The sport of boxing at the highest level professionally, prizefighting, traditionally has been built on the success of the heavyweight division. Humanity has always gravitated towards the heavyweight division in different generations. While the money traditionally was always at the top in boxing in this division, fighters at the lighter weights like Naseem Hamed changed […]

Ahead of this weekend’s notable fight for women’s boxing, Australian Ebanie Bridges has been vocal. She has responded to opponent Shannon Courtenay’s remarks regarding her weigh-in outfits specifically: “Have some respect and decorum for boxing.” Speaking to Matchroom Boxing YouTube — Bridges said in reply: “To say all the hard work that (Irish world champion)

Boxing comes in for a lot of not needed, misplaced and misguided criticism at times. But at its root are the boxers putting in the work in the gym. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year. Honing their craft, improving their fight game and trying to apply what they have

Francis Ngannou, the new UFC heavyweight champion, in many circles is being called a new type of Mike Tyson. Mainly due to his heavy-handed knockout style. While done so in the sport of mixed martial arts with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, we spoke on here recently on how to not be surprised if some of

Retired pound for pound number one best boxer of his generation Floyd Mayweather continues to make big news in the sport. Despite being retired some years now as a professional. These days he promotes boxers with his own promotional company but it appears he is not quite done with the exhibition tours yet himself. In

There has been a lot of boxing legends from years gone past returning to the sport as of late in exhibition presented formats and bouts. While some have criticized, others have pointed to them being harmless ways to drum up interest for boxing. As well as being good nights of entertainment overall. Something, however, seems

Boxing legends Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns got together recently in the studio of one Mike Tyson and also Shane Mosley. Four boxing legends in one place doesn’t happen often. A rarity. At one point the old competitive juices started flowing once again. When speaking on the ‘HotBoxin with Mike Tyson’ podcast, speaking on their