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The middleweight prospect Amari Jones – one of boxing’s most talked-about up-and-comers – has recruited the esteemed trainer Virgil Hunter. Jones, 22 and from Oakland, California, holds a record of 13-0 (12 KOs) and last fought in August, when he stopped Daniel Echeverria in…

Although it was two decades too late, hall-of-fame fighters Roy Jones Jnr and Mike Tyson finally fought – only, it was in an entertaining exhibition in 2020 instead of the real deal. Tyson had been retired for 15 years but engaged Jones in a…

For weeks Jaron “Boots” Ennis will have prepared to win a no-win situation while ignoring the collective sigh of fans, each of them as frustrated as him to have to endure what was set to take place. He would have considered how to make the…

Naoya Inoue is poised to close 2024 as the dominating force in the sport moving into 2025. Consider that while Canelo Alvarez is playing out the string in the super-middleweight division, that Terence Crawford seems only to have eyes for Alvarez and that the…

Promoter Eddie Hearn is certain that when Anthony Joshua returns, it will be against Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury. Hearn, speaking on the Ariel Helwani show, said Joshua – recovering from injuries sustained in his September Wembley blockbuster against Dubois – would not be…

Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez defended his WBC junior bantamweight title with a third-round stoppage of Pedro Guevara last night at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Now, the 24-year-old champ is looking to unify the division – or, if those opportunities don’t come – he may…

Chris Billam-Smith smiles at a question, then proceeds to shovel some scrambled egg and halloumi into his mouth. We are in a trendy brunch spot around 20 minutes from his home, near Bournemouth, and “The Gentleman” is living up to his name. The…

The reaction to Jaron “Botts” Ennis’ repeat victory over Karen Chukhadzhian has been mixed on social media, with fighters telling him to keep working, not to face them and still backing him. Ennis again outscored Karen Chukhadzhian, as he had done in January 2023,…

Ringside in Philadelphia this weekend, Conor Benn announced he was back and ready for big fights without a warm-up.  Benn defeated Peter Dobson in Las Vegas in February, five months after outscoring Rodolfo Orozco in Orlando. He has not boxed in the UK…