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

Many boxing trainers add value to their fighters’ corners but not always the case in some instances. The fighter and trainer combination and rapport is vital to a development of a boxer in professional ranks at any level. Very important no less. If there is not a proper understanding in the gym the communication on

Ryan Garcia challenges for the world title next up in a huge fight with Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight championship and he is getting ready. Garcia is doing very well at the moment in training. Coming off the back of a Rolly Romero defeat earlier this year appears to have put him in a