THERE is no denying the heavyweight division is on the brink of a sea change. Undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk is now 37 while Tyson Fury, who will attempt to win the hardware back at the end of the year, turned 36 on August 12. Anthony Joshua, who is eyeing a crack at the winner of…
CHRIS EUBANK JR swerved a September showdown with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez because he did not want to face the Mexican off the back of a year out. The Brighton middleweight last month emerged as a surprise candidate to face Canelo on Mexican independence weekend. However Canelo instead opted to take on Edgar Berlanga, his WBA…
FOLLOWING the expiration of his management contract and a two-year-long wait to make a maiden defence of his WBA welterweight title, Eimantas Stanionis still dreams of bringing big time boxing to his native Kaunas, a city with 300,000 residents in Lithuania. Stanionis (15-0, 9 KOs) endured a torrid two years after a fight with Vergil…
JOSHUA BUATSI is a realist and knows how tough it would be to try and beat Artur Beterbiev or Dmitry Bivol. The two best light-heavyweights in the world will put the four world titles between them on the line in Riyadh on October 12 with the winner becoming undisputed world champion. For years both have…
It was the question that loomed large over the competition at Paris 2024: Will boxing still be on the schedule when they light the Olympic torch in Los Angeles in four years’ time? The simple answer is that, right now, nobody really knows. Since its introduction to the Olympic program in 1904, boxing has been…
THE future for Joe Cordina now lies in the lightweight division but he admits whoever he fights needs to give him the fear factor. Three months ago the Welshman lost his IBF super-featherweight world title to Northern Ireland’s Anthony Cacace. Going into the fight Cordina was well aware of the threats the big punching Belfast…
THE days of Terence Crawford fighting at welterweight are now definitely over. After becoming undisputed world champion at 147lbs in July 2023 Crawford was stripped of his IBF title a few months later. A decision which appalled “Bud” but elevated interim belt holder Jaron Ennis to full champion status. Two months ago Mario Barrios was…
THESE days, Manny Pacquiao only has to breathe to get on the front pages. Back in 1998, things were different. The following is an image of the Boxing News report for his eighth round victory over Chatchai Sasakul that netted him the WBC flyweight belt, the first of many world titles. Sasakul had lost only once…
GOLD medal winner Imane Khelif has reportedly filed a formal legal complaint following the Olympic boxing gender row. The participation of Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, who also won gold in Paris, became a worldwide story due to their 2023 expulsion by IBA for failing ‘gender eligibilty tests’. The likes of Elon Musk and JK Rowling…
WORLD BOXING insist they have a ‘pathway’ to ensure that boxing is included in the Olympic programme for Los Angeles 2028. At present, boxing will not be taking place at the next Games due to the ongoing feud between the International Olympic Committee and the International Boxing Association, formerly AIBA. IBA were permanently stripped of…
