Boxing schedule for 2024: Every major fight night, dates, venues and results

The 2024 boxing calendar is already sparkling with some more mouth-watering bouts.

After a long wait the huge undisputed heavyweight showdown between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk is finally set to take place on May 18, after being rescheduled from February because of a cut the British fighter sustained in sparring.

Planet Sport provides the important information for the upcoming major title bouts this year and the results so far.

 

Major upcoming fights in 2024

 

April 27

Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall 2 (Super-lightweight)

 

May 4

Canelo Alvarez vs Jaime Munguia (WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO super-middleweight world titles)

 

May 6

Naoya Inoue vs Luis Nery (WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO super-bantamweight world titles) - Tokyo, Japan

 

May 11

Vasyl Lomachenko vs George Kambosos (IBF lightweight world title) - Australia

Jessica McCaskill vs Lauren Price (WBA welterweight world title) - Cardiff, UK

 

May 18

Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk (WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO heavyweight world titles) - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Jai Opetaia vs Mairis Briedis 2 (IBF Cruiserweight World Title) - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Joe Cordina vs Anthony Cacace (IBF Super-Featherweight World Title) - - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Emanuel Navarrete vs Denys Berinchyk (WBO lightweight world title) - San Diego, USA

 

May 24

Lukasz Rozanski vs Lawrence Okolie (WBC bridgerweight world title) - Rzeszow, Poland

 

May 25

Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall 2 (Super-lightweight) - Leeds, UK

 

June 15

Subriel Matias vs Liam Paro (IBF Super-Lightweight World Title) - Puerto Rico

 

June 29

Juan Estrada vs Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez (WBC Super-Flyweight World Title) - Phoenix, Arizona

 

July 20

Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson (Heavyweight) - Texas, USA

 

 

Major 2024 fight night results

 

April 20

Ryan Garcia secured a stunning upset over Devin Haney, knocking his fellow American down three times en route to a majority decision victory at the Barclays Center. Full report

 

March 31

Fabio Wardley kept hold of his British and Commonwealth heavyweight belts after his battling encounter with Frazer Clarke was ruled a split draw. Full report

 

March 30

Tim Tszyu struggled to get to grips with Sebastian Fundora losing a 12-round split decision in Las Vegas.

Isaac 'Pitbull' Cruz dominated Rolly Romero with an eighth round TKO win to claim the WBA super-lightweight title.

Former WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez became the first Mexican to win a major world title at cruiserweight after a hard-fought unanimous decision victory over Arsen “Feroz” Goulamirian at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California.

 

March 23

Dalton Smith has set his sights on Adam Azim after knocking out experienced Jose Zepeda with a crushing body shot in the fifth round. Full report

Sandy Ryan defended her WBO welterweight crown with a third round stoppage win over fellow Briton Terri Harper in Sheffield.

 

March 8

Anthony Joshua defeated Francis Ngannou, in just his second professional fight, by knocking him out in the second round in Riyadh. Full report

Joseph Parker got off the canvas twice to defeat Zhilei Zhang on points to win the WBO interim heavyweight title.

Despite knocking Rey Vargas down twice, British fighter Nick Ball was denied the WBC featherweight title after a split decision draw.

Israil Madrimov was crowned the new WBA super-welterweight champion after a fifth-round stoppage of Magomed Kurbanov.

 

March 2

Raymond Ford won the WBA featherweight title as he knocked out Otabek Kholmatov in the 12th round.

IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez scored an eighth-round TKO knockout win over Reiya Abe.

Jake Paul improved his professional boxing record to 9-1 following a first round knockout victory over Ryan Bourland.

 

February 24

Junto Nakatani became the WBC bantamweight champion and claimed his third division title after landing a sixth-round TKO victory against Alexandro Santiago.

Takuma Inoue retained his WBA bantamweight title after landing a surprise KO win over the Philippines' Jerwin Ancajas in the ninth round.

Kosei Tanaka won the vacant WBO super flyweight belt after beating Christian Bacasegua by unanimous decision.

 

February 16

O'Shaquie Foster retained his WBC super featherweight title with a split-decision win over Abraham Nova in New York City.

 

February 8 

Teofimo Lopez retained his WBO super welterweight title with unanimous points decision over Jamaine Ortiz in Las Vegas.

 

February 3

Joshua Buatsi showed signs of his best form as he beat British champion Dan Azeez in the WBA light heavyweight championship final eliminator. Full report

Conor Benn kept his unbeaten record intact after beating American Peter Dobson in Las Vegas by unanimous decision. Full report

 

January

 

January 23

Kenshiro Teraji retained his WBC, WBA and Ring light-flyweight titles with a majority decision victory over Carlos Canizales.

 

January 20

Natasha Jonas was pushed to the limit but retained her IBF welterweight crown with a razor-thin split decision victory over American rival Mikaela Mayer in a thriller in Liverpool. Full report

 

January 13

Artur Beterbiev beat Callum Smith with a 7th round TKO to retain the IBF, WBC, WBO light heavyweight titles. Full report

 

January 6

Ohara Davies suffered a calamitous first round loss to Ismael Barroso on Saturday night, which puts an end to the British fighter's quest for a world title. Full report