David Benavidez staying at cruiserweight is a smart career decision. Oleksandr Usyk has avoided the fight for good reason. Usyk looked shocking against kickboxing champion Rico this year and had been lucky to pull out the late stoppage victory out of the bag. He is fat as a house at the moment also and is

Ryan Garcia showed real technical growth in his win over Conor Benn. The dust has settled on the bout at this point. Some reflections on the technical areas of the sport that Garcia displayed incremental improvements on from the limited rounds available and things that he did good; Ryan Garcia has punch ability in both

An Islam Makhachev vs Conor McGregor boxing match will not happen. McGregor is finished at the elite level and the sport has moved on. Conor McGregor got another injury recently in a MMA and UFC fight, he cannot hack the pace or nature of the highest level of professional combat sports anymore. Clearly. Neither can

Keith Thurman says Shakur Stevenson should move up in weight. The logic behind his argument is sound. Stevenson looked impressive sure against Teofimo Lopez but that had been papering over the fact Lopez had been in big decline. Not that impressive a victory considering Teofimo Lopez is on the slide the last some number of

It is back to America on this Saturday coming in the latest installment of professional boxing big time cards. Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz is in action on the main event in California this Saturday at 140 pounds. Jesus Alejandro Ramos the co-headline at 148 pounds. Here is the Isaac Cruz vs Nestor Brave time of fight

De La Hoya was absent from Garcia vs Benn despite co-promoting it, his exclusion proves he’s no longer a major player in elite boxing promotion. He simply never turned up on fight night in the end to Garcia vs Benn either. Some notes on this after the dust has settled on Saturday at this point;

Conor Benn entered fight night over 180 pounds, but it didn’t matter. This analysis breaks down why ability, not weight, decides fights in boxing. Firstly, Benn did not get his game plan right either. Too much aggression, not enough brains behind him being caught flat footed easily enough at times. Garcia too much ability for