2025 is developing into a spectacular year for the sport of boxing with an incredible schedule already lined up.
The sport’s biggest names are seemingly all coming out to play, and they are doing so in megafights. The best are meeting the best thanks to promoters working together, and thanks of course to that massive investment from Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority.
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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has swiftly become the most influential person in the sport, but it’s not just the Middle East where the fight game is thriving. Further afield in the US and UK we have massive fights coming up.
So where will we see the fight game’s brightest stars next? Here is the latest on their plans.
Boxing schedule 2025
Our schedule is not intended to be exhaustive – it’s a detailed view on where the genuine superstars of the sport, the potential P4P mainstays – will be out next. This is the picture as it stands.
April 26: Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn
At long last, these two sons of two great fighters of the past bid to follow in family footsteps in a huge DAZN PPV show at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The bad blood between the pair is real – just as it was when their fathers Chris Sr and Nigel engaged in their epic bouts of the 1990s. We’ve had to wait a long time for this one, but at last it is here after Benn failed a drugs test in the countdown to their scheduled 2022 showdown (he was later cleared of any wrongdoing). The bout will go down at 160lbs (with a 10lbs rehydration clause) – quite the step up for Conor.
So what’s at stake? Eubank Jr believes that a showdown with Canelo Alvarez is the logical step if he wins this one, while a win for Benn would give him new impetus and catapult him to a new level.
May 2: Ryan Garcia vs ‘Rolly’ Romero
What a time to be a boxing fan as New York City’s Times Square hosts a big-time DAZN PPV show on a Friday night. These are unprecedented times for the fight game. Garcia tops the bill in a mouthwatering matchup with ‘Rolly’, who of course came unstuck when he stepped up to elite level against Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis in 2022. It should be a barnburner for as long as it lasts, with Garcia fighting for the first time since that hugely controversial win (later declared a No Contest) over Devin Haney in 2024.
So what’s at stake? This has massive implications for Ryan – if he wins then a Haney rematch is on the cards for later this year. For ‘Rolly’, an upset would catapult him right back into the big time.
May 2: Devin Haney vs Jose Carlos Ramirez
Haney is one fight away from getting his chance of ‘revenge’ against Ryan Garcia as he throws down with Ramirez on the same Time Square show on May 2. Devin ‘lost’ inside the ring to Garcia when they met last year, in the most chaotic of circumstances. That result was later scrubbed to a No Contest after Garcia was suspended following a failed drugs test. Haney then remains unbeaten at 31-0 and a win here would set up that rematch with Ryan absolutely perfectly
So what’s at stake? Like we said, a blockbusting Haney vs Garcia rematch later this year.
May 3: Canelo Alvarez vs William Scull
The Turki Alalshikh masterplan is fully in place. He has Canelo on board and set fr his debut against Scull at the ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. If the Mexican megastar (62-2-2) comes safely through this one – as expected – then he will face welterweight and light-middleweight king Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford in an absolute blockbuster later this year. It should be straightforward for Canelo (he is 1/16 odds to prevail) but in the past big names have slipped on banana skin tune-ups ahead of planned megafights. There are nine figures on the line here, Saul must not fumble the bag.
So what’s at stake? All of Canelo’s super-middleweight straps, but more importantly that blockbusting planned September showdown with Crawford. A new Super Bowl for boxing.
May 4: Naoya Inoue vs Ramon Cardenas
Quite the fighting weekend is completed in Las Vegas as the Japanese ‘Monster’ Inoue makes his Stateside return to defend his super-bantamweight world titles against the unheralded Cardenas. It’s a huge platform for Inoue as he bids to make another popularity grab in the US on a big show on a big date. The great news for UK fight fans is that they will be able to watch the action live on Sky Sports, while ESPN will have the call in the US.
So what’s at stake? All the marbles at 122lbs of course, plus massive future fights for Inoue.
May 24: Moses Itauma vs Mike Balogun
Itauma now has no chance of beating Mike Tyson’s record of becoming the youngest ever world heavyweight champion, but he is still the most exciting player in boxing’s heavyweight divison. The precocious 20-year-old has incredible talent at puts his 11-0 record (9 inside distance) on the line against former NFL star Balogun (21-1) on the Josh Taylor vs Ekow Essuman undercard in Glasgow, Scotland. Itauma will be expected to win, and convincingly. If he does, then a world title shot before the end of the year is not impossible.
So what’s at stake? Itauma is on the cusp of hitting the heavyweight elite. Don’t fumble the bag.
June 27: Deontay Wilder vs Tyrrell Herndon
Many believed we had seen the last of Deontay Wilder when he was stopped by Zhilei Zhang in Saudi last summer. They were wrong, and ‘The Bronze Bomber’ returns for another run at world heavyweight title glory when he meets journeyman Herndon in Wichita, Kansas in June. Deontay (43-4-1) should obviously make short work of the 24-5 Herndon, but he has looked like a fading force in recent fights. That loss to Zhang was his fourth in five outings and it would be a brave man to imagine him one day donning a major heavyweight title belt again.
So what’s at stake? If Wilder can’t win this one, it’s surely curtains for the one-time most feared force in the heavyweight division.
July 11: Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano 3
What a rivalry these two have with already two incredible superfights in the bag. The pair sold out Madison Square Garden for a barnburner in 2022, and then starred with another fantastic scrap on that Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul card in late 2024. Now their trilogy meeting is set for MSG again, but it will not be over 12 x 3-minute rounds, much to Amanda’s disgust. She came away from that second furious about Katie’s supposed use of the head and this should be another ring classic. Once again Netflix will have the call here after streaming the second meeting in Arlington, Texas last November.
So what’s at stake? All of Katie’s super-lightweight world titles, but in reality much more than that. If Amanda wins her first against Taylor, we can expect a fourth meeting. Bring it on!
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