Opinion To celebrate Gennady Golovkin’s 39th birthday, we pick out the middleweight maestro’s 10 best wins 1. DANIEL JACOBS (UD 12 – MAR 2017) An imposing athlete and heavy hitter, Jacobs was in fine form heading into his clash with Golovkin, yet “GGG” came through a close and highly competitive contest with a victory on
Losses matter more in the last generation or two than they used to. For some boxers, they can be career crippling. In some ways, it wouldn’t be fair if it didn’t work that way. Once at a certain level of contention, most of the current battlers in the sport just aren’t active enough to afford
Posted on 04/07/2021 By: Hans Themistode Chris Arreola admits that he was proud as he watched Andy Ruiz Jr. become the first fighter of Mexican descent to win a heavyweight world title. The aforementioned Ruiz Jr. took down the heavily favored Anthony Joshua in their June showdown in 2019. Following the win, the fame and
Count Florian Marku among those not impressed by Conor Benn’s professional record or choice in opponents. While Benn is lined up to face Samuel Vargas this weekend, Marku dismisses Benn as a cherry picker who is carefully selecting opponents to hide his deficiencies. Talking to Sky Sports, Marku made his position very clear. “I knew
WBA interim-middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. is putting his money where his mouth is. Eubank is fully backing Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to score a knockout victory over Billy Joe Saunders on May 8th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The WBO, WBC, WBA super middleweight titles will be at stake. Saunders won a close twelve
Posted on 04/07/2021 Samuel Vargas has promised to make Conor Benn pay for his “wild” mistakes and says the 24-year-old doesn’t have the experience to deal with him when they meet over twelve rounds for the WBA Continental Welterweight Title this Saturday April 10, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories.
Joe Smith Jr has had some big highlight nights over the years, but has never won a world title. The light heavyweight “Common Man” will look to change that on Saturday, when Smith (26-3, 21 KO) takes on Maxim Vlasov (45-3, 26 KO) for the vacant WBO light heavyweight title in Tulsa, live on ESPN+
Opinion After Carl Frampton’s loss to Jamel Herring, Alex Steedman and Matt Christie reflect on the Northern Irishman’s career and legacy on the Opening Bell podcast FOLLOWING Carl Frampton’s loss to Jamel Herring in Dubai, Alex Steedman and Matt Christie reflect on the Northern Irishman’s career and legacy, from the headiest of highs in Belfast
Feature • Issue • Premium George Wood/Getty Images Dave Allen once left a casino at 5am and headed back to his hotel armed with a load of beer. The following day, he took part in a professional prize fight. He speaks to Elliot Worsell about his heavyweight career AT a time when a working-class sport
Jamel Herring respects and appreciates what the WBO has done for his career. The WBO junior lightweight champion still doesn’t intend to allow a mandatory title defense against Shakur Stevenson stand in the way of the fight Herring really wants now that he has beaten Carl Frampton. If that means giving up his WBO belt
Issue • News • Premium It wasn’t just Tristan Kalkreuth’s sheer size that caught the eye of the esteemed Ronnie Shields, writes Phil Rogers RONNIE SHIELDS has seen it all before. The renowned trainer’s resumé of tutelage includes Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Arturo Gatti and Pernell Whitaker; some of the greatest boxers in the history
Heavyweight Michael Hunter just shared some of his thoughts with Sky Sports on Oleksandr Usyk’s fairly recent move to campaign in the division, and makes it clear that he belives Usyk isn’t going to have an easy time landing big fights. In fact, Hunter says he thinks other heavyweights don’t really regard Usyk as one
#PBCTimeOut: Unbeaten welterweight prospect Jesus Ramos Jr. speaks with Ray Flores ahead of his matchup with Javier Molina on the Ruiz vs Arreola undercard on May 1, 2021, live on Fox Sports PPV. #RuizArreola Fight Night Details:https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-050121 #JesusRamos Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing
In Make It or Die Trying: The Frank Warren Story, premiering at 9.30pm, on Sunday 11th April, on BT Sport 1 HD, Frank Warren explains how he negotiated Frank Bruno’s winning world title bout with Don King. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join
A lot of boxers say they were born to fight. Some of them are right. Rising welterweight star Jaron “Boots” Ennis definitely fits the latter category as the son of Derek “Bozy” Ennis Sr. and the brother of Derek “Pooh” Ennis and Farah Ennis. “I always knew I was gonna box and I knew I
Posted on 04/06/2021 By: Hans Themistode Tim Bradley’s eyes grow wide whenever he hears about the possibility of Terence Crawford taking on Manny Pacquiao. The two have been rumored to be locked in negotiations for a possible June 5th showdown that would take place in Dubai. In the mind of most boxing pundits, Crawford has
After joining forces with Frank Warren earlier this year, former light heavyweight title challenger Callum Johnson is officially set to end a two-year layoff against Bosnia’s Emil Markic on Queensberry’s April 24th Denzel Bentley-Felix Cash card. Johnson (18-1, 13 KO) has struggled badly with inactivity this last half-decade, managing just three fights since 2016. In
Issue • Opinion • Premium Christopher Lee/Getty Images I often think I should have stayed in Australia but my ambition is too great, says Conor Benn MANAGING expectation because of my surname was a massive challenge at first. It was hard because I was young but you become used to it and you are constantly