Day: August 18, 2018

A world featherweight title showdown between Carl Frampton and Joshua Warrington has now been penciled in following Frampton’s win tonight in Belfast. Champion Warrington won his belt earlier this year with a standout performance over Wales’ Lee Selby and sharing the same promoter as Frampton in the form of Frank…

Carl Frampton impressed tonight in front of his hometown Belfast fans as he fulfilled a life long dream in boxing at his beloved Windsor Park stadium. The rain came down heavy tonight in Northern Ireland for the main events but nothing was to rain on the Carl Frampton parade as…

WBC heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury had a pint of beer launched at him tonight in Windsor Park while watching the fights. Wilder was in attendance tonight to scout his next opponent Tyson Fury. Fury strolled to a ten round shut out unanimous points decision over Francesco Pianeta…

The Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury WBC Heavyweight Title fight has been formally confirmed following tonight’s Fury vs Pianeta fight. Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren confirmed the fight as on after Fury beat Pianeta over ten rounds tonight in Belfast’s Windsor Park: IT’S ON!!!! pic.twitter.com/N2BuzXDrp3 — Frank Warren (@frankwarren_tv) August…

Fury out pointed his foe tonight over ten rounds to set up a crack at the WBC heavyweight champion of the world Deontay Wilder next up. Fury did what he needed to do tonight. What he was expected to do in truth. Could he have gone for the knockout? Probably.…

Deontay Wilder got in the ring with Tyson Fury tonight after Fury beat Francesco Pianeta over ten rounds tonight in Windsor Park in Belfast. Ten rounds proved vital for Fury who needed to shake off ring rust as he knew in the back of his mind a shot against Wilder…

Fury made a successful second comeback fight tonight in a rainy Windsor Park in Belfast as he set up a huge fight against WBC heavyweight champion of the world Deontay Wilder later this year. Fury looked far trimmer than he did in his first comeback fight against Sefer Seferi and…

A great moment took place ringside a short time ago in Belfast as legendary English soccer player Paul Gascoigne met WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder. For those unfamiliar with the soccer player he’s also known as ‘Gazza’ and was perhaps one of the most gifted and talented sportsmen to ever…

One of the most well-timed body shots in recent professional boxing memory landed on Irishman Paddy Barnes tonight. No one would have got up from this. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. In tonight’s boxing action on TV brave Barnes took on champion Rosales in…

Tonight’s world title fight involving Irish Olympian Paddy Barnes started off with a whirl wind of action but unfortunately for the brave Irishman it wasn’t meant to be. Taking a world title fight in only his 6th pro fight, the courage it showed to do that alone was quite remarkable.…

The night of the chicken attack, or should we way last night’s hurling of a piece of chicken at a Nandos restaurant by middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders at heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, has been and gone now. But, the two have bumped into one another once again at tonight’s…

The official Carl Frampton Windsor park TV schedule line up tonight might be a smaller one than usual but it’s still a cracker. There will be three televised bouts in total tonight on the Carl Frampton Windsor park TV schedule. First up will Paddy Barnes who will come to the…

The Deontay Wilder Nandos altercation in Belfast last night with middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders has been reported far and wide but now Saunders has given his side of what happened. Saunders is often involved in controversial events in the sport but last night has to go down perhaps as…

The Carl Frampton undercard at Windsor Park today is a solid one and is underway if you are planning on heading along in Belfast today. So if you’re not there yet, make sure you get down soon if you don’t want to miss too much of the early undercard action.…

WBC heavyweight champion of the world Deontay Wilder is in town this weekend for the big Fury and Frampton Belfast boxing bill and has got people talking since his arrival. From gate crashing the weigh-in yesterday, to been involved in a bizarre chicken throwing incident in Nandos last night with…

Boxing manager Shelly Finkel is in Belfast this weekend accompanying his fighter WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder who will commentate on tonight’s Tyson Fury fight. Shelly Finkel is perhaps outside of Bob Arum and Frank Warren, the most experienced man operating in boxing today. He has been around the…

Liverpool’s Tony Bellew is an observer in the heavyweight division as a pundit and as a fan nowadays after indicating recently that his next plan is to go back to cruiserweight for a possible fight with unified champion Usyk. But Bellew knows one or two things about the heavyweight division…

Boxing warrior Brandon Rios has been in some great fights over the years and treated fans to his fan-friendly all action style for some time. But outside the ring he’s always been value for money too – in terms of his straight to the point, no-nonsense view on his fights…

Some are calling it the ‘Battle of Nandos’ while others ‘Chicken Gate’. It’s seems to be the big story this morning in the boxing world and one that has caused a stir. Some have made reference to the whole joke aspect of it, while others have pointed to the whole…

Former two-division world champion Jessie Vargas from Las Vegas returns to action on October 6th in Chicago but is eyeing big fights after that should he win. Vargas fights on the first live US event card for new streaming platform DAZN which is being promoted by Eddie Hearn and Matchroom…

The incident last night between the two boxers has been dubbed ‘Chicken Gate’ by some but until now it was unclear what caused the argument and ultimately, chicken to fly in Nandos restaurant. The two men are never going to fight at the end of the day. One is a…

WBC heavyweight champion of the world Deontay Wilder has had to bat back many people on social media berating him for what in some people’s view was a WWE circus at yesterday’s Tyson Fury weigh-in. There’s a debate in the sport of boxing at the moment about how good for…

WBO middleweight world champion Billy Joe Saunders caused headlines last night when various short videos emerged of him running out of a restaurant in Belfast. Upon first inspections of these odd course of events last night it looked like WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder was chasing after Saunders. However it…