By: Sean Crose Gennady Golovkin is back in the middleweight title picture. Canelo Alvarez, who drew with Golovkin in highly controversial fashion in 2017, then bested Golovkin, again in controversial fashion, in 2018, had little interest in fighting the Kazakh warrior for a third time in three years, even though …
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Boxing Insider Notebook: De La Hoya, IBF, Cohen, Star Boxing, Team USA, and more…
Compiled By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of July 30th to August 6th; covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Statement from Oscar De La Hoya Regarding the IBF’s Decision to Strip Middleweight World Champion …
Read More »Boxing Insider European Notebook: Conlan Stops Ruiz, Jenkins Victorious
By: Oliver McManus Many a year has gone by without too much happening, in the boxing sense, throughout the month of August but the dry month has seen mouths unusually salivated by the prospect of Sergey Kovalev vs Anthony Yarde. There’s a full support act scattered across the breadth of …
Read More »Three Takeaways: Where Does Canelo Go From Here?
By: Jonah Dylan After a packed boxing schedule a weekend ago, it was only fair that this weekend was much more tame in the meaningful fights department. As for the next few weekends, well, whatever. There was news, though! And lots of it regarding arguably boxing’s biggest star, Canelo Alvarez. …
Read More »Jean Pascal: Old Dog New Tricks
By: LV Boxing Jean Pascal has never been viewed as a stepping stone. This past Saturday night on August 3rd, at the Barclay Center, he was treated as such. Marcus Browne was the young, undefeated Light Heavyweight who also held the WBA interim title. He had it all. Power, speed …
Read More »Fowler Back to Winning Ways With Decision Over Rose
By: Ste Rowen It’s been a rough few weeks for Matchroom with the ongoing Dillian Whyte failed drug test saga, but there was light relief on Friday night as Anthony Fowler return to winning ways over experienced, former world title challenger, Brian Rose at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool. Fowler, …
Read More »Adam Kownacki Stays on World Title Track, Decisions Chris Arreola
By Robert Aaron Contreras As a part of a Brooklyn homecoming show on FOX, Adam Kownacki (20-0, 15 KO) extended his perfect record against the recognizable slugger Chris Arreola (38-6-1, 33 KO), pouring it on over the entire 12 rounds, a punch output apparently unmatched by any heavyweight fight in …
Read More »Helen Joseph: Fighting For Recognition
By: Hans Themistode It isn’t often that you will find a young child who says that they want to be a boxer when they get older. A firefighter, basketball player, football player, doctor or maybe even an astronaut. These are the norms. There are those such as Floyd Mayweather who …
Read More »Canelo Stripped of IBF Title
By: Sean Crose Canelo Alvarez has been stripped of his IBF world middleweight title. Furthermore, he is no longer going to be facing Sergiy Derevyanchenk as his next opponent, as was widely expected. Canelo was supposed to face Derevyanchenk as his mandatory, but a deal between the two camps was …
Read More »Quest for Redemption for Tramaine Williams
“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of …
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