Liam Smith has known Josh Kelly for years but had never thought of him as a potential opponent.
“He was always a welter. I was always a light middle,” Smith said in an interview on Flash Knockdown, a podcast from Matchroom Boxing.
They’ve…
Junior welterweight Kevin Brown may not be far from a title shot, but his journey has been anything but easy. In his last fight, Brown, a decorated Cuban amateur, secured a hard-fought split decision victory over Idalberto Umara, a bout that taught him valuable lessons…
Diego Pacheco is a promotional teammate of super middleweight Edgar Berlanga – but it is Berlanga who will get the next crack at Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, the lineal 168-pound champ and former undisputed king who still owns three of the four major world titles. …
He was an undefeated fighter, an expert boxer who had won world titles in three weight classes and had recently parted ways with Top Rank, his longtime promoter, in search of larger paydays. But when the big fight everyone wanted to see him in didn’t…
‘The Showman’ versus ‘The Demolition Man’. The artistic, successful amateur against the slow burner who has battled his way up through the small halls. The classy, southpaw boxer against the strong, heavy handed pressure fighter.
On paper, the vacant British super lightweight title fight…
_1702594331.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "Matchroom ‘finalizing’ terms for Sunny Edwards-Galal Yafai")
Matchroom expect to finalize a fight between Sunny Edwards and Galal Yafai in the coming days.
The 28-year-old Edwards is recovering from the cut suffered in victory over Mexico’s Adrian Curiel in June, but in the days before that fight revealed that his terms…
The Daily Bread Mailbag is here as the one and only Stephen "Breadman" Edwards responds to your questions about Crawford, Canelo, Boots, the lightweight legacy of Duran and the pain he felt watching Julian Williams lose his world title.
I’ve been quick to criticise…
Since Nick Ball beat Raymond Ford to win the WBA featherweight title in Saudi Arabia in June, there has been an ongoing discussion on the northern boxing circuit as to whether his trainer, Paul Stevenson, is the first Liverpudlian to guide a fighter to a…
_1.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "‘It’s hard to let go’: why Bryant Jennings is returning five years after defeat")
When on Saturday night Bryant Jennings walks to the ring to confront Joel Caudle, he will do so as an active fighter for the first time in over five years.
It was in July 2019, at London’s O2 Arena against Joe Joyce, that Jennings…