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May 14: Sydney, Australia
Sam Goodman vs. Cesar Vaca, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Harry Garside vs. Charlie Bell, 6 rounds, lightweights
Toese Vousiutu vs. Stevan Ivic, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Wade Ryan vs. Mounir Fathi, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Charlie Kazzi vs. Patrick Vella, 8 rounds, lightweights
Jason Fawcett vs. Alex Lual, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Ahmed Reda vs. Patrick Lilly, 4 rounds, lightweights
Dharringarra Trewhella vs. Kaliova Tahikia, 4 rounds, welterweights
Jasmine Parr vs. Jittamat Phomta, 5 rounds, female flyweights
Salvatore Gattuso vs. Nikesh Prasad, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
Roy Gavera vs. Tyrell Adams, 4 rounds, featherweights
May 17: London (DAZN)
Johnny Fisher vs. Dave Allen, rematch, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Kieron Conway vs. Gerome Warburton, 12 rounds, for Conway’s Commonwealth and vacant British middleweight titles
George Liddard vs. Aaron Sutton, 10 rounds, middleweights
Jimmy Sains vs. Gideon Onyenani, 10 rounds, middleweights
John Hedges vs. Nathan Quarless, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Shannon Ryan vs. Fara El Bousairi, 8 rounds, female junior bantamweights
Taylor Bevan vs. Juan Cruz Cacheiro, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Leli Buttigieg vs. Novak Radulovic, 6 rounds, middleweights
May 17: Commerce, Calif. (UFC Fight Pass)
Serhii Bohachuk vs. Mykel Fox, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Omar Trinidad vs. Alexander Espinoza, 10 rounds, featherweights
Mizuki Hiruta vs. Carla Merino, 10 rounds, for Hiruta’s WBO women’s junior bantamweight title
Guadalupe Medina vs. Maria Micheo Santizo, 8 rounds, female strawweights
Abel Mejia vs. Antonio Dunton El Jr., 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Jocelyn Camarillo vs. Qianyue Zhao, 4 rounds, female junior flyweights
Eduardo Diaz vs. Michael Meyers, 6 rounds, welterweights
Pablo Rubio Jr. vs. Alfredo Cruz, 6 rounds, featherweights
Alejandro Alvarado vs. Kevin Aranda, 4 rounds, lightweights
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May 17: Magdeburg, Germany
Roman Fress vs. Michael Seitz, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Artur Reis vs. Mate Rudan, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Michel Dobler vs. Jan Uhrin, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Richard Meinecke vs. Irakli Jeranashvili, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Yasin Basar vs. Roland Oroszlan, 6 rounds, cruiserweights
Paul Schmidt vs. Jakub Kotlewski, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
Ingolf Zocher vs. Mateusz Rybarski, 4 rounds, heavyweights
May 17: Fredericton, Canada
Sean Finnigan vs. Karoly Botos, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Wyatt Sanford vs. Gonzalo Manriquez, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
May 22: Hollywood, Calif. (DAZN)
Jonny Mansour vs. Christian Avalos, 6 rounds, lightweights
Vic Pasillas vs. Carlos Jackson, 8 rounds, featherweights
Ricardo Ruvalcaba vs. Luis Alberto Veron, 8 rounds, welterweights
Jessie Mandapat vs. Jose Antonio Sampedro, 8 rounds, junior featherweights
Avetis Gadyam vs. Jaycee King, 4 rounds, lightweights
Ivy Enriquez vs. Marlen Avila, 4 rounds, female bantamweights
Brook Sibrian vs. Rubi Gutierrez, 6 rounds, female junior flyweights
May 23: Zacatecas, Mexico
Willibaldo Garcia Perez vs. Rene Calixto Bibiano, rematch, 12 rounds, for vacant IBF junior bantamweight title
May 23: Doncaster, England (DAZN)
Terri Harper vs. Natalie Zimmermann, 10 rounds, for Harper’s WBO women’s lightweight title
Maxi Hughes vs. Archie Sharp, 10 rounds, lightweights
Reece Mould vs. Lewis Sylvester, 10 rounds, lightweights
