One of the biggest and richest fights in boxing history has hit an American roadblock. On Sunday WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury told his millions of followers on social media that he and Anthony Joshua would face one another on August 14 in Saudi Arabia. And while that did not exactly have the matter set […]
The summer scrap between Tommy McCarthy and Chris Billam-Smith will have the vacant British cruiserweight title up for grabs. Promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed on Saturday night that McCarthy and Billam-Smith are to square off against one another during another season of Matchroom’s Fight Camp series. The highly anticipated fight sees McCarthy’s European title on the […]
Josh Taylor has described this weekend’s undisputed showdown with Jose Ramirez as a “dream come true”. The unbeaten 30-year-old puts his IBF, WBA and RING magazine super lightweight titles up for grabs while Ramirez will stake his WBC and WBO championships in the winner takes all clash in Las Vegas. Taylor is unbeaten in 17 […]
WBC and lineal heavyweight king Tyson Fury has announced that his long-awaited showdown with WBA Super, WBO and IBF champion Anthony Joshua will take place in Saudi Arabia on August 14. Fury took to Instagram to break the news, which should be taken with a degree of caution as an official announcement is yet to […]
WBO super-bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton is looking forward to his unification clash with newly-crowned WBC king and WBA ‘Regular’ title holder Brandon Figueroa on September 11. Fulton was a ringside observer as the unrelenting Figueroa broke the spirit and body of fancied Mexican and WBC champion Luis Nery in seven rounds at the Dignity Health Sports […]
A relentless Brandon Figueroa proved he is the real deal at 122lbs with a seventh-round body shot KO of two-weight champion Luis Nery to win the WBC title in a firefight at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, on Saturday night. Texan Figueroa already held the WBA’s ‘Regular’ belt at super-bantam, but his […]
Manuel Charr, the WBA’s ‘Champion In Recess’ at heavyweight, emerged from a 42-month break to bowl over cult favourite Christopher Lovejoy in two rounds at the Box Gym in Cologne on Saturday. Lovejoy had arrived in Germany without a trainer, cut man or manager and in the midst of a legal dispute with veteran promoter […]
The finish was chilling but the opposition was underwhelming as Croydon light-heavyweight hope Joshua Buatsi despatched overmatched Frenchman Daniel Blenda Dos Santos with a vicious right hand in the fourth round at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday. Despite both men being undefeated there was a stark difference in ability between the duo in […]
Doncaster underdog Jason Cunningham produced the performance of his career to thrice drop and dethrone European super-bantamweight champion Gamal Yafai in a captivating 12-rounder at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday night. Scores were 115-110 and 114-111 (twice). A punch-perfect Cunningham dropped Yafai three times, but the Birmingham man showed magnificent heart to drag […]
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois will now seek to reignite his career with the help of new trainer Shane McGuigan. Dubois had previously been expected to resume his pursuit of the heavyweight titles with coach Mark Tibbs. The touted Dubois (15-1, 14 KOs) was originally trained by manager Martin Bowers until a […]
IBF super-middleweight champion Caleb Plant says he saw nothing to fear in Canelo Alvarez’s eighth-round win over Billy Joe Saunders in Texas a week ago and claims the Mexican star has been feasting on ‘UK level’ fighters. Unified champion Canelo now owns three of the four major super-middleweight crowns and just needs to seize Plant’s […]
He may be only three months away from his 90th birthday, but legendary promoter Don King has lost none of his old fire. The veteran promoter is attempting to block Christopher Lovejoy’s WBA title fight with ‘Champion In Recess’ Manuel Charr in Cologne tonight. King believes he has an exclusive promotional agreement with Lovejoy and that neither […]