The story of an orphan who would be king.

Among them was a desired rubber match with Kenshiro Teraji, also a two-division titlist, who recently unified the WBC and WBA flyweight belts in his own 12th-round knockout of Segio Yuri Akui in ...

The two best fighters in Japan took a significant step towards creating the biggest fight in the nation’s rich boxing history. Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani made a gentleman’s agreement to ...

improves to 18-4 and now finds himself in a strong position to campaign for a trilogy bout with pound-for-pound No. 10-rated fighter and WBC and WBA flyweight champion Kenshiro Teraji. The pair ...

Kenshiro Teraji WBC: Kenshiro Teraji* *Galal Yafai is the WBC flyweight interim champion WBO: Rene Santiago IBF: Masamichi Yabuki WBA: Vacant WBC: Petchmanee CP Freshmart WBO: Oscar Collazo IBF ...

Kenshiro Teraji WBC: Kenshiro Teraji* *Galal Yafai is the WBC flyweight interim champion WBO: Rene Santiago IBF: Masamichi Yabuki WBA: Vacant WBC: Petchmanee CP Freshmart WBO: Oscar Collazo IBF ...

Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Sebastian Fundora ...

With 17 weight classes in boxing and four major sanctioning bodies that bestow world titles, keeping track of who holds each of the belts can be difficult -- especially when there are sometimes ...