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Trainer Adam Booth was satisfied with Josh Kelly’s Wembley Stadium victory over Ishmael Davis a fortnight ago and hopes it will lead the fighter to big domestic fights or world titles. Kelly had been due to face Liam Smith, but the Liverpool star withdrew…

In April, Dennis McCann added the European junior featherweight title to his British and Commonwealth straps by outclassing the dangerous Ionut Baluta over 12 rounds. Last August, McCann and Baluta battled to a bloody, technical draw after engaging in a nine round war.  …

Australian junior middleweight star Tim Tszyu has spent some of his camp in Thailand working alongside his Hall of Fame father Kostya. As he prepares to face former 154lbs champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in Florida on October 19 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, the…

Nick Ball was in a confident mood at today’s final press conference ahead of his first defense of his WBA featherweight title against Ronny Rios.   Ball will take on Rios this Saturday at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool in front of a roaring…

Welterweight Quinton Randall is aiming to move into contender status when he takes on Janelson Figueroa Bocachica in his hometown of Houston tomorrow. Randall, 34, has wanted to face Bocachica since watching him fight a previous opponent, Brian Norman Jr. The bout, which headlines…

Terence Crawford seems to have a single-minded pursuit of Canelo Alvarez in progress for now, but the pound-for-pound elite and unbeaten four-division champion is finding it hard to deny that he, too, is being targeted. The past week has seen WBA junior-middleweight champion Crawford…

There’s a scene in the Will Ferrell film “Kicking and Screaming” where Robert Duvall’s character is trying to compare his manhood and success with Mike Ditka’s. “I can’t hear you,” Ditka responds, flashing his Chicago Bears’ 1985 Super Bowl season memento, “my ring is…

As the film “The Featherweight,” about the life of boxing great Willie Pep, enters wide release, this week a different BoxingScene contributor will reflect on a boxing biopic that resonates with them. Today: "Bleed for This." At a cinema in the West End of…

While it is not unusual to hear that an amateur boxer about to turn pro has options from which to choose, rarely do these options include a completely new direction; a handbrake turn so sharp it would lead not only to whiplash but the end…