Don King is maybe the best known boxing promoter of all time and sure, he made some mistakes, but there was much boxing can still learn from the good things he did. Of which there are many behind the scenes too. King helped popularize boxing in the hey day of Muhammad Ali and many of his legendary bouts and with some big fighters there after.

Andrew Tate who recently got booted out of Romania and appears to be hiding out in Dubai for now has reacted to Paul vs Joshua. The controversial influencer Tate apparently is having a professional boxing match quite soon. Apparently he will box this month on December 20th in Dubai against Chase DeMoor on a Misfits Boxing show. Andrew Tate Reacts To Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua…

The fight is now on and is official in one of the biggest fights that can be made in America in boxing at the moment -- fight time -- reaction. Shakur Stevenson is one of the best fighters in the world today pound for pound and next up he has the chance to batter and put down a rival of his for some time.

In some unexpected in quite frankly brilliant news talks of a Katie Taylor vs Ronda Rousey boxing match are now underway. Boxing never ceases to amaze over the years of the fights it can pull out of the hat at the last minute. Now, with more commercial large corporations than ever, this is much more frequent as well. Lance Pugmire of Boxing Scene is reporting there is talk underway for the fight and there is serious discussion being had, but nothing official.

Maybe you can compare the boxing rematch the sequel of a blockbuster hit movie on the big screen, the part two often doesn't live up to the first one. That's maybe not an accurate comparison but you get the idea. Sometimes if a fight is an absolute barnstormer the first time it is always going to be hard to live up to that in the second fight.

When it comes to the marketing and sell of boxers it is not always a clear cut thing why some things work and some things don't. That happens with trial and error in any business or product, of which like anything in this world, of course professional boxing is. Some fighters to some fans might have a boring safety first style yet have big followings because of something in their story or maybe their personality, it doesn't have anything to do with…

Heavyweight gets the headlines, but cruiserweight is quietly putting on the best shows in boxing. Jai Opetaia dismantling everyone with southpaw brilliance, Chris Billam-Smith’s non-stop wars, Gilberto Ramirez moving up, Badou Jack still dangerous, Noel Mikaelyan, Yuniel Dorticos – the list goes on. These are big, athletic men who punch like heavyweights but move and box like middleweights. Opetaia’s performance against Nyika – twice-broken jaw and all – was a masterclass in violence and technique.

Over the years of watching boxing for more than 30 years now we've noticed some things that apply to professional boxing in terms of moving weight. Very few becoming world champion. Even fewer become undisputed or unified world champion in a weight class in professional boxing. A very rare select few men then becoming multi-weight division, pound for pound champions.

The Sky Sports hype job theory in pro boxing was actually proven many times over the years when you look at it. Sky, a network in the UK and Europe with an outstanding marketing machine behind them, were very good at telling stories of fightersbut sometimes maybe too good at it. One former director at the company at a conference even conceded one time the company had the ability to make an ordinary boxer seem more than ordinary and get him into big fights by simply hyping him up with their powerful marketing machine.

They say a professional fighter learns much more from a loss than a win and it possibly has some truth to it when you look at great champions. When everything is going well and you are battering and flattening everyone one, things are great, but you find out what kind of fighter you really are and what kind of man you are when things are not always going your way.

Boxers after they lose a fight can be highly wound up and charged just after a fight so some slack can be cut for them of course. But over the years, many fans and maybe those in the boxing industry would say there is a few things that maybe boxers should try to think over before getting on the mic with an interviewer in the ring.

Floyd and Roger Mayweather popularized pad work on YouTube and the internet and now everyone thinks they are them -- they are not -- far from it. The two of them were complete once off geniuses on the pads who spent years around one another, day and night, through the middle of the night at times, for hours on end without break, literally three to four hours sometimes more flat out full power and pace on the pads.

Forty years old, twenty one fights, twenty knockouts. Let that sink in. He's still here and still competing near the highest level. The man has only ever heard the final bell as a professional once -- against Ditry Bivol. Age was supposed to rob the legs, slow the hands, dull the edge. Instead he marched forward against Dmitry Bivol – arguably the most skilled 175-pounder alive – in both fights.

