Just casually looking back, what a great big fight year 2025 was. It kicked off in February with the Artur Beterbiev – Dmitry Bivol rematch from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and some of the purest boxing and calculated ferocity you will witness. Bivol turning the tables and winning on a majority points decision (114-114, 116-112 and …
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The Monday LunchBox
Generational talent Naoya Inoue (32-0, 27 KOs) lies on the cusp of being the next greatest fighter in the modern era after his unanimous points decision victory over Alan Picasso on Saturday (27 December) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As expected, ‘The Monster’ was successful and almost flawless in his performance in defeating the previously undefeated …
The PressBox
The mythical Ring magazine pound-for-pound title (boxing’s best regardless of weight class) is revered, but fraught with jeopardy and danger. Consider former welterweight king Donald Curry before he was blitzed by then unheralded Lloyd ‘Ragamuffin Man’ Honeyghan in September 1986 or, Julio Cesar Chavez before he came up against Frankie ‘The Surgeon’ Randall in January …
Ron’s Reflections
Boxing becomes legal in South Africa – a history Boxing was illegal in the Transvaal and the rest of South Africa from just before the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) until a few years after hostilities had ceased. Prior to 1923 boxing was illegal, but Ludwig Japhet who had a law practice in Johannesburg had a …
The Monday LunchBox
Saturday (22nd) saw some fantastic action in largely competitive fights from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Ring IV event gave us four world championship contests with standout performances from David Benavides, Devin Haney, Abdullah Mason and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez. Pick of the bunch for competitiveness was the Abdullah Mason versus Sam Noakes fight for the WBO …
The Weekender
Tonight, in the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, London, England, the thirty-five year boxing family feud between the Eubanks and Benns may finally be settled for good. We say ‘finally’, but this is boxing. What’s remarkable is the main event of the bill titled ‘Unfinished Business’ has taken a mere seven months to come together, this after …
The Friday Faceup
Yesterday’s final press conference in North Greenwich, London added fuel to the heavyweight fire between New Zealand’s WBO mandatory challenger Joseph Parker and rising Brit Fabio Wardley. With just today’s weigh-in left, they finally meet head-on at the O2 Arena on the Greenwich peninsula Saturday night (25th). The winner will likely go on to face …
The PressBox
Fight of the week sees the long awaited return of the heavyweights. The scene has lay dormant since July. This Saturday (25th) in a Queensberry promotion at London’s O2 Arena mandatory world title contender Joseph Parker returns to the ring against recent British champion Fabio Wardley. It’s a potential crossroads fight which promises much and …
The Weekender
Get ready ! In the context of world boxing and its headline acts this is a big weekend. Three of the Ring Magazine ‘pound-for-pounders’ enter the four ropes to stake their claim to be the ‘main man’. Two of them face off against each other. It’s largely accepted that multi-heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is the …
Ron’s Reflections
Who are the top fifty South African fighters of all time ? For those of you who retain, or have a keen interest in South African boxing, here is a historical article from the doyen of boxing writing from that proud boxing nation, Ron Jackson. He is a former contributor to The Ring and South …
The Undisputed 