Tysie Gallagher vs. Ebonie Jones, 10 rounds, for Gallagher’s British and Commonwealth women’s junior featherweight titles
James Flint vs. Haitham Laamouz, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
May 23: Hamburg, Germany
Labinot Xhoxhaj vs. Mourad Aliev, 12 rounds, for Xhoxhaj’s European heavyweight title
May 24: Glasgow, Scotland (DAZN)
Josh Taylor vs. Ekow Essuman, 10 rounds, welterweights
Moses Itauma vs. Mike Balogun, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Nathaniel Collins vs. Lee McGregor, 12 rounds, featherweights
Aloys Youmbi vs. David Jamieson, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Aston Brown vs. Reece Porter, 10 rounds, middleweights
Drew Limond vs. Ezequiel Gregores, 4 rounds, welterweights
Luke McCormack vs. Samir Cuentas, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Luke Bibby vs. Cesar Ignacio Paredes, 4 rounds, lightweights
Alex Arthur Jr. vs. Robbie Chapman, 4 rounds, super middleweights
Lee Welsh vs. Tony Morton, 4 rounds, lightweights
Marcus Sutherland vs. Dylan Nixon, 6 rounds, junior featherweights
Reese Lynch vs. Jonatas Gomes de Oliveira, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
May 24: Osaka, Japan (ProBox TV)
Angelo Leo vs. Tomoki Kameda, 12 rounds, for Leo’s IBF featherweight title
Pedro Taduran vs. Ginjiro Shigeoka, rematch, 12 rounds, for Taduran’s IBF strawweight title
Vencent Lacar vs. Ryo Mandokoro, 8 rounds, junior bantamweights
Hiroki Hanabusa vs. Matcha Nakagawa, 8 rounds, featherweights
Raymond Poon KaiChing vs. Shuri Oka, 8 rounds, flyweights
May 25: Kalisz, Poland
Krzysztof Włodarczyk vs. Adam Balski, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC interim bridgerweight title
May 25: London (DAZN)
Constantin Ursu vs. Ryan Amos, 12 rounds, for Ursu’s Commonwealth welterweight title
James Osborne vs. Onder Ozgul, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Kevin Reavell vs. Morgan Sellamuthu, 8 rounds, middleweights
Taran Willett vs. Dorin Krasmaru, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Ross Driscoll vs. Ally Lubanja, 6 rounds, lightweights
Jermaine Dhliwayo vs. Eliecer Quezada, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Nina Hughes vs. Nicholine Achieng, 6 rounds, female bantamweights
Thomas Galbraith vs. Steve Davies, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
Arjon Basi vs. Angelo Dragone, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Dylan Oke vs. Elliot Eboigbe, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
May 28: Yokohama, Japan (DAZN)
Eduardo Nunez vs. Masanori Rikiihsi, 12 rounds, for vacant IBF junior lightweight title
Yoshiki Takei vs. Yuttapong Tongdee, 12 rounds, for Takei’s WBO bantamweight title
Tsubasa Narai vs. Yuna Hara, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Ryu Isogane vs. Tomoya Yamamoto, 8 rounds, junior flyweights
Kazuma Aratake vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior flyweights
May 30: Las Vegas (DAZN)
Darius Fulghum vs. Bektemir Melikuziev, 12 rounds, WBA super middleweight eliminator
Eric Priest vs. Luis Arias, 10 rounds, middleweights
Joshua Edwards vs. TBA, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Federico Pacheco Jr. vs. Calvin Barnett, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Cayden Griffiths vs. TBA, 6 rounds, welterweights
Santiago Dominguez vs. TBA, 10 rounds, welterweights
Daniel Garcia vs. TBA, 8 rounds, lightweights
Grant Flores vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
May 30: Guadalajara, Mexico (DAZN)
Manuel Gallegos vs. Khalil Coe, rematch, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs. Luis Castillo, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Gabriel Valenzuela vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Christian Medina vs. TBA, 10 rounds, bantamweights
May 31: Las Vegas (Prime Video)
Caleb Plant vs. Armando Resendiz, 12 rounds, for Plant’s WBA interim super middleweight title
