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THE USA BOXING NEWS
- Upcoming Fisticuffs Schedule
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- MARCHMarch 23 – Sheffield, England (DAZN)
- Dalton Smith vs. Jose Zepeda, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
- Title fight: Sandy Ryan vs. Terri Harper, 10 rounds, for Ryan’s WBO women’s welterweight title
- James Flint vs. Campbell Hatton, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
March 29 – Glendale, Arizona (ESPN+)
- Oscar Valdez vs. Liam Wilson, 12 rounds, junior lightweights
March 30 – Las Vegas (Amazon’s Prime Video PPV)
- Tim Tszyu vs. Keith Thurman, 12 rounds, junior middleweights
- Title fight: Rolando Romero vs. Isaac Cruz, 12 rounds, for Romero’s WBA junior welterweight title
- Title fight: Erislandy Lara vs. Michael Zerafa, 12 rounds, for Lara’s WBA middleweight title
- Sebastian Fundora vs. Serhii Bohachuk, 12 rounds, junior middleweights
APRIL
April 6 – Las Vegas (DAZN)
- Richardson Hitchins vs. Gustavo Daniel Lemos, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
- Diego Pacheco vs. Shawn McCalman, 12 rounds, super middleweights
April 6 – Las Vegas (DAZN)
- Jordan Gill vs. Zelfa Barrett, 12 rounds, junior lightweights
- Rhiannon Dixon vs. Karen Elizabeth Carabajal, 10 rounds, women’s lightweights
- April 13 – Las Vegas (DAZN)
- Jordan Gill vs. Zelfa Barrett, 12 rounds, junior lightweights
- Rhiannon Dixon vs. Karen Elizabeth Carabajal, 10 rounds, women’s lightweights
- Cameron Vuong vs. Jordan Flynn, 10 rounds, lightweights
- Michael Gomez Jr. vs. Kane Baker, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
- Brandon Scott vs. TBA, 6 rounds, featherweights
- Jimmy Sains vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights
- William Crolla vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
- Jack Turner vs. TBA, 6 rounds, bantamweights
April 13 – Corpus Christi, Texas (ESPN/ESPN+)
- Jared Anderson vs. Ryad Merhy, 12 rounds, heavyweights
- Efe Ajagba vs. Guido Vianello, 10 rounds, heavyweights
- Henry Lebron vs. Charly Suarez, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
- Ruben Villa vs. Cristian Cruz Chacon, 10 rounds, featherweights
- Abdullah Mason vs. Ronal Ron, 8 rounds, lightweights
- Jalan Walker vs. Alejandro Guerrero, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
- Robson Conceicao vs. Jose Ivan Guardado, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
- John Rincon vs. Yainiel Alvarez, 6 rounds, welterweights
- Ali Feliz vs. Anthony Woodson III, 4 rounds, heavyweights
- Julian Delgado vs. TBA, 4 rounds, middleweights
April 20 – Verona, New York (ESPN/ESPN+)
- Title fight: Jessica McCaskill vs. Ivana Habazin, 10 rounds, for McCaskill’s WBC and WBA women’s welterweight titles
- April 20 – Verona, New York (ESPN/ESPN+)
- Title fight: Jessica McCaskill vs. Ivana Habazin, 10 rounds, for McCaskill’s WBC and WBA women’s welterweight titles
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April 20 – New York City, NY
- Title fight:Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia, 12 rounds, for Haney’s WBC junior welterweight title
MAY
May 4 – Osaka, Japan
- Title fight: Emmanuel Rodriguez vs. Ryosuke Nishida, 12 rounds, for Rodriguez’s IBF bantamweight title
May 6 – Tokyo (ESPN/ESPN+)
- Title fight:Naoya Inoue vs. Luis Nery, 12 rounds, for Inoue’s junior featherweight undisputed championship
- Title fight:Takuma Inoue vs. Sho Ishida, 12 rounds, for Inoue’s WBA bantamweight title
- Title fight:Jason Moloney vs. Yoshiki Takei, 12 rounds, for Moloney’s WBO bantamweight title
- Title fight:Seigo Yuri Akui vs. Taku Kuwahara, 12 rounds, for Yuri Akui’s WBA flyweight title
- May 11- Cardiff, Wales (Peacock)
- Title fight: Jessica McCaskill vs. Lauren Price, 10 rounds, for McCaskill’s WBA women’s welterweight title
May 12 – Perth, Australia (ESPN/ESPN+)
- Title fight: Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. George Kambosos Jr., 12 rounds, for the vacant IBF lightweight title
- Carlos Cuadras vs. Andrew Moloney, 12 rounds, for Cuadras’ WBC interim junior bantamweight title
- Title fight: Subriel Matias vs. Liam Paro, 12 rounds, for Matias’ IBF junior welterweight title.Title fight: Nina Hughes vs. Cherneka Johnson, 10 rounds, for Hughes’ WBA women’s bantamweight title
May 18 – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Title fight: Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk, 12 rounds, for the undisputed heavyweight championship
May 18 -San Diego, California (ESPN/ESPN+)
- Title fight:Emanuel Navarrete vs. Denys Berinchyk, 12 rounds, for the vacant WBO lightweight title
May 25 – Leeds, England (ESPN+)
- Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
