FILIPINO Aston “Mighty” Palicte returns to the ring as he takes on Japanese Kazuto Ioka on Wednesday for the vacant World Boxing Organization super flyweight title at the latter’s home turf of Japan. It is a fight that one analyst said requires for the Philippine fighter to be at his utmost best.

Tyson Fury needs to step it up and start fighting world class opposition again if he wants to help make the rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder into the mega-fight that his promoter Bob Arum is hoping it’ll be in 2020. It’s going to take more than Fury continually calling himself the “lineal heavyweight champion”, and fighting fodder opposition like Tom Schwarz to turn his rematch with the unbeaten Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs) into the blockbuster that it could be.

Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller hasn’t been contacted by lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s co-promoters at Top Rank or Frank Warren about a fight between the two of them. There were rumors last weekend that the unbeaten Miller (23-0-1, 20 KOs) was in the running for Fury’s next fight following his second round knockout win over Tom Schwarz in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Andy Ruiz Jr’s trainer Manny Robles says if he were the coach for Anthony Joshua, he would tell him not to make the immediate rematch with his fighter. Robles states that it would be better for former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs) to wait a year, take a couple of tune-ups, and then face Ruiz Jr. in a rematch.

2016 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist Tony Yokawill be returning to the ring to face 36-year-old Alexander Dimitrenko next month in a fight at the Azur Arena, in Antibes, France. Yoka (5-0, 4 KOs) has been out of the ring for a year after being banned for missing three drug tests.

Nangangamba ang dating promoter ni Manny Pacquiao na si Bob Arum ng Top Rank ang posibleng dadanas ng brain damage kung patuloy siyang sasabak sa ibabaw ng ring sa kabila ng kanyang edad.

Si Pacquiao (61-7-3, 39 KOs) ay may nakatakdang matinding laban sa susunod na buwan kontra WBA Super World welterweight champion Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman(29-0, 22 KOs) sa July 20 sa FOX Sports Pay-Pay-Per-View sa MGM Grand sa Las Vegas, Nevada.

2016 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist Tony Yokawill be returning to the ring to face 36-year-old Alexander Dimitrenko next month in a fight at the Azur Arena, in Antibes, France. Yoka (5-0, 4 KOs) has been out of the ring for a year after being banned for missing three drug tests.

LAS VEGAS (June 17, 2019) — Top Rank and MTK Global are proud to announce a collaboration between the companies designed to bring world-class boxing and the sport’s most dynamic fighters to territories around the globe.

The collaboration will further the global reach of MTK Global and Top Rank, as the companies develop blue-chip talent, stage events featuring championship fighters and top prospects, and market the sport worldwide.