Ringside Revelations: Latest Boxing News

After a big 2025 full of major fights and significant events, the turn of the year gives us the chance to look ahead to what might be in store over the next 12 months. There are already a number of big fights in the books for the beginning of new year but what are the fights that boxing needs for the rest of 2026?

He grabbed the WBA’s interim strap thanks to his upset win over Caleb Plant on May 31.

There was simply no other way for him to die. Or, rather, to have been discovered. It was the only fitting end for such a character, and fairness had nothing to do with it.

For years, Nottingham light-heavyweight Ezra Taylor has been described as the full package but it was not until he linked up with Malik Scott that he genuinely considered himself that.

Rozicki last fought in December 2024 against Yamil Alberto Peralta in a WBC interim title clash that resulted in a majority draw.

No Limit Boxing CEO George Rose said he’s working on securing a suitable replacement opponent for Paro.

The driver, who was hired for the team’s trip in Nigeria, the homeland of Joshua’s parents, has also been discharged from the hospital.

Gary Antuanne Russell is welcoming the mega matchup between Teofimo Lopez Jr. and Shakur Stevenson on January 31 with open arms. Russell (18-1, 17 KOs) is the WBA junior welterweight titleholder, and Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) is The Ring and WBO 140-pound champion defending his titles against the division debutant Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs).

The Ring's No. 6-rated junior lightweight contender Eduardo Hernandez rides a three-fight win streak into 2026, where he'll headline a January 17 card in Mexico City against an opponent TBC. Despite his recent upturn in fortunes, the 28-year-old is still kicking himself after a 12th-round stoppage loss by O'Shaquie Foster for the WBC strap in Oct. 2023.

Osleys Iglesias' promoter, Camille Estephan, took to social media in confirming the IBF's order for his charge to face two-time undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez next to decide their new world titleholder. However, the Mexican star's injury status means the sanctioning body are likely to move onto the next available contender instead.

is barely halfway through her first full year in the paid ranks and yet showing why declarations she'll be a multi-weight undisputed world champion don't seem very far-fetched.

Kazuto Ioka's bantamweight debut couldn't have gone any better Wednesday, as he improved to 11-1-1 on the year-end holiday when breezing beyond Maikel Ordosgoitti in four rounds. Producing his first stoppage victory for two years in their WBA world title eliminator, the 36-year-old's standing could help manoevure him into a world title shot elsewhere.

There are changes to just two divisions in this week's Ring ratings update, but there was some discussion over making potential changes to the pound-for-pound top 10.

Eddie Hearn says it would make ‘perfect sense’ for Lewis Crocker to make the first defence of his IBF welterweight title in a rematch with Conah Walker.

David Adeleye is 29, coming off an anticlimactic 2025 and has this week publicly acknowledged the need for better displays to remind critics - and himself - he belongs among the heavyweight elite in 2026 and beyond after being outpointed by Filip Hrgovic in August.

Serrano (47-4-1, 31 KOs) is returning to 126 pounds after consecutive razor-thin decision defeats to 140-pound champion champion Katie Taylor. Christy Martin has 32 KOs.

Sebastian Hernandez doesn’t know what the judges were looking at. The hard-hitting junior featherweight contender didn’t protest when he found out he lost to Junto Nakatani in the co-main event of last weekend's 'Ring V: Night of the Samurai' card.

Terence Crawford, 38, says age played a key role in his decision to walk away from the ring.