The final piece of the jigsaw will be pressed firmly into place on February 17 2024 when the World Heavyweight Champion is finally determined in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The promotion named ‘Ring of Fire’ will see Britain’s Tyson Fury face Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk for all of the sanctioning body belts and the ultimate accolade of …
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The Monday LunchBox
After postponement mid-last week of the Joshua Buatsi v Dan Azeez light-heavyweight headliner by BOXXER promotions, a result of Azeez sustaining a back injury, there was still plenty of quality action over the weekend in British rings. The remaining scheduled card for the O2 Arena was quickly shifted to the much smaller but atmospheric York …
The Monday LunchBox
Highlight of this fight week in the UK, also with world ramifications, is the lead in to a big domestic light-heavyweight (12st, 7lbs/175lbs) showdown between ranked contenders in London on Saturday (21st). Both billed from Croydon, south London; 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Joshua Buatsi faces British multi-champion Dan Azeez. It’s a fight between opponents who …
The Monday LunchBox
Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of an iconic domestically contested world title fight; the rematch between ‘Dark Destroyer’ Nigel Benn and self-proclaimed ‘Simply the Best’, Chris Eubank Sr. at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium. The event was for the world super-middleweight (12st/168 lbs) title, outdoors before a captivated crowd and, shown live ‘free to air’ …
The Monday LunchBox
Zhang v Joyce II – Five things we learned
The Friday Faceup
Can an old or ageing heavyweight be taught new tricks ? Tomorrow night (Sept 23rd) at London’s Wembley Arena we’ll find out as Britain’s ‘Juggernaught’ Joe Joyce attempts to ‘right the wrong’ in losing his previously undefeated record to Chinese behemoth Zhilei ‘Big Bang’ Zhang back in April this year. Both come in as elite …
The Friday Faceup
Tonight (Fri 18th), the spiritual home of British boxing, the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, is sold out and will be rockin’ as a potential new star faces his first legitimate test. Dennis ‘The Menace’ McCann from Maidstone, Kent, England boxes talented Spanish-based Romanian Ionut Baluta in a promising twelve rounder at junior-featherweight (122lbs/8st,10lbs). The …
The Monday LunchBox
As world ranked British heavyweight Anthony Joshua laboured and poked his cautious jab through the six completed rounds to find his way to defeat Finland’s Robert Helenius, (who’d taken the fight on six days notice), you couldn’t help thinking whether Joshua (26-3, 23 KO’s) still had enough to recapture past glories. He has previously been …
The Monday LunchBox
We started last week with four elite boxers undefeated records at stake, two mouthwatering world title fights ahead of us and, the mythical ‘pound-for-pound (P4P)’ crown arguably up for grabs. Today, after two dominant performances, the dust has cleared. The only thing still outstanding is the argument about P4P. As emphatically impressive as Japanese Naoya …
The Friday Faceup
In the early hours of Sunday morning (UK time) we will have one Welterweight Champion of the World. Whisper it gently, but believe it ! For the first time since November 1985, a mere 38 years ago, there will be no ‘if’s or but’s or false claims of who is the real champion. The winner …
The Undisputed 