The 90-year-old promoter from Ohio emerged the big winner at Monday’s purse bid for the WBA “regular” heavyweight title fight between his fighter Trevor Bryan and British contender Daniel Dubois. King beat out Dubois’ promoter, the Frank Warren-led Queensberry Promotions with a bid of $3,116,001, dwarfing the $2,503,000 bid made by the second place promoter, according to reporter Jake Donovan. Under purse bid guidelines, Bryan (22-0, 15 knockouts) would be entitled to 55 percent of the purse money, or approximately $1,713,800, while the mandatory challenger Dubois (17-1, 16 KOs) will get the ..read more

Sunny Edwards defended his IBF flyweight world title for the second time with a unanimous decision victory over Pakistan’s Muhammad Waseem in Dubai.  The London fighter scored 115-111, 116-110, 115-111 on the three judges’ scorecards to retain the title he won in April 2021. Edwards, 26, took his record to 18-0. Afterwards, he reiterated his desire to face WBC champion Julio Cesar Martinez of Mexico next in a unification fight.  “Muhammad is a world-class operator and he and his team came with a good game plan but I thought I was always one step ahead tonight,” said Edwards. “I now ..read more

Zach Parker will fight two-weight world champion Demetrius Andrade for the WBO interim super-middleweight title at Derby County’s Pride Park on 21 May. Parker, 27, is a lifelong Derby fan and the winner of the fight will be in pole position to face Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez for the WBO belt. America’s Andrade is undefeated with 31 wins and 19 knockouts, while Parker is also unbeaten with 22 victories. “This is a dream come true,” said Parker.  “I think every one of us dreams of headlining a show at the football team you support. I don’t think it has fully sunk in yet to be honest. “It will b ..read more

Probellum is today delighted to announce the landmark promotional signing of super-lightweight superstar Jack Catterall – the signature that everyone in boxing wanted. Catterall is currently ranked number one in the world by ESPN after controversially being denied the chance of taking undisputed champion Josh Taylor’s crown last month in Glasgow after two of the ringside judges inexplicably ruled against him in a decision that shocked the boxing world. The sport was united in its outrage against the major injustice but Catterall’s masterclass performance did not go unnoticed and British boxin ..read more

Amateur standout Callum Walsh ended matters quickly Thursday night, knocking out Gael Ibarra in the opening round of a junior middleweight contest at the Quiet Cannon in Montebello, California. Walsh, who is originally from Cork, Ireland, and now resides in Long Beach, California, improves to 2-0 (2 knockouts). Before a partisan sell-out crowd, Walsh went on the front foot immediately. A vicious left cross produced a knockdown, and although Ibarra beat the count, he was still on wobbly legs, prompting referee Eddie Hernandez to stop the fight at 0:33. Walsh, who is promoted by Tom Loeffler, w ..read more

Leigh Wood recovered from an early knockdown to retain his WBA featherweight title with a remarkable 12th-round stoppage of Michael Conlan after a ferocious battle at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena. Topping the bill at his home city, Wood was put on his back by a looping overhand left towards the end of the first round and while he rose on wobbly legs, the 33-year-old was outclassed over the first half of the fight. But Wood rallied and was starting to find some success as the bout wore on, evening the knockdowns in the 11th – despite Conlan’s protestations of a slip – before delivering a stun ..read more

Salford’s Marc Leach won the vacant British super-bantamweight title with a sound boxing display to end the unbeaten run of London’s Chris Bourke. Leach won by margins of 117-111, 116-113 and 116-112 and the scorecards could have been wider. The well-supported Leach took the opener with smart movement and sharp shots and he did well in the second, too. Bourke was applying the pressure but he was often tagged by Leach’s jab, but the London man did land a good left hand towards the end of Round 3. There were spells of good action in the fourth as Bourke’s face started to redden but Leach’s defe ..read more

The controversial scoring of Josh Taylor’s win against Jack Catterall has been referred to the police by the Speaker of the House of Commons. Taylor’s split decision win in his undisputed super-lightweight title defence was widely criticised. “Everyone is disgusted by what’s happened – it brings the sport into disrepute,” Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Catterall’s MP in Chorley, told Sportsmail. “I have to question why the judges got it so wrong? I have already sent a letter to the police. “I have spoken to Nadine Dorries, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Minister for S ..read more

Skilled featherweight technician Michael Conlan will face his toughest task to date when he takes on the hard-hitting Leigh Wood for the WBA regular title at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham this Saturday. The popular Northern Irishman is very confident and had no qualms about facing Wood on enemy territory. “It’s fantastic, it’s something I have craved since I turned professional,” Conlan (16-0, 8 knockouts) told The Ring. “These are things my father has been wanting me to do. It’s the first thing he said when this fight was announced, that he wanted it to be in Nottingham. “I wanted it to ..read more

Anthony Joshua has finally decided on a new coach. Anthony Joshua’s search for a new trainer appears to be over with the former heavyweight champion confirming that Angel Fernandez will now be responsible for his future preparations.   Since losing to Oleksandr Usyk last September, Joshua has spent time in America in various gyms soaking up knowledge from numerous coaches.  Spending time with Eddy Reynoso, Virgil Hunter, and Ronnie Shields, it looked like Joshua’s next move would be California or Texas, but the 2012 Olympic gold medallist now seems set to remain in Britain. The Watf ..read more