Promoter Bob Arum believes his young heavyweight Jared Anderson will be good enough to beat former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder by the end of 2022. Anderson, 22, unbeaten in 11 starts has only been as far as six rounds and never fought in anything more than an eight-round bout during his two-year career. However, […]
Conor Benn has told Boxing Social he will fight on April 23 with his likely opponent being American Maurice Hooker. Benn who is unbeaten in his professional career after 20 bouts ended his 2021 in emphatic fashion knocking out former world champion Chris Algieri in just four rounds last month. Ranked in the top 10 […]
Unbeaten Irish lightweight Gary Cully gets the step up he’s been craving when he takes on veteran former world champion Miguel Vazquez on the Leigh Wood-Michael Conlan undercard at Nottingham Arena on March 12. “My chance to show what I can do on the big stage. It doesn’t get much bigger than this,” said Cully. […]
Kid Galahad says “the time is right” to move up to super-featherweight after losing his world title last November. Galahad was riding the crest of a wave before making the first defence of his IBF featherweight title against the Spaniard. The Sheffield fighter put in a career best performance dismantling Jazza Dickens to take home […]
Bozy Ennis, father and trainer to welterweight star Jaron, has confirmed to Boxing Social that his son’s next fight will be an IBF welterweight final eliminator and looks set to be against Custio Clayton. Ring TV first reported the story stating news had reached them of “Boots” plans. Tonight (Friday, January 21) Mr Ennis replied […]
Lee McGregor will have his first fight of 2022 on February 11 at York Hall, London. The European bantamweight champion (11-0, 9 KOs) will feature in an international contest against Diego Alberto Ruiz. The Argentinian may be familiar to British and Irish fight fans having fought Michael Conlan in 2019 and last year took on […]
WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wood says Michael Conlan has never been in a “proper fight” and that will come into play when the two men fight one another in March. Wood makes the first defence of his title, he won so impressively against Can Xu last year, on March 12 in front of his home […]
Kalle Sauerland has confirmed to Boxing Social that Tony Yoka is out of the IBF final eliminator against Filip Hrgovic. Earlier this week Yoka had accepted the challenge to face the man he beat in the amateurs, however a contract dispute involving a postponed fight with Martin Bakolie appears to have ended hopes of it […]
Kell Brook says he may call out Conor Benn should the welterweight veteran emerge victorious in his grudge match against Amir Khan next month. On February 19 at Manchester Arena the two old rivals finally get it on after many years of failing not to. During a media call this week Brook sayid he can’t […]
Anthony Joshua is adamant that he will beat Oleksandr Usyk and once again become world heavyweight champion. The 32-year-old lost his WBA, IBF and WBO belts to the Ukrainian last September inflicting the second defeat on his career two years on from losing to Andy Ruiz Jr. Joshua and Usyk are expected to rematch one […]
Michael Conlan says he hopes to face Josh Warrington in a featherweight unification this summer at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Before any such plan can be put in place both men have difficult fights to overcome first. On March 12 Conlan will go into the lion’s den with his travelling support to challenge Leigh […]
The IBF heavyweight title final eliminator between Filip Hrgovic and Tony Yoka is in danger of not going ahead. This week Yoka stepped up and agreed to face his old amateur rival after many had refused the opportunity to face the unbeaten Croat. A fascinating clash of unbeaten contenders was one to look forward to […]