Teofimo Lopez plans to appeal the WBA's ruling that he must defend his title against Jack Catterall, sources told @SInow. Lopez's team says they filed a request for permission to fight in a title unification with Ryan Garcia on 11/5. A copy of that request was reviewed by SI.
The WBC won't allow Canelo vs. Lester Martinez due to the perceived gap in skill level — and despite Martinez's interim title — yet there are countless examples where the WBC has done otherwise.
Like, you know, Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn.
@CelisDeportes@wbcmoro@Canelo Worked his way up to the wbc interim champion position. How is that not good enough to face the wbc champion wow. They pick and choose when to follow rules it seems.
🚨BREAKING. The WBA has ruled that Teofimo Lopez must face Jack Catterall NEXT or he will lose his WBA Welterweight Title
The pair have 10 days to reach terms or a purse bid will be called
🚨 EUBANK-BROOK PRETTY MUCH AGREED
✅ Ben Shalom: "I think that's the fight that the fans want to see. I think that's the fight that sells. ... I think the fight happens. Terms are pretty much agreed on both sides." [@ProBoxingFans]
👀 EB understands the working date is Feb. 27
👀 Ben Shalom earlier today talking about Martin Bakole:
‘He’s gone quiet, not fighting. Yes [he’s still contracted to BOXXER], but we’ve actually not heard from him…’ (@The_FightWire)
✅ Bakole has just had a fight announced for the undercard of Fury-AJ
Heavyweight action in Ghana 🇬🇭
Jarrell Miller and Tony Yoka meet in Accra on December 20 for our final show of 2026 💥
#MillerYoka | @DAZNBoxing | @LegacyRiseSport
Josh Barnett sounds off on slap fighting after seeing what happened to Jake Hager:
“It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
We've had our differences in the past, but watching Jake Hager go out there, it's just like, what are you doing? What are you thinking?
It's the dumbest thing you could ever do.
It kills me to see an Oklahoma wrestler, a collegiate D1 wrestler, an All-American, who wrestled in WWE and AEW and fought in Bellator, out there doing this.
There's so much more you could do with your life and career. You'd be better off doing MMA than ever doing slap fighting... I can't say anything good about slap fighting.”
Dana White on why there hasn't been a Zuffa boxing numbered event in the States since July: "We have our scheduled laid out for the year. I don't know...We didn't have one planned."
Later, says Fury/AJ would have happened without him, but not on Netflix.
Yep, this is nuts. Flavio Cobolli is likely to finish the season as the first top-tenner who lost more points than he won (since 1991, when these stats are available)
Load of bullshit, Turhan 100% in the conversation for female 2025 FOTY, try to diminish Turhan down to skillset absolutely ludicrous. Browne, Ayadi, Ferreira were technically better than Turhan, she still stopped them. Elif Nur Turhan was my 2025 female fighter of the year
Another early stoppage in Mexico! 😳🇲🇽
In the city of Sonora, a super bantamweight fight took place between Brayan Martinez (12-2-1) and Luis Castro (19-16-3).
Although it was not a fiery firefight, punches were thrown. Too little for the officials, who already issued a warning in the first round. In the second round, the referee finally stopped the fight and declared it a No Contest.
#PenunuriCota