Highlight of the boxing weekend in the UK, with world title ramifications, is the big light-heavyweight (12st, 7lbs/175lbs) showdown between undefeated, ranked contenders Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez. The long awaited clash between the two Britons, cancelled from October 2023, will now be held at the historic Wembley Arena, London, scene of many a memorable …
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The Monday LunchBox
Teak tough unified light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KO’s) from Dagestan, Russia, currently based in Canada, showed his undoubted class and superiority when successfully defending his multiple sanctioning body 175 lbs ‘world’ titles against England’s Callum Smith (29-2, 21 KO’s). It took place in Quebec City, Canada on an excellent Top Rank show Saturday …
The Friday Faceup
The new boxing year gets off with a bang tomorrow night in Quebec City, Canada in the light-heavyweight (175 pound/12st,7lbs) division. Current IBF, WBC and WBO champion Artur Beterbiev (19-0, 19 KO’s), arguably one of the finest boxers in the world, meets former unified super-middleweight (168 lbs/12st) champion Callum Smith (29-1, 21 KO’s) in an …
The Monday LunchBox
It was a weekend when one fighter emphatically sealed his star status, one showed his grit and another took one more step towards potential stardom. Main story of the weekend was the complete shutout by Devin ‘The Dream’ Haney in securing a ‘world’ title in a second weight class by defeating WBC super-lightweight (140lbs/10st) champion …
The Friday Faceup
Once upon a time the 140lbs (10st) junior-welterweight division had a unified world champion. That man was Scotland’s Josh Taylor. Then, he was gradually denuded of that title by having to relinquish one of the sanctioning belts and later had others removed. When he faced, and lost to Teofimo Lopez, only a few remaining belts …
The Monday LunchBox
Main headline and star of the show last weekend has to be the now two-weight undisputed female world champion Katie Taylor. The 37 year old Irish boxing legend further added to her outstanding achievements winning a breathtaking contest to relieve Northampton, England’s Chantelle Cameron of The Ring magazine 140lb (10st) championship and the numerous sanctioning …
The Monday LunchBox
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 …
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 Undisputed 