PERHAPS the most important component in a boxer’s life is the ability to listen. It is like a secret element. Listening could be the difference between winning or losing. But sometimes everyone appears to be so caught up in their own business they’re not interested in other concerns or listening to anything else. They just…
Broadcasts FOR all the speculation and reporting about UK broadcasters of boxing – in particular Sky Sports – this weekend served as a timely reminder of just how valuable their investment in the sport has been. On Sunday night Sky aired the London card topped by Frazer Clarke and Fabio Wardley clashing for the British…
SEAN McCOMB will get the chance to take his career to a whole new level on May 20. Boxing News understands the 31-year-old will take on Arnold Barboza as part of the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia undercard at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn. McComb, 18-1 (5 KOs), has bounced back with seven wins since his surprise…
BN: Fans would want to know why Adam Azim has vacated his European title instead of facing Dalton Smith. What’s your response? Shalom: It was hard to make a decision, but we had to weigh up the options. Harlem Eubank was one of those options. In his [Azim] career most people in and around boxing…
Ducking hell THE new week began with some official news in the Adam Azim and Dalton Smith soap opera as the former officially vacated his European super-lightweight title as he plans to face Harlem Eubank instead of his Sheffield rival Eddie Hearn, who promotes Smith and has been banging the drum for that all-British fight,…
THE RESULT: Galal Yafai stops a spirited effort from Agustin Gauto closing the show in the final 20 seconds of the eighth round to maintain his 100 per cent record. KEY MOMENTS: A competitive start in the first round was tipped in Yafai’s favour when a straight left off a one-two from the Brit had Gauto…
By Elliot Worsell AT the start of April 2001, it would be no exaggeration to say Great Britain boasted the best heavyweight in the world, the best featherweight in the world, and two of the biggest stars in boxing in the shape of Lennox Lewis and ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed. Lewis, at that stage, was WBC…
RYAD MERHY isn’t best pleased that Britain’s Lawrence Okolie is getting a WBC bridgerweight title shot ahead of him. The 31-year-old Belgian has business in the heavyweight division to handle first, however. On Saturday night (April 13) Merhy will be at the American Bank Centre in Corpus Christi, Texas to try and disrupt the world…
Now the real work begins for Raven Chapman. Having become mandatory challenger for Skye Nicolson’s WBC Featherweight title Chapman is now within touching distance of realising her ambition. But first the 30-year-old must continue her recovery from injury before she returns to the ring this summer. In this interview Chapman speaks to Boxing News about…
THOUGH it is far too early to judge the career of Anthony Joshua as a sum of all its parts, it’s worthwhile this week – eight years to the day after he won his first major heavyweight belt – to examine his progress. There remain an awful lot of people who prefer to criticise boxers…
