Argentina has enjoyed a love affair with the sweet science ever since British sailors brought the Queensbury Rules to the ports of Latin America in the early 1900s. That boxing became so swiftly woven into the fabric of the country is no su...

Certain fighters speak to us through their struggles, their pain resonating with our own shortcomings. We seek a connection that is both inspiring and, at the same time, deeply human. It’s a rare commodity and far more valuable than the p...

The world is losing its mind. It took just five seconds of padwork for a 53-year-old Mike Tyson to dominate conversation across the boxing world. The obsession with the sport’s blue riband division remains, even among its old-stagers, but...

Inked across Artem Oganesyan’s heart is the depiction of a monument entitled, ‘We are our mountains’. The two figures, hewn from volcanic rock, are an imposing sight, stoic in their command of the land they oversee and unyielding to t...

They say that in boxing closed mouths don’t get fed. Goading a desired opponent into a fight has long been a ploy adopted by those wishing to further their ambitions, and since the birth of social media such provocations have become secon...

Rising prospect Caoimhin ‘Black Thunder’ Agyarko only has two words on his mind. It’s unrelenting, each question and probe inevitably returning to the same topic. World champion. “I want to be the first black Irish pers...

In a recent episode of the Netflix smash hit ‘The Last Dance’, against a backdrop of Michael Jordan defying physics as he soared to the basket, coach Phil Jackson pointedly remarks upon the Chicago Bulls’ attitude to winning another c...

“I just want to go out there and smash them.”  The battle cry that echoes from Israil Madrimov’s (4-0, 4KOs) tongue with ice-cool composure – a statement uttered with an assured sense of certainty. The standout prospect of 2019...

The Eastern Bloc remains synonymous with a certain type of austere aesthetic; a cold and unforgiving terrain inhabited by an unbreakable population, their spirit unbowed despite enduring the brutality of Soviet rule.  Whilst such imagery m...

When a 20-year-old prodigy called out the great Vasyl Lomachenko on Friday night, many were left scratching their heads. Those people clearly don’t know Devin Haney. “It’s No-machenko, because he doesn’t want to fight m...