State of Play: The light-heavyweight division in 2024

State of Play: The light-heavyweight division in 2024

AFTER a strenuous week in the friendship between Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez both men appeared to be back on amicable terms after battling one another last night at The OVO Arena, Wembley. Their British light-heavyweight title bout which doubled up as a final eliminator for a shot at Dmitry Bivol’s WBA belt was engrossing … Read more

BN Preview: Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez are reluctant rivals eager now for capital bragging rights

By Elliot Worsell IF blessed with the power to make big decisions, or, failing that, an array of alternative options from which they could both choose, it’s probable British light-heavyweights Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez would not be fighting each other this Saturday (February 3) or, for that matter, any other Saturday. Were it up … Read more

Good Boys: Buatsi and Azeez have led by example ahead of Saturday’s light-heavyweight clash, but at what cost?

By Elliot Worsell SIX days after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death on her way to school, light-heavyweight boxers Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez appeared at Croydon’s Boxpark, just a stone’s throw from the bus stop where the life of that girl, as well as the life of the boy who killed her, tragically … Read more