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Plenty of boxing on this final Saturday in March, from Leeds to Las Vegas.

Kiko Martinez makes a first defence of his IBF featherweight crown against Josh Warrington in a rematch in Leeds on Saturday night.

Leigh Wood makes a maiden defence of his WBA featherweight title against Michael Conlan in Nottingham on Saturday, live on DAZN.

Moruti Mthalane vs Sunny Edwards: Style and substance HE doesn’t hit hard enough. He doesn’t have the style for it. Over-confident, under-prepared. Sunny Edwards has heard plenty of these criticisms before. But, after 15 professional fights, against Moruti Mthalane on Friday (April 30) at York Hall in Bethnal Green Edwards intends to prove himself a world-level fighter. “I believe in myself. I will be a world champion,” Edwards tells Boxing News. “I’m next to impossible to beat w...

Michael Conlan returns to action against Ionut Baluta on Friday night Photo Credit: Round N Bout Media/Queensberry Promotions Michael Conlan is confident he will stop Ionut Baluta and says he will target a showdown with WBO Super Bantamweight champion, Stephen Fulton afterwards. WBO number one contender, Conlan (14-0, 8 KOs) returns to action on Friday night after recovering from an ankle injury when he faces WBO #9 contender, Baluta (14-2, 3 KOs) at York Hall, on the undercard of Sunny Edwards...

Moruti Mthalane travels to the UK to face Sunny Edwards. It’s a big leap up into world title class for Sunny Edwards this Friday night, as he challenges long serving IBF Flyweight champion, Moruti Mthalane, at York Hall, Bethnal Green. South Africa’s Mthalane will be making the fourth defence of a belt he claimed for a second time in July 2018, and he hasn’t tasted defeat in well over a dozen years now. Mthalane (39-2, KO26) has been a lower weights star for some time now, and it will be...

Disaster strikes Josh Warrington, while Zelfa Barrett is fortunate Josh Warrington’s return to the ring goes horribly wrong against rank outsider Mauricio Lara and some controversial cards blight the undercard. Declan Taylor reports from ringside at Wembley Arena BOXING returned to these shores for the first time in 2021 but the drama served up inside the empty Wembley Arena late on Saturday night (February 13) is unlikely to be topped before the year is up. Josh Warrington, the previously u...

Josh Warrington v Mauricio Lara highlights: Leeds Warrior in shock stoppage after brutal fight The 30-year-old featherweight boxer from Leeds returns to action at Wembley Arena on the Matchroom Boxing bill which features fellow Leeds star Hopey Price Josh Warrington vs Mauricio Lara Josh Warrington returns to the ring this evening after 16 months out when he faces Mexican Mauricio Lara over 12 rounds at Wembley Arena. The Leeds Warrior has not fought since his stoppage of Sofiane Takoucht at th...

Leigh Wood and Reece Mould will go head to head as the pair fight for the British title on the undercard to Josh Warrington vs Mauricio Lara.

Photo by Bradley Collyer/PA Images via Getty Images See Canelo’s return LIVE plus much more on DAZN! Sign up for DAZN today and see Canelo Alvarez’s Feb. 27 return, plus much more including Warrington-Lara and Diaz-Rakhimov on Feb. 13! With former featherweight titlist Josh Warrington set to return this Saturday, Feb. 13 on DAZN (2 pm ET) against Mauricio Lara, the still-unbeaten fighter from Leeds, England, has his sights set on bigger bouts going forward. That’s not to say that Warr...