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Eight super-lightweight hopefuls will vie for supremacy in the first of a new BOXXER Series tournament format, which launches at the Space M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on November 6. In the initial, one-night event, televised l...
Boxing Social columnist Russ Anber has been in Oleksandr Usyk’s corner for the past eight fights. As the former cruiserweight king prepares to face Anthony Joshua on Saturday, Russ explains what he sees as the Ukrainian’s keys to victor...
Robbie Davies Jr had reached a stage of his career where the next step was the unknown. A rock to lean on in the shape of manager Neil Marsh was gone after he had amicably parted ways with him. Davies was also without a trainer after he and...
Eddie Hearn says he would be shocked if an undisputed heavyweight title clash between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury didn’t happen next year, assuming both champions win their upcoming fights against Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury respectiv...
Deontay Wilder feels the delay to his trilogy clash with Tyson Fury has proved beneficial, rather than disruptive. After losing in seven rounds to Fury in February 2020, the Bronze Bomber had to take a legal route to enforce a previously co...
Heavyweight hope Antonio ‘El Gigante’ Mireles has signed a multi-year promotional contract with Top Rank. The 6ft 9ins prospect from Des Moines, Iowa, will make his pro debut in a four-rounder on the Emanuel Navarrete-Joet Gonzalez...
In a new series, published during weekdays on Boxing Social, the incomparable Terry Dooley delivers his unique look at the boxing news. Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn is expecting a rough, tough night for his fighter Anthony Joshua (24...
In a notable upset, Japan’s Masamichi Yabuki toppled long-reigning champion and countryman Kenshiro Teraji in 10 rounds to claim the WBC light-flyweight crown at the City Gym in Kyoto, Japan, on Wednesday. Yabuki (13-3, 12 KOs) controlled...
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston sets the scene for Saturday’s fascinating encounter between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk by remembering previous southpaws who fought for a world heavyweight crown. If Oleksandr Usyk pulls off the up...
Dillian Whyte feels former foe Anthony Joshua could brush Oleksandr Usyk aside if he asserts himself in the early exchanges of their WBA Super, WBO and IBF heavyweight title clash on Saturday. Unified champion Joshua appears to be facing hi...
Tony Bellew believes Anthony Joshua will never fight a more accomplished boxer than Oleksandr Usyk in his career – and that includes rival heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. “This is the best boxer he will ever face,” former WBC cruiser...
Canelo Alvarez drew first blood after trading insults and then blows with Caleb Plant in a fiery opening press conference to announce their undisputed super-middleweight title showdown in Las Vegas on November 6. In an extraordinary press l...
The fallout from Evander Holyfield’s farcical fight against Vitor Belfort earlier this month has continued to hit the headlines, with Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn the latest to condemn and condone this type of dangerous m...
Unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has extended his promotional deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing. Joshua, who defends his WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles against mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Ho...
The World Boxing Council have revealed four title fights and eliminators which are due to be ordered or approved, with Ryan Garcia now in line to face Joseph Diaz in a lightweight final eliminator. The bout between unbeaten dynamo Garcia (2...
In a new series, published during weekdays on Boxing Social, the incomparable Terry Dooley delivers his unique look at the boxing news. It is fight week for WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (24...
Ahead of his rearranged super-bantamweight unification clash with WBC champion Brandon Figueroa, WBO title holder Stephen Fulton believes he has a lot to prove. Their original September 18 date was postponed after Figueroa tested positive f...
Oleksandr Usyk believes that critics read too much into his performance en route to his unanimous decision victory against Derek Chisora last October. Former undisputed cruiserweight champion Usyk, who challenges Anthony Joshua for his IBF,...
Michael Hunter believes the craft and slickness of Oleksandr Usyk will cause Anthony Joshua significant issues in next Saturday’s heavyweight title fight at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. WBA Super, WBO and IBF king Joshua remai...
Anthony Joshua has vowed to fight rival heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in Britain before his career is over. After months of painfully long negotiations, WBA Super, WBO and IBF champion Joshua and WBC king Fury had seemed on the brink of a...
Fringe heavyweight contender Martin Bakole needed just 150 seconds to overwhelm Ghanaian Haruna Osumanu at the Sport Society in Dubai on Saturday evening. The Airdrie-based Bakole (17-1, 13 KOs) forced Accra’s podgy and overmatched Osuman...
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston surveys the raft of intriguing heavyweight encounters in the remainder of 2021 including Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder III, Dillian Whyte vs Otto Wallin and more. Some 20-odd ye...
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – this truth once proclaimed by a Chinese proverb has now been bastardised by a million internet bores flogging their own saccharine brand of off-the-peg faux inspiration. ...
After several postponements, George Kambosos has vowed to make undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez pay when they finally lock horns at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 4. The IBF No.1 contender...