In some unexpected in quite frankly brilliant news talks of a Katie Taylor vs Ronda Rousey boxing match are now underway. Boxing never ceases to amaze over the years of the fights it can pull out of the hat at the last minute. Now, with more commercial large corporations than ever, this is much more […]

Maybe you can compare the boxing rematch the sequel of a blockbuster hit movie on the big screen, the part two often doesn’t live up to the first one. That’s maybe not an accurate comparison but you get the idea. Sometimes if a fight is an absolute barnstormer the first time it is always going

When it comes to the marketing and sell of boxers it is not always a clear cut thing why some things work and some things don’t. That happens with trial and error in any business or product, of which like anything in this world, of course professional boxing is. Some fighters to some fans might

Heavyweight gets the headlines, but cruiserweight is quietly putting on the best shows in boxing. Jai Opetaia dismantling everyone with southpaw brilliance, Chris Billam-Smith’s non-stop wars, Gilberto Ramirez moving up, Badou Jack still dangerous, Noel Mikaelyan, Yuniel Dorticos – the list goes on. These are big, athletic men who punch like heavyweights but move and

Over the years of watching boxing for more than 30 years now we’ve noticed some things that apply to professional boxing in terms of moving weight. Very few becoming world champion. Even fewer become undisputed or unified world champion in a weight class in professional boxing. A very rare select few men then becoming multi-weight

The Sky Sports hype job theory in pro boxing was actually proven many times over the years when you look at it. Sky, a network in the UK and Europe with an outstanding marketing machine behind them, were very good at telling stories of fightersbut sometimes maybe too good at it. One former director at

They say a professional fighter learns much more from a loss than a win and it possibly has some truth to it when you look at great champions. When everything is going well and you are battering and flattening everyone one, things are great, but you find out what kind of fighter you really are