Editorial Standards

boxingnews.com is an independent combat sports newsroom. These are the editorial standards every article on the site is expected to meet — regardless of whether it was written, edited, or reviewed by our staff.

What We Cover

Our editorial scope is professional boxing and mixed martial arts: breaking news, fight results, pre-fight previews and analysis, betting picks and odds analysis, fighter and promoter profiles, and long-form features. We cover the sport globally, with a lean toward the four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) and the biggest MMA promotions (UFC, PFL, Bellator, ONE).

Sourcing

Every factual claim in a boxingnews.com article is sourced. When we report a fighter statement, a promoter announcement, or a purse figure, we name the person or outlet the information came from — either inline in the copy or via a direct link to the primary source. We do not publish unsourced rumours, and we treat single-source scoops as developing stories until a second outlet or the fighter’s camp confirms them.

Where copy references social-media posts, we link to the post itself. Where we quote a press conference or podcast, we identify the outlet and, where useful, timestamp the clip.

Fact-Checking

Fight results, records, weight classes, and title lineages are cross-checked against the official sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO), the promoter’s official card, and established secondary references — ESPN, Ring Magazine, BoxRec, Tapology, and Sherdog for MMA. Where a public record conflicts with what a promoter or corner has said, we surface the conflict rather than picking a side.

Betting content is checked against live sportsbook lines at the time of publication and re-checked before events start. Odds and lines move quickly; we timestamp betting pieces and note when a line has shifted materially from the time of writing.

Opinion vs Fact

News reporting, analysis, and opinion are visually and editorially distinct on boxingnews.com. Betting picks, predictions, and columns are labelled as such. Analysis pieces make the writer’s reasoning explicit rather than dressing an opinion up as a reported fact. Our headlines describe what happened, not what the writer felt about it.

AI-Assisted Content

Some briefs and betting previews on boxingnews.com are drafted with the help of AI tools. Every AI-assisted piece is reviewed and approved by a human editor before publication, and the same sourcing and fact-checking standards apply. We do not publish fully-automated content that has not been human-reviewed.

Plagiarism and Attribution

We do not plagiarise. Direct quotes are quoted and attributed. Where a story is broken by another outlet, we credit that outlet in the copy and, where appropriate, link back to the original report. We do not scrape or rewrite other publishers’ articles as our own. Our fighter and event data pipelines source from public records (Wikidata, sanctioning bodies, promoter announcements) and never from scraping a competitor’s editorial product.

Editorial Independence

Our editorial decisions are independent of our commercial partnerships. Ticketmaster, DAZN, and sportsbook affiliate links inside articles do not influence which stories we cover, how we cover them, or which fighters we back. Sponsored content, when we run it, is clearly labelled “Advertisement” and separated from editorial. Our affiliate disclosure explains how affiliate revenue works on this site.

Editors and Bylines

boxingnews.com articles are published under the byline of the staff writer or editor responsible for the piece, or under a shared newsroom byline (“Boxing News Staff”, “MMA News Staff”) when the piece is produced by the newsroom collectively. Author profile pages list our named writers and their areas of coverage.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it, and we say so. Substantive corrections are dated and appended to the affected article as a “Correction” note. Smaller fixes (typos, formatting) are made silently but the article’s modified timestamp is updated. See our full corrections policy for how to report an issue and what happens after you do.

Contact

Editorial questions, tips, and correction requests: email editors@boxingnews.com or use the contact form.