San Francisco undefeated heavyweight LaRon Mitchell made weight for his NABF heavyweight junior title fight against Scott Alexander today in Ontario, CA. Mitchell weighed in at 241 1/2 pounds as opposed to Scott Alexander who weighed 229 pounds. The fight which is promoted by Thompson Boxing, will take place at

Amateur hour is over. @mickconlan11 @ToddDuboef @CarlMoretti @trboxing pic.twitter.com/kweLoEMzKU — Bob Arum (@BobArum) September 19, 2016 Top Rank has signed two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan to a promotional contract on Monday, September 19th. The news broke via Top Rank CEO Bob Arum’s official Twitter account in which the two recreated

Women’s middleweight Claressa Shields picked up a victory today to help USA Boxing pick up it’s third medal for team USA. Shields, who was less mobile then the 2012 Olympic Games still easily defeated Yaroslava Yakushina of Russia, but appeared to be more content to sit on her back foot and

Lukie and ITRBoxing.com friend, Naota did a podcast this afternoon about everything related to The Olympic boxing for the 2016 games in Rio.   Hear their thoughts on Shakur Stevenson, Nico Hernandez getting bronze, Charles Conwell, Gary Antuanne Russell and more For a direct link click here  

In a very limited day of action flyweight Antonio Vargas won his bout against Juliao Henriques Neto of Brazil. Vargas shut-out the hometown fighter, who was 14 years older then the soon to be 20 year-old Vargas. Vargas returns to the ring at 7:45am PST against Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan, which also

by Adam Sperber “The Magic Man” Paulie Malignaggi returns to his home of the Barclays Center as part of a stacked night of boxing on Showtime as Malignaggi will be featured on the prelude to the main card action on Showtime, as he will be fighting on ShoXtreme at 7PM

by Adam Sperber On Saturday night, Ricky Hatton returns to the ring, but as a trainer for Sergey Rabchenko as his fighter takes on Tony Harrison in a IBF junior welterweight eliminator bout. Fighting out of Belaraus, Rabchenko (27-1, 20 KOs) is looking to put himself squarely into world title

Current WBA Lightweight World Champion Anthony “Million Dollar” Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) will face WBC Lightweight World Champion Jorge “El Niño de Oro” Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) in a huge unification blockbuster for the WBA, WBC Diamond and The Ring Magazine Lightweight World Championships at the Manchester Arena on September

In front of a packed crowd at the historic 16th St station in West Oakland, CA, hometown legend middleweight Tony Hirsch (21-6-2 8KOs) defeated Taneal Goyco (8-9-1 3KOs) of Philadelphia, PA. Goyco missed weight the day before, so bad in fact Hirsch almost didn’t take the fight. Hirsch decided in

In a battle of sluggers, Petr “Zar” Petrov (37-4-2, 17 KOs) proved to have more power as he stopped Marvin “Cachorro” Quintero (28-7, 24 KOs) in the sixth round of a WBA lightweight elimination clash, Friday night at the outdoor Toshiba Plaza in front of T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on a