The weekend is approaching, and from Friday to Sunday it will be “fight-o-clock” somewhere in the world. Every Thursday, The Ring will bring you the most up-to-date information on the most relevant fights you need to see in this week-at-a-glance, one-stop enhanced fight schedule. A quick checklist for the cognoscenti, a useful nuts-and-bolts guide for the boxing neophyte is what we’re aiming at.
Here are this week’s most relevant fights:
Friday, July 26 – Caribe Club Royale, Orlando, Fla.
Jan Paul Rivera vs. Justin Goodson – featherweight – 8 rounds
Dainier Pero vs. James Evans – heavyweight – 8 rounds
David Garcia vs. Dominicc Hardy – heavyweight – 6 rounds
Krystal Rosado vs. Veronika Dmitriyeva – women’s bantamweight – 6 rounds
Damazion VanHouter vs. Cody Kerr – heavyweight – 6 rounds
Kaipo Gallegos vs. Armando Frausto – lightweight – 6 rounds
Where to watch it: DAZN
Friday, July 26 – Commerce Casino, Commerce, Calif.
Omar Trinidad vs. Viktor Slavinskyi – featherweight – 10 rounds
Gor Yeritsyan vs. Aram Amirkhanyan – welterweight – 10 rounds
Adan Palma vs. Roberto Pucheta – junior featherweight – 6 rounds
Iyana Verduzco vs. Colleen Davis – female featherweight – 6 rounds
Where to watch it: UFC Fight Pass
Friday, July 26 – Tropicana Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J.
Otto Wallin vs. Onoriode Ehwaeieme – heavyweight – 8 rounds
Justin Figueroa vs. Freddy Espinoza – junior middleweight – 6 rounds
Stacia Suttles vs. Kalindra Faria – women’s junior welterweight – 4 rounds
Bruce Seldon Jr. vs. Isaiah Margheim – heavyweight – 4 rounds
Where to watch it: BoxingInsider.com
Saturday, July 27 – O2 Arena, London
Joe Joyce vs. Derek Chisora – heavyweight – 12 rounds
We live in a great era for British heavyweight boxing. Flashy, flamboyant, funny and feisty, for the most part. They are a promoter’s dream, and they never fail to produce entertaining pre-fight build-ups followed by terrific clashes most of the time. This one should continue that same tradition. It’s always great for boxing when the big guys are out there getting some attention from casual and hardcore fans alike. Should be a fun affair to watch.
Also on this card:
Dennis McCann vs. Ionut Baluta – junior featherweight – 12 rounds
Ryan Garner vs. Archie Sharp – junior lightweight – 10 rounds
Moses Itauna vs. Mariusz Wach – heavyweight – 10 rounds
Raven Chapman vs. Yohana Sarabia – women’s featherweight – 10 rounds
Sean Noakes vs. Inder Bassi – welterweight – 10 rounds
Brandun Lee vs. Juan Anacona – junior welterweight – 8 rounds
Aadam Hamed vs. Georgi Velichkov – junior welterweight – 4 rounds
Where to watch it: ESPN+
Saturday, July 27 – Little Caesars Arena, Detroit
Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse vs. Claressa Shields – light heavyweight – 10 rounds
Yes, we’ve seen this before. The Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Donny Lalonde fiasco had all the same ingredients: a fighter with an oversized ego trying to add two lines to his resume in one single fight, scoring two titles in a single day’s work. This will be no different, since they will be fighting for Lepage-Joanisse’s WBC women’s heavyweight and the vacant WBO light heavyweight title at the same time. Truly, Shields’ commitment to become the GWOAT didn’t need this cheap ploy. But her ambition and the greed of the two sanctioning bodies in question, for whom no sanctioning fee is too small, have allowed this to happen. Should be a good fight, though.
Also on this card:
Shohjahon Ergashev vs. Julian Smith – junior welterweight – 10 rounds
Michel Rivera vs. Hugo Alberto Roldan – junior welterweight – 10 rounds
Ernesto Mercado vs. Hector Edgardo Sarmiento – junior welterweight – 10 rounds
Cameran Pankey vs. Shaileik Paisley – featherweight – 6 rounds
Where to watch it: DAZN
Saturday, July 27 – County Coliseum, El Paso, Texas
Stephanie Han vs. Miranda Reyes – women’s lightweight – 8 rounds
Yadira Bustillos vs. Amy Salinas – women’s flyweight – 8 rounds
Jorge Tovar vs. Lester Medrano – middleweight – 6 rounds
Dwayne Bonds vs. Jason Phillips – welterweight – 6 rounds
Saturday, July 27 – Tolworth Recreation Ctr., Tolworth, England
Daniel Francis vs. Jensen Irvin – welterweight – 8 rounds
Tony Yoka vs. Amine Boucetta – heavyweight – 8 rounds
Shamari McKay vs. Karl Sampson – junior welterweight – 6 rounds
Thomas Galbraith vs. Elliot Eboigbe – junior middleweight – 6 rounds
Sunday, July 28 – Shiga Daihatsu Arena, Otsu, Japan
Ginjiro Shigeoka vs. Pedro Taduran – strawweight – 12 rounds
Matcha Nakagawa vs. Pete Apolinar – featherweight – 8 rounds
Wednesday, July 31 – ProBoxTV Events Center, Plant City, Fla.
Alberto Palmetta vs. Jesus Saracho – welterweight – 10 rounds
Emiliano Moreno vs. Rashield Williams – welterweight – 8 rounds
Jonathan Navarro vs. Clarence Booth – junior middleweight – 8 rounds
Terrence Williams vs. Roberto Kevin Escobar – welterweight – 6 rounds
Where to watch it: ProBox TV
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How to watch boxing in 2024 – By Diego Morilla
Diego M. Morilla writes for The Ring since 2013. He has also written for HBO.com, ESPN.com and many other magazines, websites, newspapers and outlets since 1993. He is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and an elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He has won two first-place awards in the BWAA’s annual writing contest, and he is the moderator of The Ring’s Women’s Ratings Panel. He served as copy editor for the second era of The Ring en Español (2018-2020) and is currently a writer and editor for RingTV.com.
