Nobody ever said a boxing event had to be a noisy occasion. Nor has anyone ever said that a boxing event must take place in a crowded venue in order for it to be financially viable and put smiles on the faces of everybody sitting…
Sometimes inclusivity in boxing is not always a good thing. “If they can do it, anyone can,” might work in other sports, and professions, but in a business as dangerous as boxing encouragement in the wrong places is often asking for trouble.
An eight-rounder…
Talks between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn are reaching a critical stage, with promoter Eddie Hearn “very hopeful” an agreement to stage the controversial British showdown can be reached in the next fortnight.
Eubank and Benn were scheduled to fight in October 2022…
It is customary in combat sports for a fighter who is about to retire, and has usually just lost, to leave their gloves in either the ring or cage as a kind of symbolic gesture.
We see this often in mixed martial arts and…
_1678611571.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "Lauren Price hopes to remain on collision course with Natasha Jonas")
Lauren Price may be on a collision course with British rival Natasha Jonas, but the WBA welterweight titleholder has some business to attend to before she can focus fully on a fight with her fellow Olympian.
On December 14 in Liverpool, England, the two…
Junior middleweight Dante Kirkman scored his first career knockout on Saturday with a third-round TKO of Jose Rodriguez at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, California.
Fighting in front of his hometown crowd, the 23-year-old Kirkman, 3-0 (1 KO), floored Rodriguez twice with…
Oscar De La Hoya has said the fighters are to blame for the poor health of boxing.
On his weekly ‘Clap Back Thursday’ social media segment, De La Hoya told his 1.2m followers on Instagram that he felt the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson spectacle was…
Women’s junior flyweight Brook Sibrian has no plans to slow down.
Sibrian, from Coachella, California, will step into the ring for the fifth time this year when she faces Tania Garcia on Saturday in Rosarito, Mexico – not bad for someone also…
_1634460283.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "ESPN+ set for boxing marathon from France and Mexico")
Two separate boxing cards, from France and Mexico, will stream live on ESPN+ on Saturday.
The marathon will begin at 12:30 p.m. ET from Canopee Westfield Forum des Halles in Paris, where junior middleweight Bakary Samake, 16-0 (8 KOs), will meet Australian veteran Wade…