So it has happened again. Tyson Fury is on the wrong end of the injury stick once again after seeing his mega domestic bout with David Haye cancelled twice and his slightly less mega domestic bout with Derek Chisora cancelled this week due to a hand injury to the rejuvenated Del Boy. Chisora is enjoying …
Guillermo Rigondeaux smashed pound for pound superstar Nonito Donaire over a year ago now and his career has simply stalled. Major networks don’t want to touch him with a barge pole and Bob Arum was pretty disparaging about him despite promoting the guy. Poor Rigo. The guy is so talented it is costing him. After struggling …
Gennady Golovkin is at the moment best priced as a 12-1 favourite to beat Daniel Geale when the pair of 160 pounders face off in just over 10 days at Madison Square Garden, New York. Now I want to try to break this down bit by bit. Firstly, Gennady Golovkin may be more hype than …
15th October 2011, Liverpool England, Tony Bellew vs Nathan Cleverly. Cleverly boxes a little neater and comes away with a thin decision victory. Bellew cries, Cleverly celebrates. When they rematch later this year it will have been three years since they first took each other on in a tense and tight affair that saw Cleverly …
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Wow. What a weekend. No, not Germany winning the world cup! How about a split decision in the super fight of the weekend and ageing star being knocked out in 3 rounds and a British weekend of boxing that saw two stars almost fight each other for a second time outside of the ring. Okay, …
So this weekend the best 154-pound fighters take on each other in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is hard to make out any kind of clear favourite for the fight where Lara is seen as the superior fighter in terms of skill whereas Canelo has improved with each fight and …
Shawn Porter and Kell Brook will fight for Porter’s welterweight title on August 16 and it will be the fight of the year. Porter and Brook had always threatened to make a name for themselves at welterweight for a few years but they struggled to get the big fights. Brook had trouble securing a bout …
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Terence Crawford retained his WBO title last weekend with an impressive TKO over the previously undefeated Yuriorkis Gamboa and it now seems like the sky is the limit for Crawford. One thing that has been evident so far in his recent victories over fighters at world level has been the ease with which he has …
Ricky Burns tenuous links to world level boxing seems to have finally slipped away after losing a 12 round decision in his home town to previously unheralded Montenegrin Dejan Zlaticanin. The tale of the fight was pretty much summed up in the first 15 seconds of the bout as Zlaticanin landed a swift left hook …
Back in March Ricky Burns finally lost his world title after being dominated for 12 rounds by Terence Crawford. Both fighters are at it again this weekend albeit against different opponents. Burns takes on unknown Montenegrin Dejan Zlaticanin in Glasgow. Zlaticanin may be undefeated but he has never faught someone on the level of Burns …
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