In an evening that could have been billed as a comic tragedy rather than a fight, former WBO cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie (20-1, 14 KOs) turned what was supposed to be a championship bout into a farcical sideshow, effortlessly demolishing the untested and comically overhyped…
Two years after their first meeting, former undisputed light welterweight champion Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall will fight tonight in the 12-round main event in their long-awaited rematch on ESPN+ at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England.
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WBC/WBO junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora will reportedly relinquish his WBO 154-lb title for his planned fight against Errol Spence Jr. in October. This move is due to the World Boxing Organization placing Terence Crawford as the mandatory for Fundora’s WBO belt.
According to Boxingscene,…
Was it a legitimate knockout punch? Was the fix in? Was it a ‘Phantom Punch?’ Did Muhammad Ali really defeat Sonny Liston in an honest-to-goodness fight all those years ago in May of 1965? These questions and more have been asked many times and never…
Given the omnipresence of world boxing titles, varying from the interim to the super and the gold to the silver, it’s a surprise that one has not (yet) been attached to Saturday’s (May 25) super lightweight rematch between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall. After all,…
Dalton Smith has identified WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney as the man to help him sell out the home of his beloved Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Wednesday play at the near 35,000-seater Hillsborough Stadium in the north of Sheffield.
Smith, 16-0 (12 KOs),…
Eddie Hearn may be the rival promoter of Josh Taylor’s main domestic rival, Jack Catterall, but he was not short of praise for Scotland’s Taylor ahead of Saturday’s grudge match between the two fighters.
Taylor (19-1, 13 KOs) and Catterall (28-1, 13 KOs) initially…
Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall meet again today | Photo by Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing/Getty Images
Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall square off again today. Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall officially renew hostilities today in Leeds, meeting in a 12-round,…
Cheavon Clarke will finally contest the British cruiserweight title against Ellis Zorro in Leeds, England, on Saturday, allowing him to challenge for the vacant title.
Clarke-Zorro will serve as chief support for the anticipated rematch between rivals Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall at a…
Josh Taylor insists the hunger remains ahead of his grudge match with Jack Catterall in Leeds tonight.
The 33-year-old Scot scaled the top of boxing’s mountain by winning all of the belts at junior welterweight, but through injuries, politics and inactivity parted company with…