A new deal has been reached between old business partners. Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday morning a renewed multi-year, multi-fight partnership with sports streaming service DAZN, continuing a relationship that began more than three ago. The renewed deal will allow Golden Boy to maintain its premium dates and proceed with its monthly Golden Boy Fight … Read more
Mohammad Jameel, a former footballer and cricketer, wanted one of his four daughters to pick up a sport. The Nizamabad native picked athletics for his third daughter Nikhat Zareen. A young Nikhat emerged state champion in both the sprint events, but took to the boxing ring on the advice of an uncle. At 14, she … Read more
By Sean Jones: Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford says he’s “100% confident” his fight with Errol The Truth’ Spence Jr. will get made this year so the two can settle who the #1 fighter is on the planet at 147. Crawford and Spence must fight now because the young 24-year-old phenom Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis is breathing down … Read more
By Charles Brown: Eddie Hearn revealed on Thursday that he’s negotiating a fight between heavyweights Derek Chisora and Adam Kownacki. The fight is still not signed, but Hearn seems hopeful that he can get it done. Chisora (32-12, 23 KOs) has signed his portion of the contract, and they’re waiting for Kownacki to ink his … Read more
Eddie Hearn has responded to comments from Leonard Ellerbe, labeling the Mayweather Promotions CEO as irrelevant. Speaking at a media workout ahead of Gervonta Davis’ clash with Rolando Romero in Brooklyn on May 28, Ellerbe was questioned about Davis’ caliber of opponents and when mentioning a possible match-up with WBC lightweight champion, Devin Haney, Ellerbe … Read more
India’s Nikhat Zareen won the gold medal in the 52kg category at the Women’s World Championship with a win over Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas in the fly-weight final in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday. Nikhat thus becomes only the fifth Indian women’s boxer after Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and Lekha KC to win a gold … Read more
Boxing can take a combatant to the highest of peaks and then almost simultaneously dump them to the lowest of lows. The sport is literate with many such casualties and cautionary stories of stars that rose too fast only to crash and burn. It’s almost a cliché in the sport, the promising career of the … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: New doubts emerge over Anthony Joshua’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk as Eddie Hearn faces moving the fight back EVEN FURTHER from its original April date with no contract signed yet Anthony Joshua was surprisingly beaten by Oleksandr Usyk last September Since then, Usyk has fought on the front line for Ukraine against Russian forces … Read more
Former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq has said he was “triggered” by comments about Asian athletes made by the boxer Amir Khan this week. The former welterweight champion said on Monday that Asian athletes use racism as an excuse when they do not perform well and that eating curry was “not the right diet to be … Read more
‘We all know he’s not retiring’: Eddie Hearn thinks Tyson Fury WILL fight the winner of Anthony Joshua’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk in an undisputed showdown… despite the Gypsy King insisting he’s already walked away after beating Dillian Whyte Eddie Hearn believes Tyson Fury will reverse his decision to retire from boxing Fury said he … Read more