Tris Dixon

Ben Davison Confident Leigh Wood Will Power Past Xu Can

By Tris Dixon - Xu Can must be careful when he meets challenger Leigh Wood in the new Fight Camp headliner because the Nottingham man has “ridiculous” punching power. Wood’s trainer Ben Davison saw his man topple Reece Mould in their first fight toge...

The Heavyweight Waiting Game

By Tris Dixon - Around this time in 2021 we were due to find out who was the top man in the heavyweight division. We were told Tyson Fury against Anthony Joshua was incoming and there would not just be not just one fight but a rematch, too, and all t...

Michael Conlan: TJ Doheny Will Be The Best I've Faced

By Tris Dixon - Michael Conlan believes win No. 16 will take him to within touching distance of a world title fight. The 15-0 Belfastman faces former world champion TJ Doheny on August 6 at Falls Park in Belfast in an all-Irish battle and while there...

Lyndon Arthur and The Foundation of Love, Respect and Trust

“Everyone does things for money, apart from me and apart us,” said trainer Pat Barrett.  The Manchester trainer, a former European champion and world title challenger, coaches 18-0 light-heavyweight contender Lyndon Arthur who meets 15-0 Italian Davi...

Kalle Sauerland Discusses Wasserman Boxing, Their Plans For The Future

Promoter Kalle Sauerland says fight fans will have a clear indication of what he’s been building by September or October. Sauerland and his family boxing company linked up with giant sport’s agency Wasserman earlier in the year, he has also announced...

Stephen Smith - 'I Gave Everything I Had'

When Liverpool fighter Stephen Smith scrolled through his phone on Monday he was reminded that it was 13 years to the day since he turned professional. Well, after a frustrating period over the final few years of his career, he decided Monday was as...

Chris Billam-Smith Ready For Tommy McCarthy: 'I Expect an Exciting Fight'

EDDIE HEARN unveiled his Fight Camp showpiece contests earlier this month and one fight immediately stood out to boxing fans. There’s a real enthusiasm for the cruiserweight contest between Commonwealth champion Chris Billam-Smith, from Bournemouth,...

Adam Lopez Working Hard To Be Superstar His Father Could Have Been

“My dad was a fighter, so growing up I used to watch him sparring and fighting,” said 15-2 featherweight Adam Lopez. Sure, it’s a familiar story but Lopez’s dad was Hector Lopez, a formidable former world title challenger who, if he’d lived the life,...

Colin Nathan's COVID Nightmare in Russia

WHEN leading South African trainer Colin Nathan left home for Russia last week, he thought he was going to be in and out in a few days. He didn’t imagine he would be stuck on a Covid ward in a foreign land, struggling with terrible health, watching a...

The Donaires: United in Pursuit of Unification

Brilliant Nonito Donaire surely punched his International Boxing Hall of Fame ticket – for the first ballot, no less – with his superb stoppage of Nordine Oubaali last weekend. The extraordinary Filipino scored one of the biggest wins of his decorate...

Time For Boxing To Take Itself Seriously

By Tris Dixon - The business of boxing is convoluted, murky, confusing and sometimes downright unethical. Its chaotic nature means things are never straightforward, when it seems they should be, and the sport’s regularly appearing loopholes frequentl...

How Sunny Edwards and Grant Smith Defied The Critics

“This is a true story,” explains Sunny Edwards. “When I left Repton [Amateur Boxing Club] to go to Sheffield for university, England coaches who had worked with me over the last few years of being a five-time national champion… the first thing they s...

Canelo Makes Good on Prediction He Would Become Biggest Thing in Boxing

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez looked shyly at the small assembled table of boxing journalists and greeted them all with a nod. It was late 2010 and those reporters were being told that he was the next big thing. They were all in town to cover a big Golden Bo...

Welcome To The Crazy World of Derek Chisora

When Derek Chisora departed the scales ahead of this weekend’s clash with Joseph Parker one could sense problems might lie ahead. The temperamental Londoner then lost a coin flip to decide who would walk out second on Saturday night and he promptly s...

Saunders' Trainer: We Can't Run From Canelo in The Fight

By Tris Dixon - On May 8 in the AT&T Stadium in Texas, a slick former middleweight champion takes on a powerful former light-heavyweight belt holder. The consensus is that WBO 168lbs champion Billy Joe Saunders will have to try to outboxing Saul “Can...