Claressa Shields may have styled herself the ‘GWOAT’, but for this writer’s money the CV assembled by Cecilia Braekhus over the past 13 years takes some beating when it comes to assessing the greatest woman to ever lace up a pair of professional boxing gloves. A Colombian-born orphan with adopted Norwegian parents, Braekhus ticks boxes for […]
Former top heavyweight contender Kirk Johnson has paid an emotional tribute to Curtis Cokes, his former trainer and world welterweight champion who passed away last week aged 82… Truth be told, the greatness of former world welterweight champion turned trainer Curtis Cokes has often been overlooked. Cokes – who passed away last week aged 82 […]
“I respect the Coronavirus, but I’m not nervous,” says interim IBF featherweight champion Sarah Mahfoud. The 30-year-old female boxer and trainee nurse is talking about her laudable decision to enrol as part of the temporary healthcare workforce at a hospital in Bispebjerg, one of the ten official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. “I had no doubts at […]
As lockdown continues and the wait for significant live boxing rumbles on, Luke G. Williams picks out some of the best boxing-related viewing available on streaming providers… Mr Calzaghe (2015, currently available to Amazon Prime subscribers in the UK)https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Calzaghe-Joe/dp/B085LC7CSF Come November, it will have been 12 years since former super-middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion Joe […]
It’s scarcely believable that it is almost 20 years since a thunderbolt of a right hand from Hasim ‘The Rock’ Rahman separated reigning world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis from his senses in Carnival City, South Africa. Like James Braddock, Buster Douglas and Leon Spinks before him, Rahman is remembered – or sometimes dismissed – as a […]
Leading promoter Kalle Sauerland is confident that boxing will bounce back from the Coronavirus crisis with live events possibly taking place as early as June. The Chief Boxing Officer of the World Boxing Series, who has overseen events in the United States, UK, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Russia, Latvia, Denmark and Norway among others, was […]
Sugar ‘Shane’ Mosley is content in the knowledge that he proved his pugilistic greatness, although – as he explains to Boxing Social’s Luke G. Williams – he does have one regret… The greatness of ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley is beyond dispute. In a storied 23-year pro career, the California native won world title belts in three […]