EastSideBoxing

Two years of drama, cancelled fights, and more dodgy headlines than actual punches thrown. Chris Eubank Jr vs. Conor Benn is finally happening—April 26 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, live on DAZN. First-ever Ring Magazine UK card. Big stage. Bigger egos. And now Ricky Hatton’s thrown…

Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis feels victimized because of the criticism that he’s been receiving ahead of his unification fight against WBA welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis on April 12th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event will be shown live on DAZN. Performance…

WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. (27-0, 21 KOs) is ready for a unification fight against IBF champ Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis after crushing Derrieck Cuevas (27-2, 19 KOs) in the third round last Saturday night in a Top Rank-promoted card on March 29th at the…

Sportsmanship, a real desire to not only achieve (more) greatness, and a no-messing sensibility when it comes to giving the boxing world what it wants, and that’s a fight between the two – Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani today took a big step closer to…

Edgar Berlanga let Caleb Plant know in a not-so-subtle way that he’s not interested in fighting him, posting a video on social media saying that he’s the “A-side” and will offer him “$200K” for a fight. Berlanga’s message (23-1, 18 KOs) can be decoded to…

Sure to cause debate (but then that’s half the fun), boxing brain Teddy Atlas has listed his top 10 greatest ever heavyweights. During an episode of his regular podcast, ‘The Fight,’ the trainer / writer / commentator / boxing expert broke it down. In typical…

It’s probably pretty safe to say how most fight fans feel Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming DAZN PPV fight, against Cuban William Scull, will result in a reasonably straightforward win for the Mexican star. Others might go further, saying and believing the May 3 fight is a…

A very interesting, possibly exciting heavyweight showdown will take place in Manchester, UK this Saturday night, and it’s one that neither guy, both already having taken a seat at the bar at the last chance saloon, can afford to lose. Joe Joyce, 39 years of…

Ryan “The Bruiser” Rozicki (20-1-1, 19 KOs) will finally get his long-awaited world title shot as he takes on WBC crusierweight champion Badou “The Ripper” Jack (28-3-3, 17 KOs) at the Venue Riyadh Season in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 3rd in a scheduled…