Jermall Charlo vs. Thomas LaManna, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Yoenli Feliciano Hernandez vs. Kyrone Davis, 10 rounds, middleweights
Isaac Lucero vs. Omar Valenzuela, 8 or 10 rounds, junior middleweights
May 31: Kempton Park, South Africa
Uisma Lima vs. Shervantaigh Koopman, 12 rounds, junior middleweights
Donjuan van Heerden vs. Phikelani Khumalo, 12 rounds, super middleweights
Samuel Salva vs. Siyakholwa Kuse, 10 rounds, strawweights
June 6: Verona, N.Y. (DAZN)
Brandon Moore vs. Stanley Wright, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Joshua Pagan vs. James Bernadin, 10 rounds, lightweights
Franchon Crews-Dezurn vs. Citlalli Ortiz, 10 rounds, for Crews-Dezurn’s WBC/WBA women’s super middleweight title
Joseph Hicks Jr. vs. Wendy Toussaint, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Da’Velle Smith vs. Antonio Todd, 8 rounds, super middleweights
Bryce Mills vs. Aaron Aponte, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Pryce Taylor vs. Ed Fountain, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Ashleyann Lozada vs. Carmen Vargas, 6 rounds, female junior featherweights
June 5: Montreal (ESPN+)
Arthur Biyarslanov vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
June 6: Newcastle, England
Josh Kelly vs. Flavius Biea, 10 or 12 rounds, junior middleweights
June 7: Norfolk, Va. (ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN+)
Keyshawn Davis vs. Edwin De Los Santos, 12 rounds, for Davis’ WBO lightweight title
Abdullah Mason vs. Jeremia Nakathila, 10 rounds, lightweights
Keon Davis vs. TBA, 6 rounds, welterweights
Kelvin Davis vs. Nahir Albright, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Euri Cedeno vs. Abel Mina, 10 rounder, middleweights
Tiger Johnson vs. TBA, 10 rounds, welterweights
Troy Isley vs. Etoundi Michel William, 10 rounds, middleweights
June 7: Ipswich, England (DAZN)
Fabio Wardley vs. Justis Huni, 12 rounds, for vacant WBA interim heavyweight title
Pierce O’Leary vs. Liam Dillon, 12 rounds, for vacant European junior welterweight
Sam Gilley vs. Louis Greene, 12 rounds, for vacant British and Gilley’s Commonwealth junior middleweight title
Mike Perez vs. Steven Ward, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Umar Khan vs. TBA, 8 rounds, featherweights
Lewis Richardson vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights
Lillie Winch vs. Katerina Dvorakova, 6 rounds, female featherweights
Billy Adams vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Jack Williams vs. TBA, 4 rounds, bantamweights
Christian Bozzia vs. TBA, 4 rounds, featherweights
Keano White vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
June 7: Orlando, Fla. (DAZN)
Beatriz Ferreira vs. Maria Ines Ferreyra, 10 rounds, for Ferreira’s IBF women’s lightweight title
Keno Marley vs. Sean Sparks, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
Luan Almeida Medeiros vs. Tony Aguilar, 8 rounds, lightweights
June 7: San Antonio, Texas (ProBox TV)
Justin Pauldo vs. Juan Carlos Burgos, 10 rounds, lightweights
Michael Angeletti vs. Eros Correa, 10 rounds, bantamweights
Emiliano Moreno vs. Erick Bone, 10 rounds, welterweights
Weljon Mindoro vs. Omar Gutierrez Munguia, 8 rounds, middleweights
Ruben Eduardo Aguilar vs. Issouf Kinda, 8 rounds, welterweights
Emilio Garcia vs. Roberto Escobar Tapia, 6 rounds, welterweights
June 7: Barnsley, England
Callum Simpson vs. Ivan Zucco, 12 rounds, for vacant European super middleweight title
Rhys Edwards vs. Leon Woodstock, 10 rounds, featherweights
Mark Jeffers vs. TBA, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Frankie Stringer vs. Kane Baker, 8 rounds, lightweights
Sam Hickey vs. Guillaume Azagier, 6 rounds, middleweights
Red Johnson vs. Brandon Lewis, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
Ellis Price vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
June 7: Newtown, Pa.
