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There is a saying that goes ‘anything worth having is worth waiting for’ and I reckon this is particularly true of Fury-Klitschko part two now we have finally got it over the line.
By Frank Warren - The Olympic heavyweight landscape was once a fertile territory for the big fellas from the USA. Not anymore and there is a shortage of evidence suggesting this is about to change. Heavyweight Olympic gold used to be a banker for the traditionally dominant American team when I was growing up...
Rematch clauses are rightly legally binding when they are written into the contract of a title contest, but they can also be a right bind as well when you are seeking to keep a champion active.
There was a genuine buzz of excitement and anticipation among boxing fans when we announced back in June that two undefeated and top class super welterweights were ready to put it all on the line on a July date in Cardiff.
Joe Joyce, I believe, can count himself unlucky that he is not entering the next phase of his career with a gold-plated bargaining chip draped around his neck. I do go along with the train of thought that the super heavyweight silver medallist was hard done by with unfavourable scoring in Sunday’s gold medal match against the Frenchman Tony Yoka, but it wasn’t a Rio robbery on the scale of Michael Conlan’s blatant mugging a few days before, which probably tainted our perspective of subsequent events in the ring at Riocentro.
Expectations were high going into Rio 2016 of British boxers making a sizeable deposit into Team GB’s bumper medal haul. Unfortunately, nine of the ten-strong men’s team are now on a watching brief, there in a support capacity cheering on the last man standing in big Joe Joyce.
The month of August is a tricky one in the boxing business – on the promotional side at least. Nowadays the month is the sport’s close season in this country, a much shorter hiatus than in the old days when the shutdown ran from the eve of the Derby in June through to September.
My recent purse bid win could prove pivotal to the career of our unbeaten middleweight Tommy Langford. The 27-year-old holds the mandatory spot for the British title held by Chris Eubank jnr and after winning the right to stage the fight, Eubank will have to put up or shut up.
In my opinion, there are very few – if any – more naturally gifted boxers on the British scene than Paul Butler, who trades punches under the ring moniker of the ‘Baby Faced Assassin’.
The live action continues on BoxNation this weekend from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, the home patch of one of the pound-for-pound greats of the sport. Andre Ward calls himself ‘Son of God’ and, while that might be stretching it a bit, he is something special. He beat everyone who was there to be beaten at super middleweight, emerging unscathed from the Super Six tournament, defeating the likes of Mikkel Kessler, Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham – all well respected world champions in their own right – when they were in their pomp.