Boxing news
- Floyd Mayweather joins Donald Trump on stage at Arizona rally: 'I will always choose America'The unbeaten former champion flew in on Air Force One and spoke at the campaign rally in Bullhead City.
- Frank Warren calls 'quit' talk about Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley 'totally inappropriate'Warren says fighting on with his eye injury against Joe Joyce would have ended Dubois's career, and rules Filip Hrgovic out of a Rico Verhoeven fight on the Fury v Joshua card.
- Netflix's four-part Mike Tyson docuseries TYSON is out nowDirected by Floyd Russ, it runs from Tyson's Brooklyn childhood to the Jake Paul fight, with a psychedelic trip in the final episode.
- Eddie Hearn says Fury 'looked petrified' as Frank Warren says Joshua has 'inner doubts'Hearn, Joshua's promoter, calls the fight a 50-50 and says Joshua has to go and get Fury. Warren says Fury is "well in front" and in the top three.
- Naoya Inoue won't wait for Bam Rodriguez and starts preparing for featherweightThe undisputed super bantamweight champion, 33-0, could move up to a fifth weight class while Rodriguez's team eye another fight at 118lb first.
- Tim Tszyu to challenge Erislandy Lara for WBA middleweight title in AustraliaLara, 43, will defend his title in Tszyu's home country later this year. The date and venue have not been announced.
- On this day in 2001: Calzaghe stops McIntyre in CopenhagenThe Welshman's first world title defence outside Britain came on the undercard of Mike Tyson's fight with Brian Nielsen at Parken Stadium.
- Anthony Yarde says Ben Whittaker's team told his camp Whittaker needs another yearYarde, a three-time world title challenger, said he would take the fight if it were offered to him tomorrow. Whittaker became the IBF's mandatory challenger by beating Conor Wallace on 3 October.
- Denzel Bentley happy to fight Hernandez but wants his WBO title on the line against Mosley JrThe London middleweight argues the WBO's rules give a new champion nine months before a mandatory is called. He fights Mosley Jr at the Copper Box Arena on 7 November, live on Sky Sports.
- Armando Resendiz replaces injured Jermall Charlo against Koen Mazoudier in Las VegasIt is the second time Charlo's fight with Mazoudier has collapsed, after he was refused a visa for their July date in Australia. The main card starts at 1am UK time on Sunday 18 October.
- Derek Chisora says BBBoC is resisting his comeback, but Robert Smith has had no correspondenceChisora, 42, wants to fight WBA champion Murat Gassiev in London or Manchester in December. If he returns and his licence is still valid, he will have to pass the board's standard medical tests.
- Tyson Fury to manage unbeaten Russian heavyweight Aleksei Dronov, his former sparring partnerDronov, 24, won super-heavyweight gold at the 2018 Youth Olympics and is trained by Fury's coach SugarHill Steward.
- Conor Benn needs a break from boxing after Ryan Garcia defeat, says trainer Tony SimsSims said Benn has had four big fight camps in a row and that whether he boxes on is "totally up to him".
- Alimkhanuly and Bank agree terms for the WBO title Hamzah Sheeraz gave upSheeraz vacated the belt rather than face Alimkhanuly, calling the WBO's decision to make him mandatory challenger "corrupt". Victory over Bank would make the Kazakh a two-weight world champion; no date or venue has been announced.
- Anthony Cacace refuses to let Lomachenko talk distract him from Nick Ball defenceThe WBA has indicated the winner of the Belfast fight on 19 December must face Russia's Elnur Samedov next, and Cacace, headlining his home city for the first time, called the night "a dream come true".
- Tyson Fury calls Kabayel vs Hysa a 50/50 and says the challenger has sparred at his gymAgit Kabayel makes the first defence of his WBC heavyweight title against the unbeaten Albanian in Düsseldorf on 28 November, live on DAZN.
- Tyson Fury brings in Joe Joyce as sparring partner for Anthony Joshua fightJoyce was Joshua's Team GB amateur teammate and sparred with him regularly in Sheffield, while Joshua has brought back Fury's former trainer Ben Davison before the Cardiff fight on 11 December.
- David Benavidez says Artur Beterbiev wants the fight, but Jai Opetaia comes firstThe unbeaten American has vacated the WBC light-heavyweight title that Joshua Buatsi and Willy Hutchinson will now fight for in Manchester, and wants Opetaia on Cinco de Mayo weekend.
- Daniel Dubois vows to finish Fabio Wardley sooner in O2 rematchThe WBO heavyweight champion, who got up from two knockdowns to stop Wardley in May, said his nerves have gone and he wants to be undisputed "within six fights".
- Fabio Wardley expecting second child in December ahead of Daniel Dubois rematchThe Ipswich heavyweight, who lost the WBO title to Dubois in May, said neither pregnancy was planned and that his daughter "can't be a distraction" once he is in the ring at The O2 on Saturday.
- Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley UK start time: rematch main event at 22:00 BSTDaniel Dubois puts the WBO World Heavyweight Championship on the line against Fabio Wardley at The O2 Arena on Saturday 17 October, in a rematch of his 11th-round stoppage win in Manchester in May.
- On this day in 1994: Naseem Hamed stops Freddy Cruz in SheffieldThe 20-year-old won the vacant WBC International super-bantamweight title two years after turning professional at flyweight.
- Ryan Garcia defends Conor Benn after interviewer's 'stretched you out like a limousine' jibeBenn answered the question about his second-round defeat by Garcia, then cut the interview short. The WBC welterweight champion took aim at the interviewer on X.
- Floyd Mayweather's pro debut 30 years on: how the road to 50-0 began in Las VegasA 19-year-old Olympic bronze medallist stopped Roberto Apodaca in the second round on 11 October 1996.
- Wilfredo 'Bazooka' Gómez, Puerto Rico's three-weight world champion, dies aged 69The Hall of Famer made 17 straight defences of the WBC super bantamweight title, all by knockout.
- On this day in 1997: Hamed stops Badillo in SheffieldJose Badillo's corner entered the ring in round seven as Hamed kept his WBO featherweight belt, with Calzaghe against Eubank on the same bill.
- Floyd Schofield wins WBA lightweight title as Shakur Stevenson appears to take a swipeSchofield, 24, won his first world title 116-110, 119-108, 115-111 after a knockdown each way in Chicago.
- Michael 'Venom' Page signs multi-year Misfits Boxing deal after UFC exitKSI announced the signing in the ring in London. Page, 2-0 as a pro boxer, has not boxed since 2018 and no opponent has been named.
- Misfits London results: Joey Essex and Dapper Laughs fight to a split drawOne judge had it 40-36 for Dapper Laughs and another 39-37 for Essex. Earlier, Pereira's coach Plinio Cruz won his debut and James Collins lost a split decision to Big Stacks.
- Joe Joyce responds to 'slow' and 'punchy' claims: "It turns out that I am neurodivergent"The former WBO interim heavyweight champion told Daily Mail Boxing's The Hook that he sought help, and that he has had to engage lawyers over his finances.
