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First and foremost, Don Charles is a very good boxing trainer. The man who currently trains reigning IBF heavyweight champ Daniel Dubois has also worked with Derek Chisora, with Charles guiding Chisora to some big wins and some good performances. But Charles surely went…

Between them, boxing greats Mike McCallum and Julian Jackson scored a number of memorable KO’s. And as we know, both men won, between them, a handful of world titles. Yet it is often forgotten how KO monster Jackson, known as “The Hawk,” was taken out…

David Benavidez will return to the ring on December 14th on Amazon Prime Video PPV against a yet-to-be-determined opponent. The WBC interim light heavyweight champion Benavidez’s promoter, Sampson Lewkowic, told Boxingscene that the match it to help prepare his fighter to challenge the winner of…

Matchroom has signed WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson to a promotional deal for his next fight against Joe Cordina on October 12th at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Promoter Eddie Hearn isn’t saying if this is a one-fight or long-term deal with the…

WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr’s father & trainer, Brian Sr., posted a message on Instagram to IBF champ Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and his promoter Eddie Hearn, telling them that they’re interested in making a unification fight next. “We Said Yes to the Fight” Earlier…

The sport of boxing is absolutely buzzing right now in Japan, with little giants such as Naoya Inoue, Junto Nakatani, Kensiro Teraji and others all regularly featuring in excitement-filled, quite beautiful to watch fights. Japan has hosted some huge, stacked cards as a result, with…

A while back, Mexican living legend Julio Cesar Chavez placed a mock fight poster hyping a September bout between himself and Floyd Mayweather on social media. The bout had a date and a venue in place – September 16 in Las Vegas. And though plenty…

The Dennis Andries story could so easily be made into a movie, and what a great, inspiring and uplifting film it really could be. Andries, who should be far more celebrated than he is, in his home country especially, is a classic case of the…

The often maligned 2000s heavyweight division is finally up for study and survey. Recall that the 1980s heavyweight division is known as the Lost Generation and was seen as a step-down in quality from the Golden Age 1970s. The emergence of the 2000s, 20 years…