George Groves splits from Adam Booth

booth343By Shaun Campbell: George Groves has sensationally split with longtime trainer Adam Booth, as he prepares for the biggest fight of his career against IBF/WBA super-middleweight champion Carl Froch. Rumors with circulating across social media sites yesterday, but today Adam Smith of Sky Sports confirmed that Booth had “personally told him” that the rumors were true.

Yesterday was the official opening press conference between Groves and Froch, and it was clear for all to see that the usually confidence and charming Groves was not himself. He seemed subdued and as if his mind was elsewhere, which will hardly be reassuring to his fans as he is approaching the biggest test he’s had to date. In a relatively low key press conference Froch was his usually confidence, almost arrogant self, as he sat alongside his longtime trainer Robert McCracken. Booth however, was not present. In his place sat Adam Smith, head of boxing at Sky Sports, who is also close friends with both Booth and Groves.

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Hughie Fury defeats Shane McPhilbin by injury stoppage

By Scott Gilfoid Undefeated heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (9-0, 6 KO’s) defeated cruiserweight Shane McPhilbin (8-8-1, 5 KO’s) by a 1st round injury stoppage on Saturday night at the Magna Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK. The fight was halted after the end of the 1st round due to McPhilbin’s left shoulder being injury in the round.

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Kid Galahad wins British title

By Rachel Aylett: In a magnificent fight tonight in Rotherham for the vacant British super-bantamweight title, Kid Galahad retained his unbeaten record at the expense of fellow unbeaten prospect James Dickens. The pre-fight favourite Galahad was given the fright of his life by the inspired Dickens.

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Oleksandr Usyk and the Cruiserweights

By Rachel Aylett: Almost lost in the recent excitement over the announcement that double world and Olympic champion, Vasyl Lomachenko, had signed a professional deal with Top Rank, was the news that his Ukrainian team mate Oleksandr Usyk, had also turned professional. Although not as celebrated as Lomachenko, Usyk is himself a former world and Olympic champion as an amateur.

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Kid Galahad vs. Jazza Dickens this Saturday, September 14th

By Rachel Aylett: Boxing returns once again to terrestrial television in the UK on Saturday night (14 Sep) with an excellent British super-bantamweight title fight between two young unbeaten fighters.

This pits Sheffield’s Kid Galahad against Liverpool’s James “Jazza” Dickens for the above-mentioned title, which became vacant when Scott Quigg relinquished in May.

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The Sport of Boxing deserves the backlash

by James Le Blanc: Recently on the show Pardon the Interruption Michael Wilbon stated that after Floyd Mayweather retires, it’s over for boxing. Boxing journalist Dan Rafael took to twitter to imply that anyone that says the sport of boxing is dead is just ignorant and lazy. I myself thought the year of 2013 would be a year full of unwanted rematches and dead on arrival mismatches but I couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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Martin Murray Interview

murray57By Nathan Haworth: Martin Murray, 30 years old from St Helens, England; has a fantastic professional record of 25 wins from 27 fights, 11 coming by way of KO, and he has 1 loss and 1 draw. His first blemish came in 2011 at the SAP-Arena in Germany against former WBA (Super) World Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm; this was a split decision draw.

Murray then went on to have two consecutive victories before challenging Sergio Martinez for The Ring and WBC Middleweight titles last April. The outcome of this fight was extremely controversial with Murray knocking Martinez down twice and dominating the majority of the fight only for Murray to lose via unanimous decision.

Today I spoke with Martin about his potential future bouts; his toughest fight in the ring and Darren Barker Vs Felix Sturm.

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Fury-McPhilbin: Hughie in dangerous fight on September 14th

fury4By Scott Gilfoid: The Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez bout isn’t the only interesting fight that will be taking place on September 14th. Unbeaten heavyweight hopeful Hughie Fury (8-0, 5 KO’s) will be making his 9th fight of his career against the big slugging cruiserweight Shane McPhilbin (8-7-1, 5 KO’s) on September 14th at the Magna Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK.

Why is the 6’6” Hughie facing a cruiserweight instead of a heavyweight is the big question. I guess it’s a way for Hughie’s promoter to make sure that Hughie doesn’t lose, because he’s looked awfully vulnerable against the dreadfully weak opposition he’s been in with thus far.

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Prospect Watch: Cruiserweight David Graf

By Sevak Sarkisian: David Graf is a cruiserweight fighting out of Germany with Armenian ancestry. He is 24 years old and started his professional career in 2011 fighting a total of five times with each of those bouts ending inside the distance. He is 6’3 in height with a current record of (10-0 7KO’s).

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