For all the bitterness, posturing and name calling, there must be a little part of Joe Calzaghe that envies Carl Froch. Not financially, of course, Calzaghe’s final fights at super-middleweight and his brief venture into the light-heavyweight division made the Welshman a pretty penny and certainly enough to allow him to live in comfort for [...]

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When a list of inspirational sporting role models is drawn up by the wider sporting public, the name of a one Bernard Hopkins is unlikely to top the list. A man who was imprisoned for five years after a number of misdemeanors, did not actually make his professional debut until he was 23 and actually slumped [...]

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The eagerly awaited final of the Super Six Boxing Classic between Andre Ward and Carl Froch has been allocated a new date after American, Ward, pulled out of the original October 29th  meeting with an eye injury.   The pair are now due to meet on December 17th, after two earlier dates were abandoned due to demands [...]

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When George Groves got off the canvas to record a messy, ugly win over former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kenny Anderson last November, the thought of Adam Booth’s prodigy entering into the ring with the polished Olympic champion James DeGale sent shivers down the spine. In destroying Liverpudlian Paul Smith to win the British title the [...]

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This week I was flicking through the various Thursday evening offerings from Sky Sports. Before I sat down to watch the excellent documentary on the Michael Watson-Chris Eubank fight in 1991 I was subject to the final five minutes of ‘Ringside’ and a variety of assembled guests giving their views on last weekend’s big fights. [...]

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  Carl Froch will have to wait for his chance to unifty the super-middleweight division after his fellow Super Six finalist, Andre Ward, pulled out of their October 29th meeting with an eye injury.  Ward, who has not fought since a comfortable points decision over Arthur Abraham in May, sent a message to his Twitter following [...]

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Britain’s light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan has confidently predicted a 2012 showdown with rival, Floyd Mayweather as he prepares to do battle with American Lamont Petersen in November.  Having struggled to get undefeated Timothy Bradley into the ring, theBoltonborn fighter looks set to fight once more at light-welterweight before stepping up a division early next [...]

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Between now and Christmas many of British boxing’s leading lights are involved in career defining fights, to the extent that by spring next year we could have as many as eight world champions on these shores. Whilst British boxing has not had so many exciting nights on the horizon for many years, the name of [...]

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Floyd Mayweather has never been a popular fighter. Talked about in many quarters as potentially one of the best to have ever laced them up but equally disliked throughout the boxing fraternity, the champion’s profile took another blow over the weekend. The booing that echoed around the MGM Grand on Saturday evening after his latest [...]

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The biggest positive that you can take from Tyson Fury’s fifth round stoppage of Nicolai Firtha in Saturday’s non-title heavyweight fight in Belfast was that at least the undefeated fighter is remaining active- returning to the ring less than two months after his British and Commonwealth title win over Dereck Chisora. As heavyweight battles go, [...]

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