Daily Archives: July 28, 2024

The WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball is enjoying life. “Yeah – world champ, innit?” he cheerfully told BoxingScene. “I’m feeling good – staying focused and just looking forward to the next one.” Within the space of seven months Ball dominated the respected former super-bantamweight…

Filipino southpaw Pedro Taduran captured his second world title with a surprise ninth-round victory in Japan over Ginjiro Shigeoka. The 27-year-old overcame some early difficulties but Shigeoka suffered damage to his right eye in the fourth and the Japanese star couldn’t cope with the pressure…

Everybody knew that Moses Itauma was too young and too fast for Mariusz Wach. On Saturday night, the 19-year-old heavyweight proved that he was also just too clever, too powerful and too technically good for the 44-year-old Polish veteran.  Itauma’s timing and distance were…

After he was roundly beaten and forced to turn over his welterweight title to Terence Crawford last July, it’s fair to wonder whether we’ve seen the last of the best of Errol Spence Jr. In Thursday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” analyst Shawn…

Derek Chisora kept his career alive Saturday at London's O2 Arena with a hard-fought, toe-to-toe win over Joe Joyce. Chisora averaged 19 punches landed on 56 total punches per round (34 percent connect rate), compared to 21 of 84 (25 percent) for Joyce. Chisora, who…