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Natasha Jonas may be giving away a couple of inches in height and a few years in age to Mikalea Mayer but the IBF welterweight champion thinks that her strength will be the telling factor when she defends her title against the American on February 20th.
Jay Harris is once again ready to hit the road. On February 24th, the British flyweight champion travels to Liverpool to take on unbeaten European and Commonwealth champion, Connor Butler (11-0 1 KO), in a significant triple title clash.
Despite a remarkable debut in which he dropped Tyson Fury and pushed the unbeaten WBC and lineal heavyweight champion to the wire before losing a split decision, Carl Froch feels that Francis Ngannou needs to prove himself all over again when he takes on Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia later this year.
Conor Benn is back and ready to restart his welterweight campaign. Benn (22-0, 14 KO’s) hasn’t boxed at 147lbs since stopping Chris van Heerden in April 2022. Since then, he has spent much of his time preparing for a cancelled 157lb catchweight fight with Chris Eubank Jnr and strenuously protesting his innocence after twice testing positive for the banned substance clomifene.
After months of training, waiting and campaigning for his big opportunity, Ohara Davies’ American adventure came to a dramatic ending after just 113 seconds in Las Vegas last night.
On February 10th, Hamzah Sheeraz will take on the dangerous Liam Williams in a fight which will answer a lot of questions about where both fighters currently stand in the middleweight title picture.
Most boxing fans had probably managed to make it through their entire lives without hearing about the drug clomifene. That all changed 15 months ago when news broke that Conor Benn had failed a Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) test for the banned substance.
We are just over two weeks away from the IBF welterweight title fight between Natasha Jonas and Mikaela Mayer but if things had played out differently, the two might have met a long time ago.
One of British boxing’s most decorated but most underappreciated fighters has decided to hang up his gloves. Doncaster’s Jason Cunningham won the English bantamweight title back in 2014 and remained a stalwart of the domestic title scene for almost a decade.
Pierce O’Leary enters 2024 with a new training team behind him. The unbeaten super lightweight has left Alan Smith’s iBox Gym in Bromley and will move a few hundred miles north to join Joe McNally’s ever expanding stable at the Rotunda Gym in Liverpool.