2023 was a great year for boxing, with almost every significant fight fans have actually required in fact getting made. The greatest of those battles that did not come together was a fight in between WBC heavyweight champ Tyson Fury and IBF, WBA and WBO champ Oleksandr Usyk to crown the very first indisputable heavyweight champ of the four-belt period.
While that fight didn’t come together for 2023, it is set as the present emphasize of the 2024 boxing calendar. Fury and Usyk will fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 18 with all 4 heavyweight world titles on the line. The fight was initially set for Feb. 17, however Fury suffered a cut in sparring simply weeks out of the fight that required the bout to be postponed. It would not be the only awaited fight to strike a snag.
An April 20 clash in between young junior welterweight stars Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, with Haney putting his WBC champion on the line, is the next huge emphasize on the calendar. The 2 have actually been trading heated words for months as Garcia has actually participated in progressively strange habits, now investing as much time spreading out conspiracy theories about the Illuminati as it appears he is actively training.
Plus, indisputable extremely middleweight champ Canelo Alvarez is set for his very first fight of 2024 when he fights fellow Mexican star Jaime Munguia over Cinco de Mayo weekend. Alvarez, 33, was last seen scoring a definitive win over Jermell Charlo in September. Hopes for him to deal with previous WBC titleholder David Benavidez rapidly disappeared when Munguia went into the fray. Munguia is unbeaten at 43-0 and coming off a TKO of John Ryder in January.
Another significant face-off is set for the summer season in Saudi Arabia as an undeniable light heavyweight champ will be crowned. Unified titleholder Artur Beterbiev will handle WBA champ Dmitry Bivol on June 1 with all 4 titles at stake.
While Haney vs. Garcia and Beterbiev vs. Bivol guarantee top quality action, 2 other prominent summer season bouts will record the attention of various crowds. Former UFC stars Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal will satisfy in the boxing ring on June 1, a spiritual follower to their ritualistic BMF champion fight at UFC 244 in 2019. In among the strangest, yet most interesting battles on the boxing calendar, previous indisputable heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will return to the boxing ring at age 58 against social networks star-turned-boxer Jake Paul, 27, on Netflix. More information on that fight are still to be exposed, consisting of whether it will in some way be approved as an expert bout or held as an exhibit.
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2024 upcoming boxing schedule
| April 6 | Las Vegas | Richardson Hitchins vs. Gustavo Lemos | Junior welterweight | DAZN |
| April 13 | Las Vegas | Jordan Gill vs. Zelfa Barrett | Junior light-weight | DAZN |
| April 20 | New York City | Devin Haney (c) vs. Ryan Garcia | WBC junior welterweight title | DAZN |
| April 27 | Fresno, California | Jose Ramirez vs. Rances Barthelemy | Junior welterweights | DAZN |
| May 4 | Las Vegas | Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (c) vs. Jaime Munguia | Undisputed extremely middleweight titles | Prime Video, DAZN |
| May 4 | Osaka, Japan | Emmanuel Rodriguez (c) vs. Ryosuke Nishida | IBF bantamweight title | TBA |
| May 6 | Tokyo | Naoya Inoue (c) vs. Luis Nery | Undisputed extremely bantamweight titles | ESPN |
| May 11 | Cardiff | Jessica McCaskill (c) vs. Lauren Price | WBA ladies’s welterweight title | Peacock |
| May 12 | Perth, Australia | Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. George Kambosos | Vacant IBF light-weight title | ESPN |
| May 18 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Tyson Fury (c) vs. Oleksandr Usyk (c) | Undisputed heavyweight titles | PPV |
| May 18 | San Diego | Emanuel Navarrete vs. Denys Berinchyk | Vacant WBO light-weight title | ESPN |
| May 25 | Leeds, England | Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall | Junior welterweight | ESPN+ |
| June 1 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Artur Beterbiev (c) vs. Dmitry Bivol (c) | Undisputed light heavyweight titles | PPV |
| June 1 | Inglewood, California | Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal | Light heavyweights | PPV |
| June 15 | Manati, Puerto Rico | Subriel Matias (c) vs. Liam Paro | IBF junior welterweight title | TBA |
| June 29 | Miami | Teofimo Lopez (c) vs. Steve Claggett | WBO junior welterweight title | ESPN |
| June 29 | Glendale, Arizona | Juan Francisco Estrada (c) vs. Jesse Rodriguez | WBC junior bantamweight title | DAZN |
| July 20 | Arlington, Texas | Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul | Heavyweights | Netflix |
