UK Boxing

TWO of Britain’s hottest prospects George Groves and Tom Dallas have been added to Frank Maloney’s talent stacked bill at Brentwood Centre on Friday January 22. Groves, 21, is a man in hurry and targeting Commonwealth super-middleweight champion Charles Adamu. Hammersmith’s Groves and Kent man Dallas will all meet selected opponents on the bill being [...]

RENDALL MUNROE will meet Frank Maloney this weekend to discuss his ring future.
The Commonwealth and European super-bantamweight title holder will be meet Maloney at the FA Cup tie between Millwall and the team he loves to hate Derby County.
Early in 2010 Leicester City fan Munroe will face Victor Terrazas in a final eliminator for the [...]

IAN NAPA will defend his British bantamweight title against Jamie McDonnell at the Brentwood Centre on Friday 22nd January.
Napa, 31, will be making the first defence in his second reign as champion when he tackles the Doncaster youngster.

RENDALL MUNROE will meet Mexican Victor Terrazas in a final eliminator for the WBC world super-bantamweight title.
Leicester southpaw Munroe expects the battle for the right to challenge for Toshiaki Nishioka’s crown to take place in next February or March.
The WBC have mandated the fight and the fighter’s promoters HG Boxing and Frank Maloney, who handles [...]

By Matt Flanagan: We hear this debate endlessly discussed – should a fighter retire or should he continue. Roy Jones Jr and Joe Calzaghe are 2 topical discussions albeit debated for different reason’s. Jones is well past his peak and perhaps should have retired some years ago, while Calzaghe went out at the [...]

By Liam Santiago: British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury (6-0-0, 6ko’s), is aiming to win the English ad Irish title belts in the next few months. The unbeaten Manchester star has been made mandatory challenger for John McDermott’s English Heavyweight title with the fight likely to happen in late November. Furys is also elegible to challenge [...]

By Liam Santiago: In history, very few of the greatest fighters retire undefeated. Roberto Duran, Muhammed Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson are just a few of the all time greats to taste defeat. Ricky Hatton tasted defeat for the second time against Manny Pacquiao in May and has to make the biggest decision of his [...]

By Chris Williams: It seems that David Haye isn’t going to be getting back in the ring anytime soon regardless of whether his back heals up in the next month and is looking at getting back in the ring in September to hopefully fight for one of the heavyweight titles against either of the [...]

By William Mackay: In recent years, boxing has gone downhill with fighters have become more and more focused on building up their records by taking the easiest fights possible at the expense of developing their skills by facing better opponents. In a lot of cases, you have fighters with dramatically build up records (often unbeaten) [...]

By Chris Williams: I think Ricky Hatton is kidding himself if he comes back for one final fight, as if this will give him any kind of “closure” on his career. Unless that fighter is Manny Pacquiao, and Hatton somehow knocks him out, I don’t see the point of Hatton fighting one more time. Hatton [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Near the end of his career, the unbeaten WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe fought twice in the U.S., fighting first Bernard Hopkins and then Roy Jones Jr. in 2008. However, neither fight was hugely successful in terms of ratings or PPV buys with boxing fans, and it made me wonder what [...]

By Jim Dower: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (29-3, 22 KOs) has reportedly left his trainer Enzo Calzaghe, the father of former WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, and has taken on a new trainer Karl Ince. It’s unclear what the exact reason for the split, but it likely stems from [...]

By Adam Fillingham: After Carl Froch’s defeat of Jermain Taylor on the 25 of April a lot of people have written off the victory due to Taylor being ‘past his best’. Is this true? Or is this just an excuse due to Froch being British? Just look at the fighters that he has as potential [...]

By Eric Thomas: It was expected that former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe wouldn’t be interested in fighting WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch, and now it’s academic after Calzaghe came publicly yesterday and said that he will not be coming out of retirement to fight Froch. For many people in the [...]

