Dillian Whyte recorded the 22nd professional victory of his career last week when he outpointed ‘The Nordic Nightmare’ Robert Helenius to capture the WBC ‘Silver’ heavyweight title in a lacklustre bout. Many had expected following that bout, Dereck Chisora and Dillian Whyte would reinvigorate their ongoing rivalry and come to an agreement for a highly […]
On September 9th, one of the most hotly anticipated cards of the year took place as Roman Chocolatito vs Sor Rungvisai, Naoya Inoue vs Antonio Nieves and Carlos Estrada duked it out with Carlos Cuadras on a phenomenal and memorable super-flyweight tripleheader. The managing director of K2 promotions, Tom Loeffler; the man responsible for putting […]
Former IBF Jr Middleweight world champion, Jermall ‘The Hitman’ Charlo (26-0) addressed the media alongside his brother, the reigning WBC Jr Middleweight champion Jermell Charlo (30-0) this past weekend at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York prior to Deontay Wilder’s one round destruction of Bermane Stiverne in their rematch. A number of topics were […]
In recent months, ‘The Jackal’ Carl Frampton has endured a radical overhaul of his professional career. He parted ways with longtime promoter/manager Barry McGuigan and his son and former trainer Shane McGuigan. Frampton then signed a promotional deal with Frank Warren and revamped his team and is now under new management and even recruited former […]
At a press conference yesterday in New Zealand, the WBO world heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0) and his promoter David Higgins addressed the media and made it clear that their number one goal is a lucrative unification bout against IBF, IBO, WBA world champion Anthony Joshua. Recently a big sticking point in the Joshua vs. Parker discussions […]
Unbeaten middleweight prospect, Luis Arias (18-0) faces a huge step up in opposition this coming weekend when he faces the formidable former WBA middleweight champion and one of the division’s biggest names, Danny Jacobs (32-2) in the show that is the first ever stateside promotion by Matchroom mogul, Eddie Hearn. Arias warned Jacobs he is about […]
Russia’s Dmitry Bivol made the first defence of his WBA world light heavyweight championship this past weekend. He delivered an emphatic first-round kayo against Trent Broadhurst moving his record to 12-0, as he only enhanced his reputation as one of the biggest one-punch knockout artists in the sport with a sharp, crisp single right hand rendering his […]
Tom Loeffler, the promoter of the unbeaten WBC, WBA, IBF and IBO middleweight kingpin, Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1) has confirmed there is no set deadline for which they plan to conclude a deal with Golden Boy Promotions for the highly anticipated rematch between Golovkin and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (49-1-2). Loeffler, did however, stress that if a deal […]
Former unified world heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury (25-0) recently caught up with iFL TV in Monaco, following Dereck Chisora’s majority decision loss at the hands of Agit Kabayel to discuss a number of topics including the accusations following the aftermath of testing positive for benzoylecgonine, a key component in cocaine after dethroning Wladimir Klitschko in late 2015. Touching […]
It is a common phrase that is thrown around within the boxing fraternity, ‘size matters’ and former 2-weight divisional kingpins, Bernard Hopkins and Rosendo Alvarez have spoken of their belief that will be the case when Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux collide and do battle for the WBO featherweight world championship on December 9th at the […]
‘The Bronze Bomber’ Deontay Wilder improved his record to 39-0 with 38 knockouts, after emphatically ending the 5th defence of his WBC heavyweight championship in his anticipated rematch with Haiti’s Bermane Stiverne. The knockout was Wilder’s sixth successive kayo; Wilder demonstrated his concussive punching power as he sent ‘B.Ware’ crashing to the canvas three times before […]
10. Bernard Hopkins (55-8-2 32 KO) The man who went by the alias ‘The Executioner’ while in his tenure as middleweight champion, was a formidable champion with excellent defensive prowess and counter punching skills the bread and butter of his work. His tenure as champion in the division, remains to this day the longest […]