With Cesar Juarez and Gabriel Valenzuela seeking to emulate countryman Mauricio Lara’s recent, shock victory over Josh Warrington later tonight, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks at the fortunes of previous Mexican underdogs in the UK. If we didn’t know it before, we sure know it now, after what happened to Josh Warrington last weekend. A […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston looks for the betting value on a packed weekend of boxing. Sometimes waiting until the weigh-in before making a bet is the best policy. On Friday, Joseph Diaz came in 3.6 pounds overweight for his 130-pound title defence against Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov at Fantasy Springs casino in Indio, California, […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston pays tribute to former world heavyweight champion Leon Spinks who passed away on Friday. Olympic gold medallist and briefly world heavyweight champion, Leon Spinks, who died on February 5 at the age of 67, will likely be remembered as much for his wild and crazy life as for his upset victory […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston unearths the betting value in tonight’s IBF super-middleweight title clash between unbeaten champion Caleb ‘Sweet Hands’ Plant and former belt holder Caleb Truax. Caleb Plant is obviously a massive favourite (1/33 at Betfred) against Caleb Truax in Saturday night’s 168lbs title fight in Los Angeles. So, a […]
With the likely war between Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez less than a month away, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at some of the great all-Mexican battles in boxing history. Second of a two-part series. Julio Cesar Chavez is generally considered the greatest of all Mexico’s fighters, a champion in three weight divisions and […]
With the likely war between Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez less than a month away, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at some of the great all-Mexican battles in boxing history. First of a two-part series. One of the most anticipated fights of the new year (Covid-19 permitting, obviously) is the all-Mexico clash between 130-pound […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks at occasions where a freak injury has suddenly derailed a fighter’s hopes of victory. The hard-luck fighter of 2020 might well have been Matt Korobov, the Russian 168-pounder who now lives in Florida. In December 2019, Korobov retired with a shoulder injury in the second round against Chris Eubank Jr. […]
So we’re all kind of spinning our wheels as January 2021 unfolds. No boxing in the UK with another covid lockdown in effect and not much happening worldwide — and this after a veritable explosion of ring activity to close out the old year. So, what was I watching 28 years ago, in January 1993? […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston pays tribute to the talented former British and European bantamweight champion Johnny Clark who passed away last week, recalling some of the South Londoner’s finest moments in a boxing ring. Johnny Clark, the former British and European bantamweight champion who passed away on December 28 at the age of 73, was […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston looks for the betting value in Saturday’s intriguing lightweight battle between Californian hotshot Ryan Garcia and London 2012 Gold medallist Luke Campbell. We’ve had the weigh-in, both men looked excellent on the scales, so here’s a fight-day, betting-angle update on tonight’s lightweight title bout in Dallas between […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston reflects on some rousing fightbacks in 2020, where boxers in trouble or on the verge of defeat turned the tables to seize victory. Every so often you’re likely to hear that boxing could be seen as a metaphor for life. There is actually some truth in that. Boxing teaches us that […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back on a year where women’s boxing shed off its reputation as a supporting act to become a headline performer. If there was a positive development in this difficult year it was that women’s boxing really came into its own. More than in any year that I can remember, it […]