By Gary Burns: Amir Khan has been handed a shot at WBA junior welterweight champ Andreas Kotelnik this summer but the backlash on Khan has been quite phenomenal. Boxing fans around the world have been quick to jump on Khans back saying he is taking an easy route to becoming a world champion.

By Adam Fillingham: Luke Tyson Fury was born on the 1st of June 1988, in Wythenshawe, Manchester, weighing one pound. After he was born a string of tragic events happened and Fury nearly died 3 times. His father then named him after former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

By Michael Payne: After much speculation regarding if Carl Froch (24 – 0, 19 KOs) Vs Jermain Taylor (28 – 2 – 1, 17 KOs) will be available to view for UK fans not heading over to the states. The “continents collide” clash will be show on a live steam on a pay per [...]

By Chris Williams: I really hate to say this, but I can’t help thinking that Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) didn’t do enough risk taking in his boxing career and seemed content with facing the mediocre opposition in the WBO. I suppose if Calzaghe had accomplished his unbeaten 46-0 record by beating some [...]

By Jim Dower: Big 6′7″ German Timo Hoffmann (38-6-1, 22 KOs) will be returning to the ring against former International Boxing Federation (IBF) heavyweight champion Francois Botha (47-4-2, 28 KOs) on May 10th at an undisclosed location in Germany. The South African Botha, now 40-years-old, is making his third fight since returning to boxing after [...]

By Jim Dower: Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) may have thought that he impressed a lot of boxing fans with his 8th round stoppage over Oscar De La Hoya in December 2008, but he’s not quite impressed Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs), who sees Pacquiao’s win as nothing but a fluke due to De La [...]

By Zubair Ali: After his 5th round technical decision victory over modern day legend Marco Antonio Barrera, Amir Khan catapulted himself onto the world stage. In a fight that many believed was a genuine 50-50, Khan produced an exceptional performance against the ageing Barrera. Khan dominated from the opening bell, with a clash of heads [...]

By Chris Williams: With the recent news about International Boxing Federation – IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye’s negotiations hitting an impassable wall, it looks as if Haye is going to have to seek out another alternative for his next bout, one that doesn’t involve a Klitschko. Of course, if Haye is truly [...]

By Jim Dower: Tyson Fury returns to the ring on February 28th against journeyman Daniel Peret (15-20, 6 KOs) at the Norwich Showground, Norwich, in Norfolk. Fury will likely have little trouble with the 35-year-old Peret, who’s coming into this fight with five losses out of his last seven fights. At best, Peret will probably [...]

British middleweight champion Wayne Elcock says he’s happy to let mandatory challenger Matthew Macklin talk the talk ahead of their massive all Birmingham clash on a Hennessy Sports show at the Aston Arena in the city on March 14th live on ITV4. Macklin is predicting a knockout win over his local rival but Elcock and [...]

Former world cruiserweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye has offered to box in Germany on a K2 Promotions show in order to revive negotiations for a summer showdown with WBO and IBF world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Originally scheduled to take place on June 20 at Stamford Bridge in London, Haye’s eagerly anticipated duel with [...]

By Mark Boyles: With Joe Calzaghe announcing his retirement, the inevitable chorus of naysayers appear to be throwing criticism out there, arguing that his last two fights were against has-been fighters well past their prime. Firstly this struck me as odd, given that Hopkins, an “over-the-hill” fighter, went on to do a complete number [...]

Super-flyweight prospect Don Broadhurst will be keeping a close eye on this weekend’s super-clash between the division’s leading lights in America. Vic Darchinyan will defend his IBF, WBC and WBA world titles against Jorge Arce in a mouth-watering showdown in California, a bout to be shown live on Showtime in the States.

By Eric Thomas: British heavyweight Matt Skelton (22-2, 19 KOs) is making noises that he’d be interested in a fight with fellow UK heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 20 KOs) as soon as David gets through with fighting one of the Klitschko brothers. In an interview on the Sunday Mirror, Skelton remarked that Haye is “Lucky” [...]