Author name: Niall Doran

Floyd and Roger Mayweather popularized pad work on YouTube and the internet and now everyone thinks they are them — they are not — far from it. The two of them were complete once off geniuses on the pads who spent years around one another, day and night, through the middle of the night at […]

Forty years old, twenty one fights, twenty knockouts. Let that sink in. He’s still here and still competing near the highest level. The man has only ever heard the final bell as a professional once — against Ditry Bivol. Age was supposed to rob the legs, slow the hands, dull the edge. Instead he marched

Two of the most avoided fighters on the planet, both natural 200-pounders, both with zero quit in their DNA. Opetaia – slick southpaw with a chin from another planet and vicious combination punching. Benavidez – 6’2 pressure machine who tears the body apart like it personally offended him. How Jai Opetaia vs David Benavidez at

Obviously China is a much larger, more powerful and more wealthy country than Japan but boxing can and should use the Japanese proven model soon in China. Why? Because it not only works, it is a massive success, not just in Japan either. Sure, everyone in Japan knows pound for pound star Naoya ‘The Monster’

Pound for pound is boxing’s greatest ever pub argument – strip away the size, who’s the actual best? We love it because it’s unanswerable. One minute Crawford’s resume and skill make him untouchable, next minute someone says prime Roy Jones knocks him out before the bell rings twice. Both can be true on the same

He started as the Disney kid turned annoying YouTuber, fair enough. But wake up – that was six years and 11 pro fights ago. Jake Paul hasn’t posted a prank video in half a decade. What he has done is sell 80,000 tickets to watch him fight 58-year-old Mike Tyson, outdraw Canelo in multiple markets,

First undisputed heavyweight champion in a quarter-century and people still talk about him like he’s holding the belts on a technicality. Beat Joshua twice (once on his own patch), outboxed Fury in his backyard, then did it again in the rematch after eating a dozen clean right hands. Survived a borderline low blow from Dubois