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As KTVU reports, a boxing ring used by heavyweight champion George Foreman in the 1980s sustained extensive damage after a car thief crashed into Lightning's Boxing Club on 5845 MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland at some point in the early hours Thursday morning. Kris Lopez, who co-owns the gym with his wife Denise Lopez, said the impact of the crash was forceful. "It's like an earthquake," Kris Lopez told KTVU. "The force knocked over the ring stairs and pushed the ring out of place."

I hate Mr Tumble. I was in the dressing room for Match of the Day and he was next to me. The reason I hate him - well, I don't hate him for what he does, it's just that I've had to sit through it four times with every kid. It's got to the point now where I just can't. He's the reason I've got the snip. I couldn't have another kid to go through it again.

Samantha Johnson looks at how audience, attention and money are reshaping modern boxing. Jake Paul is a YouTuber with a global audience. Anthony Joshua is a former unified heavyweight champion. And the two go head to head in Miami. But this fight isn't about rankings or legacy. It's about the audience, attention, and money. Samantha Johnson asks what does boxing value more today, titles or attention?

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After the weigh-in, Paul, who excitedly took to the stage first and jeered up the crowd, claimed Joshua was nervous heading into the fight and said he would shock the world on Friday. I smell fear. I see something in his eyes, I truly do, Paul said. The pressure is on him. I'm fighting free. I've already won. This is a lose-lose situation for him. I've got him right where I want him.

Terence Bud Crawford has always fought like a man who wanted to leave no room for argument. Not simply to win, but to win so cleanly that dissent collapses on contact. So his retirement announcement on Tuesday didn't feel like a sudden fade-out so much as the closing of a file: tidy, decisive, signed in his own hand. Three months after scaling two weight divisions to outclass Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas and become the undisputed super-middleweight champion,

Boxing delivered an exceptional slate of marquee fights this year, resulting in significant movement across ESPN's annual list of the top 100 fighters in men's boxing. Two fighters who occupied top-10 spots in 2024 suffered losses in 2025, and a third announced his retirement and has not competed over the past year. Meanwhile, standouts such as Terence Crawford, Dmitry Bivol, Devin Haney, Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez recorded major wins that propelled them higher in the rankings.

It's definitely been a lovely and unexpected season for me. I think since I was a teenager I have been so focused on boxing I had very little room for relationships and, honestly, even the thought of a relationship was out of the way for me. It's so lovely that love snuck up on the later stages of my career. Myself and my husband Sean, we have a lovely quiet life in Connecticut. We're very happy, thank God.

Mason is a prodigious 21-year-old with fast feet, faster hands, and a lust for knockouts. His only vulnerability is that this latter trait can lead him to abandon his very capable defense in his quest for blood. Plenty of his opponents can find his chin with a good shot-Yohan Vasquez even decked him twice in the first round of their 2024 bout-before Mason separates them from their consciousness.

The Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) last night informed all required parties that Joseph Parker returned an adverse finding following an anti-doping test conducted on the 25th October in relation to his bout with Fabio Wardley, Queensberry said in a statement on Friday. While the matter is investigated further, no additional comment will be made at this time.

I did a couple of venues with him what a shame, a great guy, a great character. He was like myself, he gave his time up for anybody and he'd give his last penny away. It was heartbreaking.

One year later, the fight for survival continues. Hulu just dropped the first teaser for Season 2 of "A Thousand Blows." The gritty period drama from Steven Knight, the creator of "Peaky Blinders," stars Emmy winners Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty alongside Malachi Kirby, as the intense world of 1880s East London's underground boxing scene reignites for another round. Season 2 picks up a year later as Hezekiah struggles to find his footing,

Boxing is not, and has never been, a perfect sport. Even in the throes of an enthralling duel like Joseph Parker and Fabio Wardley's last Saturday night, you might find yourself shrinking into your sofa under the violence or bursting forth in rage at a controversial stoppage. It depends on your threshold for violence, but the violence itself is just

So it's been a wild, wild journey for us to reach this point. And if I get through this fight I'll get a chance to meet Oleksandr Usyk. Fighting Usyk for the world title would be a funny story, remembering how I went to Ukraine to spar him seven years ago. It would feel like I've come full circle.

There's a really good cast here, in a movie with a real-life story to tell: how Irish boxing trainer Brendan Ingle mentored a cheeky Sheffield kid from migrant Yemeni parents, Prince Naseem Hamed, teaching him to stand up to racist bullies and turning him into a media-friendly world champ in the late 90s, nurturing his showboating arrogance and his lethal fists.