Author name: Peter Wells

Ray Beltran has been through it all in his career. Peter Wells breaks down this weekend’s fight for him with Paulus Moses for the vacant WBO lightweight title. His story has been of being the nearly man for many years now, but on Friday (16th) night, Raymundo Beltran 34-7-1(21KO’s) will have his greatest opportunity to […]

Boxing News and Views’ is back this week as always to give his weekly preview – this week lets look at his Danny Garcia vs Brandon Rios prediction. It will be nearly a year since Danny Garcia’s unbeaten record stumbled down in the shape of a split decision defeat to Keith Thurman. And when he

The Cruiserweights have left it all on the line in their respective semi-finals, and now it is the turn of the louder and brasher Super Middleweights to produce on the biggest of stages. The second semi between Callum Smith and Jürgen Brähmer has been overshadowed by the most anticipated British grudge match of the year.

There have been many examples – in years gone by – of all-British grudge matches taking too long to take place – or not taking place at all – but with a sudden injection of promoters taking more risks with their unbeaten boxers’ records, the pairing of two prospects with under 10 wins on their

A week after the battle of the boxers in the first semi-final – at the time of writing Oleksandr Usyk vs Maris Briedis had yet to take place – the two punchers of the tournament collide in what is guaranteed to be a firework filled event. The IBF Cruiserweight ruler, Murat Gassiev takes home advantage

Following a trio of victories over English opposition, it is Philippines’ Mercito Gesta who is now tasked with dethroning WBA Lightweight title holder Jorge Linares 43-3(27KO’s). Linares’ 12-fight winning streak strides back to 2012, and his standing as an elite pound-for-pound fighter can be narrowly improved with a win over his latest challenger. And an

The World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) is well and truly ready to make waves in the boxing world. And it all starts on Saturday night (27th January) when the cruiserweight semi-finals commence with WBC & WBO champions Mairis Briedis and Oleksandr Usyk meeting in Latvia. Both have found success easy to come by in their