The principle is simple: power in boxing is closely tied to mass. A significant weight advantage can turn a competitive ...

With a stable of established veterans and plenty of rising talent at heavyweight, the landscape could be much different by ...

PROFESSIONAL BOXING is split into a range of weight divisions so fighters compete against opponents of a similar size, from strawweight all the way up to heavyweight. Each class has its own ...

Zuffa Boxing isn’t simplifying boxing’s championship system. It is eliminating entire divisions that many fighters built their careers around.

There is a strong case to be made that Oleksandr Usyk is currently the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Since ...

This fan vote to decide boxing’s greatest heavyweight was not even close. Boxing is not short on legendary figures from throughout its history, and a whole host of them came from the sport’s longtime ...

All of Saturday’s non-heavyweight finalists made full use of the travel weight allowance to hit the mark at the scale. Everyone was within weight for the final round of the WBC Grand Prix tournament.

Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov earned gold in the super heavyweight final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a unanimous ...