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Kid Galahad is on the verge of joining Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions on a multi-fight deal, which includes potential unifications with WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. and WBA ‘Super’ titlist Leo Santa Cruz. Followin...
Yesterday, Josh Warrington made the shock decision to vacate his IBF featherweight title rather than face mandatory challenger Kid Galahad. The pair previously fought in June 2019, with Warrington retaining his belt via contentious split de...
It would be understandable if Daniel Dubois felt a sense of trepidation ahead of tonight’s clash with Joe Joyce at Church House, Westminster. After all, there is a lot at stake: the British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles, a...
Terri Harper’s journey from working in a fish and chip shop to winning a world title in just her 10th fight is nothing short of a fairytale. It may sound farfetched, even now that it has become reality, but her trainer and mana...
On the Las Vegas strip, it is easy to lose focus and direction. It is designed to have that effect: neon lights disorientate, windowless casinos without clocks pump oxygen into the room to encourage gamblers to part with their last dollar a...
In the 41-year history of the division, only two former cruiserweight world champions have gone onto capture heavyweight gold. Tonight, Oleksandr Usyk takes the next step in his quest to follow in the footsteps of Evander Holyfield and Davi...
WBA Super and IBF super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor has welcomed a fight with unified lightweight boss Teofimo Lopez. Taylor (17-0, 13 KOs) looks set to face rival WBC and WBO title-holder Jose Ramirez early next year with all four maj...
Michael McKinson has been tipped to win major titles by his promoter Lee Eaton, of MTK Global. The welterweight is currently ranked No.8 by the WBO and will likely face a fighter in the sanctioning body’s Top 10 to help him scale the rati...
A rematch between Ted Cheeseman and Sam Eggington appears unlikely at present, as ‘The Big Cheese’ is unhappy with the financial terms offered. The two super-welterweights topped the bill on the first of Eddie Hearn’s ‘Fight Camp’...
IBF flyweight champion Moruti Mthalane will defend his crown against mandatory challenger Jayson Mama in a long-awaited homecoming bout in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on December 20. Mthalane (39-2, 26 KOs) has not fought in his native Sou...
Tonight, Denzel Bentley (13-0, 11 KOs) faces the biggest challenge of his career to date as he takes on Mark Heffron for the vacant IBF European middleweight title, at York Hall, Bethnal Green. For a fighter who had just 17 fights as an ama...
With his knee-high socks and short, velvet trunks, it is clear that Dan Azeez has a deep reverence for a bygone era of boxing. However, his admiration for the legends of the sport is not a case of style over substance, as he combines retro ...
In the past, the days leading up to a weigh-in were wildly unpleasant for Lee McGregor as he endured an arduous battle to lose the final few stubborn pounds to boil his 5’7” frame down to the bantamweight limit. However, when Box...
Spend any length of time talking to Chris Jenkins and it’s likely he’ll tell a joke in a minute. Of course, the Welshman has good reason to be cheerful. Having been on the verge of walking away from a sport that had taken more from him ...
Ahead of Dillian Whyte’s crunch heavyweight clash with Russian Alexander Povetkin at Matchroom’s Fight Camp in Brentwood tonight, Boxing Social asked some of the sport’s insiders for their opinion on who wins and how. Enzo Maccari...
Jamie McDonnell has his sights set on big, all-British fights with IBF featherweight champion Josh Warrington, Kid Galahad or Carl Frampton. Former WBA Regular and IBF bantamweight title-holder McDonnell (30-3-1, 13 KOs and 1 ND) is aiming ...
While the outbreak of Covid-19 has disrupted many high-profile boxers’ plans for the year, it has resulted in unexpected opportunities for fighters in the infancy of their careers. Each of the first four shows staged in England since boxi...
In April 2018, Jamie McDonnell had it all. He held a version of the WBA bantamweight world title and, while it may have been the sanctioning body’s secondary strap, McDonnell didn’t care. To him, it was a world title and it was allowing...
Manager PJ Rowson believes his fighter, Brad Foster, is more than capable of winning a world title, but insists there is no need to rush the 22-year-old. Foster (13-0-2, 5 KOs) recently won the Lonsdale Belt outright having made four succes...
English welterweight champion Ekow Essuman (13-0, 5 KOs) hopes to face Cedrick Peynaud (8-7-3, 4 KOs) in the next three weeks and has his sights set on the British title before the end of the year. Essuman had been scheduled to face the Fre...
Knockout artist Joe Pigford (16-0, 15 KOs) has put the British super-welterweight division on notice. In the three years since his breakout win against Aarron Morgan, Pigford has failed to secure meaningful fights, instead having to make do...