The weekend is approaching, and from Friday to Sunday it will be “fight hour” somewhere in the world. Every Thursday, The Ring will bring you the most up-to-date information on the most relevant must-see fights 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 for.
Here are this week’s most relevant fights:
Friday, October 11 – Roger Mendoza Coliseum, Caguas, Puerto Rico
Elijah Flores vs Omar Rosario – Welterweight – 8 rounds
Jan Paul Rivera vs Andy Beltran – Featherweight – 8 rounds
Krystal Rosado vs. Perla Lomeli – Women’s Junior Featherweight – 6 rounds
Herich Ruiz vs. Travorus Barnes – Heavyweight – 8 rounds
Where to watch it: DAZN
Saturday 12 October – Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitri Bivol – light heavyweight – 12 rounds
It’s finally here. Not a fight you see every year or even every two years, but rather a very special occasion where two of the very best on the planet collide for pride, country and bragging rights in a career-defining fight. The amount of power, skill and boxing IQ that will be present in this ring on Saturday is insane – and so will you if you’re going to miss this one.
Also on this map:
Fabio Wardley vs Frazer Clarke – Heavyweight – 12 rounds
Jai Opetaia vs Jack Massey – Cruiserweight – 12 rounds
Chris Eubank Jr. vs Kamil Szeremeta – Middleweight – 12 rounds
Skye Nicolson vs. Raven Chapman – Women’s Featherweight – 10 rounds
Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron – Light Heavyweight – 10 rounds
Where to watch it: ESPN+, DAZN
Saturday 12 October – Aichi Sky Expo, Tokoname, Japan
Venetian string vs. Masamichi Yabuki – junior flyweight – 12 rounds
Roldan Aldea vs Ei Go – Lightweight – 8 rounds
Ryo Mandokoro vs. Alvin Camique – junior bantamweight – 8 rounds
Hayate Hanada vs. Denmark Quibido – junior bantamweight – 8 rounds
Saturday, October 12 – Prudential Center, Newark, NJ
Michael Anderson vs Daniel Gonzalez – Welterweight – 10 rounds
Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Khalid Twaiti – bantamweight – 10 rounds
Saturday, October 12 – 2300 Arena, Philadelphia
Dyana Vargas vs. Tiara Brown – Women’s Featherweight – 10 rounds
Dylan Price vs Jose Saant – Junior Featherweight – 8 rounds
Curmel Moton vs Hilario Martinez – Junior Welterweight – 6 rounds
Quincey Williams vs Daniel Lim – Junior Middleweight – 6 rounds
Saturday, October 12 – Stockton Arena, Stockton, California.
Dominique Jamar Francis vs Julio Carrera Lugo – Junior Lightweight – 8 rounds
Gabriel Flores Jr. vs. Dennis Contreras – Lightweight – 8 rounds
Jessie Guerrero vs Bryan Santiago – Flyweight – 6 rounds
Lorenzo Powell vs. Adrian Serrano, 4 rounds, lightweight – 4 rounds
Sunday 13 October – Ariake Arena, Tokyo
Takuma Inoue vs. Seiya Tsutsumi – bantamweight –12 rounds
Kenshiro Teraji vs. Cristofer Rosales – flyweight – 12 rounds
Seigo Yuri Akui vs. Seigo. Thananchai Charunphak – flyweight – 12 rounds
Shokichi Iwata vs Jairo Noriega – junior flyweight – 12 rounds
Ryuga Sato vs. Asato Sato, 4 rounds, bantamweight – 4 rounds
Where to watch it: ESPN+
Sunday October 13 – Budokan, Yokohama, Japan
Vince Paras vs. Hiroto Kyoguchi – Flyweight – 10 rounds
John Riel Casimero vs. Saul Sanchez – Junior Featherweight – 10 rounds
Yukinori Oguni vs. Fillipus Nghitumbwa – junior featherweight – 8 rounds
Shido Arai vs. Gaito Sakakino – junior lightweight – 8 rounds
Monday 14 October – Ariake Arena, Tokyo
Junto Nakatani vs. Tasana Salapat – bantamweight – 12 rounds
One of the world’s best pound-for-pound fighters takes on a tough Thai foe on home soil during one of Japan’s greatest boxing eras. Reason enough for you to tune in on a Monday in the earliest AMs for this one. Don’t miss it!
Also on this map:
Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Gerwin Asilo – bantamweight – 10 rounds
Kosei Tanaka vs. 10 p.m. Phumelele Cafu – junior bantamweight – 12 rounds
Anthony Olascuaga vs Jonathan Gonzalez – flyweight – 12 rounds
Where to watch it: ESPN+
Wednesday, October 16 – ProBox Events Center, Plant City, Fla.
Chris Colbert vs Omar Salcido – Lightweight – 10 rounds
Colbert is still trying to regain his former status as one of boxing’s most promising and entertaining fighters, worthy of his “Prime Time” moniker. The general idea is that those years are already over, but he sees every fight as a crossroads, and this one certainly is.
You should know this: The fact that the card was delayed one week due to Hurricane Milton may have affected the preparation of all the fighters, but it is still a strong and entertaining card filled with young and exciting talent, very much in the tradition already established by ProBox .
Also on this map:
Tsendbaatar Erdenebat vs. Frency Fortunato – junior lightweight – 10 rounds
Najee Lopez vs. Anthony Hernandez – Light Heavyweight – 8 rounds
David Navarro vs. Mykell Gamble – Featherweight – 8 rounds
Where to watch it: ProBox TV
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How to watch boxing in 2023 – By Diego Morilla
Diego M. Morilla has written 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 a voter 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 Rating 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.
