Eddie Hearn believes Devin Haney will become the biggest star in American boxing should he beat George Kambosos Jr. Haney’s promoter has received an offer for the WBC title holder travel to Australia and face the WBA, IBF and WBO champion for the undisputed lightweight world championship. “We’re going through the terms and also with […]
Former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton is edging towards a Josh Warrington victory this Saturday night in Leeds against Kiko Martinez. Martinez makes the first defence of his IBF featherweight title against the former champion in a rematch from their battle in 2017. Frampton, who won world honours at super-bantamweight and at featherweight, knows a […]
His full attention may be on Kiko Martinez this weekend, but the prospect of fighting Leigh Wood in Nottingham is a tantalising prospect for Josh Warrington. After causing one of 2021’s biggest upsets beating Kid Galahad the 36-year-old veteran makes the first defence of his IBF featherweight title on Saturday night in a rematch against […]
Details of Wasserman Boxing’s debut show on Channel 5 were announced today. The Indigo at the O2 will play host to the event on Friday, May 13 and featuring on the card will be the return of 2016 Olympian Josh Kelly. The 28-year-old from Sunderland last fought in February 2021 when he was stopped in […]
Zach Parker is feeling unbeatable as preparations begin for his fight against Demetrius Andrade on May 21. The WBO super-middleweight Interim title bout will take place at Pride Park, home of Parker’s beloved Derby Football Club. And the unbeaten Brit says by the time the fight is over everyone will know who he is. “Trust […]
Eddie Hearn has dampened any speculation of a fight between Dereck Chisora and Andy Ruiz Jr. Last week Ruiz took to Twitter and asked his followers who he should fight next which prompted the Brit to reply, ‘Want to come to London?’ The response online to the fight was positive, but Hearn told Boxing Social […]
Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is free to resume his boxing career. In recent weeks the 35-year-old Ukrainian has, like so many of his compatriots, taken up arms to join the fight against Russia’s war against their country. It had seemed like the WBA, IBF and WBO belt holder would stay in his homeland during […]
Not only does Filip Hrgović at last have an opponent for his IBF heavyweight title final eliminator but he now has a date and location too. The unbeaten Croat faces China’s Zhilei Zhang on the Canelo Alvarez-Dmitry Bivol May 7 undercard at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. It has been a long wait for the […]
The story of who George Kambosos Jr may face in the first defence of his lightweight titles may be coming to an end. Last November the Australian thrillingly won the WBA, IBF and WBO belts from Teofimo Lopez in New York to become the most wanted man in the division. Devin Haney, the WBC titlist, […]
Professional judging has been under scrutiny this year thanks to some scorecards that frankly do not make sense. Last night, in New York we were treated to two more that again leave you questioning the integrity of the sport. New York born Puerto Rican sensation and rising super-middleweight star Edgar Berlanga extended his unbeaten career […]
David Avanesyan walked through the brief challenge of Oskari Metz to retain his European welterweight title in less than one round tonight. The Queensberry co-main event brought the debut of their latest signing against the Finnish challenger who couldn’t stand up to the power of the champion. Metz walked to the ring smiling as the […]
Sunny Edwards (18-0, 4 KOs) retained his IBF flyweight title in Dubai tonight with a unanimous decision win over Muhammad Waseem. The champion had commented in the build-up that he believed Waseem wasn’t good enough to be in the ring with him. And in the first round Edwards reacted dismissively to a jab from the […]