The next fight for Tim Tszyu is close to being finalised for September. The unbeaten super-welterweight made light work of Steve Spark last week, in Newcastle, Australia, ending matters in the third round with a trademark body shot. The number-one rated WBO contender will have to wait a little longer for his world title shot […]
Despite his status as the WBO’s number one light heavyweight contender Lyndon Arthur will face Anthony Yarde once again in his next fight. The two Brits fought in December with Arthur emerging victorious following a split decision verdict after 12 rounds. Arthur defended his Commonwealth title and picked up the WBO Inter-Continental strap on the […]
Tonight, at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, both Hector Tanajara and William Zepeda will trade punches with one another nearly 10 years on from when they first shared a ring together. The two unbeaten lightweights have the potential to steal the plaudits from headliners Gilberto Ramirez (main event) and JoJo Diaz (chief […]
The bumper undercard for Michael Conlan’s return to Falls Park in Belfast has had two more Irish names added to it. Padraig McCroy and Sean McComb will join Tyrone McKenna and Scotland’s Lee McGregor on August 6 as part of an entertaining supporting cast to Michael Conlan’s all-Irish clash with TJ Doheny. McCrory, unbeaten in […]
Boxing Social understands that big-time boxing could return to BBC television. The free-to-air channel, which already broadcast fights on their radio station BBC Five Live, are rumoured to be expanding their working relationship with promoter Eddie Hearn. The 42-year-old, who has his own BBC podcast called ‘No Passion, No Point’, was at Matchroom headquarters yesterday […]
Queensberry Promotions have won the rights to stage the European super-bantamweight title fight between champion Jason Cunningham and their challenger Brad Foster. Promoter Frank Warren told Boxing Social of the news today and was delighted at winning the purse bids. “We beat Matchroom,” said Warren. “I think we’re going to announce the fight this week,” […]
Former world super-flyweight and bantamweight champion Zolani Tete has survived a car crash which took place yesterday evening. No other details of the incident have been released at time of writing regarding the 33-year-old South African. The Twitter feed of his promoter Frank Warren broke the news this morning saying, “Thoughts with former world champion […]
For all the bravado, machismo, and his character transformation into ‘The Savage’, Alen Babic says that without the fans he is nothing. The Croatian heavyweight, as ever, has talked the talk during this fight week for his bout against Damian Chambers tonight on Sky Sports. Walking around in a Trojan helmet, similar to what Michael […]
There was a spell in the third round of April Hunter’s last fight where the welterweight prospect had to weather a storm and come out triumphant on the other side. It was two minutes of her boxing career that could have been used to sum up her own life. Competitive, rocky moments, courageous, tough and […]
We are getting closer to seeing how good middleweight prospect Caoimhin Agyarko really is. Last Saturday night, ‘Black Thunder’ had a rumble against Mexico’s Ernest Olvera, which ended before it had reached the halfway point of its scheduled eight rounds. A wobble in round one, having to absorb hefty body shots in round two and […]
It was all systems go for John Ryder up until last week. Ryder had been training for a fight on June 26 against WBA super-middleweight ‘world’ champion David Morrell but on June 4 Ryder’s plans went south when it was announced that the Cuban would instead be facing Mario Cázares. The news of the Cuban’s […]
Daniel Dubois returned with a trademark knockout win on Saturday night and his promoter Frank Warren has big plans for ‘DDD’ including a stadium fight against Joe Joyce. Joyce took the unbeaten record of Dubois last November and inflicted injuries that kept the 23-year-old out of action until this month. The second-round knockout victory over […]