Highly ranked heavyweight contender Joe Joyce is tipping Tyson Fury to prevail in his WBC title defence against Dillian Whyte on Saturday. Sitting at number one with the WBO and at two with the WBC Joyce is nearing his first shot at world honours. The 36-year-old has returned to training after suffering a wrist injury […]
Smiles, respect, a tickle, and innuendos were not the summary of yesterday’s Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte press conference you would have expected to read. The two men, who fight for the WBC heavyweight title on Saturday at Wembley, are both combustible personalities and after a fractured and bizarre build-up you could forgive those who thought it […]
Things have gone from bad to worse for MTK Global and Probellum with the former ceasing operations as of today. Last Wednesday and Thursday the two companies made statements in the wake of sanctions being imposed on Daniel Kinahan, the alleged head of an organisation responsible for murder, drug and firearms trafficking, and money laundering. […]
Unified super-welterweight champion Jermell Charlo says he would fight Terence Crawford. The owner of three belts at 154lbs is just over a few weeks out from his rematch against WBO champion Brian Castaño for the undisputed crown at 154lbs. Crawford, who holds the WBO welterweight title, and could face Charlo’s gym-mate Errol Spence Jr for […]
The possibility of Canelo Alvarez fighting in the UK looks to be getting stronger. His promoter Eddie Hearn has already revealed that the undisputed super-middleweight champion will fight three times this year rather than the reported two. On May 7 Canelo will look to become a two-time light-heavyweight world champion against Dmitry Bivol before facing […]
Promoter Ben Shalom remains confident that a fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Kell Brook will happen. However, the Boxxer CEO has advised Eubank to be realistic when it comes to the financial side of any agreement. “Kell’s not going to accept less money than he has for other fights and so it means Eubank […]
He may be in training camp for his rematch with Anthony Joshua, but unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will use Saturday’s fight between Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte as a good excuse to study. The WBA, IBF and WBO title holder could face this weekend’s winner in an undisputed heavyweight title fight later in the […]
Dillian Whyte isn’t interested in this week’s fight build-up or the mind games with Tyson Fury, he just wants violence. ‘The Body Snatcher’ spoke to journalist Steve Bunce during a near 30-minute interview for BT Sport and appeared happy and content over in Portugal where he has been preparing for the biggest fight of his […]
Jack Catterall’s hopes of being reinstated as the WBO super-lightweight number one contender have been turned down by the organisation. In their updated rankings for March Catterall was dropped to number three, Liam Paro moved up to one, Teofimo Lopez jumped a place to number two and Jose Carlos Ramirez climbed three slots to number […]
Yordenis Ugas is recovering from a broken orbital bone following his loss to Errol Spence Jr on Saturday night. The Cuban went into the welterweight unification as WBA champion, and while he had the WBC and IBF title holder in trouble during round 6, Spence’s offence was too much for Ugas to contain. The 35-year-old’s […]
Former heavyweight champion David Haye believes this Saturday’s Wembley showdown between Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will be a “slugfest”. ‘The Gypsy King’ will defend his WBC title against ‘The Body Snatcher’ in front of over 90,000 people at England’s national football stadium. It will be the second championship defence for Fury having taken the […]
The sport of boxing has been made to look like a bit of an idiot this week. Daniel Kinahan’s fan club has gone quiet after the US Treasury stuck a worldwide bounty on his head for the sum of $5 million dollars. And while some back track without trying to stumble and others try to […]