With a date and a venue locked in Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua will be in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today for the launch press conference ahead of their heavyweight title rematch. On August 20 Usyk will defend his WBA, IBF and WBO world titles which he won against Joshua last September at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. […]
New BOXXER signing Joseph Parker hopes he can still fight Joe Joyce but refuses to accept that it was his fault the deal to face ‘The Juggernaut’ fell apart. The two heavyweights attended the Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte event on April 23 at Wembley Stadium. They were joined live by Joyce’s promoter Frank Warren who revealed […]
WBO number one contender Vergil Ortiz Jr is looking to make up for lost time having not fought since his impressive win over Egidijus Kavaliauskas last year. By the time he faces Michael McKinson on August 6 in Texas it will have been nearly one year since the undefeated welterweight picked up his 18th career […]
Anthony Yarde says he is ready for the challenge of Artur Beterbiev and believes the fight is his destiny. The British light heavyweight was in New York to watch the unbeaten Russian decimate Joe Smith Jr in two rounds to add the WBO world title to the WBC and IBF he already owned. It was […]
Jarrell Miller will return to the ring this Thursday in Buenos Aires. The 33-year-old New Yorker takes on Argentina’s Ariel Esteban Bracamonte as part of the World Boxing Association’s ‘KO Drugs Festival’! The heavyweight went 24 fights undefeated and was then due to face heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in June 2019 at Madison Square Garden. […]
It has been a memorable year for Josh Taylor in more ways than one. 2022 began with the Scot as the undisputed super lightweight champion and regarded as one of the pound-for-pound stars in boxing. Six months on and a lot has happened in the life of the 31-year-old. Some good, some not so good. […]
With Artur Beterbiev against Anthony Yarde seemingly a done deal for the autumn promoter Bob Arum is hoping to put together an even bigger draw for the same time of year. The Top Rank boss was talking to Dev Sahni before Beterbiev went on to destroy Joe Smith Jr to become WBC, IBF and WBO […]
It’s finally official: The world heavyweight title rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua will go ahead on August 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A fight that has been months in the making will mark the debut of Joshua boxing on DAZN after it was announced on Monday that he had signed a deal with […]
Artur Beterbiev (18-0, 18 KOs) is one title away from becoming undisputed light heavyweight champion following his two-round destruction over Joe Smith Jr (28-4, 22 KOs). Billed as two power punchers in a fight never destined to go 12 both men got down to work in the first round as Smith went on the front […]
It was brief but Nathan Gorman (19-1, 13 KOs) put in a powerful performance to defeat Tomas Salek (17-4, 13 KOs) in one round at the M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool to win the vacant IBF International Heavyweight belt. His cousin and WBC Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury showed up to lend his vocal support to Gorman […]
Anthony Yarde is in New York this week to take in Saturday’s world light heavyweight title fight between WBC and IBF champion Artur Beterbiev and WBO champion Joe Smith Jr. The trip can now be a scouting mission for the 30-year-old after promoter Bob Arum told the Daily Mail that the WBO mandatory challenger will […]
Artur Beterbiev (17-0, 17 KOs) is not concerned about fighting on Joe Smith’s turf tomorrow night. The hardened Russian is in New York with his WBC and IBF titles looking to take the Long Islander’s WBO strap at the Hulu Theatre, Madison Square Garden. With two heavy punchers in the ring no-one expects the fight […]