The Monster Show must go on. Naoya Inoue defends his undisputed super bantamweight crown against Korean challenger Ye Joon Kim on Friday, Jan. 24, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Inoue was scheduled to face undefeated Australian contender Sam Goodman, who withdrew from the bout twice due to cuts sustained in sparring. Kim, who is 2-0 on Japanese soil, stepped in on short notice to face the pound-for-pound stalwart.
Liam Davies (16-0, 8 KO) defends his IBO super bantamweight world championship against Shabaz Masoud (13-0, 4 KOs) at the BP Pulse Arena (Formerly Resorts World Arena) in Birmingham.
Sam Gilley makes his Queensberry debut when he defends his Commonwealth championship against Jack McGann at York Hall, London.
Championship boxing returns to Puerto Rico, as Australia's Liam Paro (25-0) faces Richardson Hitchins (18-0). Whilst both men seek to retain their perfect records, will Paro be able to make a first defence of his IBF super-lightweight world title?
Josh Sandford (7-1-1) faces Aidan Williamson (9-0) in a top of the bill clash on a Conlan Boxing show in East Kilbride, Scotland.
Quinton Randall (14-2-1) takes on Janelson Bocachica (17-2-1) as the headline act of a Red Owl Boxing show in Houston. With almost identical records, the pair look well-matched, with the fight scheduled for 10 rounds in the welterweight division.
Naoya Inoue vs. Michael Dasmarinas, 12 rounds, for Inoue's IBF and WBA bantamweight titles. Mikaela Mayer (129.8) vs. Erica Farias (128.2), 10 rounds, junior lightweight – Mayer’s WBO female junior lightweight title. Adam Lopez (126) vs. Isaac Dogboe (125.4), 10 rounds, featherweight – Lopez’s NABF featherweight title.
Undefeated New Zealand contender Andrei Mikhilovich seeks to create history against Kazakhstan’s middleweight king Janibek “Qazaq Style” Alimkhanuly for the IBF world title at The Star in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
The Floyd Mayweather Jr. exhibition world tour continues as the former pound-for-pound king meets MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura under the Rizin promotion from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
"Primetime" Chris Colbert (17-2, 6 KOs) faces Omar Salcido (19-1, 13 KOs) in a 10-round lightweight bout at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida.
Nathan Gorman faces Bohdan Myronets at the Toughsheet Community Stadium, Bolton.
Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder III, billed as Once and For All, is a professional boxing trilogy fight between the WBC and Ring heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, and former WBC heavyweight champion, Deontay Wilder. The bout took place October 9th, 2021, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada.
Most Valuable Prospects 9 is headlined by a battle between two unbeaten fighters, as Jan Paul Rivera (10-0) takes on Andy Beltran (8-0) in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Boxing superstar Gervonta “Tank” Davis returns to defend his WBA Lightweight World Title against WBA Super Featherweight World Champion Lamont Roach headlining a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Takuma Inoue defends his WBA bantamweight world title against Seiya Tsutsumi. In the co-feature, Kenshiro Teraji aims to conquer a second weight class by facing former champion Cristofer Rosales for the vacant WBC flyweight world title.
Junto Nakatani defends his WBC bantamweight world title against Petch Sor Chitpattana. In the 10-round co-feature, former kickboxing world champion Tenshin Nasukawa (4-0, 2 KOs) faces Filipino contender Gerwin Asilo (9-0, 4 KOs) for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific bantamweight title.
As the debate over their first encounter remains intense, Robson Conceição and O’Shaquie Foster waste no time running it back.Conceição defends his WBC junior lightweight world title against Foster, at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Conceição dethroned Foster via split decision in a fiercely contested matchup in July.
Former WBO junior lightweight world champion and US Marine, Jamel Herring, returns to the ring for the first time in over a year to begin his quest for a second world title versus the unbeaten Nick Molina.
Vasily Lomachenko's return to the ring after his loss to Teofimo Lopez is a lightweight bout against the Japanese Masayoshi Nakatani.
Wilfred Benítez vs. Sugar Ray Leonard was a professional boxing match contested on November 30, 1979 for the WBC and The Ring welterweight titles. Benitez was scheduled to earn $1.2 million while Leonard would net $1 million, making their fight the richest non-heavyweight bout in boxing history at the time.