On October 20th at the home of the Boston Celtics in the TD Garden, Billy-Joe Saunders will make the fourth defence of his WBO World middleweight championship against a fellow undefeated slickster in mandatory challenger Demetrius Andrade. The showdown between two skilful southpaws has come about as a result of an unprecedented deal struck between […]
This Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, one of the most fearsome and menacing characters in the sport returns as Sergey Kovalev aims to make his third successful title defence of his current WBO World light heavyweight championship reign against undefeated Colombian Eleider Alvarez. Kovalev, a former […]
This weekend, two undefeated lightweight world champions collide in the City of Angels as WBC champion Mikey Garcia battles IBF counterpart Robert Easter Jr in an attempt to unify one of boxing’s historic glamour divisions. Oxnard-born Garcia – trained by older brother Robert, a respected trainer and former super-featherweight titlist in his own right – […]
You could argue that it would be redundant to say that greatness is within Aleksandr Usyk’s grasp on Saturday night. Depending on how one defines it, he has already achieved greatness on a number of occasions… A 2012 Olympic heavyweight gold medallist, Usyk captured a professional World title in just his tenth paid fight against a […]
Depending on how you look at it, Rocky Fielding (26-1-0, 14 KO’s) has the chance to become a World champion this Saturday night, when he battles Tyron Zeuge (22-0-1, 12 KO’s) for the latter’s WBA ‘Regular’ World super middleweight championship. The undefeated German captured the title with a victory over Italian Giovanni di Carolinis, and […]
Ahead of their rematch this September, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and lineal middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez engaged in a video conference via where the two fighters’ respective camps exchanged a number of jibes. Relations between the two fighters – typically unassuming characters who eschew the trash-talking nature of many of their counterparts – […]
Featherweight prospect Michael Conlan, one of Irish boxing’s most popular and promising fighters, will be looking to captivate an adoring crowd in Belfast this evening as he makes his his first appearance on home soil since 2010. Conlan is expected to receive a characteristically raucous welcome when he makes his much anticipated homecoming at the SSE […]
If you were somehow required to design the nightmare opponent for Floyd Mayweather, chances are, it would probably closely resemble Thomas Hearns. Standing six feet two inches tall and possessing an incredible wingspan of seventy-eight inches, Detroit’s destructive ‘Hitman’ is widely considered one of the finest welterweights America – or indeed the world – has […]
Reigning British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight champion Callum Johnson will challenge Artur Beterbiev for his IBF world title, it was announced yesterday. According to promoter Eddie Hearn, the fight will take place on October 6th at a presently undetermined location in the United States. Boston-born Johnson captured Commonwealth gold for Scotland as an amateur and currently […]
Irish middleweight contender Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan (28-2-0, 20 KO’s) is supremely confident that he has the beating of Kazakh sensation Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KO’s) – the current unified champion – should they ever meet in the ring. O’Sullivan was offered the fight at one point for Golovkin’s return date for May 5th, but ultimately […]
This past Saturday night at the Ford Center in Dallas, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence (24-0-0, 21 KO’s) defended his title for the second time in style, stopping Mexican challenger Carlos Ocampo (22-1-0, 13 KO’s) in the opening round with an excruciating body shot. Ocampo was undefeated with 22 wins and 13 knockouts coming into the contest, […]
This Saturday night, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence (24-0-0, 18 KO’s) makes his long awaited homecoming in front of an adoring crowd of 14,000 in Dallas, Texas. The ‘Truth’, a former 2012 Olympian, is determined to become undisputed champion by unifying all the belts, but first must make the second defence of his title against […]