Former world lightweight champion Anthony Crolla once described losing a fight as a lesson rather than a loss. The attitude was one of not focusing on defeat but rather ensuring that what happened was something that you learn from moving forward. The Mancunian didn’t get his hand raised on seven occasions, but he left behind […]
2021 is still several weeks away from completion but already fight fans have something to look forward to next year. Earlier this week it was announced that Matchroom Boxing had outbid Top Rank to stage the highly anticipated WBA featherweight title fight between champion Leigh Wood (Matchroom) and challenger Michael Conlan (Top Rank). Reports suggest […]
Tyrone McKenna got exactly what he wanted in his last fight. A war. ‘The Mighty Celt’ has an undeniable thirst for blood, guts and glory and at Falls Park, Belfast in August the 31-year-old super-lightweight was no longer parched after a 10-round battle with Jose Felix. It was another memorable night for Northern Irish boxing, […]
‘River the boxer’ is how he is known to the people of Coventry. In time, River Wilson-Bent wants to be known as ‘River the British champion’ and his home football team Coventry City, aka ‘The Sky Blues’, to be back in football’s English Premier League. “It sounds brilliant,” the undefeated (10-0, 5 KOs) middleweight tells Boxing […]
European bantamweight champion Lee McGregor has a pleasant dilemma on his hands. News broke today that D4G Promotions had won the rights to stage the IBF Bantamweight final eliminator between the Scot and Australia’s two-time world title challenger Jason Moloney. The winning bid came in at $201,000 and the victor will become mandatory challenger to […]
It was one of the finest performances in a British boxing ring in 2021. Jason Cunningham’s emphatic win over Gamal Yafai, a fight he agreed to at three weeks’ notice, gave the 32-year-old his biggest title to date. The Doncaster ‘Iceman’ has now been the European super-bantamweight champion for five months and defends his crown […]
Saturday night inside the M&S Bank Arena is a moment Troy Williamson has been waiting for in his career. Last April 30 at the York Hall saw the 30-year-old fend off and eventually prove far too powerful for Kieran Smith in their British title final eliminator. The ending in the sixth round was a glimpse […]
Rylan Charlton enters the final quarter of 2021 as a man reinvigorated and re-energised. Never a man to shout from the rooftops or blow his own trumpet ‘The Pint-Sized Powerhouse’ sounded like a man full of self-belief and self-assurance when Boxing Social spoke to him recently. The 29-year-old aims to mark one year as a television fighter […]
He was once described as the “Wonder-kid of Shropshire boxing” by the county’s local paper The Shropshire Star. The story was published 11 years ago when a then 14-years-old Liam Davies was about to travel to Bulgaria to participate in the European Schoolboy Boxing championships. His grandfather Brian, who passed away one year later, an […]
While 2021 has not been a hive of fighting activity for Caoimhin Agyarko he has managed to relieve himself of some problems that have taken a weight off his mind. The exciting and dangerous Belfast middleweight kept his unbeaten record intact in June when Ernesto Olvera called it a day at the end of the […]
Robbie Davies Jr had reached a stage of his career where the next step was the unknown. A rock to lean on in the shape of manager Neil Marsh was gone after he had amicably parted ways with him. Davies was also without a trainer after he and Dominic Ingle called it a day following […]
It was the most painful lesson that you could possibly learn. One night before Valentine’s Day Josh Warrington embarked on a journey through hell inside an empty Wembley Arena against Mauricio Lara. The respective training teams, TV crew, personalities, and officials were the only ones in attendance to witness a 2021 ‘upset of the year’ […]