Anthony Joshua will have a more challenging time recapturing his lost IBF, WBA & WBO heavyweight titles, this time against champion Oleksandr Usyk than when he won back his three straps against an overweight Andy Ruiz Jr. in 2019.

Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) is vowing to work harder to be stronger and better than when he dethroned IBF/WBA/WBO champion Joshua by a 12 round unanimous decision last month on September 25th in London, England.

UK boxing fans will be able to watch Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter on Sky Sports on non-PPV when the two meet next month on November 20th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

American fans might be green with envy with their UK counterparts with them not having to fork out a bunch of money to watch WBO welterweight champion Crawford (37-0, 28 KOs) defend his title against mandatory Porter (31-3-1, 17 KOs).

Roy Jones Jr. says Deontay Wilder will need to land one of his big shots on Saturday night for him to have a chance of beating WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.

As such, boxing great Jones Jr. says Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) has no chance of outboxing Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) to win a 12 round decision.

In Jones’ mind, Wilder would have lost both fights to Fury if not for the two knockdowns he scored in their first fight in 2018. Without two knockdowns, Wilder would have gone home the loser.

Mikaela Mayer made history in July 2020 as the first female boxer to headline a Top Rank on ESPN main event. Now the WBO junior lightweight world champion, Mayer is ready to break another barrier.

Mayer will fight longtime IBF world champion Maiva Hamadouche in a title unification showdown Friday, Nov. 5 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, part of Curio Collection by Hilton, with the vacant Ring Magazine title also at stake. Mayer-Hamadouche is the first female world title main event in the four-plus year history of the Top Rank on ESPN series.

Unbeaten welterweight contender Vergil Ortiz Jr. says he would like a world title shot against WBA 147-lb champion Yordenis Ugas next.

With Ortiz’s WBA Gold welterweight title, he feels that he deserves a title shot against Ugas (27-4, 12 KOs) and he doesn’t want to keep waiting.

Ugas would likely prefer a big money fight with WBO 147-lb champion Terence Crawford or IBF/WBC champion Errol Spence Jr. rather than facing the dangerous Ortiz.

Former lightweight world champion Miguel Vazquez continues his march back to contender status this Saturday, Oct. 2 in a 10-round lightweight main event against former world title challenger Oliver “Trombita” Flores at Verite Social Venue in Monterrey, Mexico.

Vazquez-Flores and a full slate of undercard bouts will stream live and exclusively on ESPN+ starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Gennadiy ‘GGG’ Golovkin’s ex-trainer Abel Sanchez says Canelo Alvarez doesn’t need a fight with GGG at this point in his career. Golovkin had two chances to beat Canelo in 2017 and 2018, and he failed both times by fighting too passively.

The former four-division world champion Canelo (56-1-2, 38 KOs) wants to cement his legacy, and he has four or more fighters in front of him that he’s interested in facing says, Sanchez.

X is about to mark the spot in Downtown Atlanta.

Xander Zayas (10-0, 7 KOs), the 19-year-old Puerto Rican-born prodigy who is the frontrunner for 2021 Prospect of the Year, will fight Dan Karpency in a six-round junior middleweight bout Saturday, Oct. 23 at State Farm Arena. Zayas-Karpency will serve as the co-feature to the “Throwdown in A-Town” main event between WBO junior lightweight world champion Jamel Herring and undefeated former featherweight world champion Shakur Stevenson.