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 …
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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 …
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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’ …
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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 Undisputed 