Video: Alex Pereira’s UFC coach Plinio Cruz wins boxing debut

Plinio Cruz, one of UFC superstar Alex Pereira’s MMA coaches, won his professional boxing debut for Misfits Boxing.Cruz, a ...

Pereira rules out boxing move: UFC star cites age and contract; focuses on Pavlovich at UFC 335

Alex Pereira says moving to professional boxing looks almost impossible because he is 39 and has seven fights left on his UFC ...

Alex Pereira UFC Contract: Seven Fights Left and Why Boxing Is Off the Table

Alex Pereira has seven fights left on his UFC contract, and his camp says that and his age make a boxing move kind of ...

Deontay Wilder Is Jai Opetaia's Heavyweight Target — Here's Why It Makes Sense

Deontay Wilder could face Jai Opetaia in a heavyweight showdown on the Fury vs. Joshua undercard, but the potential fight remains unconfirmed ...
DAZN

Alex Pereira makes stunning boxing admission as UFC star reveals seven fights left on contract

Alex Pereira reveals why a move into professional boxing now looks unlikely, with seven UFC fights remaining and a ...
Boxing Scene

Adam Olaniyan, another young and talented heavyweight, ready for pro debut

There is a lot of excitement about the prospects of Irish heavyweight Adam Olaniyan, and the former amateur star is too modest to admit why. “I don’t know,” he smiled shyly, asked why he felt ...
Newsday

Heavyweight boxing enters a new era after Usyk vacates his belts. Here's where they're all headed

Heavyweight boxing is entering a new era after Oleksandr Usyk’s decided to stand down as unified champion and sent his belts to different parts of the world. That's given a bunch of globally ...
nytimes.com

The decline of U.S. heavyweight boxing feels terminal. Can it be saved?

John L. Sullivan, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield. They are some of boxing’s most fabled figures, men who captured the ...