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By Mo van Morgen in Predictions —

December 2025 boxing predictions

World title boxing predictions for December 2025.

The November Report

  • Espinoza is carrying the hopes and dreams of Mexico. The corner stoppage could've come sooner.
  • Okay, I was wrong. Haney is bad. Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good! This was B-E-A-utiful boxing. In-and-out, great timing, powerful shots, and masterful range control. Where was this Haney in May or April last year? He looked like he was enjoying himself there and rightfully so because many were writing him off.
  • Mason becomes the youngest world champion in boxing today. Pre-fight Noakes was saying he was going to knock Mason out, but British fighters tend to beat Americans when they're on the way down. More often than not Americans will expose British limitations.
  • Bam! A knockout of the year contender!
  • I told you so! At the end of round 4, Benavidez threw almost twenty unanswered left hooks. Roy Jones probably had a smile you could see from space when he saw that. This was every bit the brutal beatdown that fight fans saw coming and it's been rewarded with over 1 million YouTube views each for both the highlights and the full fight.
  • Not gonna pretend to have watched this one.

4 outta 6, but it could've been 5 if I just squashed the beef with Inoue Takuma. Ah well, haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love. Goodness! December already? What do you mean we're closer to 2030 than 2020? What do you mean that we're closer to 2050 than 2000? Time flies, doesn't it?

December Schedule

Dec. 6th - Jai Opetaia vs. Huseyin Cinkara, IBF @ 200lbs

To call Huseyin Cinkara an underdog would be like calling Tyson Fury 6'6"; it goes without saying, there's no reasonable person who would argue against it.

Prediction: Opetaia by KO/TKO in the first half of the fight

Dec. 6th - O'Shaquie Foster vs. Stephen Fulton Jr., WBC @ 130lbs

A great fight on paper between two skilled boxers. This should be a high level match for the purists. I want to be a madman and predict a draw but Fulton should win.

Prediction: Fulton Jr. by unanimous decision

Dec. 6th - Erislandy Lara vs. Johan Gonzalez, WBA @ 160lbs

I had Lara losing against Janibek Alimkhanuly but recent developments (Qazaq Style now extends to include failed drugs tests) leave Johan Gonzalez as a late replacement. The age difference is still notable but the skill difference has grown considerably.

Prediction: Lara by KO/TKO in rounds 10-12

Dec. 13th - Badou Jack vs. Norair Mikaelian , WBC @ 200lbs

This rematch is the coal in the stocking that boxing deserves this Christmas. I'm sticking with the same prediction from May, though I expect it will be another close match. Surely Jack will get old?

Prediction: Mikaelian by unanimous decision

Dec. 17th - Takami Kyosuke vs. René Santiago, WBA/WBO @ 108lbs

A unification bout at junior-flyweight/minimumweight/manletweight. I'm surprised this was on any of the schedules given how people overlook them.

Prediction: Santiago by unanimous decision

Dec 17th - Anthony 'Princesa' Olascuaga vs. Kuwahara Taku, WBO @ 112lbs

Olascuaga is squeezing in his third fight of the year against the 30 year old Kuwahara, whose two losses both came to Seigo Yuri Akui. After a two round demolition in Sin City this past September, Princesa will be going back to Japan where he's had 5 of his last 6 bouts. Kuwahara can't stop the reign methinks.

Prediction: Olascuaga by KO/TKO in the first half of the fight

Dec. 27th - Yabuki Masamichi vs. Felix Alvarado, IBF @ 112lbs

You may recall that Alvarado was a titlist at 108lbs a few years ago. Since then, he failed to win the IBF flyweight title against Sunny 'The Rat' Edwards 3 years ago, the very title which Yabuki will be staking. The most important thing separating them is that Alvarado lost to a decision to Mexico's Angel Ayala in 2023 whilst Yabuki knocked Ayala out earlier this year.

Prediction: Yabuki by KO/TKO in the second half of the fight

Dec. 27th - Willibaldo Garcia vs. Teraji Kenshiro, IBF @ 115lbs

Teraji, a rising star in the eyes of many, got away with one in March against Seigo Yuri Akui and then dethroned at the end of July by Ricardo Sandoval. Hoping to quickly regain the level of 世界チャンピオン he'll face the little know Garcia who picked up the vacant title earlier this year. But I don't think the Japanese fighters are going to sweep Riyadh's Night of the Samurai for the simple reasoning that they historically tend to have patchy records outside of Japan.

Prediction: Garcia by split decision

Dec. 27th - Nakatani Junto vs. Sebastian Hernandez Reyes

Had anyone in the world heard of Sebastian Hernandez Reyes before this fight? Nakatani should've fought Inoue.

Prediction: Nakatani by KO/TKO in the first half of the fight

Dec. 27th - Inoue Naoya vs. Alan David Picasso

Had anyone in the world heard of Alan David Picasso before this fight? Inoue should've fought Nakatani.

