Following Vladimir Klitchsko's retirement after Joshua's last fight and mandatory challenger Kubret Pulev pulling out of the fight with a late injury, Carlos Takam was given just 12 days notice to fight the current WBA, IBF and IBO Heavyweight Champion. Widely regarded on the boxing scene as having one of the toughest granite chins in the business Takam took a considerable height and weight disadvantage into the ring, Anthony Joshua subsequently weighed in for what was then a career high 18st 2lbs and brought massive reach advantage. Before either fighter got into their rhythm this late match up resulted in blood spilled from both sides as old vs new battled in front of 75,000 fans in Cardiff, Wales. This became a world record high attendance for an indoor boxing event.
Two-time super featherweight champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis (22-0, 21 KOs) moves up to take on former unified world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-2, 18 KOs) for the lightweight title. In the co-feature, Jean Pascal (34-6-1, 20 KOs) defends his light heavyweight belt against two-division champ Badou Jack (22-2-3, 13 KOs). Live from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
Undefeated two-time champion and Baltimore native Gervonta "Tank" Davis (21-0, 20 KOs) makes a homecoming defense of his super featherweight title against hard-hitting challenger Ricardo Núñez (21-2, 19 KOs). Plus, lightweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (29-2, 17 KOs) goes head to head with Roman Martinez (30-3-3, 18 KOs) ) and lightweight Ladarius Miller (19-1, 6 KOs) squares off against Jezzrel Corrales (23-2, 9 KOs). Live from Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, MD.
The eyes of the sports world will be fixated on Super Bowl LIV this week, of course, but boxing isn’t taking time off. In fact, DAZN and Matchroom Boxing are looking to take advantage locally, putting on a world title tripleheader on Thursday in Miami, a card that also features YouTubers Jake Paul vs AnEson Gib in the co-feature.
Jack and deGale meet at the Barclays Center for the IBF, WBC, and vacant The Ring super-middleweight titles
An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.
Kell Brook defends his IBF World Welterweight title against Errol Spence at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.
Four inseparable friends from childhood struggle in the best years of their lives when one grows up to become a prize fighter, second a police detective, third a nightclub runner and the fourth sets them all at loggerheads.
An all-British showdown will see Chris Eubank Jr take on former world champion Liam Smith at the AO Arena in Manchester.
A fast and furious clash tops the BOXXER-Breakthrough bill as rising prodigy Adam ‘The Assassin’ Azim faces his toughest test to date against experienced campaigner Rylan Charlton.
In Osaka, three troubled young kids, Kanako, Atsushi and Kenji, are hanging out together all the time. One day Kenji who lives in an orphanage is sold to a yakuza and their friendship has to come to an end. 25 years later, Kanako is married to Atsushi who is an incompetent yakuza. They have 3 daughters. Kenji is a competent unbeatable yakuza. Atsushi, who sucks at everything, for the first time gets a dangerous mission to kill a thug who has attacked the office of his yakuza group. Kenji, who has advanced to the first lieutenant position, by mistake kills a dumb-ass son of the head of Tokyo Yakuza, which triggers a battle between Osaka and Tokyo Yakuzas. Then, Kenji meets Atsushi in 25 years.
Sonny Bill Williams vs Mark Hunt is a heavyweight boxing event which took place at the Ken Rosewall Arena on November 5 2022 in Sydney, Australia.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns (originally billed as "The Fight", referred to afterward as "The War"), was a world middleweight championship boxing match between undisputed champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler and challenger Thomas Hearns, the world junior middleweight champion, who had gone up in weight for the bout.
Deen The Great and Walid Sharks headline the third MF & DAZN: X Series event.
Naoya Inoue vs. Paul Butler, billed as Undisputed, is a bantamweight unification professional boxing match contested between WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring champion, Naoya Inoue, and WBO champion, Paul Butler.
In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.
It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.
An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza.
A pair of rising undefeated lightweight contenders will clash in a high-level crossroads main event as Michel “La Zarza Ali” Rivera battles Frank “The Ghost” Martin from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The winner puts themselves one step closer to a world title opportunity in the stacked 135-pound division. Plus, former world champion José Uzcátegui returns to action against unbeaten former amateur standout Vladimir Shishkin and bantamweight contenders Vincent Astrolabio and Nikolai Potapov face off. Live on SHOWTIME.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, also known as "The Money Fight" is a boxing match between undefeated eleven-time five-division professional boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and two-division mixed martial arts world champion and current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor.