After a considerably cool near 202 the place a lot of boxing’s high stars featured their abilities in stay-busy fights, the New Yr started with hopes of among the high stars going through off towards different high opposition over the subsequent 12 months. At the least one fighter cleared his preliminary hurdle towards the most important combat of his profession when Gervonta “Tank” Davis knocked out Hector Luis Garcia on Jan. 7.
Davis introduced in November that he and Ryan Garcia had agreed to the framework of a deal for a combat in 2023 with Davis solely needing to get by Hector Garcia to make the combat a actuality. He did precisely that, surviving a tricky early problem earlier than scoring a knockout to safe arguably the most important combat in boxing by way of public consideration.
The schedule did take successful, nonetheless, when Josh Taylor suffered an damage requiring the postponement of his deliberate WBO junior welterweight championship rematch with Jack Catterall on March 4. That rematch has been postponed a number of occasions since Taylor received a highly-disputed determination of their battle for the undisputed welterweight title in February 2022.
The largest combat left for January is Artur Beterbiev’s conflict with Anthony Yarde on Jan. 28 in London. Beterbiev, who holds three of the 4 acknowledged world titles at gentle heavyweight, may find yourself combating for undisputed standing towards 2022 Fighter of the Yr Dmitry Bivol earlier than the tip of 2023.
Under is a operating record of boxing predominant occasions for 2023.
Observe: This will likely be up to date consistently with adjustments and additions.
| Jan. 28 | Hollywood Park, Florida | Alexis Rocha vs. Anthony Younger | Welterweight | DAZN |
| Jan. 28 | London | Artur Beterbiev (c) vs. Anthony Yarde | Unified gentle heavyweight titles | ESPN |
| Feb. 3 | Glendale, Arizona | Emanuel Navarrete vs. Liam Wilson | WBO junior light-weight title | ESPN |
| Feb. 4 | New York Metropolis | Amanda Serrano (c) vs. Erika Cruz | Undisputed featherweight title | DAZN |
| Feb. 11 | San Antonio | Rey Vargas vs. O’Shaquie Foster | Vacant WBC tremendous featherweight title | Showtime |
| Feb. 18 | Nottingham, England | Leigh Wooden (c) vs. Mauricio Lara | WBA common featherweight title | DAZN |
| Feb. 25 | Atlanta | Adrien Broner vs. Hank Lundy | Welterweights | BLK Prime |
| Feb. 25 | Minneapolis | Subriel Matias vs. Jeremias Ponce | vacant IBF junior welterweight title | Showtime |
| March 12 | TBD, Australia | Tim Tszyu vs. Tony Harrison | Junior middleweight | TBD |
| April 1 | London | Anthony Joshua vs. Jermaine Franklin | Heavyweight | TBD |