The boxing world has been fawning over Naoya Inoue this week, after he became a four weight world champion in Tokyo. In his first fight at 122lbs and one that many expected to be one of the toughest tests of his career, Inoue made unified super bantamweight world champion Stephen Fulton look like a white […]
Eddie Hearn has weighed in with a prediction for this weekend’s monster undisputed welterweight clash between Errol Spence Jr and Terence Crawford. The pair will lock horns at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF 147lb world titles, in what is one of the most significant fights of the […]
Few, if any, are giving former UFC star Francis Ngannou a prayer in his autumn crossover clash with Tyson Fury, with the consensus being that ‘The Gypsy King’ will be able to do what he pleases with Ngannou – who will be making his professional boxing debut. The idea of Ngannou catching Fury clean and […]
Eddie Hearn has weighed in with a prediction for the upcoming unified heavyweight world title clash between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois. Matchroom boss Hearn knows better than most just how difficult an equation Usyk is to solve in the ring, after his charge Anthony Joshua failed on back to back occasions. And though few […]
Top Rank boss Bob Arum has revealed he believes his stable contains the three hardest punchers in all of boxing. One of the Arum’s leading lights, Naoya Inoue, was crowned a four-weight champion this week, stopping Stephen Fulton at the Ariake Arena to win the WBC and WBO world super bantamweight titles. And Arum told […]
Carl Froch has revealed he has had a last minute change of heart for this weekend’s undisputed welterweight world title fight between Errol Spence Jr and Terence Crawford. Previously when asked for his prediction, Froch sided with three weight world champion Crawford to emerge victorious, describing him as a “special talent.” However, on a recent […]
Anthony Joshua’s crunch rematch with Dillian Whyte is fast approaching, with many feeling both men’s careers are on the line at the 02 Arena on August 12th. The pair’s first encounter in the professional ranks came all the way back in 2015, a memorable British title fight that culminated in a seventh round stoppage win […]
Mike Tyson has revealed the one heavyweight he believes would not have been able to beat. Many felt Tyson was invincible in his prime years in the late 1980s, when he became undisputed heavyweight world champion aged just 21. However, in a clip shared online Tyson states he would not have been able to get […]
Oscar De La Hoya has laid out how he would like Ryan Garcia to navigate his return back up in weight to super lightweight, and it appears to be at odds with how ‘King Ryan’ himself wants to tackle the division. Garcia announced he would be moving back to 140 following his stoppage defeat to […]
Since his move up to heavyweight, every Oleksandr Usyk fight has had swathes of speculation surrounding his physique and weight. There was once a notion that Usyk was simply not naturally big enough to cut it in the blue ribbon division, however his becoming unified world champion after back to back wins over Anthony Joshua […]
Naoya Inoue was crowned a four weight world champion today, after a stunning eighth round knockout victory over Stephen Fulton to claim the WBC and WBO super bantamweight world titles. In what many expected to be the toughest test of his career to date, Inoue dominated proceedings from start to finish at the Ariake Arena […]
Few boxing fans felt Teofimo Lopez was being fully genuine when he announced his retirement from boxing in the aftermath of his impressive WBO world title win against Josh Taylor last month. Despite question marks over his mental health amidst a host of issues in his personal life, Lopez produced a first class performance to […]