Boxing

By Eric Armit Highlights from the past week of action Vasyl Lomachenko stopped George Kambosos to win the vacant IBF lightweight title and took the IBO title from champion Kambosos. Pedro Guevara won the WBC interim super-flyweight title with a split decision over Andrew Moloney. Mixed night in Pasay City for Filipinos as former IBF…

He was a globetrotting stylist, more skilful than a journeyman, who loved getting in the ring and letting hands fly. Here, Eric Armit looks at a charismatic and controversial boxer who idolised Sugar Ray Robinson, led a turbulent personal life and boxed a who’s who of fighting royalty. Born: 9 May 1937 in Havana, Cuba…

By Eric Armit OLEKSANDR Usyk became the undisputed heavyweight champion as he floored Tyson Fury and went on to stage a strong finish to overcome Fury’s lead and take home the split decision. Here’s how it went down, session by session. Round 1 Plenty of probing jabs with Fury on the back foot and southpaw…

By Elliot Worsell “LIKE SNIPER,” said Oleksandr Usyk when asked what he thought whenever looking at Tyson Fury. Pointing then at the spot between his own eyes, he offered to the world, and to Fury, both his method and mentality and suggested all he would need was one shot, one sighting. To get it, he…

By Eric Armit HIGHLIGHTS from the past week of action  Oleksandr Usyk floored (round nine) and won a split decision over Tyson Fury to unify the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC and WBO titles to become undisputed heavyweight champion. Australian Jai Opetaia scored a unanimous points victory over Mairis Briedis for the vacant IBF cruiserweight title….

By Elliot Worsell FOR a boxer, rarely is the ideal opponent someone they either love or hate. Instead, the ideal opponent tends to fall between right those two extremes, landing somewhere in a sea of indifference. Anywhere else, you see, there is danger. If, for example, you happen to enjoy the company of an opponent,…

FRANK Warren’s Magnificent Seven feature returns to Resorts World Arena, Birmingham, on July 20 with a host of domestic dust-ups on the roster.  This is the best line-up since, well, the last one, which was on March 16 at the same venue. Some of the protagonists that night enjoyed themselves so much that they’re back…

CRUISERWEIGHT Jack Massey would have been happy just to have been given a date, a venue, and the name of an opponent, only last week he received all that and more. Last week, when sitting at home on his sofa, he received more than just details of his next fight. He received a pathway. A…