Sports Journalist · 12 articles
Keyshawn Davis has withdrawn from his mandated WBO welterweight world title fight with Devin Haney — and his own promoter, Bob Arum, admits he cannot make sense of it. Speaking to reporter Dan Rafael, the veteran Top Rank boss said he was left baffled after Davis, who had publicly pushed for the fight, pulled out […]
The next fight for Conor Benn is the biggest of his career: a shot at Ryan Garcia’s WBC welterweight world title on September 12 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. But with the fight closing in, Benn has admitted the weight cut back to 147lbs has been “brutal” — and, remarkably, he is already […]
Carl Froch has named Lennox Lewis as the greatest British boxer of all time — and pointedly refused to hand himself the crown. Speaking on his YouTube channel, the former super-middleweight world champion placed Lewis narrowly ahead of Joe Calzaghe, leaving his own name out of the very top bracket entirely. Froch, a Hall of […]
The Itauma Hrgovic fight is set for August 29 at The O2 in London — and Filip Hrgovic has made clear he is not buying the hype. Moses Itauma arrives as one of boxing’s most talked-about young heavyweights, but the experienced Croatian says he has seen nothing yet to convince him the 21-year-old is the […]
Fabio Wardley’s next fight is shaping up to be a straight rematch with Daniel Dubois — and the date now being floated is October 17. Boxing reporter Darshan Desai has flagged the 17th as a possible slot for the WBO heavyweight return, as reported by Boxing News 24, though nothing has been officially announced. Wardley […]
Decades after his defining nights under the lights, Sugar Ray Leonard is still the name the sport reaches for when it wants to define greatness. A world champion in five weight classes who chased the biggest fights of his era rather than dodging them, Ray Leonard remains, as Boxing News 24 argued this week, boxing’s […]
Roughly 13,000 people filed into Earls Court Arena on 6 August 1966 knowing, more or less, how the night would end. Brian London, the former British and Commonwealth champion nicknamed “The Blackpool Rock”, was a 15-1 outsider against a heavyweight king in the prime of his powers. Many fans dismissed the matchup as a mismatch […]
William Zepeda’s next fight is shaping up to be one of the most keenly watched in the lightweight division after his statement win over Lamont Roach Jr. Zepeda has convinced one of the sport’s most respected voices that he is still climbing. Long-time journalist Mike Coppinger came away from the Roach performance calling Zepeda one […]
Jarrell Miller’s next fight could be the world title shot plenty assumed had passed him by. Eddie Hearn has confirmed Matchroom are in active negotiations to send the 38-year-old heavyweight in against WBA champion Murat Gassiev. Hearn revealed the talks while running through a heavyweight division suddenly rich with belts and options. Miller, who recently […]
Moses Itauma’s next fight is the biggest of his young life – a vacant IBF heavyweight world title shot against Filip Hrgovic on August 29. Yet asked about the hardest night he has ever had in a ring, the 21-year-old didn’t reach for a professional name at all. Itauma has torn through the paid ranks, […]
Cherneka Johnson puts her undisputed bantamweight world title on the line against Dina Thorslund this Saturday, August 8, headlining a card at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Fans in the UK and Ireland can watch on Sky Sports, with the show airing on ESPN platforms in the United States. Johnson (19-2, 8 KOs) […]
Deontay Wilder’s next fight is shaping up to be the grandest exit imaginable – but it very nearly went a completely different way. Before talk emerged of Oleksandr Usyk eyeing ‘The Bronze Bomber’ for his farewell bout, Wilder was lined up to face a British heavyweight in Istanbul this summer. According to reports, Usyk is […]