Zuffa Boxing
38 stories covering Zuffa Boxing — news, results and analysis.
Shakur Stevenson Walks From Zuffa Boxing Without a Single Fight
The undefeated WBO super lightweight champ (25-0) is a free agent after eight weeks in camp for bouts that never got signed. White finally weighed in.
Oct 24, 2026
Carlos Adames Skips Mandatory to Face Gerome Warburton in Zuffa Debut
The WBC middleweight champ takes a non-title catchweight against an unranked 18-2-2 opponent in Riyadh on November 14, ducking his ordered mandatory.
Oct 19, 2026
Shakur Stevenson Walks From Zuffa Boxing to Launch His Own Promotion
The unbeaten 25-0 WBO titlist asked out of his Dana White-backed deal after three months and zero fights. Now he's going it alone.
Oct 19, 2026
Shakur Stevenson Blames Haney as Catchweight Fight Falls Apart
Stevenson says he agreed to 144 then 145lbs before Haney's lawyers demanded a full 147. Two unbeaten champs, 58-0 combined, and no deal.
Oct 16, 2026
Zuffa Boxing Lands WBC Champ Carlos Adames on Multi-Fight Deal
The Ring's No. 1 middleweight, 25-1-1 with 18 KOs, joins Zuffa Boxing on a multi-fight contract announced October 13.
Oct 13, 2026
Dana White Wants Jai Opetaia vs Deontay Wilder on Fury-Joshua Card
White says Opetaia is 'more than likely' heading to the December 11 undercard — against a heavyweight who's won 43 of 45 by knockout.
Oct 12, 2026
Usyk Backs Shakur Stevenson Over Devin Haney in 145lb Showdown
Two unbeaten champs — 25-0 and 33-0 — are circling a November 28 catchweight fight in Atlanta. Usyk thinks he knows who wins.
Oct 11, 2026
Haney Offers to Drop to 145 for Shakur Stevenson Superfight
The unbeaten WBO welterweight champ says he'll meet Stevenson at a 145lb catchweight — but only if there's no rehydration clause.
Oct 6, 2026
Haney vs Stevenson Stalls Over One Clause Buried in the Contract
Shakur Stevenson finally agreed to welterweight, but Devin Haney says a rehydration clause is the last thing keeping two undefeated champs apart.
Oct 4, 2026
Shakur Stevenson Eyes Gary Russell Unification After Pacquiao Falls Through
With the Pacquiao date gone, the 25-0 WBO champ is back in talks with WBA titlist Gary Antuanne Russell — who says the problem is money, not nerves.
Oct 2, 2026
Johnny Fisher vs Dillian Whyte 'Agreed in Principle' for Zuffa Boxing
A handshake deal pits 14-1 fan-favourite Fisher against ex-title challenger Whyte (31-4). Dave Allen, who's beaten both, isn't backing the younger man.
Oct 1, 2026
Dillian Whyte on Itauma's KO Loss: 'He Thought He Was Invincible'
Whyte says the 21-year-old's Round 1 blowout of him in 2025 bred the complacency that cost Itauma the IBF title against Hrgovic.
Sep 30, 2026
Dillian Whyte Says He Fought Moses Itauma on a Broken Foot
Whyte claims he fractured his foot twice before the Riyadh loss and ignored a doctor's advice to pull out of the two-minute defeat.
Sep 29, 2026
Billam-Smith vs Clarke: Old Amateur Rivals Reopen the File in London
Chris Billam-Smith (22-2, 14 KO) headlines Zuffa Boxing's first London card on November 7th against a man who beat him twice as an amateur.
Sep 26, 2026
Riakporhe Opens the Door to a British Title Shot for Johnny Fisher
The British heavyweight champ says he'd hand Fisher (14-1, 12 KO) a crack at the belt — but only if 'The Romford Bull' beats Michael Pirotton this weekend.
Sep 23, 2026
Naoya Inoue vs Tenshin Nasukawa 2: Why the Tokyo Rematch Matters
Inoue defends his WBC bantamweight belt against Nasukawa on Sept. 26 — a year after their first meeting, and after Nasukawa stopped Juan Francisco Estrada in nine.
Sep 20, 2026
Luke Campbell Floats Comeback to Fight Conor Benn After Garcia Loss
Fresh off a second-round battering by Ryan Garcia, Conor Benn (25-1) has an unlikely suitor: an Olympic gold medallist willing to end retirement.
Sep 18, 2026
Opetaia Batters Mikaelyan, Then Calls Out Benavidez for 2026
The unbeaten cruiserweight king (30-0, 23 KO) needed nine rounds to finish Mikaelyan — then set up a superfight with 32-0 David Benavidez.
Sep 13, 2026
Andres Cortes Outpoints Mark Magsayo in a Knockdown-That-Wasn't Mess
Cortes moves to 26-0 with a 97-93 sweep, but the story was the phantom knockdowns and the reversals that made this one unforgettable for the wrong reasons.
