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The first thing Josh Warrington did when arrived in the bubble this week was redecorate. Warrington likes to cover his hotel room walls with motivational statements and not content with some hand scrawled signs, he has had professional signs made up.
The first time that Leigh Wood got his hands on a Lonsdale Belt, it was one that belonged to Nicky Booth. The former British bantamweight champion was guest of honour with his brother Jason as Wood’s amateur club. Phoenix ABC, on awards night. The 12-year-old Wood was in awe.
Daniel Kinahan’s statement issued to TalkSport on Monday defending his reputation after being featured in a BBC Panorama investigation has thrown the spotlight on the broadcasters that screen boxing. If Sky Sports and BT Sport thought it would be easy to sit back and ignore all the noise surrounding the Irishman, it just got a bit harder.
It is too late to teach Billy Joe Saunders how to behave on social media, according to Eddie Hearn, who does not believe that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will be put off facing him by his online reputation.
Dillian Whyte looks set to move his training camp to Spain for his rematch with Alexander Povetkin after Portugal, where he has been training, was placed on a list of countries from which travel to the UK is banned due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Things may be progressing smoothly towards an undisputed heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, but it has still not been agreed as to who will have their name first on the poster. Contracts for the fight have been sent by Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, to Fury’s promoters, Bob Arum and Frank Warren, and returned with alterations. But even though the deal seems to be straightforward, whether the fight will be officially #FuryJoshua or #JoshuaFury has not yet been agreed.
Eddie Hearn does not believe that the BBC Panorama documentary about Daniel Kinahan has made any difference to the world of boxing. The episode entitled “Boxing and the Mob” referred to Kinahan as “a suspected Mob boss”, connected him drug dealing, gun running, money laundering and a string of killings, and focussed on his links to Tyson Fury and MTK Global. Kinahan has always denied that he is involved in criminal activity.
A BBC documentary has alleged that Daniel Kinahan remains as an adviser to many boxers, despite apparently stepping back from his role in the sport last year. An episode of the BBC investigative series Panorama, broadcast on Monday, dug into the world of Kinahan. The episode, entitled Boxing And The Mob referred to Kinahan as a “suspected mob boss” and focused on his connections to Tyson Fury and MTK Global
Frank Warren aims to pin down a world title fight for Sunny Edwards as part of his series of fights for early 2021. Warren is back at work after being in hospital with Covid-19 over the New Year period and his Queensberry Promotions are looking at putting on fortnightly shows to be screened in the UK on BT Sport.
Daniel Dubois’s decision not to involve himself in social media has helped him to get over his traumatic loss to Joe Joyce, according to his promoter. Frank Warren. Dubois took a knee in the tenth round of the British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight title fight in November after suffering a factured eye socket and retina damage.