World ranked Ryan Garner convincingly won the WBC interim super-featherweight (130lbs/9st, 4lbs) championship at a packed out St Mary’s stadium, home of Southampton Football Club, Saturday night (20 June). On the announcement of the unanimous points victory (116-112, 118-110 & 119-109) ‘The Piranha’ was ecstatic in front of his local friends and family and fellow …
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The Friday Faceup
It will take the appearance of a ‘born and bred’ local lad to lift the gloom that’s hovered over Southampton, England for the last six weeks. The city has been in the news for two notable high profile stories. First, on a sporting front, the ‘Spygate’ saga where Southampton Football Club were found guilty of …
The Friday Faceup
So, the dust has finally settled on last Saturday’s (11 April) bigheavyweight headliner at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium,London, England. The Tyson Fury unanimous points victory over a game, butoutgunned Arslanbek Makhmudov, was followed by the welldocumented verbal exchange between his British and worldnemesis Anthony Joshua. We felt the spectator outsmartedthe victorious ‘Gypsy King’. Meanwhile, unified …
The Weekender
Tonight at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England two-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury returns from fifteen month’s inactivity and, a fifth ‘retirement’ ! He will face Russian man-mountain Arslanbek Makhmudov (21-2, 19 KOs). The comebacking ‘Gypsy King’ (34-2-1, 24 KOs) was his usual witty-self in Thursday’s (April 9) London press conference at which, despite tickets moving, were stated …
The Monday LunchBox
It was messy, but it was an intriguing and riveting watch for twelve completed rounds. The intrigue was whether either aging fighter would unravel completely, or the heavier punching and eventual winner Deontay Wilder would finally detonate the punch that would bring an abrupt end. Forever brave Dereck ‘War’ Chisora kept coming forward until his …
The Friday Faceup
Back in January 1990 there was a heavyweight contest in Atlantic City, USA headlined ‘Geezers at Caesars’. It featured former heavyweight champion George Foreman against a comebacking Gerry Cooney. The fighters had a combined age of 74 ! It ended inside two rounds with the multiple knockdown and final KO of Cooney. He would never …
The Monday LunchBox
Young British heavyweight Moses Itauma confirmed he’s the new real deal with a stunning knockout of American Jermaine Franklin in Manchester, England Saturday night (28 March). The ever-increasing hype around him and pressure that could’ve ensued, was made immaterial with the emphatic manner he broke down, disbanded and destroyed the heavyweight contender. Franklin was dropped …
The Monday LunchBox
This writer is of an age where it can be said that he has ‘rose-tinted’ glasses, is or getting old, and, does not fully appreciate the talent, personalities, match-ups and promotions of today. But, let me defend and indulge myself and try to justify how good the boxing world was forty years ago. In 1986 …
The PressBox
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England was the stage for the media return of two-time lineal Heavyweight Champion of the World Tyson Fury on Monday evening (16 February). By our estimation to announce, and he later confirmed, a fifth return from ‘retirement’ ! We never doubted the ‘Gypsy King’ would be back, it was a question …
The Monday LunchBox
By stunning knockdown and stoppage in the final round of a captivating WBA world featherweight title fight in Liverpool on Saturday, the hearts of then-champion Nick Ball and his fellow Liverpudlians were broken. The deliverer, American southpaw Brandon ‘The Heartbreaker’ Figueroa. On an excellent Queensberry Promotions card, shown live on DAZN, the featherweight (9st/126lbs) division …
The Undisputed 