LOS ANGELES –Having swapped each other’s signed items in the past, it’s no secret that NBA star Derrick Rose and former boxing pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao are friends. When boxing’s only eight-division champion climbs the ring against Adrien Broner in the new year, Pacquiao wants his buddy to witness the action live, offering two tickets through […]

Tony Bellew perhaps faces the toughest challenge of his career this weekend in the form of Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday but it’s the simple things in life that he’s missing more than anything at the moment. Other than Adonis Stevenson this has to be the hardest fight of Bellew’s career. In many ways it’s a

Newly crowned world champion Nonito Donaire’s father-in-law has ended up in one of the most disgraceful situations this writer can think of for some time regarding the bookies. Bookies can be unscrupulous at the best of times. Anybody who knows anything about business in Ireland or the UK will tell you that. In fact, same

WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder has given Floyd Mayweather some words of warning ahead of his latest comeback. Mayweather stunned the boxing and indeed wider sports worlds yesterday announcing that he’ll fight in Japan on New Year’s against an undefeated, much smaller, much younger, kick boxer. A baffling situation to most within boxing really.

This escalating war of words between Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya shows no signs of slowing down just yet as both boxing legends continue to look to get at one another as personally as they possibly can. When they did fight in the ring all those years ago it was Mayweather who won

For one it is an opportunity of a lifetime, a defining night in the ring. For the other it is another day at the office, one with a grander stage than usual, but still a meeting that is set up as a showcase for future blockbusters. As for fans watching, it all depends which side

Former WBO middleweight champion of the world Billy Joe Saunders is asking boxing fans a pretty straight forward question. He’s certainly being left with plenty of food for thought from them. Saunders had finally put to bed a long period of inactivity and injury woes just before last Christmas with arguably a career best points