Lamont Roach is back soon but like everyone he is interested in this whole Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua fight event soon on Netflix. It’s a proper heavyweight professional boxing match too on December 19th in Florida. No one knows how it is going to go really. The fact is it is happening now. Roach […]

This is true barbaric stuff from Chris Eubank Jr here who literally looks like he’s about to die in hospital here. The sometimes brutal reality of boxing. Professional boxing for its brave participants is a risky business. They are not paid enough, despite the huge money sometimes for fights. Not enough. Should be more. Way

Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has been watching middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly of Kazakhstan get ready for Cuban champion Erislandy Lara. They fight this weekend in a huge middleweight unification fight. Usyk is obviously good friends with the man from Kazakhstan as in sparring this week from footage you can tell he is very serious about

Let’s get this straight before the keyboard warriors start howling: calling someone a “puncher” is not a compliment. It’s a description. Calling someone a “knockout artist” is reverence. One is a guy who can bang. The other is a grim reaper in 10-ounce gloves. And 95% of fans, even the hardcore ones, still mash the

Ah, the sweet scent of a superfight brewing—two prime beasts, jaws set, egos flaring, and fans frothing at the mouth for that once-in-a-decade clash. But back in the day, before the whispers even hit the gym walls, promoters would snuff it out like a cheap cigar. It wasn’t always the fighters’ egos or the sanctioning

When is it time for a fighter to call it a day is a tough question and differs and ultimately it is down to the boxer and the situation. Some pundits like Naseem Hamed have famously got it wrong on this over the years. Hamed some years ago calling for Chris Eubank Jr to retire

Traditionally professional boxing was governed by a lot of internal politics that stalled fighters, careers and saw boxers not fight enough or be active enough in the sport. This is all changing at the moment with some iron fist tactics in professional boxing coupled with new companies, governments, networks and more coming to the sport