Mickey Bey vs. Tobias Green, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
David Garcia vs. TBA, 4 rounds, bantamweights
Miguel Roman vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Thanjhae Teasley vs. TBA, 8 rounds, welterweights
Jonathan Rodriguez vs. TBA, 8 rounds, bantamweights
Raymond Cuadrado vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Keith Colon vs. TBA, 6 rounds, featherweights
Dariial Kuchmenov vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Juan Rivera vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Rommel Dunbar vs. TBA, 4 rounds, featherweights
June 7: Boston
Thomas O’Toole vs. Laurent Humes, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Jahyae Brown vs. Khiary Gray, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Greg Bono vs. Ross Rodriguez, 6 rounds, middleweights
Alexis Bolduc vs. Sara Couillard, 6 rounds, female junior featherweights
Anthony Hines vs. Rico DePaolis, 6 rounds, middleweights
Sheniell Rodriguez vs. Jayson Colon, 4 rounds, super middleweights
June 8: Verona, N.Y.
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductions
June 8 Tokyo (ESPN+)
Junto Nakatani vs. Ryosuke Nishida, 12 rounds, WBC/IBF bantamweight unification
Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Victor Santillan, 10 rounds, bantamweights
Tomoya Tsuboi vs. Van Thao Tran, 10 rounds, bantamweights
Riku Masuda vs. Michell Banquez, 10 rounds, bantamweights
June 8: Broadbeach, Australia (DAZN)
Jai Opetaia vs. Claudio Squeo, 12 rounds, for Opetaia’s lineal/IBF cruiserweight title
Ben Mahoney vs. Joepher Montano, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Tyler Blizzard vs. Rocky Ogden, 10 rounds, featherweights
Danny Keating vs. Blake Minto, 10 rounds, welterweights
Conor Wallace vs. Dylan Colin, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
Max McIntyre vs. Ricaia Warren, 8 rounds, super middleweights
Mariah Turner vs. Jaala Tomat, 8 rounds, female featherweights
Austin Aokuso vs. Ikenna Enyi, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
Xavier Fletcher vs. Alivereti Dodomo, 5 rounds, super middleweights
Matt Floyd vs. Jack Gregory, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
June 13: Accra, Ghana (DAZN)
Andrew Tabiti vs. Jacob Dickson, 8 rounds, cruiserweights
June 14: New York (DAZN)
Richardson Hitchins vs. George Kambosos Jr., 12 rounds, for Hitchins’ IBF junior welterweight title
June 14: White Plains, N.Y.
Rajon Chance vs. Yan Carlos Perez, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Harley Burke vs. Louis Maietta, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Austin Cassese vs. Eduardo Monrreal, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
David Malul vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Ronny Reyes vs. Michael Ruiz, 4 rounds, featherweights
Erick Perez vs. Alex Gagnon, 4 rounds, featherweights
June 14: Copenhagen, Denmark
Oliver Zaren vs. Joseph Maigwisya, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Melissa Mortensen vs. Halima Vunjabei, 8 rounds, female junior featherweights
Kem Ljungquist vs. TBA, 8 or 10 rounds, heavyweights
June 19: Tokyo (ESPN+)
Brian Norman vs. Jin Sasaki, 12 rounds, for Norman’s WBO welterweight title
Cristian Araneta vs. Thanongsak Simsri, 12 rounds, for vacant IBF junior flyweight title
Sora Tanaka vs. Takeru Kobata, 12 rounds, welterweights
June 19-21: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DAZN)
WBC Grand Prix Stage 2
June 21: Birmingham, England (DAZN)
Shabaz Masoud vs. Peter McGrail, 12 rounds, junior featherweights
Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez, 12 rounds, for Yafai’s WBC interim flyweight title
Conah Walker vs. Liam Taylor, 12 rounds, for Walker’s British welterweight title
Pat Brown vs. TBA, 6 rounds, cruiserweights
Ibraheem Sulaimaan vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Aaron Bowen vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights
Hamza Uddin vs. TBA, 8 rounds, flyweights
June 21: Newark, N.J. (ESPN+)
Vito Mielnicki Jr. vs. Kamil Gardzielik, 10 rounds, middleweights
Damian Knyba vs. Marcin Siwy, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Jahi Tucker vs. Lorenzo Simpson, 10 rounds, middleweights
