Sports Journalist · 26 articles
Gennady Golovkin retained his WBA super, WBC and IBO world titles against the short notice replacement, Vanes Martirosyan, at the Stubhub Center in Los Angeles. The challenger was no match to the middleweight kingpin as ‘Triple G’ dominated the fight from start to finish and stopped Martirosyan in the second round. https://twitter.com/FancyCombat/status/992980812789420034 Golovkin ties Bernard […]
Stephen Smith believes victory over Francisco Vargas on December 9 will earn him another world title fight. ‘Swifty’ (25-3-KO15) fell short in his previous attempts at world honours, losing to Jose Pedraza and Jason Sosa in 2016, but now hopes a notable win on the Orlando Solido vs Miguel Roman Wage undercard at the Mandalay […]
Anthony Joshua says defeating Deontay Wilder would be the “cherry on top” of his career thus far. The 28-year-old defended his IBF and WBA ‘super’ world titles against Carlos Takam in Cardiff on October 28, whilst America’s ‘Bronze Bomber’ destroyed Bermane Stiverne in one round a week later in New York to retain his WBC […]
By Neel Khagram Luis Arias’ trainer does not believe Danny Jacobs is as good as he is “made out to be.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BbSIz0cBx4V/?hl=fi&taken-by=matchroomboxing John David Jackson, who famously guided Sergey Kovalev to unified light-heavyweight glory, feels his unbeaten charge will have too much for the ‘Miracle Man’, and that this weekend’s bout in New York simply […]
Boxing history has an uncanny habit of throwing-up giant-killings to shock the most astute students of the sweet science, and must heed as a warning for Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, and Deontay Wilder if they do not fight each other soon. The trio are all set to fight different opponents next before any potential blockbuster […]
10) HERBIE HIDE Hide became the youngest Brit to win a version of the world heavyweight championship in 1994 when, aged 22 years, six months, he took the WBO title off Michael Bennt, born in London, but based in the States. Bentt said of Hide: “He was awkward as hell. His rhythm was completely unconventional […]
Black Country Boxing chief Errol Johnson has come up with a great idea to create interest in small-hall boxing. Or rather, the Sauerlands came up with a great idea – and Johnson pinched it off them. The Midlands Boxing Super Series, a distant relation of the World Boxing Super Series, gets underway at Walsall Town […]
By Keeran Rajan 22 days from today, the magnificent stage which is the Principality Stadium will play venue to the next title defence of Anthony Joshua, the unified WBA/IBF and IBO World Heavyweight Champion. Joshua, who has been earmarked for superstardom and has hogged the limelight and media attention going into this match-up which has […]
By Keeran Rajan We are taking a closer look at the man who has is carrying an enormous load on his shoulders and that weight is being the son of a British boxing legend. As Conor Benn prepares for his ninth professional engagement against Nathan Clarke this weekend in front of 21,000 at The Manchester […]
Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz has tested positive for PEDS (performance enhancing drugs) ahead of his world title fight with heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. The news broke after the WBC announced on the 29th September that they have ‘received confirmation from VADA [voluntary anti-doping association] that Luis Ortiz has tested positive for a banned substance’, again. […]
Joseph Parker kept his WBO heavyweight title in Manchester with a majority points win over Hughie Fury after a strange fight in which not much happened. If the fight was strange, so were the scorecards. Two of the judges had it a landslide for Parker at 118-110 and the other couldn’t separate them at 114-114. […]
We’ve seen a couple of spectacular one-punch knock outs in the last couple of weeks with Srisaket Sor Rungvisai blasting out Roman Gonzalez and heavyweight hope Daniel Dubois putting AJ Carter to sleep with a sledgehammer right hand. Boxing Social picks our top 10 one-punch KOs of the last decade.