WBC female featherweight world champion Sky Nicolson successfully defended her title last weekend in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia but despite being awarded a shut-out win on two of the three judge’s score cards, the accusations that… Read More »Skye Nicolson: Boring, Brilliant or Both?
By Eóin Kennedy Riyadh Season has thrown up plenty of great fight cards by now and last Saturday’s event from Saudi Arabia was filled with plenty of intrigue, not least in the main event which… Read More »Beterbiev vs Bivol: What Next for Last Saturday’s Winners and Losers?
By Eóin Kennedy Yes, the pound-for-pound rankings in boxing are purely subjective and are completely unofficial regardless of which list you are reading. No, there is no tangible nor existing metric system to determine who… Read More »Head Body Boxing’s Pound for Pound Top Ten
At this stage its old news that Devin Haney intends to take Ryan Garcia to court in the aftermath of their infamous fight earlier this year and Garcia’s subsequent positive tests for Ostarine, but whether… Read More »Boxing Briefs: Haney Sues, Edwards-Yafai Signed & More
By Eóin Kennedy Despite getting all action fights from boxing’s ruler and conqueror of the super-welterweight division, Jermell Charlo, in recent years, it sometimes felt it was a sleepy weight class. Charlo always provided entertainment,… Read More »Super-Welterweight Division Suddenly on Fire
The boxing world is still a bit caught in its tracks in the aftermath of Daniel Dubois’ devastating knock-out victory over Anthony Joshua in Wembley Stadium, London last Saturday and as a result us boxing… Read More »Ladies Night: Female Stars Return to Action on Friday Night
By Eóin Kennedy Belfast, Northern Ireland has a long and storied boxing history and is a city renowned for providing a constant supply of world class pugilists both at amateur and professional levels. Anthony Cacace… Read More »Options Aplenty for Champion Cacace
By Eóin Kennedy Saturday night was very a consequential one in the world of boxing. Daniel Dubois solidified his IBF world heavyweight championship status with a knock-out of the year contender against Anthony Joshua, while… Read More »Boxing Briefs: What Next for Joshua and Buatsi?
By Eóin Kennedy The peak duel to epitomize the Eddie Hearn-Frank Warren rivalry, AKA the Matchroom-Queensbury rivalry, was always thought to be Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury, but Daniel Dubois has found himself defending his… Read More »Joshua vs Dubois – A Fun World Title Fight
Labor Day Weekend was a busy one in the boxing world both inside and outside the ropes. In the ring contender Diego Pacheco scored a statement win whilst on the outside, big fights were getting… Read More »Boxing Briefs – Pacheco Makes Statement, and Other Boxing News
By Eóin Kennedy The summer season is drawing to a close and while that’s a sombre thought for most people, boxing fans can breathe a sigh of relief as it’s been kind of boring in… Read More »Preview: Boxing’s Superstars Returning in September
By Eóin Kennedy It was a relatively quiet summer for the sport of boxing but with August closing out and September rolling in, that usually means boxing’s pay-per-view king, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is getting ready… Read More »Canelo Entering His Final Stanza
By Eóin Kennedy As captivating and unique a character as Teofimo Lopez is, the self professed ‘Takeover’ is having a tough time taking anything over recently. He shone on the world stage once again last… Read More »Quick Take: Takeover Still a Work in Progress
By Eóin Kennedy Teofimo Lopez is trying to appeal to an untapped boxing market as he takes on Steve Claggett in Miami Beach, Florida tonight. Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois will fight for the now… Read More »Boxing Briefs
By Eóin Kennedy It was another busy week in the wacky world of boxing and we’re here to bring you our musings once again. The WBC have called purse bids for Devin Haney vs Sandor… Read More »Boxing Briefs: Haney Mandated to Face Tricky Spaniard Martin – and Other Thoughts from the Week that was in Boxing
By Eóin Kennedy Gervonta “Tank’ Davis has been one of boxing’s biggest enigmas for a while now. The Baltimore fighter has a massive fan base within boxing and fills arena on both coasts of the… Read More »The Time is Now for Tank
By Eóin Kennedy The dust has just about settled on the hysteria that surrounded the Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk super-fight in Saudi Arabia last weekend, and amongst all the post-fight hysteria it is forgivable… Read More »Boxing Briefs: Cacace Becomes World Champion and Other Thoughts on the World of Boxing
By Eóin Kennedy The long-awaited showdown between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last Saturday night certainly didn’t disappoint. Usyk ultimately relieved Fury of his status as a heavyweight world champion, after… Read More »Usyk beats Fury but what did we Learn?
By Eóin Kennedy It’s been a whirlwind start to the month of May in the boxing-land, so let’s run through some quick takes from where we currently stand in the world’s wackiest sport. The Almighty… Read More »Boxing Briefs
2024 has already been an historic year for boxing with longtime rival promoters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean finally putting differences aside thanks to Saudi intervention, which is serving fans up with absolute… Read More »MAY MADNESS: Canelo and Munguia Kick Off Massive Month of Boxing