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Halfway through discussing Lewis Crocker’s fight this Saturday against Paddy Donovan, Crocker’s coach, Billy Nelson, recalls the night Alex Arthur lost his unbeaten record against Michael Gomez in 2003. It is a fight relevant not because Nelson was training Arthur at that time – he…

The 39-year-old “Juggernaut” Joe Joyce is backing up and realigning himself for another drive at glory. The heavyweight contender is 16-3 (15 KOs) and meets Germany’s Patrick Korte on Saturday at the Bournemouth International Centre, trying to find form and shed rust ahead of…

Women’s strawweight boxer Guadalupe Medina might be nearing a title shot, but her coach didn’t initially want to train her.  Medina, the Maywood, California based boxer with a 9-0 (2 KOs) pro record, took to boxing after following her brother, Amed Medina, to the…

Cain Sandoval left his hometown for training camp for the first time last fight, and now reflects on how he felt the best he has ever felt going into the ring. Sandoval knocked out Mark Bernaldez last Friday in the fourth round of a…

Trainer Javiel Centeno nearly quit boxing before Xander Zayas entered his gym. Now Centeno finds himself part of a fantastic fighting duo, as Zayas, 21-0 (13 KOs) is hoping for a junior middleweight title fight by the end of the year. Earlier this…

Juanma Lopez de Jesus just had his pro debut earlier this month. Now his team is looking at scheduling the flyweight prospect’s Puerto Rican debut in March or April, according to El Nuevo Dia . The 19-year-old Lopez de Jesus – nicknamed “Juanmita”…

If it was to be expected that Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn, and indeed that their respective promoters Ben Shalom and Eddie Hearn, would insult each other, it came as a surprise when Benn claimed that his rival owes the soccer player Neymar £4m.…

By the time Sebastian Fundora makes the first defense of his junior middleweight titles, it will be nearly a year since he won them. Fundora defeated Tim Tszyu via split decision on March 30, 2024, capturing Tszyu’s WBO title and the vacant WBC belt.…

These days, a boxer accepting a fight after a three-month break between fights is rare. Jesus Ramos will be back in the ring just 49 days after his eighth-round stoppage of Jeison Rosario. “No injuries in my previous fight, nothing to worry about,…