Top pound for pound fighter and champion Naoya Inoue talks about a fight with Stephen Fulton and how he thinks it would play out. Inoue said that he imagines a very smart fight by both men, but Fulton using his reach and trying to box him, and himself trying to cut the ring. He also said that he feels that if the fight is at 122lbs he would be stronger at that weight with a bigger punch.

Prospective UFC fighter Zabit Magomedsharipov announced his retirement from mixed martial arts in June. The 31-year-old, who had an amazing record of 6-0 in the UFC and 18-1 overall, made a surprise decision. Ariel Helwani, an MMA journalist, asserted earlier this year that Magomedsharipov's abrupt resignation was mostly motivated by his faith. However, the formerly rising featherweight star finally spoke up and disclosed the "primary reason" for his choice. Fighting Flashback just posted a fresh interview with Magomedsharipov, in which he discussed his retirement. He said this when asked about his retirement, “The reasons. There were many reasons,” he said. “Firstly because of refusals to fight with me. I had no fights for two years. Then there were injuries, I was sick a lot. I didn’t recover. Such, many reasons.” “The main reason was that I was not able to fight,” he continued. “They didn’t give me a title shot. They promised one thing and did another. That was a little bit ... they promised me and didn’t keep a promise. That was the main reason why I got mad.” In November of 2019, Zabit Magomedsharipov defeated Calvin Kattar by decision in his final UFC contest. Multiple attempts to match him up with Yair Rodriguez in a featherweight contender fight fell through because of persistent suspicions that Magomedsharipov had a condition that would end his career. Even though those health issues were actual, he sounded clearly dissatisfied with the way the UFC treated him in this most recent interview. Zabit strongly refused when asked if he might engage in combat once more in the future, but left the door open. “The time has passed, I don’t have such a desire,” he said before adding “I want to do it when I see someone fighting. When I join their training camp, me and other friends. There could be a wish. I have to think. I am going to think about your question.” Zabit Magomedsharipov, a rising star in a violent sport, appears to want to devote the remainder of his life to helping others. Magomedsharipov updated his fans on his career earlier this year. His update, however, wasn't what his followers had anticipated. The Dagestani fighter ended his prizefighting career by announcing in an Instagram post that he is pursuing a career in medicine. He was also asked about if he wants to pursue his career as a coach to which he replied positively. He stated, “It could be. Why not?” he said. “It is interesting for me to work with children. Not adults, just children. To teach them. To communicate with them. It is interesting to me. I want to have rest from sport a year or two. Maybe then I will start, we will see.” Magomedsharipov is only 31 years old, therefore there's still a remote chance that he might unretire. As things stand, he continues to be one of the biggest "What If" stories in MMA: a contender for the featherweight title who withdrew before putting himself to the test in a championship match.

Avioded by many top contenders, even by now former WBO middleweight champ Demetrius Andrade. Janibek Alimkhanuly is now the official WBO middleweight champion of the world after Andrade made the move to supermiddleweight. Alimkhanuly is now calling out Charlo to get the WBC belt. He stated that he now wants the WBC belt and thinks it would be easy to take the belt from the WBC champ Charlo. Andrade prefered to make the move to supermiddleweight than to fight him I sure hope Charlo has more guts and fights Alimkhanuly.

Tommy Fury trolled by boxing fans from all over for accepting to fight Youtuber KSI after KSI called him out. Boxing fans from all over started to make fun of him on social media for wanting to fight Youtubers insted of real boxers. Other asked him if he had an excuse ready to not fight when the time comes. It only got worst for the kid thats 23 years old and is barely starting out in boxing. On his last fight he put on a horrible performance in the Fury v.s White undercard and now this. I understand that it would be a good payday fighting these YouTubers but it wont get you peoples respect. Remember your a Fury and you have to earn that respect. I think this boy has to leave his brothers nipple and fight some real opposition to earn peoples respect the way your brother and your cousin has.

After WBA world champ Daniel Dubois settled his legal dispute with legendary boxing promotor Don King for failing to pay him. Now that the dispute is out of the way Dubois has stated that he wants Dillian White next to prove to all those people that say hes a quiter that he isnt. The Dubois team is negociating with the White team to try to make the fight happen. I really hope to see these two sluggers go at it. It will really fun to watch.

Former UFC champ and MMA great Vitor Belfort is set to take on Hasim Rahman Jr on october 15th in Sheffeild, England. Belfort now 45 years old made his boxing debut against the legendary Evander Holyfield winning by KO. As a fan I think its a great fight but lets look at the facts, Rahman Jr is 31 years old and with a record of 12-1-0 in pro boxing. Rahman Jr isnt 58 years old like Holyfield that has alot of battledamage from all those years of fighting the very best in boxing in his era. Rahman Jr is a young guy that can fight, hes record speaks for itself. As a fight fan my heart is with Beltfort because ive watched him since I was 14, so i love the guy but i have to say it as I see it.

MMA great John Dodson has a great BKFC debut, he just went through opponent Ryan Benoit in just 40 seconds!! Dodson known for his speed put down Benoit three times before the fight was stopped. All that in 40 seconds, Im impressed by his performance, more and more big MMA names are coming to BKFC.

This is the current situatión with Josh Taylors world championships. WBA: Won by Alberto Puello WBC: Zepeda and Progais will fight for it. IBF: Ponce and Matias will fight for it. WBO: Still in Taylors posession. Taylor still has the WBO title left I hope he doesnt lose it.

After 10 rounds of boxing José "Sniper" Pedraza goes the distance against Richard Commey and its declared a draw.

Undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney is planning on vacating his Ring Magazine belt because he wasnt included in the Ring's pound for pound list. Haneys complaint is that he is the youngest undisputed champion in this four belt era. Thats pretty much why he is doing this little kid tantrum. He is a great fighter but he is overreacting but then again look at the rankings and judge for yourself.

WBO featherweight world champion Emmanuel Navarrete is seeing his options to move up in weight and challenge either Oscar Valdez or Shakur Stevenson. He is still negociating and seeing which option pays more. He has already been world champion in two weight divisións and it looks like he wants to conquer a third weight división. It will not be an easy task for Navarrete, but this is boxing and anything can happen.

Former WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder vowed to clean out the heavyweight división. Wilder now 36 years old is making a comeback in october when he fights Robert Helenius in New York. Wilder hasnt fought in a year since he lost to WBC champ Tyson Fury. Wilder said he wants all the top contenders he hasnt fought before to give a show to the fans and clean out the heavyweight división. One thing is for sure, he brings that one punch KO power and that makes him great to watch.