Sep 13, 2026
Efe Ajagba Says He Nearly Stopped Tyson Fury in Sparring
The #8-ranked heavyweight claims phone footage proves he hurt Fury in camp — and he'll post it if 'The Gypsy King' talks trash.
Sep 11, 2026
Jai Opetaia Puts 30-0 Record on the Line in Vegas Unification
The unbeaten cruiserweight champ meets WBC titlist Noel Mikaelian at T-Mobile Arena — his 10th straight world title fight and first big-arena outing in Las Vegas.
Sep 10, 2026
Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn: A Fight Between Two Question Marks
Garcia (25-2, 20 KO) defends his WBC welterweight title against Benn (25-1) Saturday in Vegas. The subplot? A weight cut Benn admits is brutal.
Sep 9, 2026
Don King's Cease and Desist Threatens Opetaia vs Mikaelian Days Before Vegas
The 94-year-old promoter says his contract with WBC champ Noel Mikaelian (28-3) makes Saturday's cruiserweight title bout legally void. Zuffa has days to respond.
Sep 8, 2026
Johnny Fisher's Zuffa Boxing Debut Headlines a Loaded Saturday
On September 26th, Zuffa Boxing goes head-to-head with Queensberry. Fisher (14-1, 12 KO) has the eyeballs, but Davies-Collins might be the better fight.
Sep 4, 2026
O'Shaquie Foster Says Shakur Stevenson Is Ducking Him: 'I Make Him Nervous'
The WBC 130lb champ claims Stevenson, a four-division titlist since beating Teofimo Lopez in January, won't sign because sparring gave Foster the edge.
Sep 3, 2026
Dana White Salutes Jake Paul's Joshua Gamble, Shuts Zuffa Door
White admits Paul's December fight with Anthony Joshua took nerve — Paul broke his jaw before a sixth-round KO — but won't touch him in Zuffa Boxing.
Aug 25, 2026
Dalton Smith Wants Shakur Stevenson: 'I'm Going to Beat Him'
The unbeaten WBC champ (19-0, 14 KO) has one fight left before he can chase Stevenson — but he says he already knows how it ends.
Aug 24, 2026
Johnny Fisher Lands Michael Pirotton for Zuffa Boxing London Debut
Fisher headlines the Copper Box Arena on September 26 against a Belgian with a 12-2 record — his first fight since leaving Matchroom after 15 bouts.
Aug 19, 2026
Craig Richards vs Kalajdzic Anchors Zuffa Boxing 11 in London
The 20-4-1 Brit takes on a puncher who's gone 30-3 with 22 KOs, in a chief support slot both men see as a springboard to a world title.
Aug 13, 2026
The IBO Says No to a 'Five-Belt Era' — And Means It
IBO President Ed Levine wants respect, not another belt on the pile — even as world title count has doubled past 136 in 25 years.
Aug 13, 2026
The Wilder-Fisher Fight That Almost Happened in Istanbul
Johnny Fisher says he agreed to face Deontay Wilder in August before the deal collapsed — now Wilder is chasing Usyk's farewell instead.
Aug 6, 2026
Zuffa Boxing Lands That Prize Guy as Dublin Debut Gets a Sponsor
The UK competition platform is presenting partner for Zuffa Boxing 10 in Dublin on 8 August, building on deals with Conor Benn (25-1) and Johnny Fisher.
Aug 5, 2026
Zepeda Wants Shakur Stevenson Rematch — And Shakur Admits Why
Stevenson calls the Mexican volume-puncher his toughest test at 25-0, but a lopsided first meeting means the demand isn't exactly deafening.
Aug 4, 2026
Berlanga Wants Eubank Jr in London Before the Year Is Out
Fresh off his 19th stoppage in Zuffa Boxing debut, Edgar Berlanga is pushing for a UK trip to face Chris Eubank Jr — record 22-2 (19 KO) and counting.
Jul 31, 2026
Usyk Eyes Wilder and a Zuffa Belt for His Boxing 'Last Dance'
The 25-0 Ukrainian vacated three belts in June. Now his team is in talks with Dana White's Zuffa Boxing about a farewell fight against Deontay Wilder.
Jul 28, 2026
Dana White Says Zuffa Boxing Has Talked to Gervonta Davis
White confirms conversations with the three-weight champ, fueling talk of a Davis vs. Shakur Stevenson superfight under the Zuffa banner.
Jul 28, 2026
Eddie Hearn Threatens to Sue Zuffa Champ Jai Opetaia Over Corruption Claims
The 30-0 cruiserweight king dragged Hearn into a lawsuit against the IBF. Now Matchroom's boss says he's already got lawyers drafting letters.
Jul 25, 2026
Richardson Hitchins Vacates 140 Title, Signs With Zuffa Boxing for Welterweight Run
The unbeaten 20-0 New Yorker dropped his super lightweight belt to chase 147, and debuts against 24-2 Ricardo Salas on Sunday.
Jul 24, 2026