WORLD Boxing has urged boxing federations to join them now to save Olympic boxing after the International Olympic Committee’s latest statement. As it stands, boxing isn’t on the programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. That could change if the IOC are satisfied by early next year that another governing body can run the sport. …
IN 2013, Deontay Wilder told me he was all muscle, bone, and skin. He then showed me the tip of his whip. Both less sinister and sexual than it sounds, and entirely unrelated to cars, the whip in question was the technique behind a punch responsible for a 100 per cent knockout ratio and the…
EVERY division has its hot and cold spells and one that falls into the former is the super-welterweight division. Pound-for-pound number one Terence Crawford joined the ranks last weekend and beat Israil Madrimov to win the WBA world title. IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev will make his first defence against the hard-hitting Tim Tszyu, while unified…
NICK BALL is targeting a rematch with Rey Vargas after winning his first world title last night (June 1). The Liverpudlian beat New Jersey’s Raymond Ford by split decision (115-113, 115-113, 113-115) to become WBA featherweight world champion and put another point on the board for Queensberry in their 5 vs. 5 battle against Matchroom…
AN all-British world heavyweight title fight could take place in September at Wembley Stadium. Anthony Joshua is set to return to the home of English football on another card backed by Turki Alalshikh and Riyadh Season. But last night’s hugely entertaining Queensberry-Matchroom 5 vs. 5 event in Riyadh – where Frank Warren’s outfit won 10-0…
01:45:56 THE NIGHT IS OVER Some great scraps over in Riyadh. All the spoils go to Frank, who castigated the pundits who picked against him. Boxing is the ultimate individual sport. However, a team element was successfully introduced tonight, and the two stables will surely do it again. Thanks for joining me. Catch you on…
ZHILEI ZHANG will hold a staggering 68.2lb weight advantage over Matchroom captain Deontay Wilder when they collide in Riyadh on Saturday night. The two heavyweights will meet in the fifth and final clash of the unprecedented Matchroom v Queensberry event which takes place at the Kingdom Arena. Both men are coming off decision defeats to…
COLCHESTER light-middleweight Lewis Richardson will be an Olympian if he wins his next fight. Richardson faces Angel Gabriel Llanos Perez (Puerto Rico) in the Boxing Road to Paris Olympic qualifying event in Bangkok on Friday morning (10.30 am GMT) and the prize for the winner is a place at this summer’s Olympics. Great Britain boxers…
By Matt Bozeat COLCHESTER light-middleweight Lewis Richardson is heading to Paris for this summer’s Olympic Games after victory in Bangkok today. There was an Olympic place at stake when the Colchester light-middleweight faced Angel Gabriel Llanos Perez (Puerto Rico) in the quarter-finals of the Boxing Road to Paris Qualifying Olympic qualifying event. Richardson reached the last…
FILIP HRGOVIC and Daniel Dubois could contest the IBF Interim heavyweight belt tomorrow night (June 1) in Riyadh. The news comes as the sanctioning body has yet to approve Oleksandr Usyk’s request to allow him and Tyson Fury to contest all four titles in their rematch on December 21. Many had expected the IBF to…
