Boxing Briefs
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 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
By Eóin Kennedy Too familiar a tale, too well worn a path. We’ve all been here before, there was nothing to see here, no reason to scream and shout, not that anyone would listen if… Read More »McComb Robbery Shows All That’s Wrong With Boxing
By Eóin Kennedy Jared ‘Big Baby’ Anderson headlines Top Rank’s show in Corpus Christi, Texas tomorrow night when he faces off against Ryad Merhy in a heavyweight contest. Merhy bring a 32-2 record to the… Read More »Anderson Has Golden Opportunity to Fill Heavyweight Void
By Eóin Kennedy It was looking like it was going to be a quiet week in the boxing world with only smaller scale shows coming up this weekend, but then Matchroom Boxing announced earlier today… Read More »Who Next for Jaron Ennis?
We’re three months into 2024 and already boxing has thrown up some blockbuster fights, with plenty more on the way in the not-too-distant future. But as always, some of the sports’ big names seem to… Read More »M.I.A. – Where Have Some of Boxing’s Stars Gone and Who Should They Face Next
Sampson Lewkowicz, promoter of unified super-welterweight world champion Sebastian Fundora, assured ProBox TV yesterday that he would honor his word to Tim Tszyu and his team by giving them a rematch, but he didn’t confirm if that rematch would be immediate or not.
By Eóin Kennedy It’s been a common phenomenon in boxing in recent times to write off fighters after they have suffered one loss, although thankfully that era seems to be coming to an end and… Read More »Okolie Hopes For Rebirth As He Moves to Bridgerweight
Errol Spence has declared that he wants to fight the winner of Saturday night’s world title fight between Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora, but he’ll have to get in line as Terence Crawford has also shown his interest.
Written by Eóin Kennedy Looking backwards July 2021 seems like a surreal dystopian nightmare when the world was coming into the final few laps of the Covid 19 pandemic, when masks were mandatory, people were… Read More »Leigh Wood’s Conundrum – Who Next For Nottingham Boxer?
Written by Eóin Kennedy This weekend will be a significant one in the world of boxing with world titles on the line on one side of the Atlantic, and championship contenders fighting one another on… Read More »Preview: Tszyu and Fundora Headline Saturday Night Boxing From Las Vegas
Written by Eóin Kennedy Since Keith Thurman pulled out of this Saturday’s light-welterweight world title championship bout with Tim Tszyu and been replaced with Sebastian Fundora, the stakes have been significantly raised. Not only have… Read More »Fundora Standing Between Crawford and Tszyu Mega Fight
By Eóin Kennedy It’s only been four months since Shakur Stevenson secured the vacant WBC lightweight world championship with a win over Edwin De Los Santos but it feels a lot longer due to Stevenson’s… Read More »Shakur’s Date Confirmed but Opponent Unknown
Written by Eóin Kennedy Boxing has plenty of world champions (too many according to most fans) and the level of fame and superstardom varies across the board. Of course transcendent stars like Tyson Fury, Canelo… Read More »Lopez Quietly Becoming One of Boxing’s Most Destructive Champions
By Eóin Kennedy It’s been almost two years since Anthony Joshua suffered a second defeat at the hands of Oleksandr Usyk in their world heavyweight championship rematch, and the emotional in-ring speech following the fight,… Read More »What Options Does Joshua Have After Ngannou Knockout?