TWO recent Joseph Parker victims, Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang, could be about to fight in Saudi Arabia on June 1, ESPN reports. The fight, should it happen, will be part of a planned show headlined by light-heavyweights Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev and would take place in Riyadh, where so many big fights have…
SHEFFIELD plays host to Matchroom’s most significant show on British soil so far this year as Dalton Smith tops the bill in what could be the toughest test of his career. The 27-year-old is yet to put a foot wrong during his rise to his current status as one of the country’s most promising stars…
By Elliot Worsell AS a chipper, ponytailed Asian woman in a blue headguard shimmied down the runway, half a dozen sozzled but smartly dressed blokes sitting at a table waited for the drop in her ring entrance song – ‘Don’t Wanna Know’ by Di & Shy FX & T Power Feat. Skibadee – and used…
“YOU have to make people on the course think; that is what you have to do,” said Jon Pegg. At York Hall on Friday night, one of Pegg’s graduates, Liz Norris, had become the second woman in two weeks to make history at the East End venue. A week earlier, Amy Pu, became the first…
By Fabio Wardley I NEVER allow myself to think about how far I’ve come but what I do know is that it has been a wild ride. Sunday night is my seventh fight at the O2 Arena and my first time headlining there in 18 fights. It’s funny because when I first started out in…
RATHER than lazily call Joe Gallagher the repair man, or suggest he is boxing’s go-to fixer-upper, it might be better comparing him to someone like Quentin Tarantino, whose favourite thing in the nineties was to revamp the careers of actors and actresses deemed to have faded into obscurity. This Tarantino managed to do with not…
1) Tyson Fury, 34-0-1 (24) If we forget what happened in that bizarre spectacle against a mixed martial artist in October, Fury has been almost faultless of late. Prior wins against Dillian Whyte and Deontay Wilder suggested he was at the very top of his game and not only the best heavyweight in Britain but…
I HAD a great time at the British Boxing Board of Control awards luncheon on March 17 and it was great to see so many great British boxers having their photographs taken alongside each other by so many people. It was especially pleasing to see Clinton McKenzie, for my money one of the best of…
Fast Facts: Age: 28 Instagram: @jordanlaruccia Nationality: Italian From: Perth Western Australia Stance: Orthodox Height: 6ft Record: 7-0 (4) Division: Super-welterweight Next fight: Laruccia is set to have his eighth outing on May 31 in Metro City, Northbridge, Western Australia. When and why you started boxing: I first started when I was 20 years old. I was looking for a new way…
THIS summer’s promotional showdown between Matchroom and Queensberry took a step closer to becoming a reality today. Earlier this year two of the world’s leading promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren struck a deal with Turki Alalshikh (the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority) to stage a historic five-versus-five fight night. A quintet of…
