Author name: Gavin O'Connor

Adrien The Problem Broner is now in a state of career limbo after a career that once promised so much early on. From the hit movie ‘The Layer Cake’ (2004): “Eddie Temple: You’re born, you take s***. You get out in the world, you take more s***. You climb a little higher, you take less […]

Carl Frampton misses weight at a shocker on the scales ahead of his homecoming fight this Saturday night in Belfast at the SSE Arena. Carl Frampton is known for his diligence and work ethic, so it came as quite the surprise today when he missed weight in Belfast. The man from Tiger’s Bay came in

Mikey Garcia vs Adrien Broner begs a lot of questions about the latter combatant more than anything perhaps. A potentially excellent fight. On Mikey Garcia vs Adrien Broner – in the words of a certain Jay-Z – if you’re having fight prediction problems I feel bad for you son I can see 99 problems and

Kovalev and Ward continue to evoke verbal jabbing by boxing fans online after two, in the eyes of some, still unsatisfactory fights. It is the issue currently dividing the sport of boxing, scroll through any boxing forum and read the comments in regards to both eventual outcomes and it’s crystal clear and evident as to

Adrien Broner finds himself at a career cross road in a showdown with one of the most talented fighters he’s faced in some time. When I think about Adrien Jerome Broner I have mixed emotions. I have a real problem with ‘The Problem’ in the way I view him as a person and a fighter.

Dmitry Sukhotskiy travels to Australia to fight for the vacant WBA Oceania Title on July 14th. We caught up with him ahead of his fight. Australian boxing is riding the crest of a wave after last weekend’s stunning upset win when 29 year old Jeff Horn dethroned the WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. A result that

Lomachenko v Rigondeaux is a fight that will likely avoid boxing fans despite it’s compelling pure competitive nature. In 1999 in the Netherlands’ two chess grand masters G. Kasparov and V.Topalov conspired to play out maybe the most complicated and greatest chess game ever played. To anyone who understands chess and has analysed this particular

The boxing world is alight at the moment with talk about the recently announced ‘super fight’ between Mayweather and McGregor. McGregor vs Mayweather, where to begin? Right or wrong this fight has and will overshadow genuinely legitimate fights within the near future and has many fans divided as to it’s merit. The general consensus being

7 Canelo vs Chavez predictions from boxing authors ahead of one of the biggest all-Mexican fights in years. (By Devon Ledford  and Gavin O’Connor) Believe it or not Cinco de Mayo has a history outside of boxing this weekend. Cinco De Mayo is the celebration of the Mexican victory over French forces at the Battle of

For the first time Eubank Jr stopped previously undefeated Tom Doran (17-1-7KO) in the 4th round in what can only be viewed as a mismatch in all …