Ringside Revelations: Latest Boxing News

Unbeaten heavyweight Agit Kayayel hopes to the land the biggest prize in boxing – Oleksandr Usyk – if he gets past Damian Knyba on Saturday in Germany but said he'll fight anyone.

Puerto Rican knockout artist Subriel Matias will make his first defense of the WBC super lightweight title against England's Dalton Smith on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Eddie Hearn said Jaron Ennis could challenge the Bakhram Murtazaliev-Josh Kelly winner next for the IBF junior middleweight title if they can't close a deal for "Boots" to finally face Vergil Ortiz Jr.

Lewis Crocker had other opponents in mind, namely Conah Walker, before the IBF ordered him to make a mandated defense of his IBF 147-pound crown against former IBF 140-pound champ Liam Paro.

Elijah Pierce and Lorenzo Parra were initially scheduled to fight November 29, until the former pulled out due to an illness.

Eddie Hearn is excited about the possibility of an IBF/WBC world title unification between Elif Nur Turhan and Caroline Dubois, having agreed an extension with the exciting Turkish talent, who makes her first championship defence on the Murtazaliev-Kelly undercard this month.

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.