Sports Journalist · 64 articles
Tony Bellew and David Haye take up their long drawn out rivalry on Saturday night May 5 at the O2 arena in London and once again Haye is the favourite to do what he couldn’t do in March last year and defeat the popular Liverpool man. Haye carrying an Achilles injury into the fight, failed dramatically […]
Boxing Social will be streaming live coverage of the vacant British super featherweight title fight between the undefeated, hard punching prospect Sam Bowen and the experienced battler Maxi Hughes from the King Power Stadium in Leicester this Saturday April 14th. It’s an excellent matchup between good southpaw boxer Hughes and aggressive puncher Bowen for the title […]
Winning ugly! He may have had to but in Las Vegas on Saturday evening James DeGale recaptured his IBF World super middleweight championship that he lost in December to the unfancied Minnesota fighter Caleb Truax. Back where she belongs #2Time #Redemption ? pic.twitter.com/rtiRtWXOpi — James DeGale (@jamesdegale1) April 8, 2018 It was another below best […]
James DeGale looks to wipe away the memories of his awful performance in London in December when dropping a majority verdict to the very ordinary Minnesota challenger Caleb Traux. DeGale was returning after his hard-fought draw against Badou Jack, shoulder surgery and a lengthy layoff, and it showed as he never found his rhythm and […]
Heavyweight championship fights have always been special to me since I sat under a blanket with my brother watching fight tapes on a little super 8 projector that I saved up and bought from Ring magazine as a star-struck 12-year-old who had just found Muhammad. It came with 2 film reels, one was Joe Louis, […]
Dillian Whyte producing a chilling knockout finish in his best performance to date when he ended the hopes and probably the career of Aussie tough man Lucas Browne […]
A nice heavyweight appetiser takes place this weekend between Brixton’s Dillian Whyte and Australia’s Lucas Browne, who clash at London’s O2 arena on Saturday. At stake could be a highly lucrative fight in a very exciting division and both big men are promising a win. Lucas Browne the former WBA champion who was stripped of […]
You can believe Tyson Fury is really back when he tells you he’s not just going to regain his titles but going to beat the legendary Joe Louis’ record of 25 World title defences. https://www.instagram.com/p/BghVr6djVLa/?taken-by=gypsyking101 A massive claim indeed as he’s yet to get in a ring after a lengthy absence, following his superb win […]
News of one of our major stars Canelo Alvarez failing a test for performance enhancing drugs is shocking but sadly it comes as no surprise. It is becoming an all too often occurrence, not just in our sport but all sports unfortunately. It seems the prize is becoming worth the risk when there is huge […]
On a rain-soaked night in Carson, California, Oscar Valdez proved he is a real force in an excellent featherweight division as he overcame not just a super tough gallant effort from England’s Scott Quigg but a sizeable weight disadvantage also. Disappointing from Quigg and trainer Freddie Roach to fail the weight by almost 3lbs at […]
Deontay Wilder came through his toughest challenge in emphatic fashion as we blew away the undefeated Cuban power puncher Luis Ortiz in ten dramatic rounds at the Barclays Centre, Brooklyn. Wilder had to show heart and a solid chin as well as a good boxing brain to get past the strong and well schooled Cuban […]
It’s been an incredibly tough 18 months for Sheffield’s Kell Brook who has fought his fair share of demons in some dark times after his ill fated attempt at Gennady Golovkin’s middleweight crown, then a humbling at the hands of Errol Spence Jnr in defence of his IBF welterweight crown. Brook showed a great deal […]