Fight Previews
Tonight’s world title clashes start off with a towering heavyweight battle in England as IBF king Anthony Joshua meets the challenge of Dominic Breazeale at the O2 Arena in London. At 6’6, Joshua will amazingly be looking up at the 6’7 tall Breazeale in this, British phenom Joshua’s first defense since ripping the IBF crown…
This weekend’s big fights are headlined by a mouth-watering clash at New York’s Madison Square Garden this evening as WBO super feather king Rocky Martinez looks to turn aside the challenge posed by current WBO featherweight champ Vasyl Lomachenko. Martinez, 29-2-1 (17), is on his third reign as WBO 130 pound titlist, having gone 6-2-2…
British welterweight Amir Khan steps up tonight in a big way as the challenges WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at the brand new T-Mobile Arena in America’s boxing capital of Las Vegas. The occasion marks the first defense of the belt by Alvarez, 46-1-1 (32) since unseating Miguel Cotto in November and just like…
This weekend the WBC super-middle weight belt and the IBF super middle weight title are on the line for Badou Jack and James DeGale, against Lucien Bute and Rogelio Medina, respectively, at the Armory in Washington DC on Saturday. Interestingly enough, Badou Jack (20-1-1) beat Medina (36-6-0) at the end of 2013 and DeGale beat…
Boxing’s most dominating divisional champion is back in action tonight as middleweight Gennady “GGG” Golovkin puts his WBA. IBF, IBO and Interim WBC crowns up for grabs at the storied Forum venue in Los Angles. Once again fighting on a Golovkin undercard is WBC flyweight champ Roman Gonzalez. 34 year old Golovkin, 34-0 (31), has…
There’s two big fight cards on tap tonight, one in London and one in Las Vegas and we’ll take a look first at the UK’s premier boxing venue, the O2 Arena. That’s where three world title contests take place, anchored by a hotly anticipated clash at heavyweight between celebrated 2012 Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua…
There’s three good fight cards taking pace this evening with two in merry old England and one in the American state of California. We start off in the UK at the Arena in Sheffield, where local hero Kell Brook, 35-0 (24), looks to continue his destructive reign as IBF welterweight champion aganst the challenge posed…
First and foremost, congratulations to ‘Prince’ Charles Martin, Anthony Joshua and both camps for making this fight happen. A genuine 50/50 fight for a portion of the heavyweight title between two relative novices. As first defences go, it’s a ballsy move by Martin to offer himself and his title up as a target for red…
Unfortunately, I have to be as clichéd as everyone else in looking forward to this bout by saying the obvious, it’s a 50/50 contest, a ‘pick-em’ fight. And whilst it is a fantastic, intriguing matchup, the fighters have different strengths and weaknesses, which will play a big part in who loses their unbeaten record tonight,…
The big boys are the highlight of the top level bouts that occur this weekend with two pairings of interest which happen on the same card in America. On the double bill at Barclays Center in New York, two of the four major world titles at heavyweight will be argued over as WBC kingpin Deontay…
Love him or hate him, you have to admit that heavyweight Tyson Fury is entertaining, Whether it’s entering a press conference dressed up as Batman, serenading an audience after a fight or running his mouth off like he so often does, its entertaining. And that is a word you can’t use to describe the Champion,…
It’s a big night at the fights with three world title bouts featured in three different countries this evening and we start this review by heading to Germany, where heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko puts the WBA, IBF and WBO crowns on offer against opinionated challenger Tyson Fury at Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf. Finally, Fury, 24-0 (18),…