Boxing

Former professional four-organization minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama will be granted his wish to receive an amateur license from the Japan Amateur Boxing Federation, it was announced at a news conference on Tuesday. The JABF said that Takayama, 35, would officially be registered as an amateur ...

By posting two consecutive first-round knockout victories, boxer Naoya Inoue has begun to make people think that he might actually be better than he had been advertised. In late May, he stunned boxing fans by finishing British champion Jamie McDonnell off a little less than ...

This time, he needed just a few punches to end the night. WBA bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue landed a picture-perfect one-two blow on Juan Carlos Payano to stunningly — and quickly — finish the match in their World Boxing Super Series quarterfinal bout in Yokohama ...

WBA bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue is fired up as he begins his campaign to prove he is the world's best boxer in the division. Two days before his World Boxing Super Series tournament debut, the 25-year-old expressed his excitement at getting into the ring on ...

Britain's Tyson Fury will challenge Deontay Wilder for the American's WBC heavyweight crown on Dec. 1, a statement said Friday. The Los Angeles Times reported that Staples Center in Los Angeles was a potential venue for the fight while Brooklyn's Barclays Center was also in ...

Floyd Mayweather says he doesn't really miss fighting yet and is looking forward to expanding his brand through business. The former five-division and 12-time boxing world champion is currently visiting Japan to form "TMT Tokyo" and establish a partnership between his newly-announced Mayweather Holdings, Japan's ...

Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin fought 24 rounds in the space of a year, with only a narrow margin between the fighters. When the scorecards were totaled Saturday night, though, the judges crowned a new middleweight champion of the world — but just barely. Alvarez won ...

Japanese triple champion Kazuto Ioka won his first bout since returning from retirement, beating Puerto Rico's McWilliams Arroyo in a unanimous decision on Saturday for the WBC silver super flyweight title. Ioka earned a 3-0 decision against Arroyo after 10 rounds at The Forum. The ...

Ryota Murata will make a second defense of his WBA middleweight world title, this time against American challenger Rob Brant in Las Vegas in October, it was announced Thursday. The 32-year-old Murata, who was crowned champion in October last year, will headline a card at ...

Kenshiro Teraji said Tuesday he will attempt the fourth defense of his WBC light flyweight title on Oct. 7 against Milan Melindo of the Philippines. The 26-year-old, who fights under the name Ken Shiro, is undefeated in 13 professional bouts with seven knockouts. Melindo is ...