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Best laid plans often go to waste in boxing but when Ben Davison took over the reigns of Anthony Joshua’s training team, he probably assumed he would spend the first part of 2024 preparing the two-time unified heavyweight champion for a shootout with Deontay Wilder.
Don’t expect Dan Azeez to change his attitude now. Even though the unbeaten 34 year old will walk to the ring for his WBA light heavyweight final eliminator with Joshua Buatsi as the reigning and defending British and Commonwealth champion and a likely crowd favorite, he still sees himself as the fighter who has everything to prove and even more to gain.
Eddie Hearn has spent weeks talking about the vivid visions which visited him whenever he closed his eyes. Visions of Callum Smith knocking out Artur Beterbiev with a left hook and returning to England as the new unified light heavyweight champion. Reality set in quickly last Saturday night.
After the success of their stacked ‘Magnificent Seven’ show last November, Queensberry look set to continue with the winning formula by promoting another multi-title card in Birmingham on March 16th.
Adam Azim continues his development next month when he defends his European super lightweight title against Denmark’s unbeaten Enock Poulsen.
Callum Smith will take some time to consider his future after having his hopes of becoming a two-weight world champion ruthlessly ended by WBC, IBF and WBO light heavyweight champion, Artur Beterbiev.
English super middleweight champion, Mark Jeffers, is determined that next weekend's title defense against Germaine Brown in Liverpool acts as a springboard to bigger and better things.
Dan Azeez and Joshua Buatsi don’t have too much longer to wait. On February 3rd the light heavyweight rivals will finally meet in a South London derby, the outcome of which will reverberate on the world scene.
Anthony Yarde has an interesting few weeks ahead of him. The light heavyweight will pay close attention to events in Quebec City this weekend when his former opponent, Artur Beterbiev, defends his WBC, IBF and WBO titles against Callum Smith. His world ranked British rivals, Dan Azeez and
Cyrus Pattinson has been ruled out of his rematch with Conah Walker after suffering an injury to his eye during training. The 10 round welterweight fight had been due to headline Matchroom’s NXTGEN card in Newcastle on February 10th but in a now deleted tweet, Pattinson said: