By Matt Christie ONE OF the downsides of reaching the absolute top is that everyone else has an easy target to aim at, irrespective of whether those taking aim have any right to do so or not. Manchester United remain the football team everyone except Manchester United fans love to hate, largely because they had … Read more
By Elliot Worsell FOR Terence Crawford, the hard work was meant to have been done last July. That was when he agreed to fight Errol Spence, his long-time welterweight rival, and also when he beat him, rather emphatically inside nine rounds. Following that, the assumption was that Crawford, a 35-year-old who had taken the scenic … Read more
The future of boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez is rumored to be uncertain. According to ESPN, the Mexican fighter and PBC (Premier Boxing Champions) have decided to part ways even though there were two fights left in their deal. The first of the three fights took place last September at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, … Read more
THE RESULT: Edgar Berlanga achieves a knockout victory over Padraig McCrory in round six at 2.44 of their 12-round super-middleweight bout. This win marks Berlanga’s first victory inside the distance since 2020, breaking his streak of 16 consecutive first-round knockouts. As a result, Berlanga is now the mandatory challenger for the WBA world belt currently … Read more
By Elliot Worsell IF you remove its context, and if you managed to avoid seeing any of the first act, the thought of Jermall Charlo fighting Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 4 in an attempt to avenge his brother’s defeat in 2023 would sound like quite the plot synopsis. In fact, forget a boxing match, … Read more
By Elliot Worsell WHEN Julio Gonzalez was presented with the unenviable task of trying to dethrone Roy Jones Jnr in 2001, one of the fight’s selling points – perhaps its only one – centred on the idea of Gonzalez becoming the first Mexican in history to win a world light-heavyweight title. For Mexico, a nation … Read more
By Elliot Worsell IN what can only be described as a jarring break from tradition, on Boxing Day my parents and presumably many others with access to Sky Sports spent their morning watching Naoya Inoue beat seven shades out of a game but ultimately overwhelmed Marlon Tapales. Needless to say, it was not the way … Read more
By Elliot Worsell NEXT month Andre Ward turns 40 and in doing so moves one year closer to achieving his goal. That goal, his latest and no different than any other retired fighter’s, is essentially this: for age to become an obstacle so great that the idea of returning to the ring is no longer … Read more
By Declan Taylor SAUL ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and David Benavidez are both ‘committed and ready’ to fight each other but WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman refused to confirm when their mandatory clash will be called. Benavidez secured the most significant victory of his career to date when he stopped Demetrius Andrade in Las Vegas on Saturday night. … Read more
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags FIGHTERS have, since time immemorial, been known to prattle on about how it’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog and to some extent, too, there is an element of truth to this. And yet, more often … Read more
