Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte would look for £20 million between them to allow an undisputed heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk to take place, according to The Daily Star. Plans remain afoot for Joshua to rematch Usyk before the summer after losing his three world titles to the masterful Ukrainian last […]
Kalle Sauerland sees no reason why his IBF cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis and Matchroom’s WBO titlist Lawrence Okolie can’t face one another in a unification this year. Okolie is due to make the second defence of his title against Poland’s Michal Cieslak on February 27 while Briedis is set to take on Australia’s Jai Opetaia […]
Vasiliy Lomachenko’s promoter Bob Arum says his “first-choice” opponent for the Ukrainian is lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr. Lomachenko got back to winning ways in 2021 following the loss of his three world titles to Teofimo Lopez in October 2020. The grand master picked up victories against Masayoshi Nakatani and Richard Commey as he continues […]
Undefeated lightweight Ryan Garcia will return to the ring on April 2. ‘King Ry’ last fought in January 2021 against Olympic gold medallist Luke Campbell. Garcia survived a second-round knockdown to stop the now retired Brit with a beautiful body shot in round seven. Garcia would then go on to take a mental health break […]
Josh Taylor’s trainer Ben Davison believes the Scot’s upcoming undisputed title defence against Jack Catterall could be a “showcase performance” but is wary of the risk that lies ahead. Taylor became the proud owner of all four titles at super-lightweight in his historic win against Jose Ramirez last May. Next month’s fight against Catterall, the […]
British heavyweight Daniel Dubois says Dillian Whyte has a “puncher’s chance” against WBC champion Tyson Fury should their title fight go ahead. Purse bids for the all-British showdown have been put back to Friday. Whyte’s promoter Eddie Hearn believes the fight is unrealistic for Fury’s slated return in March, but the signs are we will […]
Shane McGuigan believes promoter Eddie Hearn could do a better job of getting his WBO cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie more exposure. ‘The Sauce’ linked up with trainer McGuigan in May 2019 and the pair have gone on to European and world honours in just six fights. Okolie, unbeaten in 17 starts, makes the second defence […]
Devin Haney has accused George Kambosos of ducking him as teams representing each of them try to finalise a deal for a fight between the two lightweight champions. Following his stunning victory over Teofimo Lopez the Australian became the WBA, IBF, WBO and WBC Franchise champion while Haney is recognised as the WBC champion. Confusion […]
Boxing Social understands that the purse bids for the WBC heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will be delayed once again. Originally the bids were scheduled for January 11 but had been put back a week until today or tomorrow (January 18) but it now seems as though they will be postponed […]
The super-featherweight division may be about to have a unified champion by the end of April. WBO champion Shakur Stevenson and WBC champion Oscar Valdez are close to a deal to fight one another on April 30 in Las Vegas according to Dan Rafael. Stevenson (17-0, 9 KOs) annexed the strap from Jamel Herring back […]
Josh Taylor admitted to Boxing Social that any ideas of becoming a two-weight world champion may have to wait until 2023 and should he move to welterweight the prime target isn’t solely Terence Crawford. Taylor defends all of his super-lightweight titles against WBO mandatory challenger Jack Catterall next month in Glasgow but questions of moving […]
Lawrence Okolie is not impressed with Mairis Briedis attempts to land a fight with Jake Paul. The Latvian has taken to social media recently to embark on a mini campaign centred around calling out the brash YouTube star for a fight. And the IBF cruiserweight champion has even went to the length of getting a […]