WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball moved a step closer to a potential superfight with Japan’s Naoya Inoue with a strong showing against Irishman TJ Doheny in Liverpool, England on Saturday night (15th). Despite losing his rag by butt-kicking his opponent on trying to escape from a headlock by his challenger towards the end of the …
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The Weekender
Kirby, Liverpool’s Nick Ball defends his WBA featherweight (9st/126 lbs) title against Ireland’s T J Doheny in his home city tonight. Billed appropriately ‘A Hard Days Night’ in tribute to The Beatles, it’s not expected at face value to be that, but, a further opportunity to showcase ‘The Wrecking Ball’s’ skills and legitimacy to fight …
The Monday LunchBox
Southampton, England’s Ryan ‘Piranha’ Garner showed the predatory fish’ clinical ruthlessness on Saturday (1 Mar) in front of a packed-out nearby Bournemouth International Centre. In an excellent stand-out display he captured the vacant European belt by dominating Spain’s Salvador Jimenez over twelve entertaining rounds on a unanimous decision, winning all. A Queensberry promotion, shown live …
The Monday LunchBox
‘The Last Crescendo’ – A fan’s perspective. Give or take a few pence I handed over my extra £20 to a satellite network for another afternoon and evening of world boxing action. This time for once, not reluctantly, but with the promise and anticipation of “the best card ever” and, most certainly this century. My …
The Friday Faceup
Whichever promoter, media outlet or punter is telling you, the hype is along the same lines – “This is the greatest fight card ever put together” and one “not to be missed”. The Don King or Bob Arum extravaganzas of the 1980’s and 90’s may hold this honour, and certainly for the last century, but …
The Monday LunchBox
Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis delivered an emphatic destruction of 2012 Olympian (and fellow silver medalist) Denys Berinchyk in the ‘small room’ at Madison Square Garden, New York City, Valentine’s night (14 Feb). Although the Norfolk, Virginia fighter had been arriving over the last two years, this was his coming out performance, finally …
The Monday LunchBox
Rising Briton Adam ‘Assassin’ Azim scored a major victory on Saturday (1 Feb) stopping former IBF champion Sergey Lipinets in the ninth round in a ‘crossroads’ fight, and importantly, secured a ‘crossover’ to world level. With fellow Pakistani-heritage and former world champion’s Amir Khan sitting ringside, along with Shawn Porter from the US, it was …
The Weekender
Promising junior-welterweight (10st/140lbs) contender Adam ‘Assassin’ Azim takes his first major step up to world level as he meets former IBF champion Sergey ‘The Samurai’ Lipinets at the OVO Wembley Arena, London, England tonight. So far Azim’s progress to this level has been impressive with his most recent victory against fellow British contender Ohara Davies …
Ron’s Reflections
The Story told by a Photograph There is no doubt that photographs tell a story, especially in the sport of boxing. One of the earliest books with outstanding posed photographs was the Gladiators of the Prize Ring – Heroes of All Nations by Billy Edwards published in 1895. In the introduction the author writes that the …
The Mid-Rounds
Just three weeks into 2025 and the race to be the highly subjective Pound-for-Pound and ‘boxing’s best’ is on ! First to stake his claim, on 8 January, was Australia’s current ‘world’ cruiserweight king Jai Opetaia, who beat his IBF challenger David Nyika with a devastating fourth round knockout. ‘Chilling’ rightly summed it up. Being …
The Undisputed 