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Until news broke regarding plans to have an artificial intelligence-powered judge at “ringside” for the heavyweight rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, I wasn’t sure which word to use to summarise boxing in 2024. However, thanks to Tuesday’s news, I suddenly had it. The…

Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has refused to rule out a possible return. The 48-year-old Klitschko, who last boxed in 2017, won 64 bouts and lost five – including his last two, to Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. Ukraine’s Klitschko took to social…

Heavyweights Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury both unsurprisingly made weight for their Saturday night rematch taking place at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Usyk, 37, tipped the scales at 226lbs, with Fury weighing 281lbs – a 55lbs difference. Most notably, both remained fully…

All four heavyweight world titles – three of them vacant, one of which never existed before – will be on the line when Claressa Shields takes on Danielle Perkins on February 2. That means Shields vs Perkins will be for the undisputed heavyweight…

To this day, Egis Klimas leaves the technical details of fight preparation and analyzing the next bout – in this case, Saturday’s unified heavyweight title defense against former champion Tyson Fury – to others. Klimas knows well from his 12-year-long managerial bond to three-belt…

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…