Naoya Inoue vs. Luis Nery: What time is the fight? What channel is it on?

By Elliot Worsell PART I TEN YEARS on, it is clear now that it became a numbers game, the rivalry of Carl Froch and George Groves. In the first installment, there was the promise of two right hands in round one and then six months later it all ended in round eight with one right…

THE last time Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol were ready to settle their battle for 175-pound supremacy, a thrilling five-versus-five was in place to prop up the stellar main event. Following Beterbiev’s unexpected and unfortunate injury pullout, the new date is October 12. A different kind of supporting cast has been assembled, lauded in many…

Yesterday’s Heroes EDDIE Thomas of Merthyr excelled at every level of the sport for around 40 years. He will still be remembered today by veterans of the game as an astute manager who ran a compact little stable from his office in an ice cream parlour in his hometown, nestled deep inside the Welsh valleys….

KOSEI Tanaka will not defend his WBO super-flyweight title in Japan tomorrow after his opponent, Jonathan Rodriguez, completely missed the 115-pound weight limit. Champion Tanaka, 20-1, 11 KOs, made the weight fine, but Rodriguez came in at 121.5 lbs and declined the invitation to try to get down any closer. The Japanese Boxing Commission (JBC)…

OFTEN when watching boxers try to beat, or in most cases survive, Naoya Inoue in Japan, you are spared feeling all the punches thrown yet can’t help but feel for the opponent on whom these punches inevitably land. There are bigger boxers out there, of course, and therefore heavier punches, only there is something about…