IBHOF inductee Graham Houston pays tribute to former undisputed middleweight champion of the world Alan Minter, a stylish southpaw who mixed it with the best in a memorable career. Alan Minter, who passed away on Wednesday, aged 69, was a British world champion who took what could be called the traditional route to the title […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston reflects on the weekend’s unsightly and ultimately chaotic encounter between WBO 130lbs champion Jamel Herring and Puerto Rican challenger Jonathan Oquendo. What a comedy of errors we had in Saturday’s junior lightweight title fight between Jamel Herring and Jonathan Oquendo in Las Vegas. It was so confusing, one hardly knows where […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing betting expert Graham Houston looks ahead to the weekend’s action from a gambling perspective, focusing on title fights involving Jamel Herring, Alex Dilmaghani and Yordenis Ugas. It’s slim pickings for bettors seeking value this weekend. I thought Samir Ziani was value at 2/1 (+200) against Alex Dilmaghani but the opening odds […]
With Dillian Whyte’s revenge mission against Alexander Povetkin already pencilled in for November, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks at instances where a fighter stopped in a first bout avenged that loss in a rematch. Even though Alexander Povetkin knocked out Dillian Whyte on August 22 the British heavyweight has been installed an 8/15 favourite for […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing betting expert Graham Houston looks ahead to the weekend’s major fight between WBC/WBO 140lbs champion Jose Ramirez and Viktor Postol from a gambling perspective. The big fight of the weekend is at the MGM Grand “Bubble” in Las Vegas tonight, with Jose Ramirez defending his 140lbs titles against seasoned Viktor Postol, […]
After the botched call that cost Israil Madrimov a knockout victory, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at other refereeing controversies, where sometimes the third man got it horribly wrong. Every now and again we have a refereeing controversy in boxing. Sometimes it leaves the aficionado shaking his head in despair. The latest was referee […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing betting expert Graham Houston looks ahead to the weekend’s big heavyweight fight between Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin from a gambling perspective. Dillian Whyte, who seems to have been waiting for ages to get a heavyweight title fight, faces what should be a final hurdle when he meets former champion Alexander […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks ahead to the fascinating confrontation between Ukrainian master Vasiliy Lomachenko and young hotshot Teofimo Lopez, and says it’s a much closer contest than many believe. The good news for fight fans is that one of the most anticipated bouts of 2020 now looks certain to go ahead, with Vasiliy Lomachenko […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston reflects on the ‘journeyman’ tag in boxing and how its definition has radically changed over the years. Times change and word meanings change. I thought of this when watching Sheffield’s Tyrone Nurse extend Spanish big hitter Kerman Lejarraga for the full 10 rounds on internet PPV from Marbella last weekend. Nurse […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston laments the fact that DAZN Canada dropped the August 1 Matchroom Boxing event from its schedule but hopes it was just a temporary glitch as he takes a look at the nation’s rich boxing history. O Canada is the title of the national anthem. For boxing fans, it was “Oh, Canada!” […]
It was June 9 that boxing began its slow, careful comeback after almost three months of Covid-19 lockdowns. That was the date when Top Rank launched the first of a series of shows in a protected environment at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Just six weeks, but it seems so long ago. It’s like […]
After the announcement of Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. this week, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston recalls some of boxing’s stranger matches and unusual fight nights including Muhammad Ali’s ‘draw’ with Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki and the event where George Foreman fought five men in one afternoon. The eight-round exhibition match between Mike Tyson and […]