Ja’Rico O’Quinn vs. Peter McGrail, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
JUNE
June 1 – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Title fight: Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev, 12 rounds, for the undisputed light heavyweight championship
June 1- Inglewood, California
- Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
June 15 – Manati, Puerto Rico
- JULY
- Title fight: Subriel Matias vs. Liam Paro, 12 rounds, for Matias’ IBF junior welterweight title.Title fight: Nina Hughes vs. Cherneka Johnson, 10 rounds, for Hughes’ WBA women’s bantamweight title
- July 20 – Arlington, Texas
- Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul, rounds TBA, heavyweights
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- – Current Boxing Champions –
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Heavyweight (Unlimited)
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WBO: Oleksandr Usyk
IBF: Oleksandr Usyk
WBA: Oleksandr Usyk*
WBC: Tyson Fury**
*Zhilei Zhang is the WBO interim heavyweight champion
Cruiserweight (200 lbs.)
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WBO: Chris Billam-Smith
IBF: Vacant
WBA: Arsen Goulamirian*
WBC: Norair Mikaeljan
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Light heavyweight (175 lbs.)
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WBO: Artur Beterbiev
IBF: Artur Beterbiev
WBA: Dmitry Bivol*
WBC: Artur Beterbiev
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Super middleweight (168 lbs.)
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WBO: Canelo Alvarez **
IBF: Canelo Alvarez
WBA: Canelo Alvarez*
WBC: Canelo Alvarez
*David Morrell is the WBA “regular” super middleweight champion
- **David Benavidez is the WBC interim super middleweight champion
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Middleweight (160 lbs.)
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WBO: Janibek Alimkhanuly
IBF: Janibek Alimkhanuly
WBA: Erislandy Lara
WBC: Jermall Charlo**
Carlos Adames is the WBC interim champion
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Junior middleweight (154 lbs.)
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WBO: Tim Tszyu
IBF: Vacant
WBA: Jermell Charlo*
WBC: Vacant
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Welterweight (147 lbs.)
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WBO: Terence Crawford
IBF: Jaron Ennis
WBA: Terence Crawford
WBC: Terence Crawford
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*Eimantas Stanionis is the WBA “regular” champion
- **Mario Barrios is the WBC interim welterweight champion
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Junior welterweight (140 lbs.)
- WBO: Teofimo Lopez Jr.
- IBF: Subriel Matias
- WBA: Rolando Romero
- WBC: Devin Haney
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Lightweight (135 lbs.)
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WBO: Vacant
IBF: Vacant
WBA: Gervonta Davis
WBC: Shakur Stevenson
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Junior lightweight (130 lbs.)
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WBO: Emanuel Navarrete
IBF: Joe Cordina
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WBA: Lamont Roach
- WBC: O’Shaquie Foster
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Featherweight (126 lbs.)
- WBO: Rafael Espinoza
- IBF: Luis Alberto Lopez
- WBA: Raymond Ford
- WBC: Rey Vargas*
- *Brandon Figueroa is the WBC interim featherweight champion
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Junior featherweight (122 lbs.)
- WBO: Naoya Inoue
- IBF: Naoya Inoue
- WBA: Naoya Inoue
- WBC: Naoya Inoue
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Bantamweight (118 lbs.)
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WBO: Jason Moloney
IBF: Emmanuel Rodriguez
WBA: Takuma Inoue
WBC: Junto Nakatani
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Junior bantamweight (115 lbs.)
- WBO: Kosel Tanaka
- IBF: Fernando Martinez
- WBA: Kazuto Ioka
- WBC: Juan Francisco Estrada
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Flyweight (112 lbs.)
- WBO: Jesse Rodriguez
- IBF: Jesse Rodriguez
- WBA: Seigo Yuri Akui
- WBC: Julio Cesar Martinez
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Junior flyweight (108 lbs.)
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WBO: Jonathan Gonzalez
IBF: Sivenathi Nontshinga
WBA: Kenshiro Teraji
WBC: Kenshiro Teraji
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Strawweight (105 lbs.)
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WBO: Oscar Collazo
IBF: Ginjiro Shigeoka
WBA: Knockout CP Freshmart*
WBC: Yudai Shigeoka
*Erick Rosa is the WBA “regular” strawweight champion