Mark Chamberlain was on his way home from a festive night out with his sponsors when Frank Warren’s name appeared on his phone. “I thought it was strange,” he told Blighty Boxing. “‘I’ve got an opportunity here if you want it? I’ll let His Excellency tell you’, so he’s passed me over to Turki Alalshikh. “He just said, ‘Mark I’ve ...
Former unified heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua has urged up-and-coming British heavyweight Matty Harris to keep faith in his ability and to return strongly following his defeat last July to the hardened Ukrainian Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko. Harris, a decorated amateur, had quickly taken to the professional game with five successive wins [four by knockout] following his debut in November 2011. Promoted ...
Edgar Berlanga wasted little time calling for the big fights after his eighth-round stoppage of Irishman Padraig McCrory in Orlando. Berlanga improved to 22-0 with 17 stoppage wins and immediately had the likes of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Jaime Munguia in his sights. In particular, Berlanga wants Canelo, the most-lucrative fight at super middleweight. “I just came off a big ...
Diego ‘Chico’ Corrales and Juan Luis Castillo will forever be linked together Their first bout encapsulated everything right with boxing. There were knockdowns, high drama, and a great comeback. The theater of the unexpected was on full display when they met for the first time in their career. “That was the best fight I have ever seen,” said the legendary ...
Gervonta Davis took to social media platform X to reveal the offer he had received for a potential bout with Conor Benn. Benn was last in action on February 3, against Peter Dobson at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, defeating Dobson over 12 rounds to claim a unanimous points win as the 27-year-old Benn continued to rebuild his career following ...
Edgar Berlanga will get another opportunity to prove his promise and potential when he takes on Padraig McCrory on Saturday at the Caribe Royale in Orlando. The fight will headline a Matchroom Boxing card on DAZN. Berlanga (21-0, 16 KOs) has fizzled a bit recently after kicking off his career to a sizzling start with 16 straight first-round knockout wins. ...
Future Hall of Famer Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, a four-division world champion, has a new weight class. His last fight was in 2022, a majority-decision loss to Juan Francisco Estrada. Since then, not much news has surfaced from Gonzalez’s camp Gonzalez, who was in Santa Ynez, California in support of Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions exclusively spoke to BoxingScene and confirmed his ...
Of all of boxing’s clichés, few hold more truth than the claim that a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter. Nothing is more certain to make a fighter unhappy than struggling to make weight. The feeling can last for weeks on end and comes with a growing feeling of dread about just how bad the final 24 hours before the ...
Heavyweight contender Zhilei Zhang has said he is focused on just one man ahead of his return to the ring. Zhang meets experienced New Zealander Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia on March 8, and he is not looking beyond the former WBO champion. Zhang told Seconds Out that while his training team, including Shaun George, is putting in the work ...
David Benavidez is not sitting on his hands waiting to win the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez sweepstakes. Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) is looking to make his 175lbs debut by securing a fight with former light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June, it was revealed on Thursday. They will contest the WBC interim light heavyweight title, the WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced. ...