2025 – Sugar Bert Boxing

What We Don’t Know About The Death Of Sonny Liston!

Born in poverty, former world heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston died of an overdose on December 30, 1970. The only thing is he made it known before this: “I’m afraid of needles!” Was this an accident, or was something more sinister in play? Liston’s life was…

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Jai Opetaia returns to Australia as the master, following his ‘apprenticeship’

Jai Opetaia believes he has returned to Australia as a fighter who has served his “apprenticeship” after over two years spent fighting on the road. It was in July 2022 when the IBF cruiserweight champion first won his title and so impressively resisted a…

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Boots Ennis To 154? Time For A New Challenge

Unbeaten IBF World Welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis wants to stay at welterweight to unify the titles. The only problem is that the three other organizations’ champions are unwilling to unify by fighting him. Coming off a not-impressive win, though without a doubt the winner,…

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How appendicitis delayed the return of ‘Right Hook Roxy’

Women’s featherweight Iyana “Right Hook Roxy” Verduzco thought her third pro fight would take place at the end of 2024, until an unfortunate sparring session led to the realization that she required surgery. Verduzco will now fight Lindsey Ellis in a six-round bout at…

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Donald Curry’s cry for help

Donovan Curry, son of the legendary Lone Star Cobra, Donald, the Hall of Fame welterweight, has taken to social media once more to issue a plea for help for his father. Curry is now 63 years old but life after boxing has been an…

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David Nyika: I’ll Prove Jai Opetaia Is Not Indestructible

IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia told challenger David Nyika that he’d got an image in his head that he’s some “indestructible dude,” and that’s not the case. Opetaia admits that he’s not indestructible, so he works so hard to “level up.” Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs)…

BoxingNews24 6 hours ago

Can Naoya Inoue Maintain Dominance At Featherweight?

The undefeated Japanese Naoya Inoue, at 31 years old, will face the British Sam Goodman on January 24 at the Ariake Arena, Koto-Ku, in Tokyo, Japan. In a fight that looks like a formality for Inoue, and should easily win. Goodman (19-0, 8 KOs) is…

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Fights affected by adverse conditions

As I write this on a Sunday morning in Vermont, the snow plows are hard at work outside (which is normal for this time of the year), while farther south, Washington, D.C. is preparing itself for six to 10 inches of snowfall (which is not).…

BoxingNews24 7 hours ago

Is Opetaia Vulnerable To Nyika’s Power? Champion Shows Signs Of Pressure

Jai Opetaia predicts he will “hurt” David Nyika and “put him to sleep” on Wednesday night in their headliner at the Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach, Australia. Opetaia’s Anger IBF cruiserweight champion Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) went from 1 to 10 on the anger scale…

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