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 existing 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.
The WBO junior middleweight tilt in between Tim Tsyzu and previous world champ Keith Thurman broke down less than 2 weeks from Premier Boxing Champions’ launching on Amazon Prime Video. Thurman suffered a bicep injury that required him off the card. Sebastian Fundora, who was set up to fight on the primary card, covered the Thurman-sized hole. Tszyu will attempt and establish as a worldwide star in his 2nd look beyond Australia. Fundora discovers himself thrust all of a sudden into his very first title shot.
Attention will then turn to an April 20 clash in between young junior welterweight stars Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, with Haney putting his WBC champion on the line. Another significant face-off is set for the summertime in Saudi Arabia as an indisputable 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 assure premium action, 2 other prominent summertime bouts will catch 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
| March 23 | Sheffield, England | Dalton Smith vs. Jose Zepeda | Junior welterweight | DAZN |
| March 29 | Glendale, Arizona | Oscar Valdez vs. Liam Wilson | Junior lightweights | ESPN+ |
| March 30 | Las Vegas | Tim Tszyu (c) vs. Sebastian Fundora | WBO junior middleweight title | Prime Video |
| March 30 | Inglewood, California | Arsen Goulamirian (c) vs. Gilberto Ramirez | WBA (incredibly) cruiserweight title | DAZN |
| March 31 | Nagoya, Japan | Yudai Shigeoka (c) vs. Melvin Jerusalem | WBC strawweight title | TBA |
| April 6 | Las Vegas | Richardson Hitchins vs. Gustavo Lemos | Junior welterweight | DAZN |
| April 20 | Las Vegas | Devin Haney (c) vs. Ryan Garcia | WBC junior welterweight title | DAZN |
| April 27 | Leeds, England | Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall | Junior welterweights | ESPN+ |
| May 4 | Las Vegas | Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (c) vs. Jaime Munguia | Undisputed incredibly 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 incredibly 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 |
| July 20 | Arlington, Texas | Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul | Heavyweights | Netflix |
