Conor Benn claims he will “Risk it all” in his September 12 bout against Ryan Garcia, but his choice of division tells a different story. If Benn wanted genuine competitive danger, staying at middleweight provided all he could handle.

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Sugar Ray Leonard became a five-division world champion by stopping Donny Lalonde in the ninth round on November 7, 1988, but the light heavyweight portion of that accomplishment deserves an asterisk.

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Filip Hrgovic believes Moses Itauma’s enormous hype has as much to do with where he comes from as what he has accomplished in the ring.

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Teofimo Lopez and his father, Teofimo Sr., turned an interview into something resembling a therapy session while dissecting his loss to Shakur Stevenson. The son repeatedly pushed responsibility toward his trainer, while Senior eventually accepted much of the blame.

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Oleksandr Gvozdyk’s release from Zuffa Boxing after his knockout loss to Radivoje Kalajdzic has upset some fans, but Zuffa isn’t running a charity. It is building a new company. Keeping a fighter nearing 40 simply because the public feels he deserves another chance makes little business sense.

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Light welterweight contender Ernesto “Tito” Mercado will remain on Saturday night’s card after Roger Hilley was brought in as a last-minute replacement for Emmanuel Tagoe, who weighed approximately ten pounds over the contracted 140-pound limit.

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Rolando “Rolly” Romero has essentially laid out his blueprint for Teofimo Lopez. He plans to walk him down, putting Teofimo under the kind of pressure that has repeatedly made him uncomfortable when opponents refuse to back away.

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Thomas ‘The Hitman’ Hearns once revealed that he came very close to locking horns with a legend of the heavyweight division. Hearns had an outstanding professional career of his…

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Janibek Alimkhanuly already has plans for Hamzah Sheeraz’s WBO super middleweight title and the belt Christian Mbilli will defend against Canelo Alvarez on October 31.

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Roy Jones Jr thinks only a small selection of modern boxers generates the excitement and throws the number of punches of greats from eras gone by.

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Ernesto “Tito” Mercado’s fight against Emmanuel Tagoe has been canceled after Tagoe came in 10 pounds over the contracted 140-pound limit for Saturday’s card in Atlanta.

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Jack Catterall believes his contract guarantees him a shot at the winner of Rolando “Rolly” Romero vs. Teofimo Lopez. Getting that fight may prove considerably harder than having the paperwork that calls for it.

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Wilkens Mathieu is moving fast to find out how close he is to the top of the super middleweight division. The 21-year-old will defend his NABF belt against former world title challenger Vladimir Shishkin on October 8 at Théâtre Capitole in Quebec City.

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Hamzah Sheeraz has spent months pursuing the biggest names at super middleweight. The WBO has now given him something very different: a dangerous mandatory against Janibek Alimkhanuly that brings considerable risk without anything resembling a Canelo Alvarez payday.

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Brian Norman Jr. has the punching power to regain his WBO welterweight title from Devin Haney. What he needs is a different approach from the one that failed him in their fight last November.

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Legendary heavyweight Lennox Lewis surprisingly overlooked Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield when tasked with naming the hardest punching opponent he ever faced. Lewis remains one of…

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Walking away from boxing is the hardest thing any fighter has to do, and now one former world champion from the UK has revealed that he has resisted the urge…

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Frank Warren has responded to Eddie Hearn’s recent threat about calling off the fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. The path has seemingly been cleared for these…

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Dave Allen has lost interest in Anthony Joshua against Tyson Fury, mirroring the frustration of boxing fans who spent years hoping the fight would happen while both men were closer to their best.

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Muhammad Ali’s first defense of his reclaimed heavyweight championship became far rougher than anticipated against Chuck Wepner on March 24, 1975, at the Richfield Coliseum near Cleveland. Ali dominated most of the fight, but Wepner scored an official knockdown and repeatedly infuriated the champion with hard punches behind the head.

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