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Italian-born 1970s heavyweight contender John “Dino” Denis was, like all of us, shocked and saddened when news broke regarding the passing of the great George Foreman. Denis, who carved out a 45-5-2(20) career, fought “Big George” in October of 1976. Foreman was three fights, three…

Eddie Hearn Rips Into Joe Joyce: “He’ll Get Done in 3 or 4” Eddie Hearn’s at it again—bigging someone up just enough to stick the knife in right after. This time, it’s Joe Joyce on the chopping block. Ahead of Joyce’s fight with Filip Hrgovic…

Oscar De La Hoya has said he would love to see, indeed get busy making, a fight between his warrior Vergil Ortiz Jr and Errol Spence – in Dallas, at Dallas Stadium. Speaking with Fight Hype, the Golden Boy head said the fight would “sell…

Controversy is currently afoot in Australia, this ahead of Tim Tszyu’s scheduled fight with Joey Spencer. The two are set to fight this weekend, in Newcastle, Australia, but Spencer is fuming having learned that all three scoring officials for the bout will be Australian. Spencer…

Trainer Mickey Bey disagrees with Terence Crawford, believing that former unified three-belt welterweight champion Errol Spence does deserve to be in the Hall of Fame if he retires now from the sport. Bey feels that Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) has done enough in his career…

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…