Sports Journalist · 227 articles
Kal Yafai will be defending his WBA super-flyweight title against legendary former champion Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, this Saturday night in Frisco, Texas. Throughout the past couple of years, the Birmingham-born fighter has made several successful defences of the title he captured in December 2016, with a comfortable points triumph over Panamanian Luis Concepcion, and currently […]
Mikey Garcia is still resolved to make waves at welterweight and has the opportunity to do so, when he faces former WBO World champion Jessie Vargas at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas. Garcia has not fought since his unsuccessful IBF challenge against Errol Spence at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, last February – […]
Brad Foster will be defending his British and commonwealth super-bantamweight titles once again against Lucien Reid at York Hall in Bethnal Green, East London. Foster successfully retained his title in their first meeting in September 2019, via a highly-contentious majority draw. The pair as well as their fans will be hoping that their much-anticipated sequel […]
There are several reasons why the rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is a significantly more intriguing fight than the first one. For one thing, in the wake of Anthony Joshua’s shock loss to Andy Ruiz in June, general consensus dictates that Wilder against Fury will determine the number one heavyweight in the world; […]
Caleb Plant will be making the second defence of his IBF super-middleweight championship against heavy-handed German challenger Vincent Feigenbutz at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Last Summer, ‘Sweet Hands’ effortlessly dispatched of Mike Lee in what was the maiden defence of his crown on the Thurman-Pacquiao undercard, and will be looking to extend his […]
WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Junior will be making the latest defence of his title against undefeated Mongolian fighter Tugstsogt ‘King-Tug’ Nyambayar this Saturday night at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In recent times, Russell – whose two brothers are also featuring on the card – has attracted scorn from certain quarters for his […]
Super-welterweight Kell Brook will be making his long-awaited comeback in front of what will no doubt be a capacity hometown crowd at the Sheffield Arena, when he faces unheralded American Mark DeLuca on Saturday night. The ‘Special-One’, a former IBF welterweight champion, has been out of action since December 2018 when he registered an unconvincing […]
This Thursday, WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade will be headlining a show at the Meridian of Island Gardens in Miami, Florida, in looking to successfully defend his title against Irish challenger Luke Keeler. Keeler engineered a world title opportunity for himself with a seismic upset over Cuban-American contender Luis Arias in August, dropping the heavily-favoured […]
Danny Garcia makes a highly-anticipated return to action this Saturday night, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, against fringe contender Ivan Redkach, coming off his shock stoppage win over Devon Alexander in six rounds. Former unified light-welterweight champion Garcia was originally in the running to face IBF and WBC titlist Errol Spence, before the latter’s […]
Julian ‘J-Rock’ Williams will be making the maiden defence of the unified light-middleweight championship against Jelson Rosario in front of what will certainly be a supportive hometown crowd at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia native Williams produced a minor upset in April 2019 – soundly outpointing previously undefeated IBF and WBA champion Jarrett […]
Deion Jumah will be determined to make a successful defence of his English cruiserweight title against Sam Hyde this weekend in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester. Hyde, the challenger, hails from nearby Sale in Cheshire has registered two back-to-back stoppage victories after suffering a punishing eighth-round stoppage defeat to Richard Riakporhe in November 2018 at the Manchester […]
As the curtain closes on an eventful 2019, British boxing fans will be hoping that 2020 will be an auspicious year for the sport in the UK context. Even if many British fighters aren’t able to make waves at world level, there are still a plethora of exciting fights to made at the domestic level. […]