Mannie Chance vs. TBA, 4 rounds, bantamweights
Ali Feliz vs. TBA, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Daiyaan Butt vs. Mike Lee, 8 rounds, welterweights
Norman Neely vs. James Willis, 8 rounds, heavyweights
Muadh Abdus-Salaam vs. Roberto Cantos, 4 rounds, welterweights
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June 21: Santa Ynez, Calif. (UFC Fight Pass)
Callum Walsh vs. Elias Espadas, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
June 27: Quebec City, Canada (ESPN+)
Christian Mbilli vs. Maciej Sulecki, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC interim super middleweight title
Erik Bazinyan vs. Steven Butler, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Arslanbek Makhmudov vs. Ricardo Brown, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Leïla Beaudoin vs. Elhem Mekhaled, 10 rounds, female junior lightweights
Jhon Orobio vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Luis Santana vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
Wilkens Mathieu vs. TBA, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
June 27: Wichita, Kan. (BLK Prime)
Deontay Wilder vs. Tyrrell Herndon, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Deon Nicholson vs. Devonte Williams, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
Nico Hernandez vs. Byron Rojas, 10 rounds, flyweights
Joshua Richey vs. Chancey Wilson, 4 rounds, featherweights
Jeff Page Jr. vs. Jurmain McDonald, 6 rounds, cruiserweights
John Cantrell vs. Franklin Sparks, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Miguel Noah Aldana vs. General Lee, 4 rounds, lightweights
Kayla Williams vs. Helen Lucero, 4 rounds, female lightweights
Yvonne Flores vs. Simone Aparecida da Silva, 4 rounds, female junior welterweights
June 28: Anaheim, Calif. (DAZN PPV)
Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez vs. Yuniel Dorticos, 12 rounds, for Ramirez’s WBO/WBA cruiserweight title
June 28: Galway, Ireland (DAZN)
Kieran Molloy vs. Kaisee Benjamin, 10 rounds, welterweights
Shakan Pitters vs. Brad Rea, 12 rounds, for vacant European light heavyweight title
Joe Ward vs. Lerrone Richards, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
July 11: New York (Netflix)
Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, third fight, for Taylor’s undisputed women’s junior welterweight title
Alycia Baumgardner vs. Jennifer Miranda, 10 rounds, for Baumgardner’s women’s undisputed junior lightweight title
Ellie Scotney vs. Yamileth Mercado, 10 rounds, IBF, WBO, WBC women’s junior featherweight unification
Dina Thorslund vs. Shurretta Metcalf, 10 rounds, WBC, WBO, IBF women’s bantamweight unifcaition
Tamm Thibeault vs. Mary Casamassa, 8 rounds, female middleweights
July 12: New York (DAZN PPV)
Edgar Berlanga vs. Hamzah Sheeraz, 12 rounds, WBC super middleweight eliminator
Shakur Stevenson vs. William Zepeda, 12 rounds, for Stevenson’s WBC lightweight title
Alberto Puello vs. Subriel Matias, 12 rounds, for Puello’s WBC junior welterweight title
David Morrell vs. Imam Khataev, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
July 19: London (DAZN PPV)
Oleksandr Usyk vs. Daniel Dubois, rematch, 12 rounds, WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF heavyweight unification
July 19: Frisco, Texas (DAZN)
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez vs. Phumelele Cafu, 12 rounds, WBC/WBO junior bantamweight unifcaition
Diego Pacheco vs. Trevor McCumby, 12 rounds, super middleweights
July 26: Las Vegas (ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN+)
Top Rank Boxing
July 26: Detroit (DAZN)
Claressa Shields vs. Lani Daniels, 10 rounds, for Shields’ women’s undisputed heavyweight title
August 2: Malaga,Spain
Samuel Molina vs. Anass Messaudi, 12 rounds, for Molina’s European welterweight title
September 12: Las Vegas
Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford, 12 rounds, for Alvarez’s undisputed super middleweight title
September 20: Huntington, N.Y.
Star Boxing “Rockin’ Fights 51”
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June 7th Orlando DAZN featured bout now is a women’s match which is cool but I figure theys gotta be a more attractive Main unannounced as of now…rumors or educated guesses are welcome. TIA
nice.