Eight years after his first television fight the career of Sam Eggington continued to entertain in front of the cameras on Saturday night. The Skydome in Coventry played host to the 27-year-old’s attempts to win the vacant WBC Silver middleweight title against veteran Carlos Molina. The fight was the headline act of an entertaining card […]
Undisputed super lightweight champion. Four world titles. The RING magazine belt. The best in his division, one of the best in the world pound-for-pound and arguably the number one fighter in Great Britain right now. Josh Taylor is boxing royalty. On Saturday in Las Vegas ‘The Tartan Tornado’ weathered occasional storms from Jose Ramirez to […]
Martin Harkin says that beating Kaisee Benjamin convincingly on Saturday night will finally enable him to put his last performance behind him. The Scottish welterweight (13-1, 5 KOs) travelled to South Kirby in October to take on the elusive and highly skilled Michael McKinson on an MTK Global promotion. Harkin’s display left a sour taste […]
Chris Billam-Smith says he hopes to make a statement against Tommy McCarthy and stop the European champion when the pair fight one another this summer. McCarthy’s belt, Billam Smith’s Commonwealth strap and the vacant British title will be on the line at Eddie Hearn’s second helping of Fight Camp in a cruiserweight clash that has […]
On June 4 in Sheffield Bradley Skeete will resume his career after it hit the rocks nearly two and a half years ago. December 15, 2018: Skeete walked to the ring inside a near empty Brentwood Centre to take on Diego Ramirez. A young Argentine southpaw with 18 fights under his belt, two defeats and […]
Former two-time world bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell has announced his retirement from boxing. The 35-year-old from Doncaster has not fought since winning a six-round fight against Cristian Narvaez in Milan just under two years ago. The victory, his 30th and final one of a 34-fight career (30-3-1, 13 KOs), came 11 months after surrendering his […]
The IBF rankings for April have been released and there are top 15 positions for 28 British fighters with 17 of them in the top 10 across 13 divisions. While Joe Joyce waits on a possible interim title/eliminator bout against Oleksandr Usyk, the 35-year-old ‘Juggernaut’ is now ranked at number 10 with the IBF moving […]
Terri Harper’s hopes of becoming the women’s unified super featherweight champion have been dashed after she withdrew with another hand injury. Harper (11-0-1, 6 KOs) had been due to put her WBC title on the line against WBA champion Hyun-Mi Choi (18-0-1, 4 KOs) on May 15 at the Manchester Arena. The 24-year-old would have […]
It’s good news for a couple of Brits and a quartet of Uzbek fighters in the latest round of the World Boxing Association boxing rankings which were recently published. In this rundown of the movers and leavers in and around the WBA top ten we take a look at who is closing in on a […]
His overriding memories were of a cut in the first round knowing that he had to box smart for the remaining nine rounds of the fight. The jab would control and fend off the oncoming efforts of unbeaten Italian Vincenzo Bevilacqua inside Glasgow’s Emirates Arena. The venue was becoming a bear pit as Lee McGregor […]
Manchester’s Lyndon Arthur is the new number one contender in the WBO light heavyweight rankings. The recently released monthly ratings saw the 29-year-old move up two places to find himself in pole position for a shot at Joe Smith Jr’s recently acquired world title. Umar Salamov (2), Gilberto Ramirez (3) and Ricards Bolotniks (5) are […]
All may not be lost in Josh Warrington’s hopes to have his rematch against Mauricio Lara outdoors this summer at Headingley. The former IBF featherweight champion’s career was dealt a crushing blow when the Mexican underdog brutally stopped Warrington in the 9th round of their fight back in February. After some initial time off to […]