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Claressa Shields will defend her undisputed heavyweight crown against Franchon Crews-Dezurn at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit early next year. Shields, 30, is undefeated in her 17 professional bouts and became the first undisputed champion with a win over Danielle Perkins in February.
Caroline Dubois will pursue a showdown with British rival Terri Harper next year. The Londoner is the WBC lightweight champion and Harper holds the WBO's version of the world title at 135lbs. Dubois wants to meet the Doncaster fighter in a world championship unification early in 2026.
The idea is preposterous. Jake Paul can’t actually beat Anthony Joshua, can he? Can he? Paul is a social media star who has transitioned into being a professional boxer.
Johnny Fisher survived an early scare before he sealed a stoppage win over Ivan Balaz in Monte Carlo. The British contender appeared badly hurt as a flurry of hooks sent him to the canvas, but a knockdown was bizarrely not signalled by the referee and Fisher then dropped Balaz twice before the…
Nigel Benn and Gennadiy Golovkin have been elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Benn is a legend of British boxing, renowned for his fierce rivalry with Chris Eubank.
Oleksandr Usyk wants to defend his world heavyweight titles against Deontay Wilder, who has welcomed a fight against the unified champion. The Ukrainian has broken his silence about his next career move, confirming that he wants to put his WBC, WBA and IBF belts on the line against Wilder.
Galal Yafai will get a world title shot after it emerged that his lone professional conqueror Francisco Rodriguez failed a drug test. Yafai is now the mandatory challenger for the WBC flyweight world championship and expects to fight Ricardo Sandoval, the unified WBC and WBA titlist, early in 2026.
Teofimo Lopez will defend his WBO super-lightweight title against Shakur Stevenson in New York on January 31. The unbeaten Stevenson will be bidding to become a a four-weight world champion when he steps up from lightweight to challenge Brooklyn's Lopez, who is making the fourth defence of his WBO…
Jeamie TKV defeated Frazer Clarke by split decision to claim the vacant British heavyweight title after a bruising 12-round battle in Derby.
Ben Whittaker blew Benjamin Gavazi away with a brutal first-round stoppage in his Birmingham homecoming. The Olympic silver medallist knocked his German opponent down and then out inside two minutes and 15 seconds of the opening round at the NEC Arena.
The boxing world would come to a shuddering, and in Eddie Hearn’s view, terminal halt if Jake Paul were to beat Anthony Joshua. Paul, once a YouTuber and now a fighter, is boxing Joshua on December 19 in Miami.
Ben Whittaker has long been earmarked as a future world champion. The light-heavyweight dazzled at the Tokyo Olympic Games when he won a silver medal. He is unbeaten as a professional fighter.
