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The WBO Thursday issued a show-cause notice to its No. 3-ranked junior-featherweight Dennis McCann, who was forced off a Dec. 21 Riyadh Season card after an adverse finding for banned performance-enhancing drugs. The WBO’s world championship committee will give England’s 24-year-old McCann, 16-0-1 (8…

‘Retirement – the action or fact of ceasing to work.’ There has been much talk about retirement in recent days, with Tyson Fury uttering the word for the umpteenth time to more fanfare than it will likely turn out to merit. Sitting in a…

It takes a lot to shock and disturb when it comes to boxing these days, but occasionally one is unpleasantly surprised. There are, it seems, still some unopened doors and unoccupied rooms inside the dystopian world we all call home.  Today, for example, a…

Heavyweight Zhilei Zhang declined to make a pick between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury should the two British fighters decide to slug it out later this year. Fury announced his retirement from the sport on Monday despite rumors suggesting that he could lock horns…