This Saturday night marks another fresh start in the career of Callum Johnson. The 35-year-old light heavyweight will put to bed an absence of over two years which began after he walked through veteran Seanie Monaghan in New York on a Match...

It is an unpleasant and humbling experience to be beaten up by someone.  Out in the big bad world should a stranger or enemy get the better of you in a physical disagreement, leaving you in a bloody mess for whatever reason, then not o...

British middleweight champion Denzel Bentley is tipping Demetrius Andrade to successfully defend his WBO 160lbs title against Liam Williams on Saturday night. Williams, the WBO mandatory challenger, has been waiting patiently for the opport...

The initial stages of a fighter’s career consist of their debut, gradual moves through the fight distances and then a proving ground, which will demonstrate whether or not they have what it takes to move beyond the infancy stage. There ar...

When it comes to having sparred some of the best fighters in the cruiserweight division Jack Massey has been there and done that. The 28-year-old from Chapel-en-le-Frith has travelled to Spain to spar one-time world title challenger Youri K...

The last time Kash Farooq spoke to Boxing Social he had just been watching the 2020 ‘Fight of the Year’ between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk. Lately, he has been viewing one of the best fighters of the late 1980s and early 199...

Saturday night’s show at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, has familiar stories popping off the page. The intriguing event to be broadcast on Showtime features highly-touted prospects, a current world champion as well as ...

Confidence, momentum and happiness. Three features of Nathan Gorman’s life and career which he has been working on since suffering his first defeat two years ago. That night in July 2019 witnessed the steamroller operation of Daniel Duboi...

A few more pages were added to the Maxi Hughes success story in Bolton 12 days ago. In what has been a pleasant and unexpected turn of fortune, Hughes picked up his fourth consecutive win which gave him the British lightweight title against...

Ben Damon will be calling the shots once again on Wednesday. The shots will be thrown by 154lb fighters Tim Tszyu (17-0, 13 KOs) and Dennis Hogan (28-3-1, 7 KOs) inside the Newcastle Entertainment Centre down under. And the shots themselves...

Iain Martell jokes that the only thing out there that scares him is women. When the laughter faded away, admitting that relationships don’t interest him, the 30-year-old has a desire to find out what his fears are and tackle them head on....

Shaun Brown polls some of the leading names in the boxing trade to ask for their picks for tonight’s heavyweight rematch between Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte. Repeat or revenge? The Alexander Povetkin-Dillian Whyte rematch in the ...

Ben Davison was hitting a metaphorical brick wall before Lee McGregor challenged for the European bantamweight title last Friday night. Trainer and fighter were doing some last-minute preparations before the British and Commonwealth champio...

It was only his 16th fight but Saturday’s world title graduation against Krzysztof Glowacki felt like a moment of truth in the career of Lawrence Okolie. The British cruiserweight was pitted against the former world champion for the vacan...

British cruiserweight contender Jack Massey will return to the ring in a title fight in May. The 27-year-old from Chapel-en-le-Frith, who turns 28 next month, told Boxing Social that it will be on a Queensberry Promotions show and, like a...

Pierce O’Leary was only six years old when he had a peek inside the Dublin Docklands Boxing Club.  The gym was just up the road from where he lived and O’Leary believes there was something of right place, right time to his jaunt. H...

Sahir Iqbal carried out a bit of research before his last fight. In what was Iqbal’s only bout of 2020, the 24-year-old beat Maredudd Thomas on points to win the WBC Youth welterweight title. It was his eighth professional start to date a...

Brandun Lee was likely one of the most active fighters in 2020, having fought four times. The quartet of contests never saw the 21-year-old super-lightweight contender go beyond the third round. But to be so busy while others never made it ...

Johnny Fisher had a rugby ball in his hands and then he dropped it. An attempt to grab it was made but four people fell on his hand.  The hand swelled up; something wasn’t right. He could still move it and use it but when he was punc...

Shaun Brown polls some of the leading names in the boxing trade to discover their picks ahead of Saturday night’s fascinating European welterweight title clash between Russian champion David Avanesyan and unbeaten Sunderland star Josh...

Rylan Charlton has a dream.  It was a Volkswagen Camper van then within seconds the idea got bigger. Picture one of the big old American school buses ripped out, converted, with a log burner and all sorts. “I did used to have a campe...