Bob Santos sees Conor Benn versus Mario Barrios as a difficult fight, and perhaps just as tough as one against undefeated IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. Barrios, who holds the WBC interim welterweight world title, was called out by Benn after a sub-par performance against Pete Dobson at the start of February. “From this perspective, going overseas is no ...
Fabio Wardley said he is a “massive” jump in class for Frazer Clarke ahead of their March 31 fight at London’s O2 Arena. Clarke and Wardley had been on a collision course last year, but terms could not be agreed, talks collapsed and the bad blood has since manifested between the two. Wardley is the more experienced pro, with more ...
Vasiliy Lomachenko travels to Perth, Australia to challenge George Kambosos Jr for the vacant IBF lightweight world title on May 12. The event is being funded, in part, by the Western Australian Government and continues the good times for Australian boxing. The nation invited Manny Pacquiao to Brisbane to face Jeff Horn in 2017 and the country has since produced ...
Jackie Kallen is a female pioneer in the sport, an iconic former publicist of the Kronk Gym in Detroit, who went on to famously manage James Toney to his world title win. Kallen now is getting her just due and will be inducted into the 2024 International Boxing Hall of Fame class, two years after Toney went in. “All I ...
Rising undefeated Australian welterweight Joel Lewis returns to the ring on March 1 at Metro City in Perth in his quest for championship glory in a featured Thunderdome 45 contest. Lewis is coming of back to back fights with Habib Kheririkah earning his way to a Western Australia State Welterweight Championship against veteran Perth based Turkish boxer Bahtiar Sonyol. Lewis ...
“Emiliano, I mean… he’s the man there,” Oscar De La Hoya said while pointing at Emiliano Vargas. “He is the man! I love his style. I love what everyone at Top Rank and Bob [Arum] are doing with Emiliano. There is nobody better than Bob Arum, this is for sure.” The sharply dressed 19 year old had joined De La Hoya, Arum and Oscar ...
Edgar Berlanga returns to the ring next weekend, but much of the talk is circulating about who he fights afterwards, rather than whom he fights next. Berlanga boxes Irishman Padraig McCrory at Caribe Royal in Orlando, Florida on Saturday night (February 24) and admits he wants to make a statement to build momentum into a major fight. Berlanga, 21-0 (16 ...
Peter McGrail has admitted he felt bad for his long-time coach after suffering one of the biggest upsets of 2023. Southpaw super-bantamweight prospect McGrail was shocked on the Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez-Sunny Edwards undercard by Detroit’s Ja’Rico O’Quinn, losing for the first time and in his ninth professional fight. The former 2020 Olympian was stopped in the fifth when ahead on ...
Boxing’s lack of major events in the first quarter of 2023 hasn’t meant doing without entertaining fights. While the postponed Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk remained conspicuous by its absence on Saturday, so does the absence of almost every major star in the sport to start the year. We have been treated to some serious championship fire and have got two more ...
Anthony Ogogo was an Olympic bronze medallist who beat world No. 1 Evhen Khytrov to make his way onto the podium. Having suffered numerous injuries – including shoulder dislocations – he nearly didn’t make it. By the time London 2012 came around, Ogogo’s mother was fighting for her life in hospital and he made clandestine visits to see her. Then, having banked ...