Sports Journalist · 64 articles
Two questions I get asked on a weekly basis. ‘Who’s your favourite fighter?’ ‘Who’s the greatest of all time?’ The first is obviously one of preference, and people have favourites for many different reasons, style, excitement, punch power, the era they grew up, for me, like so many, it was the greatest, Muhammad Ali, who […]
David Haye is out yet again. It’s a familiar story for the 37 year old Londoner, who pulled out of his 17th December boxing blockbuster with Tony Bellew this week with a torn bicep he injured in camp. Last weekend rumours were rife that Haye was out once again as the Haye team cancelled a […]
Four very testing months have passed since Carl Frampton’s last scheduled fight was due, a bout with Mexican Andres Gutierrez was cancelled. This was after the former 2 weight World Champion and pride of Northern Ireland surprisingly failed the weight by a pound. Then Gutierrez slipped in the shower, sustaining severe facial cuts and bruisers […]
Anthony Joshua’s journey to becoming a national sporting treasure takes another step forward on Saturday as he headlines another massive Matchroom Sports World Championship bill at the Principality stadium in Cardiff. His opponent is French based Cameroonian Carlos Takam, who replaces the injured Kubrat Pulev who withdrew with injury a couple of weeks ago. A […]
Britains eldest surviving World Champion heard the bell for the final time today, and we bid goodbye to a national boxing treasure. Terry Downes the former middleweight champion of the world passed away at the age of 81 today Friday the 6th October 2017. The Paddington express claimed the Championship of the World in 1961 when […]
Thankfully there’s no need to build a fight with trash talk when it’s a true 50/50 match and that’s what we have on This weekend at the Manchester Arena, when two of Boxing’s nice guys clash in a true make or break matchup. Scotlands former three weight world champion Ricky Burns goes head to head […]
The Charismatic Chris Eubank jr looks to be the second British boxer to book his place in the Super Series tournament this weekend when he faces undefeated Turk Avni Yildirim in Stuttgart. He could join Liverpool’s Callum Smith who had to work hard in his hometown last month to fend off a tough challenge from […]
Mike Perez the talented Cuban who now lives in Cork, Ireland is a boxer I know all too well as I trained him as an unbeaten heavyweight prospect, along with excellent fighters Alexei Acosta and Luis Garcia, but disappointed and frustrated at their total lack of desire and any semblance of a work ethic I […]
The Fury camp were furious, with promoter Mick Hennessy labelling it “corruption at the highest order of boxing”. Hughie Fury failed in his world title bid at the weekend as he lost out to Joseph Parker in a majority decision. But how many times have we heard that utterance of despair when the scorecards are […]
Luke Campbell came as close as you could get to wrestle the WBA lightweight title from the excellent three weight world champion Venezuela’s Jorge Linares in California at the weekend, made even more astonishing when learning he had lost his beloved father Bernard to Cancer two weeks before his biggest boxing challenge. Campbell boxed superbly […]
GGG vs Canelo lived up to the hype and Mexican can snatch all the middleweight belts in rematch without gifts from judges Everyone will want to see these two pound-for-pound warriors dance again but Adalaide Byrd must miss out second time round. The fight of the decade promised an awful lot, two great middleweights in […]
We are back with the excellent Super Series this weekend at Cruiserweight following on from the big win of Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk who handed Marco Huck a bruising stoppage in the 10th round to successfully defend his WBO Cruiserweight title. This Saturday the 23rd of September the big punching action comes from the Alamodome in […]