Daily Archives: September 27, 2024

Mikaela Mayer’s ambition has her running toward challenges rather than from them. The decorated 2016 Rio Olympian and former world champion is 19-2 (5 KOs) and only wants big fights. On Friday night, she tops the bill at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in…

Charlie Edwards will be taking on a couple of familiar faces when he takes on Thomas Essomba for the European bantamweight title on Friday night.  Edwards (19-1 7 KOs) knows Essomba (13-8-1, 4 KOs) inside-out. He first became aware of him on the International…

Former world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin has been appointed as the chair of World Boxing as the burgeoning commission seeks to establish itself as amateur boxing’s recognized international federation. World Boxing has quickly risen to prominence and become something of a beacon of hope for…

Much of what makes ageing so cruel is that it happens so gradually, the damage done in increments largely imperceptible until suddenly it is all you see. If it’s not something you see in yourself, it will be something you see in those around you,…

The heavyweight division has always been the land of opportunity but there has never been a better time to be a young, talented big man.  And, although he seems to have been around for years, at 30 years old, Hughie Fury remains young in…