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British super welterweight champion Troy Williamson claims Josh Kelly wouldn’t be able to live with him if the pair were to ever fight. The Lonsdale belt holder, promoted by Probellum, has been nominated to defend his title against Kelly by the British Boxing Board of Control. Purse bids are to be submitted by next Wednesday […]
As revealed on Boxing Social last week promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed today that he is trying to make a fight between Leigh Wood and Mauricio Lara. John A. MacDonald reported that Wood was in line to defend his WBA ‘Regular’ featherweight title on September 24 in Nottingham against the Mexican. Lara will be remembered for […]
The $2m offer from Jake Paul to Katie Taylor to fight Amanda Serrano at featherweight has been kicked out by Eddie Hearn. The 36-year-old made her professional debut in 2016 and has never boxed below 132lbs. Taylor’s promoter was a guest during a recent episode of The DAZN Boxing Show and says the idea of […]
Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker have ‘Nowhere To Run’ and will finally square off on September 24 in Manchester. The news was confirmed today via press release with a press conference scheduled for later today inside BT Sport Studios. BT Sports Box Office will screen the fight exclusively live. Promoted by Frank Warren for Queensbury […]
WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford remains confident that an undisputed fight with Errol Spence Jr will happen. The two fighters have been in negotiations to lock in one of the biggest match-ups in boxing but fans are still waiting on the confirmation they want to hear. Last month Mike Coppinger for ESPN said that the […]
Former world super middleweight champion George Groves has described a proposed fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr as a “mismatch”. The speculated all-British mega-fight has dominated the UK boxing news in recent weeks with the two seemingly close to a deal which would see the fight take place at a catch-weight. Benn currently […]
Cruiserweight Jake Paul should have been fighting Hasim Rahman Jr on Saturday at Madison Square Garden live on Showtime pay-per-view. However, news broke last weekend that the sixth fight in the career of the ‘Problem Child’ was pulled due to a weight dispute. Both fighters blamed one another for the cancellation after Rahman could not […]
Michael Conlan returns to action on Saturday night with a future rematch against Leigh Wood still very much in his plans. In front of his raucous home support the Northern Ireland featherweight takes on three-time world title challenger Miguel Marriaga at Belfast’s SSE Arena. The Colombian has already been in with the likes of Nicholas […]
Daniel Dubois is aiming for another victory over Don King, but this time in a court. Dan Rafael has reported that the heavyweight is suing the American promoter for non-payment following his win over Trevor Bryan in June. The sum is said to be somewhere between $463,274.32 and $938,274.32 In March King won the rights […]
After looking like it would not happen the crunch heavyweight clash between Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker is close to being back on. Back in April the fight was announced during the Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte BT Sports Box Office pay-per-view but in the weeks that followed everything fell apart. Parker’s manager David Higgins revealed that […]
David Haye is once again backing Anthony Joshua to beat Oleksandr Usyk but insists he has to gets his tactics right this time. Usyk defends his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against Joshua on August 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It’s the first fight for both men since last September when the Ukrainian got […]
Eddie Hearn has responded to speculation that talks have started for Dmitry Bivol to face Joshua Buatsi. A source has told Boxing Social that the WBA Light Heavyweight champion could be set to defend his title in Abu Dhabi against the Brit this year. We reached out to Buatsi’s promoter for a comment on the […]