Two of the most avoided fighters on the planet, both natural 200-pounders, both with zero quit in their DNA. Opetaia – slick southpaw with a chin from another planet and vicious combination punching. Benavidez – 6'2 pressure machine who tears the body apart like it personally offended him. How Jai Opetaia vs David Benavidez at 200 lbs Would Break the Internet…

Obviously China is a much larger, more powerful and more wealthy country than Japan but boxing can and should use the Japanese proven model soon in China. Why? Because it not only works, it is a massive success, not just in Japan either. Sure, everyone in Japan knows pound for pound star Naoya 'The Monster' Inoue and his sell out shows in the country, and excellent back and forth action fights and power punching knockouts.

Pound for pound is boxing’s greatest ever pub argument – strip away the size, who’s the actual best? We love it because it’s unanswerable. One minute Crawford’s resume and skill make him untouchable, next minute someone says prime Roy Jones knocks him out before the bell rings twice. Both can be true on the same night depending on how many pints deep you are.

He started as the Disney kid turned annoying YouTuber, fair enough. But wake up – that was six years and 11 pro fights ago. Jake Paul hasn’t posted a prank video in half a decade. What he has done is sell 80,000 tickets to watch him fight 58-year-old Mike Tyson, outdraw Canelo in multiple markets, and force traditional promoters to copy his playbook.

First undisputed heavyweight champion in a quarter-century and people still talk about him like he’s holding the belts on a technicality. Beat Joshua twice (once on his own patch), outboxed Fury in his backyard, then did it again in the rematch after eating a dozen clean right hands. Survived a borderline low blow from Dubois that folded most men. And still the chatter is “Yeah but he’s small for heavyweight.”

Japan has produced some proper warriors down the years – Fighting Harada scrapping his way to two divisions, Kado with that iron chin, Gushiken’s relentless pressure, Yokota’s slickness. Absolute legends, every one. But let’s be real: Naoya Inoue has lapped the lot. Four-weight world champion, undisputed in two of them, and he’s still only 32. The résumé is stupid – Fulton, Donaire twice, Nery, Tapales, all elite scalps finished inside the distance or dominated so badly they may as well have been.

Watch light-heavyweight champion Bivol warm up on the pads and you’ll swear boxing was invented for him alone. The jab is a spear, the feet glide like he’s on ice, the eyes never blink. Canelo, the best body puncher of his generation, landed 84 punches in twelve rounds. Zurdo Ramirez, a southpaw world champion up a division above him at cruiserweight, with a 99% KO rate, threw nearly 900 punches and got shut out 120-108 on one card.

Maybe the best boxing managers and advisers in professional boxers, and promoters too, are the ones that spot the next big thing before he is known at all. This comes with experience for many being in boxing over the years for a long time where they watch both amateur and pro fights to scout out the next prospect with world championship in professional boxing winning ability.

We were surprised with the level of interest in Manny Pacquiao's son's professional boxing debut on Saturday night from around the world too no less. People were very interested to see how Manny Pacquiao Jr got on. He had a majority draw on his debut but there was a buddy fan base already there purely off being the son of Pacquiao.

Pacquiao senior, wife Jinkee Pacquiao and Filipinos around the world tuned in to see Manny Pacquiao Jr's professional boxing debut on Saturday night in California, USA. It was only his first professional fight and he had only had ten amateur fights before that, which, was important to remember afterwards. The bout was scored a majority draw and some thought the other debutant as a pro deserved to get the decision.

December 2025 is upon us and that means there is a lot of great fights in professional boxing to look forward to. Learn more today. Obviously the big legit world title fights are in Japan at the end of the month with Inoue and Nakatani. Joshua vs Paul before that is a huge event for boxing as well -- new fans coming to the sport will be acquired.

Jake Paul is really coming into full flow in his back and forth verbal warfare with Anthony Joshua at the moment ahead of their big fight. The bout takes place on December 19th on Netflix in Florida. Paul earlier mentioned he'd rather choke on greatness than nibble on medicrotiy. Jake Paul Rips Anthony Joshua Olympic Gold Medal He went on to post this on the X platform a short time ago: