Yearly Archives: 2024

Russian junior welterweight-cum-welterweight Khariton Agrba, 14-0, won something called the IBA Pro world title at welterweight at the IBA Champions Night in Samara on November 4 by beating Argentinian Gabriel Sosa (27-0) over ten. It was scored 99-91 (twice) and 98-92.  The IBA pro fights are a…

To watch Nikolai Valuev prepare to strip down and weigh in for the final time was to watch a man attempt and fail to find a hiding place inside his own body. Surrounded but alone, the giant Russian had been dragged to a Nuremberg shopping…

Joseph Diaz Jnr used to be the obedient, straight-laced kid who brought pride to his neighborhood by becoming a 2012 U.S. Olympian, training diligently and making a steady run of entertaining fights as his followers tracked the progress of a future world champion. As…

When people discuss the long list of talent at Davison’s gym, Masoud’s name will now be mentioned alongside the likes of Moses Itauma, Anthony Joshua, Pat and Luke McCormack, Leigh Wood and Aloys Junior.  Another of Davison’s brightest hopes is 20-year-old Royston Barney-Smith, 12-0…