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The #PurseBidHeads will have to wait two more weeks to find out promotional rights for a title in boxing’s eighteenth division.
An Oct. 1 date has been set aside for the Lawrence Okolie-Kevin Lerena purse bid hearing. Okolie is due to make a mandatory defense of his WBC bridgerweight title. However, the two-division titlist failed to reach terms with Lerena’s team during their second ordered round of negotiations.
The two sides reneged on a previous agreement, which drew the scorn of

Jaime Munguia is set for the next phase of his still promising career.
The former WBO junior middleweight titlist and current 168-pound contender is set for his first fight since the lone loss of his career. Tijuana’s Munguia was 167.7 pounds, whiel Canada’s Erik Bazinyan weighed 167.9 pounds.
Their scheduled 12-round super middleweight bout headlines an ESPN tripleheader Friday from Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
Munguia (43-1, 34 knockouts) is coming off a May 4 defeat

“King” Callum Walsh’s homecoming fight is ready to receive the royal treatment. 
The red carpet is being rolled out for the fast-rising southpaw from Cork, Ireland, as Walsh (11-0, 9 KOs) will be fighting on home soil for the first time as a pro against Przemyslaw Runowski (22-2-1, 6 KOs) on Friday in a 10-round junior middleweight fight at the famed 3Arena in Dublin in front of an expected crowd of nearly 5,000 fans. The event will stream on UFC Fight Pass at 6:30 p.m. IS

Former amateur standout Jason Mallia (9-0, 5 KOs) came through his first 10-round bout with flying colors, scoring a wide points win over the teak-tough Ben Horn (6-8, 1 KO) to be crowned Australian welterweight champion at the Pullman Hotel in Albert Park, Melbourne, on Thursday night.
The 29-year-old Mallia, a clever boxer-puncher with quick hands, didn’t have it all his own way in the early going after a right hand from Horn badly damaged his left eye. Horn, with his awkward, pressure-f

Former amateur standout Jason Mallia (9-0, 5 KOs) came through his first 10-round bout with flying colors, scoring a wide points win over the teak-tough Ben Horn (6-8, 1 KO) to be crowned Australian welterweight champion at the Pullman Hotel in Albert Park, Melbourne, on Thursday night.
The 29-year-old Mallia, a clever boxer-puncher with quick hands, didn’t have it all his own way in the early going after a right hand from Horn badly damaged his left eye. Horn, with his awkward, pressure-f

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:
Thursday, September 19 – Yak

Janibek Alimkhanuly’s unified title reign is at risk even though one belt is at stake for his next fight.
The Ring’s No. 1-rated middleweight will put his IBF title on the line versus mandatory challenger Andrei Mikhailovich. Their bout will take place on Oct. 4 at The Star in Sydney, Australia. ESPN+ will stream the fight in the U.S., while it will air live for free on Kayo Sports in Australia.
Kazakhstan’s Alimkhanuly (15-0, 10 knockouts) also holds the WBO title. However, th

On Saturday, Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois will meet for the IBF heavyweight title as part of Riyadh Season: Wembley Edition at Wembley Stadium, London.
The reigning Ring champion Oleksandr Usyk was forced to vacate his IBF belt, and Dubois, who beat Filip Hrgovic for the interim title, has been subsequently upgraded.
The two rejuvenated British heavyweights will meet in a potentially explosive contest on DAZN Pay-Per-View at 10:30 a.m. ET/ 7:30 a.m. PT. and at 3:30 p.m. in the U.K.
Joshua wo

Not even the sport’s heavyweight king is safe from the long arm of the law.
Thankfully, Oleksandr Usyk is free and clear after he was briefly detained by customs police at Kraków John Paul II International Airport in Krakow, Poland. A specific reason was never offered for the incident, but his entire team confirmed it was a mix-up.
“[Thank] God it’s all fine,” Ekaterina Usyk, Oleksandr’s wife, informed her social media followers. “No one was arrest

Two unbeaten prospects will battle it out with the winner asserting himself in a deep 130-pound division. 
Mandeep Jangra and Nilo Guerrero will square off Thursday night at Legends Casino Hotel in Toppenish, Washington, it was announced Monday. The 10-round bout will headline a card promoted by Roy Jones, Jr. that will stream live on globalsportsstreaming.com ($9.99, 10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT). 
“It’s going to be a great card on Thursday at Legends Casino Hotel,&rdqu

Golden Boy Promotions is back on the schedule and Manny Flores has returned to headliner status for the occasion.
The resurgent southpaw will face Victor Olivo atop the Oct. 24 edition of Golden Boy Fight Night on DAZN show. Their scheduled ten-round bantamweight bout will take place at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.
Flores (18-1, 14 knockouts) hails from nearby Coachella and will make his seventh career appearance at the venue.
“I’m excited to headline in my hom

The Ring first introduced its divisional ratings in 1925. Almost a century later, it’s no exaggeration to claim that these independent ratings are the most respected and talked-about in world boxing.
The Ring Ratings Panel is made up of a dozen experts from around the world. Opinions are shared, debate takes place, and the final decision on who should be rated where is decided democratically every week. It sounds easy, but this can be an arduous and time-consuming process.
I will be going

Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez is set to face a 16-year pro and former major titlist from Mexico for his next outing.
No, not him.
The Ring has confirmed that San Antonio’s Rodriguez (20-0, 13 knockouts) has finalized terms for a mandatory WBC title consolidation bout defense versus Mexico’s Pedro Guevara. The 115-pound championship clash will take place Nov. 9 and likely in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, per multiple sources.
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) would head

Former Ring heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis will be an interested observer when his countrymen Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois collide at Wembley Arena, London, on Saturday.
Lewis, who achieved everything possible in boxing and had his share of huge domestic clashes, believes that such an occasion, that could see a crowd in excess of 90,000 in attendance, will be something to remember.
“It’s awesome, it’s definitely comparable to a world title fight,” Lewis told The Ri