Ringside Revelations: Latest Boxing News

LONDON, England - 'Prince' Naseem Hamed sits on a chair in the centre of a room on the second floor of an upmarket hotel a short ringwalk from London's Leicester Square. Behind him is a six-foot black and yellow banner emblazoned with the word ‘Giant’, the name of the film which charts the story of his life from seven-year-old Sheffield kid to featherweight champion of the world.

We don’t want to say that Subriel Matias is one-dimensional, but he is known for one thing: pressure. The Puerto Rican native doesn’t bring anything tricky or out of the ordinary to the table, but no matter who’s in front of him, Matias moves forward poise and purpose, and he doesn’t stop throwing punches, usually until his opponent is unable to continue.

Promising Dominican junior welterweight Hendri Cedeno will have to wait beyond Saturday night to try to advance his career because he couldn't get a license from the New York State Athletic Commission.

Junior welterweight titleholder Richardson Hitchins says he wants to shut up Frank Martin in the ring.

Agit Kabayel didn’t expect a fight with Damian Knyba to be his reward when he knocked out Zhilei Zhang with a body shot 10½ months ago. Kabayel became the WBC interim heavyweight champion by beating the powerful Chinese southpaw February 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

There is no guarantee, or even a suggestion, of a 100-year cycle of occurrences in boxing. But there are enough coincidences to merit some attention.

Welterweight champion Lewis Crocker has opened up on his decision to leave Billy Nelson just months after they won the IBF title together. Crocker this week confirmed he has left Nelson’s gym in Glasgow, Scotland and relocated to Surrey, England to link up with Huzaifah ‘H’ Iqbal at Adam Booth’s gym.

Junior welterweights Shohjahon Ergashev and Batyrzhan Jukembayev will face one another on May 9 in a fight they hope will boost them back into title contention.

claimed the European welterweight title with a razor-thin 12-round split decision over defending champion Samuel Molina in Kaunas, Lithuania, on November 28.

He has played James Bond, the Prime Minister and Thomas Crown among countless others but Pierce Brosnan described it as ‘a joy’ to take on one of British and Irish boxing’s most famous trainers Brendan Ingle.

Cruiserweight contender made a triumphant homecoming in Cayenne, French Guiana before Christmas. Mosquea, rated at No. 7 by at cruiserweight, had high hopes for 2025 only to be sidelined for several months through injury before vacating his European title.

has set her sights on unifying the lightweight division in 2026 and a showdown with her WBO counterpart, , is at the top of her hitlist.

WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman defends his organization's decision to allow the popular, but erratic Ryan Garcia to challenge welterweight titleholder Marrio Barrios even though Garcia has never won a fight at the division limit of 147 pounds.

Devin Haney says he is open to a fight Keyshawn Davis. Earlier this month, Davis said on 'Inside The Ring' that if he comes through his junior welterweight debut against Jamaine Ortiz on 'The Ring 6' in New York City on January 31, he would move straight up to 147 pounds.

WBA beltholder Abass Baraou tells The Ring he believes old sparring sessions with Xander Zayas when both were hungry contenders will stand him in good stead to produce another upset win away from home, ahead of his WBA/WBO title unification Jan. 31 in Puerto Rico.

WBC junior welterweight titleholder Subriel Matias is hopeful Shakur Stevenson unseats Teofimo Lopez as The Ring's new 140-pound champion January 31, even if he has business of his own to take care of this weekend against unbeaten British contender Dalton Smith.

The IBF was set to conduct purse bids on the heavyweight final eliminator between and on Tuesday but both sides have been given extra time to seal a deal.

Former junior bantamweight title challenger Jeyvier Cintron tells The Ring that after a lengthy four-year layoff, he's built up momentum and now ready to show he belongs among the world's best, when facing Jonathan Rodriguez on the Matias-Smith undercard this weekend.