Mark DeLuca says his clash with former IBF Welterweight World Champion Kell Brook at the FlyDSA Arena in Sheffield on Saturday February 8 is “make or break” as he looks to cause an upset in the toughest fight of his career. DeLuca (24-1, 13 KOs), a durable southpaw hailing from Massachusetts, avenged his sole career loss to Walter Wright in […]
Ahead of his welterweight tussle with Danny Garcia this weekend in Brooklyn, Ukraine’s Ivan Redkach has vowed to produce a life-changing knockout. The 33-year-old – coming off the back of a stoppage victory over Devon Alexander – says that two-weight World champ Garcia is suffering from complacency, with talk rife of a potential battle with […]
Ahead of his Nashville title defence on February 15, Caleb ‘Sweethands’ Plant has issued a vicious warning to mandatory challenger Vincent Feigenbutz. Speaking at his Nashville press conference, the unbeaten IBF World super middleweight champion – who halted the previously-unbeaten Mike Lee in just three rounds last time out – vowed to produce another knockout […]
Kal Yafai will defend his WBA World Super-Flyweight title against Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez on Saturday February 29 at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK. Yafai (26-0 15 KOs) makes the sixth defence of his WBA strap and returns to the States having gone the […]
With just over a month to go until WBC World Champion Deontay Wilder’s mouth-watering rematch with Tyson Fury, the ‘Bronze Bomber’ has vowed to knock his English counterpart out of the ring on February 22 in Las Vegas. Speaking at their only scheduled press conference in Los Angeles, the 34-year-old was in bullish mood ahead […]
Ahead of his clash with Ivan Redkach in Brooklyn next weekend, two-weight World champion Danny Garcia has stated that he believes he can topple welterweight kingpins Errol Spence Jr and Manny Pacquiao in 2020. The 31-year-old sees the southpaw Redkach as good preparation for the top-tier welterweight pair, who he has publicly targeted for later […]
WBC featherweight World champion Gary Russell Jr. will defend his crown against mandatory challenger Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar on February 8 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with former champions Guillermo Rigondeaux and Liborio Solís also clashing for the vacant WBA Bantamweight World title on the bill. The main event will see Russell make the fifth defence of his WBC strap against former Olympian “King […]
Ahead of his ring return against Ivan Redkach on January 25 in Brooklyn, Danny ‘Swift’ Garcia says he wants to prove himself as a genuine pound-for-pound calibre fighter. Speaking at the press conference to announce his clash with Ukraine’s Redkach, Garcia added that he was treating their January battle as a good way to prepare […]
As several of British boxing’s finest talents closed out the year by jockeying for position among the globe’s elite, a spate of familiar-faced top-tier title challengers are set to emerge in the coming months. Here’s five Brits who are on the verge of competing for World honours in 2020. LAWRENCE OKOLIE Though no official date […]
Connor Parker joked that he might attempt to carry out an impression of Vasyl Lomachenko when he steps in the ring with Sam Maxwell in Birmingham on November 30, with Maxwell’s WBO European super lightweight title at stake. Maxwell twice fought the Ukrainian during his amateur days representing Team GB, but ultimately failed to defeat the […]
Japanese Heavyweight Kyotaro Fujimoto today unveiled his secret weapon for defeating Daniel Dubois on December 21st: a panda. During a press conference in Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall, Fujimoto declared the bear was key to getting him ready to tackle his “scary” opponent. With his trademark multi-colour hair, Fujimoto raised eyebrows when he said: “My opponent is […]
Several additions to December 7’s Saudi Arabia rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr and Anthony Joshua for the unified heavyweight championship have been confirmed. Russian powerhouse Alexander Povetkin (35-2, 24 KOs) returns from his August triumph over Hughie Fury to take on USA’s fast-rising Heavyweight talent Michael Hunter (18-1, 12 KOs) in an Eliminator for the WBA World Title. ‘Sasha’, a […]