“If I got a good enough offer from Eddie [Hearn] and he wanted to pay me the money I deserve for that fight. I’d fight Buatsi in December on the Anthony Joshua card.” Callum Johnson is willing to put aside one or two rust shredding fights to fight Joshua Buatsi later this year. If a […]
Had Liam Williams been offered a defence of his British title after his biggest win to date you would have forgiven him for being a bit disappointed. Four days before Christmas last year, the Welshman took on and took down long-limbed American Alantez Fox in a WBO middleweight title final eliminator, a belt then and […]
Alen Babic was looking at a future with very few prospects after finishing high school. His grades were terrible, he had been bullied and, overall, he didn’t enjoy his time in secondary education. He soon found himself studying to be an electrician. “I was shit,” he said. He looked at the possibility of working in […]
“I just want Ohara Davies. Now more than ever.” That was Tyrone McKenna speaking at the beginning of 2019 preparing for a fight in Belfast two months later. Tonight, in the final of MTK’s super-lightweight Golden Contract tournament, McKenna finally gets his hands on a man he has been trying to tempt into a fight […]
This feature was published before the unfortunate, late cancellation of Ryan Walsh’s Golden Contract Final against Jazza Dickens, following the Liverpool man’s positive test for Covid-19. Boxing Social wishes Dickens and trainer Derry Mathews a swift recovery and looks forward to the fight being rescheduled in the near future. The date of September 30 could […]
If you are ever in the company of Jazza Dickens, make sure you never play the Peter Gabriel song ‘Solsbury Hill’. “I’d just run at them and start throwing punches,” Dickens laughed. The 1977 Top 20 hit was part of the family soundtrack in Dickens’ ears during his childhood, along with folk singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman, […]