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With Kell Brook and Amir Khan’s long-time rivalry set to be resolved in the twilight of their careers this weekend, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at another late battle of veterans featuring George Foreman against Gerry Cooney. Sure, Kell Brook vs Amir Khan should have happened in, say, 2014. That was the year Brook […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston weighs up Saturday night’s intriguing super-middleweight clash between two-time world champion Danny Jacobs and Islington contender John Ryder. Danny Jacobs is rightfully the favourite but John Ryder is definitely in with a chance in tonight’s intriguing 168-pound elimination match, scheduled for 12 rounds, at Alexandra Palace. Betfred […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks ahead to a landmark year for women’s boxing, headed by the super-fight between decorated champions Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. With the announcement that Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano has had the second highest ticket pre-sales in Madison Square Garden history, we can now safely say that women’s boxing has […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston weighs up the betting value in Saturday night’s action featuring a comebacking Keith Thurman against Mario Barrios and the crunch middleweight clash between Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Williams. Both Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Williams looked good on the scales on Friday. Both men have been […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston weighs up Saturday night’s rematch between WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu and skillful challenger Thabiso Mchunu. It will be power and pressure against savvy boxing and counter- punching skills when heavy-handed Ilunga Makabu defends his cruiser title against crafty Thabiso Mchunu on Saturday in a rematch of […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston remembers some notable all-southpaw confrontations ahead of this weekend’s battle of the portsiders between Ilunga Makabu and Thabiso Mchunu. There was a time when all-southpaw bouts were a rarity. There was, unbelievably, even a feeling that a bout between two left-handers wouldn’t be very exciting to watch. “Two southpaws don’t make […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston weighs up Saturday night’s fascinating clash between WBC featherweight king Gary Russell Jr and undefeated Filipino puncher Mark Magsayo. Saturday night’s featherweight title fight in Atlantic City between Gary Russell Jr and Mark Magsayo is as intriguing as it gets. Russell is a 2/7 (-350) favourite at […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston recalls the incredible boxing life and times of the iconic Muhammad Ali on the 80th anniversary of ‘The Greatest’s’ birth. This Monday would have been Muhammad Ali’s 80th birthday. It is five years since his passing yet, curiously, he still seems to be with us. It’s as if Ali’s presence has […]
Ahead of Steve Geffrard’s last ditch appointment with Joe Smith Jr. at the weekend, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks at Manny Pacquiao’s contrasting experience in the late substitute and favourite’s role. The bad news is that Callum Johnson tested positive for Covid and had to withdraw from his light-heavyweight title challenge against Joe Smith Jr., […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston looks ahead to ShoBox’s triple header of action on Friday night featuring Luis Reynaldo Nunez vs Carlos Arrieta, Edwin `De Los Santos vs William Foster III and Starling Castillo vs Otar Eranosyan. Here’s something we don’t see very often: Three fights on TV with an unbeaten boxer […]
Following Saturday’s heavyweight PPV involving Luis Ortiz and Charles Martin, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston recalls another night of the behemoths in the late 1970s featuring celebrated names Larry Holmes and Ken Norton, as well as noted contenders Ron Lyle and Jimmy Young. Last weekend’s all-heavyweight pay-per-view show had me thinking back to something similar, except […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing gambling expert Graham Houston looks for the betting value in Saturday night’s clash between heavyweight contenders Luis Ortiz and Charles Martin, and the rematch between Jonnie Rice and Michael Coffie. One could have been forgiven for thinking we’d seen the last of Charles Martin as a top-tier heavyweight after his two […]