Crawford marks time WBO welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford defended his 147lb title in Madison Square Garden, New York City on Saturday with a ninth round stoppage of Lithuanian Egidijus Kavaliauskas. Omaha Nebraskan Crawford (36-0, 27 KO’s) recovered from an apparent knockdown in round three, subsequently ruled a slip, to dominate the fight throughout. The …
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The Monday LunchBox
The Saudi Experience – Five things we learned Anthony Joshua is back – not the destructive AJ of his early career as he moved up in class, although the first Ruiz fight was an aborration, but the return of the thinking boxer. Faced with a foe who’d devastatingly ripped the title from him six months …
Diriyah Diary
Sunday 8th December Joshua back on top In the early hours of Sunday morning (local time) amidst the hospitality, splendour and pageantry of Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, the British heavyweight Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21 KO’s) regained the WBA, IBF and WBO world titles he lost a little over six months ago in a stunning upset in …
Diriyah Diary
Saturday 7th December – Fight Day Right. Let’s get serious. This is what the American’s call a ‘pick ems’ fight. Pundits and the so called experts are split down the middle. In a poll of such in The Ring magazine they came out 12-10 to challenger Anthony Joshua. Almost everyone hedging their bets by offering …
Diriyah Diary
Friday 6th December It was not your average weigh-in. At 4:30pm local time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia the Heavyweight Champion of the World, or at least the WBA/IBF/WBO/IBO versions of it, came to the podium sporting his Mariachi sombrero. Oozing supreme confidence with his entourage and waving the Mexican tricolour, little did we know how …
The Monday LunchBox
The Jackal’s back in business Double-weight world champion and Ring magazine 2016 Fighter of the Year Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton dominated Ohio’s Tyler McCreary over 10 rounds in the Top Rank show in Las Vegas on Saturday. Official scores were 100-88 on all three cards in this ‘catchweight’ super-featherweight bout. The Belfastman dominated throughout, targeting …
The Friday Faceup
The weekly feature looking at the fight weekend ahead. The Bantams are back Just over three weeks ago in Saitama, Japan we saw fight of the year contender Naoya Inoue v Nonito Donaire for the World Boxing Super Series title and Muhammad Ali Trophy in the bantamweight 118lb/8st 6lbs division. This Saturday (November 30th) in …
The Monday LunchBox
Why we love the Heavyweights They don’t have to make weight, they’re almost always slow and ponderous, they shout the odds about being the greatest when only one man can rightly claim that, they avoid each other like the plague, they earn the most money for least amount of work and; in a nutshell frustrate …
The Friday Faceup
The weekly feature looking at the fight weekend ahead Wow ! What a fight weekend we’ve got lined up. First up in Liverpool, England on Saturday (23rd) is the Matchroom Boxing promotion for the WBA super-middleweight (168lb/12st) championship of the world between hometown boy Callum Smith 26-0-0 (19 KO’s) and fellow Englishman John Ryder 28-4-0 …
The Monday LunchBox
Return of the Big Men After the little guy wars and with only five weeks to Christmas the big men return to finish a stellar year off with a sledgehammer. All sanctioned versions of the Heavyweight Championship of the World will be on the line from Las Vegas to Saudi Arabia, plus a British prospect …
The Undisputed 