Sports Journalist · 32 articles
10. Damon Hague WBF middleweight champion 2003 WBF super-middleweight champion 2004 I know I’m pushing it here by including a WBF champion, but bear with us . . . These were strange times indeed as the BBC tried to sell a born-again Christian from Derby as the middleweight champion of the world at a time […]
10. Hrjove Kisicek Joshua dropped the overmatched Croat in the second and after he got up, Joshua put on a show. He dropped his hands by his sides, made Kisicek miss – and then opened up with a fast volley of punches. It took the referee two attempts to drag Joshua off his opponent.
10. Pat Cowdell Active years: 1977-1988 Cowdell was a tidy technician from the Midlands who had the misfortune to run into a pair of greats when he challenged for world honours. Salvador Sanchez beat him on a split decision in 1981 – Cowdell had been given no chance – and four years later, Azumah Nelson […]
10. Murray Sutherland IBF super-middleweight champion 1984 Record: 63 fights, 48 wins, 14 defeats, 1 draw Born in Edinburgh, Sutherland emigrated to Canada with his family, based himself in the States upon turning pro and went into the record books as the first-ever boxer to win world honours at 12 stones. At light-heavyweight, Sutherland, who […]
Ronnie Davies is planning to lift the lid on life with the Eubanks in a book. Davies has trained both father and son over the last 30 years and is currently in the gym with Jr as he prepares to challenge George Groves for his WBA super-middleweight championship at a sold-out Manchester Arena on Saturday, […]
‘Dynamite’ Daniel Dubois is on course to wallop Anthony Joshua, says the have-a-go-heavyweight who’s shared a ring with both. Dubois did what Joshua couldn’t do at the Copper Box Arena on Saturday night – and knocked game Welshman Dorian Darch off his feet. https://twitter.com/DynamiteDubois/status/939654697346125825 The referee waved the fight off in the second round after […]
STEVE FARHOOD, Hall-of-Fame Boxing Writer and former Editor of The Ring magazine “Lomachenko-Rigo is a fascinating matchup of incredible boxers, but I’d feel a lot better about it if the fight had been made closer to Rigo’s best weight, which is 122. “Loma is likely going to prove too strong against Rigo, and as […]
As James DeGale prepares to defend his world title and with the Vasyl Lomachenko-Guillermo Rigondeaux fantasy match up just a week away, Boxing Social looks at the Olympic champions who made it to the top in the pros as well – and those that didn’t. 10. Frankie Genaro Genaro is in the history books as […]
He bids to take the belt off Anthony Yigit on Saturday night – and don’t expect to see the 27 year old from Malmesbury in Wiltshire throw too many right hands at the champion in the fight screened live on Channel Five. Because he was born with Erb’s palsy – paralysis of the arm due to nerve damage […]
1) FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR Record: 50-0 (27) Years active: 1996-2017 Right from the start, Mayweather was a perfectionist. “I would go to school and just think about making no mistakes in the gym that night,” he remembered and in 50 pro fights, spanning five weights from super-featherweight to super-welterweight, Mayweather didn’t make too many mistakes. […]
Barry McGuigan is convinced Chantelle Cameron will beat Eddie Hearn’s golden girl Katie Taylor – but says he’s in no rush to make the fight happen. https://twitter.com/rosstraining/status/925773531547422720 McGuigan hands Cameron a world-title shot – of sorts – in only her fifth pro fight on his show at the Leicester Arena on Saturday, December 2. The […]
Zolani Tete went into the record books with his 11-second knock out in Belfast on Saturday night – and that got Boxing Social thinking about some of our favourite quick knockouts . . .