Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis defeated every man he faced – even if that meant fighting some of them twice. Lewis got revenge on both Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman after he was stopped by both. Tyson Fury has only lost once…
Ishmael Davis hasn’t had too long to prepare for junior middleweight contender Serhii Bohachuk, stepping in as a late replacement opponent just a couple of weeks before their fight, which will take place this Saturday on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury II.…
New Jersey’s Steve Weisfeld looks likely to step in for Miami’s Fernando Barbosa as a judge for the Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury rematch, though that was yet to be confirmed before the end of Friday morning’s rule meeting in Saudi Arabia. The vastly experienced Weisfeld,…
Tyson Fury is a mountain of a man. Standing at 6ft 9in and weighing over 260lbs, Fury so often makes his heavyweight opponents look tiny. That could be seen when he towered over Oleksandr Usyk in their extraordinary 10-minute face-off ahead of their rematch…
Heavyweight Kingsley Ibeh will face Scott Alexander on January 10 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington, headlining a card that will also feature the pro debut of popular Tacoma-based amateur Dedrick Crocklem. Ibeh, 14-2-1 (12 KOs), is on a nine-fight win streak,…
This weekend’s fight between unbeaten heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma and once-beaten Demsey McKean has a rematch clause – which McKean says Itauma’s team inserted into the contract. And the 34-year-old McKean is taking that as a confidence booster for himself, and perhaps a…
Jarrett “Swift” Hurd is targeting a shot at WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara or a scrap with Jermell Charlo. Maryland’s Hurd, 34, has struggled since losing his IBF and WBA 154-pound titles to Julian Williams five years ago. Hurd has had just five fights…
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In this week’s mailbag, we tackle one big shot in Bruno Surace’s shocking knockout of Jaime Munguia; one fighter who appears shot in heavyweight Dillian Whyte; one sanctioning body being praised for not putting its imprint on Errol Spence fighting Sebastian Fundora; and another sanctioning…
Ignore for a moment Tyson Fury’s insistence that he deserved the decision over Oleksandr Usyk on May 18 — that he’s watched the fight a hundred times, and every time, he sees himself racking up the points. Fury is perhaps a wee bit of a…