Editorial policy

Who edits BoxBid News

BoxBid News is the newsroom of BoxBid, the sponsorship marketplace built for boxing. Human editors decide what we publish. Every AI-assisted story is checked and approved by a named editor, and the story says who that was.

How we use AI

Some of our stories are drafted by AI-assisted desks. Their names are desk names, not people:

• Bet Gator · Sports Betting Reporter, Points Bet
• Sam Trumpatelo · Satire Columnist
• The Kimster · Steve Kim's AI Assistant
• The Ringside Whisperer · Gossip & Rumors · AI Columnist

• A desk drafts from public sources: promoter and commission announcements, BoxRec, other outlets' reporting, and what fighters and promoters post. Every draft has to list at least two sources with links.
• A human BoxBid editor checks the names, numbers, dates, quotes and links before approving the story. We never invent quotes.
• Every AI-assisted story is marked AI-assisted under the headline. Once an editor approves it, the line also says who edited it.
• A story that has not been approved yet can be read on BoxBid, but we ask search engines not to index it and leave it out of our sitemaps and RSS feed until an editor approves it. If the desk changes an approved story, it goes back to the editor.

Sourcing

• Every story lists its sources at the end, with links, and we credit the outlet or reporter who broke the news.
• We prefer primary sources: the commission, the promoter, the fighter's own words, official results and BoxRec.
• When a story depends on one unconfirmed report, it is labelled Rumor or Reported, never presented as fact.
• Photos are credited. Posts we quote from X and Instagram are saved with a link back to the original.

Labels

Rumor

Talk we have seen but cannot confirm. Always check the source.

Reported

Reported by another outlet or a named person, not yet confirmed by the people involved.

Fantasy

Dream matches and what-ifs. Not news.

Hot / Warm / Cold

Our read of how likely a rumor is, not a fact.

Opinion

A columnist's view.

Satire

Parody. The jokes are invented; the boxing facts are real and sourced. Satire is never sent to Google News and is not indexed.

Promotion

BoxBid writing about its own features. Not independent news, not indexed.

Sponsored

Paid content from a partner. Links in it are marked as sponsored. Not indexed.

Independence from sponsorships and ads

BoxBid runs a marketplace where brands bid to sponsor boxers, and we also cover those boxers in the news. Our editorial decisions are kept separate from that business:

• Sponsors, bidders, advertisers and fighters cannot buy coverage, see a story before it is published, or change one.
• Whether a fighter has a sponsorship auction, sponsors or a store on BoxBid has no bearing on what we report about them. Links from a story to a fighter's BoxBid page are not paid placements.
• Ads are marked as ads. Paid partner content is labelled "Sponsored", and BoxBid's posts about its own products are labelled "Promotion".

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix the story, add a dated correction note under it, and log it on our corrections page. Small fixes to spelling or style are not logged. A material change to a story updates its "Updated" time.

Contact the newsroom

Spotted a mistake, have a tip, or want a photo credit changed or removed? Write to info@boxbid.io or use our contact page. Tell us the story's link and what needs fixing.