The Monday LunchBox

Vengeance is sweet ! In Oaxaca, Mexico, early Sunday morning (UK time) South Africa’s box-puncher Sivenathi Nontshinga defeated Mexico’s Adrian Curiel to regain his IBF light-flyweight (108lbs/7st, 10lbs) title. The classy Nontshinga (13-1, 10 KOs) from Reeston in the Eastern Cape lived up to his “Special One” nickname scoring a spectacular technical knockout at 44 …

The Monday LunchBox

Performance and breakout victory of the weekend was by Ilford, London’s Hamzah Sheeraz on a stacked Queensberry promotion at the Copper Box Arena, Stratford, London. The tall middleweight (160lbs/11st, 6lbs) impressively stopped Wales’ former title contender Liam Williams for the WBC silver and Commonwealth titles inside one round after an initial knockdown. The finish came …

The Weekender

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 …

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 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 …