Jason Cunningham had little trouble brushing aside the challenge of Terry Le Couviour in the second defence of his European super-bantamweight title. The 32-year-old Yorkshireman is riding the crest of a wave since turning his career around against Gamal Yafai in May 2021. Cunningham (31-6, 7 KOs) is eyeing a world title opportunity at 122lbs […]
Errol Spence Jr said he is coming for Terence Crawford after adding a third world title to his collection at welterweight. ‘The Truth’ halted the brave challenge of Yordenis Ugas in the 10th round of their unification at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. A crowd of nearly 40,000 witnessed Spence display a relentless performance […]
An emphatic and explosive performance from Conor Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) was too hot to handle for veteran Chris van Heerden last night as he ended the contest in two rounds at Manchester’s AO Arena. ‘The Destroyer’ lived up to his moniker and exploded out of the traps in round 1 with an appetite for […]
Eddie Hearn went on the offensive yesterday in response to a tweet from Neil Marsh, manager to European welterweight champion David Avanesyan. Last night Marsh wrote, ‘A certain promoter keeps hating on our true champion David Avanesyan who is one of [the] nicest guys in boxing. Time to put [the] record straight this next few […]
Boxing has recovered from countless bumps and knocks over the years but a lingering one resurfaced this week. On Tuesday a number of people may have started to feel uneasy when news emerged that sanctions were being placed on Daniel Kinahan by the US government, a man described by the US Treasury as someone who […]
Errol Spence Jr believes he is a better fighter than the one who defeated Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia in 2019 and 2020. It has been a dramatic and life changing period for Spence since crashing his Ferrari in October 2019 just a couple of weeks after beating Porter by split decision. The 32-year-old bounced […]
The WBC Interim heavyweight belt holder finally broke his silence earlier in the week tweeting, ‘I’m ready. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone on the 23rd of April’. Yesterday, during the media conference call ahead of the next week’s clash at Wembley Stadium, Whyte revealed his reasons for not getting involved in the build-up to […]
Errol Spence Jr hasn’t won a fight inside the distance for four years, but the WBC and IBF welterweight champion is going for a knockout against Yordenis Ugas on Saturday. Three of the four belts on the line at the AT&T Stadium with the winner one title away from becoming undisputed champion. At the media […]
With a host of big names linked to a fight against Conor Benn this year his trainer Tony Sims favours one against Kell Brook. Benn’s promoter Eddie Hearn said this week that the 25-year-old would be put in the ‘deep end’ for his next fight should he get past Chris van Heerden on Saturday night. […]
Carl Frampton believes Dillian Whyte’s best chance of beating Tyson Fury is to drag him into a fight but still thinks such a scenario would favour the WBC heavyweight champion. Frampton and fellow ex-pros and champions David Haye and Frank Bruno were in London to discuss next week’s monster event at Wembley Stadium where a […]
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion David Price doesn’t believe Anthony Joshua can gain revenge in his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. The Ukrainian, who is currently training in Poland after leaving his country’s fight against the Russian invasion, will defend his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles this summer. Joshua lost the belts last September […]
Floyd Mayweather has responded to claims that a press conference for his next exhibition fight was purposely held on the same day as one for Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Rolando Romero. Davis took to social media with a tweet, now deleted, to take a shot at his promoter describing him as ‘jealous’. Things appear turbulent […]