Gareth A. Davies saw unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev “bullying” Dmitry Bivol during portions of the later rounds to get the victory by a 12-round majority decision last Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.
Where Bivol made a huge mistake by playing…
Sam Gilley will defend his Commonwealth title against Liverpool’s Jack McGann at London’s York Hall on Friday night.
Until last week, Gilley, 17-1 (8 KOs) had been preparing to renew hostilities with Louis Greene but ‘The Medway Mauler’ was forced to withdraw due to…
A bitter Eddie Hearn insists there needs to be a rematch between his fighter Dmitry Bivol and undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev after their contest last Saturday night in Riyadh.
Bivol getting an immediate rematch works for Hearn, as his fighter gets a second…
British super middleweight champion, Callum Simpson, believes that Ben Whittaker found ‘an easy way out’ of his light heavyweight fight with Liam Cameron in Riyadh on Saturday.
Whittaker was in the midst of his most serious test as a professional when he and Cameron…
Dmitry Bivol says he studied former five-division world champion Sugar Ray Leonard’s fights to use his fighting style as a template for his undisputed light heavyweight match against Artur Beterbiev last Saturday night in Riyadh.
Where Bivol’s strategy of morphing into Leonard 2.0 failed was…
WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani (29-0, 22 KOs) made easy work of #1 contender Petch Sor Chitpattana (76-2, 53 KOs), knocking him out in the sixth round on Monday night at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
The 26-year-old southpaw Nakatani dropped Chitpattana two times…
Each sport has its own set of unspoken rules, customs that are not to be violated lest you reveal yourself as a pretender or mere casual fan, but no code requires a morality check like that of boxing. With little regard for the sheer bravery…
Today, in the main event in Tokyo, Japan, and in the final fight of the two-day boxing extravaganza staged in the country, WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani scored a very impressive sixth round TKO over a game but out-skilled Petch Sor Chitpattna.
In the…
To quote one of the actors portraying a boxing commentator in one of the beloved ‘Rocky’ movies – “where does he get that stamina!?”
The exact same question could so easily be asked of the latest Japanese warrior to add so much raw excitement to…