Author name: Gavin O'Connor

Boxing News and Views consulted the opinion of four writers to get a balanced list of Rigondeaux vs Lomachenko predictions. The chances of predicting a national Lottery jackpot are 1 in 14 million. The chances of predicting the winner between Rigondeaux vs Lomachenko are slightly lower, but still astronomical. Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration. Rigondeaux vs […]

The sport of boxing’s special 2017 gift is getting wrapped at the moment and fight fans don’t have long to do to enjoy it. Please excuse my excitement and my disappointment at the same time. It’s a rarity in boxing when as fans we are actually given the fights we truly want, but don’t actually

Felix Mankatah might not be a household name just yet but if boxing’s history is anything to go by don’t write him off. Boxing has the undeniable ability to change lives and fortunes. As an art form boxing and its practitioners overwhelmingly come from the toughest of environments the world over and in many ways,

Archie Sharp, a super-featherweight from London, UK, could be one of those rare prospects that come along once in a while. As the crow flies from Shooter’s Hill in South East London to the Copper Box Arena across the Thames, East London  is only a few miles but in terms of what it takes to get

With just two weeks to go we’ve gathered six Golovkin vs Canelo predictions from different writers ahead of one of the best fights in years. The Marmite (love it hate it) fight has come and gone leaving a ‘mass’ of happy and disgruntled fans in equal measure in its wake across the global combat sports

Boxing fans in 2017 have been treated to a bumper year so far in the sport but it looks like things are just about to get a whole lot better. If the reports are to be believed, Christmas this year for boxing fans will come 16 days early on the 9th of December to be

I have a boxing calendar hanging up in the corner of my kitchen featuring some of the greatest boxers to have ever entered the ring. (By Gavin O’Connor and C.Henderson) It just so happens the picture for August is of Muhammad Ali, one of the if not not the greatest boxer of all time. The