Terence Crawford recently laid out the terms that would need to be agreed for him to face Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez. ‘Bud’ Crawford became undisputed at welterweight with a career-best performance over Errol Spence Jr – so good in fact that the predictions that it would be a close fight were proven to be far off […]
Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez and Jermell Charlo came face-to-face for the first time ahead of their battle for the Mexican’s undisputed title at 168lbs. Canelo kicks off a three-fight deal under the Premier Boxing Champions banner by facing ‘Mell’ Charlo, the current four-belt super welterweight champion. The Charlo twin will jump up two divisions to challenge […]
Terence Crawford has doubled down on the promise that he would remain in the welterweight division if Gervonta Davis wanted to move up and fight him. Following a career-best victory over Errol Spence Jr to become undisputed at 147lbs, ‘Bud’ Crawford is readying a move up to super-welterweight to win titles in one last division […]
Anthony Joshua flattened Robert Helenius in the seventh round of their London bout, answering calls from fans and pundits to return to his knockout ways. The highlight-reel stoppage followed six rounds of relatively tentative action in which Joshua focused on his jab and movement under new coach, Derrick James. The two-time world champion has received […]
Anthony Joshua’s one-time coach, Robert Garcia, is happy that the fighter has found a trainer who is guiding him well. Garcia, who currently trains two-weight world champion Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez, linked up with Joshua following his loss to Oleksandr Usyk with one task – get the unified heavyweight titles back in a rematch. The pair […]
Shakur Stevenson is a two-division world champion who’s quickly on the road to making that three. As an amateur, Stevenson won the 2014 AIBA Youth World Championships and the Youth Summer Olympics before going to Rio 2016 and bringing home a silver medal. He turned over to the paid ranks as a featherweight and beat […]
Following Naoya Inoue’s success in a fourth weight class, some in the sport have suggested he jump up even further for the ultimate test against hard-hitting Gervonta Davis. Whilst plenty of fans wave off the contest as unrealistic, leading names in boxing, including Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza and Floyd Mayweather, have identified it as a possibility […]
At the beginning of the year, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk looked nailed on to fight and crown the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis. Those talks collapsed quite spectacularly, and both teams retreated to make other plans which are now signed. For Usyk, that is defending his unified belts against WBA mandatory challenger, […]
Anthony Joshua boxed for six rounds against Robert Helenius in London before producing a show-stopping right hand to score his first knockout victory in three years. Helenius was a last minute opponent following Dillian Whyte’s removal from the card, and presented a very different challenge for ‘AJ’, who has been shocked with defeat in a […]
Robert Helenius was flattened by Anthony Joshua in London after bravely stepping in as a last-minute replacement opponent. ‘AJ’s willingness to accept a late change – which hasn’t played out for him well in the past – and the spirit of Helenius to fight the two-time champion on just six days’ notice saved an otherwise […]
Plans for Teofimo Lopez are beginning to take shape following an arguably career-best performance against Josh Taylor in June of this year. The former unified lightweight champion suffered a shock defeat to George Kambosos Jr and subsequently moved up in weight, defeating both Pedro Campa and Sandor Martin but not setting the division alight with […]
Anthony Joshua flattened Robert Helenius in London to set up a mega-money fight with Deontay Wilder next – but Tony Bellew and David Haye believe one more fight in between would be a better move. For the first six rounds, ‘AJ’ was tentative – likely a mixture of adopting a fresh style under a new […]