will. It is brutal. It is also the most honest thing anybody has said about him in a fortnight.
Three days ago Usyk's manager said he would not be anybody's back-up plan. Then Usyk himself posted a grinning six-word taunt and Fury replied before the ink was dry. The trilogy is not dead.
The Japanese fast-track does not miss. Daiya Kira dropped Carlos Canizales in the third, took control through the middle rounds and finished him with a straight right in the seventh to win the WBA light flyweight title in fight number five. Luke on a proper announcement.
It is fight week at last. Moses Itauma meets Filip Hrgovic at the O2 on Saturday for the vacant IBF heavyweight title, and Luke gives his final verdict on the most important British heavyweight fight of the year.
Errol Spence Jr hasn't fought since the Crawford defeat nearly three years ago. Now he's flying to Sydney, moving up to 154, and headlining the first card of the new DAZN–PBC era against Tim Tszyu. Luke previews it — and picks a winner.
Two unbeaten Ohioans, one world title, July 4th weekend. Abdullah Mason makes his first WBO lightweight defence against slick veteran Albert Bell.
Usyk walked away and the WBC handed Agit Kabayel the green belt. His first move? An open callout to both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
Tyson Fury takes his comeback to Pattaya against 46-year-old veteran Mariusz Wach — a tune-up one day before Anthony Joshua returns in Riyadh.
Usyk has given up the WBA, WBC and IBF belts and wants one final fight in America. The name he keeps coming back to is Deontay Wilder. Here's my read.
Anthony Joshua returns on July 25 against Kristian Prenga — a warm-up before the signed Tyson Fury superfight. Three weeks out, here's my read on AJ's comeback.
Murat Gassiev makes the first defence of his WBA heavyweight belt against Tony Yoka in Moscow on July 11. Nine days out, here's my closer look and call.
Boots Ennis is the unified 154-pound king after battering Xander Zayas. He wants undisputed — and Sebastian Fundora is the fight to make. Here's my read.
Fabio Wardley has activated his rematch clause with Daniel Dubois, setting up a second crack at the WBO heavyweight crown later this year.
Jose Valenzuela got his revenge in the most brutal way, knocking out Edwin De Los Santos in the second round at Zuffa Boxing 08 in Las Vegas.
Moses Itauma takes his sternest test yet against Filip Hrgovic on August 29 at the O2 Arena in London. This is the night the prospect becomes a contender.
Murat Gassiev makes the first defence of his WBA heavyweight title against Tony Yoka in Moscow on July 11, with the Frenchman chasing a slice of history.
Right then — make no mistake, Boots Ennis just announced himself as a genuine two-division force. Three knockdowns, a seventh-round stoppage, and a unified junior middleweight crown. Class is permanent.
It's fight day at the Barclays Center. Xander Zayas defends his unified super welterweight belts against Jaron 'Boots' Ennis. Here's my final read and prediction.
Oleksandr Usyk has vacated the WBA, WBC and IBF heavyweight titles with one fight left in him. The division has been blown wide open — here's what it all means.
It's done. Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have signed for the all-British superfight, with tune-ups first. Here's the latest and my prediction for the night.