Prediction: Inoue by KO/TKO in the second half of the fight

Bud Mad

Terence 'Bud' Crawford went off on one on Instagram the other day and not one lie was told. The biggest smoke recipient is old friend of the site Mauricio 'Daddy Issues' Sulaiman, President of the World Boxing Council (WBC), who recently stripped Crawford of the undisputed status he won in September.

The full video is 9 minutes long, but here's a lightly edited transcript for posterity and people who prefer to read. Bold emphasis is my own.

"I gotta dive right into it. You know, I see Mauricio, you know, got a lot to say about me not paying him $300,000 plus another 100K something for sanctioning fees, right? Then he gonna tell me apologize? Like who the **** you think I am? Boy, you better slap your ****ing self. I ain't paying your ass ****. **** you talking about pay you? $300,000. What makes you so motherf****ing better than any of the other sanction bodies, huh? Answer that question.
What makes you better than the WBO, the IBF, or the WBA? Everybody accepted what I was giving them. But you. You, the WBC think that you're better than everybody, don't you? So since you, the WBC and you got the ****ing green belt, which don't mean ****ing shit, ****ing real belt is the Ring belt, which is free, motherf****r. What are you talking about? You want me to pay you more than the other sanctioning bodies because you feel like you better than them. How in the world all the sanctioning bodies agreed to the same amount but you sit your motherf****ing ass up there and say that I need to apologize to you? The ****?
 You can take the ****ing belt. It's a trophy anyway. The **** am I paying you every time I step foot in the ****ing ring? I'm the motherf****r that's putting my life on the line, not you. You ain't stepping your motherf****ing ass in that ring. You or nobody else. You or nobody else. So why should I have to pay to carry your belt? You should be paying me! If you wanna be truthful. You should be paying me.
 It irks my nerves how this dude gets on a plane, gets a hotel suite, him and his buddies, they go out to dinner, five-star meals, all that, you know, and guess who gotta pay for it? Us fighters. We paying for y'all to come out here, have the time of y'all life, stay in the best hotels of y'all life, and it's all done on our dime. It's done on our dime. Do that sound right to y'all?
 It's crazy, ain't it? We the one out there getting battered, knocked upside our head, and every time we step foot in the ring, we gotta pay them a sanction fee like they the government. We getting taxed. It's crazy. Then he said allegedly I made X amount of money. You don't know how much I made. You don't know how much I made. Once again, you're speculating. You're speculating. So listen, Mauricio, I appreciate you. I appreciate you, because everybody in the world know you was going for Canelo, you was mad that I beat Canelo. It's okay, it happens, you know? But if you a real fan of the sport, you would've, you know, said congratulations instead of having that little smirk on your face, all mad and pouting. But listen though, you should've took the money and you should've been thankful and grateful that I was rocking your belt around as your champion. As your champion, the WBC champion. The undisputed champion at that. But you wanted to make it about you. You wanted to say, "Oh, well, you stripped me." Like I've been stripped before. IBF just stripped me when I was at 147. Doesn't matter. I'm still considered the undisputed champion.
 I am still the champion in the division, because you know why? The only belt that's recognizable as the champion is the Ring belt, baby. That's the number one belt in the division. That trumps all belts. And guess what? It's free. IT'S FREE! How you love that? $180,000. Free. How much your belt cost? I wonder, how much your belt cost? Huh? I don't see no receipts on your belt. It's crazy. Y'all be having so much taxes on these belts. You got some nerves. It's crazy that you can sit up there and have all these belts, you know. You got the WBC Silver, the WBA Interim, whatever belt y'all got, and you taxing these fighters every time they fight, and you claim that you for these fighters. You not for these fighters. You probably worse than the promoters.
 But, hey, I wish you the best, you know. I wish you the best, you and your company. You know, uh, Turki... I hope y'all get that done, man. I hope y'all get that done so we can all see people's faces like this guy go away from boxing, because they ruin the sport with all these antics that they do, you know.
 They got they're ranking systems where people be mandatories for years, like Benavidez. You know, they don't strip these fighters, but I give credit to the IBF. They stripped me. They ain't even give me time. They stripped me. Pop. Popped me, even though I wasn't, you know, coming back down the way, but, you know, they handled they business. They did what they were supposed to do. The WBC? You ain't never see them strip no Canelo for no Benavidez. He was what, mandatory for like two years? It's crazy. But, you know, that's that favoritism ****. But I'm good though, baby. I'm good. I'm living life. I'm happy, you know. Yeah, man. Still the champion. Can't take that away from me. History already been made, baby. The Great. Like I said yesterday, I am legend. I'ma leave y'all with that. I'm about to go in here and get me a turkey burger. Fat Boy."

Am I reading too much into the penultimate line? Also, good on Bud for calling out Sulaiman for looking crestfallen after his boy took a helluva beating. It's not the first time either.

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