Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye believes the mindset and athletic prowess of Anthony Joshua will prevail in his long-awaited undisputed title clash against Tyson Fury. With the battle of British heavyweight champions reportedly set to take place in Saudi Arabia in the summer, after long and laborious negotiations, Haye has tipped WBA Super, WBO […]
WBO light-flyweight champion Elwin Soto, a recent signing for Matchroom Boxing USA, will defend his crown against former world title-holder Katsunari Takayama on the Canelo Alvarez vs Billy Joe Saunders undercard at the AT&T Stadium in Texas on May 8. Mexican Soto (18-1, 12 KOs) will be making the third defence of the belt he won […]
Daniel Dubois returns from his first pro defeat when he meets Romanian Bogdan Dinu for the vacant WBA ‘Interim’ heavyweight title in London on June 5. The Greenwich man was halted in the 10th round by the hulking Joe Joyce in their British, Commonwealth and European title clash last November. Dubois (15-1, 14 KOs) took […]
Leading contender Dillian Whyte doubts Oleksandr Usyk’s credentials as a heavyweight. Having unified the cruiserweight division with a series of eye-catching performances on away soil, Usyk hasn’t replicated the same electric form since a move into the realm of the heavyweight behemoths. As a heavy, Ukrainian Usyk (18-0, 13 KOs) halted an overmatched Chazz Witherspoon […]
The eagerly anticipated undisputed 140lbs title fight between WBA Super and IBF champion Josh Taylor and WBC and WBO king Jose Carlos Ramirez is heading to the Virgin Hotels Las Vegas resort on May 22. The venue is a surprising one given the stature of the fight, with larger, more familiar boxing sites such as […]
Unified super-middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez is enjoying life as a promotional free agent after breaking his long-time association with Golden Boy Promotions last year. Mexican star Canelo parted ways with promoter Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy outfit in 2020 after filing a lawsuit and then reaching an agreement to go in their separate directions, […]
Showtime Sports and Premier Boxing champions have announced a packed five-month summer schedule featuring some of the sports leading names and rising stars. The schedule features seven world title fights and will take place before live crowds, in line with applicable local Covid-19 safety protocols. The summer run includes the return of the Charlo twins with […]
Two-time world welterweight champion Shawn Porter doesn’t believe rising star Conor Benn is ready for him or the leading lights of the 147lbs division just yet. Benn caught the eye with an 80-second blitz of Samuel Vargas at the weekend and the highly-respected Porter was among the names the Ilford puncher mentioned as an imminent […]
Chris Eubank Jr. hopes to seal a long-trumpeted but as yet unrealised showdown with IBF middleweight king Gennady Golovkin by the close of 2021. Eubank was originally scheduled to face Golovkin back in September 2016, but the deal failed at the last hurdle before then-IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook leapt two divisions to take the […]
He may not be a well-known super-middleweight champion, but IBO title holder Carlos Gongora believes he can mix it with the best. Gongora (19-0, 14 KOs) sprang to prominence with a last gasp, 12th round stoppage of Kazakh hope Ali Akhmedov to win the vacant IBO crown in December. That stirring victory caught the eye of promoter […]
Canelo Alvarez is undeniably in the prime of his career and appears at the peak of his powers since permanently moving up to super-middleweight late last year. The Mexican star dominated the world’s previous No.1 168-pounder Callum Smith in a virtuoso performance last December (W12) before ruthlessly sweeping aside the WBC’s less than deserving mandatory […]
Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye believes it will take an astronomical amount of money to finalise the projected Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua undisputed world title fight and isn’t sure it can happen this summer. WBC heavyweight king Fury and WBA Super, WBO and IBF title holder Joshua provisionally agreed to engage in a […]