Monthly Archives: September 2024

When Jimmy Sains isn’t knocking people out, the unbeaten middleweight likes a round of golf. The hard-hitting 23-year-old from Essex has stopped all six of his professional opponents but when he steps up to the tee box, don’t expect him to crunch his driver…

What once was boxing’s marquee division has crumbled into pieces of failed negotiations, tight-fisted promotion, protective decision-making and barely beyond-anonymous names. Recent Labor Day weekend events that saw unbeaten IBF welterweight champion Jaron Ennis and his promoter, Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, withdraw from unification…

Chris Billam-Smith’s possible next opponent isn’t undefeated, and he isn’t a natural cruiserweight. Those are two possible critiques that people may have for Gilberto Ramirez. But Billam-Smith (20-1, 13 KOs) — who, as those numbers show, has a loss of his own — had…