Chazz Witherspoon will get one last chance to make his mark in the heavyweight division. BoxingScene.com has learned that Witherspoon has replaced Tyrone Spong as Oleksandr Usyk’s opponent for Usyk’s true heavyweight debut Saturday night in Chicago. The 38-year-old Witherspoon accepted what will be an extremely challenging fight on less than one week’s notice.…
Local boxing has been thrown into mourning following the death of international boxing referee and judge Stephen “Vedo” Okumu on Monday morning.
Former three-weight world champion and International Boxing Hall of Famer Jeff Fenech spent the weekend in a Thailand intensive care unit thanks to an infected heart valve and now faces surgery.
The second time is the charm, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. Hearn feels confident that WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will topple Tyson Fury in a planned rematch for February of 2020. Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,…
Sibusiso Zingange from Pretoria retained the WBA Pan African junior lightweight title with an eighth-round technical knockout win over Mziwodumo Paul Mangxilana at the Malamulele Boxing Gym in the Limpopo Province over the past weekend.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya, who guides the career of Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, admits that he didn’t recommend that his boxer move up by two weight classes to fight WBO world champion Sergey Kovalev.
After 12 rounds of their brutal battle at Madison Square Garden Saturday night, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko raised their hands and staggered to their corners exhausted and stained with blood.
Unbeaten welterweight Jaron Ennis scored yet another knockout in his return to national television Saturday on SHOWTIME with a third round TKO of Demian Fernandez at Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center in Flint, Mich.
Ghana’s Fredrick Lawson is back in the win column, following a six-round unanimous decision win over Carlos Winston Velasquez.
Former world junior featherweight champion Vuyani Bungu is among the nominations for the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York.