Daniel Dubois’ trainer Martin Bowers has told Boxing Social that his young heavyweight has suffered a fractured eye socket following his loss to Joe Joyce last night in London. Dubois and Joyce contested the British, Commonwealth and European titles at the historic Church House in Westminster. After months of build up and postponements the pair […]
Nothing is ever certain in boxing but 2021 looks like being the year Jack Catterall finally gets a world title shot. The 27-year-old from Chorley returns to the ring on Saturday night against Frenchman Abderrazak Houya in a 10-round contest. The bout fills a slot on the highly anticipated Daniel Dubois-Joe Joyce heavyweight clash with […]
Jordan Gill has already had one boxing career. For four years and 16 fights, Gill was treading water as a prospect going from Sheffield to Hull to Peterborough to Rotherham and back again fighting only one opponent with a winning record (Giorgi Kulumbegashvili). During that time, he never had anything greater than an eight-round fight […]
A fighter making his way in the sport will occasionally mention how they are not the finished article. Nine times out of ten they are talking about the improvements they need to make inside the ring in order to fulfil their ambitions and dreams. Caoimhin Agyarko recently talked to Boxing Social about how he, too, is not […]
No-one likes being in hospital. It is an unpleasant and worrying time. You lie in an uncomfortable bed being pricked and poked watching the clock and wondering when you will be home. Now imagine this was you but in unfamiliar territory and in a foreign land just one day after a fight where you gave […]
Fabio Wardley has described his fight this Saturday night against Richard Lartey as something of a litmus test. Wardley, the current unbeaten English heavyweight champion, will be having his ninth professional contest against the Ghanaian who will be fighting his third British opponent in as many fights since April last year. Nineteen months ago, Lartey […]
“To be honest, his main concern is the European title fight. He should be more focused on that and forget about me.” It took nearly a year, but last weekend we finally witnessed the Matchroom Boxing debut of Kash Farooq. The 24-year-old Pakistani who has lived in Glasgow since he was a child signed for […]
“The only thing I can prosper in is chaos because I live in chaos every day.” His first five fights have spanned the last 15 months and they have transformed him from the unknown Alen Babic into a man now known as ‘The Savage’. Those five fights, all of which were finished in under a […]
How does it feel to be British champion? “It feels great, it feels great. My first title as a professional and it’s the British title. It’s crazy. It’s crazy. It’s crazy.” The repetition was understandable because the adrenaline was still flowing, and his happiness could be described as the kid who got what he wanted […]
Mark Heffron is in “Tremendous spirits” after being forced to retire during his British middleweight title fight against Denzel Bentley on Friday night. The 28-year-old (25-2-1, 19 KOs) went into the rematch in confident mood after their fight in September which ended in a draw. 95-95 was the verdict given on the night from the […]
While IBF cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis continues to bask in his World Boxing Super Series success, one eye remains on the future for the Latvian. The 35-year-old, unanimously regarded as the best cruiserweight in the world, is seven weeks on from his victory over Cuban gunslinger Yuniel Dorticos. The season two final of the cruiserweight […]
A defeat to a boxer called Daryl Baptiste in his amateur days will play a pivotal part in the future of Maxi Hughes’ career. The pair fought three times and began with Hughes giving his opponent a ‘hammering’ in their first fight, as he described it. “There was blood everywhere, splattered everywhere,” said Hughes, in […]