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During the Coronavirus lockdown fighters are keeping themselves in shape at home by using a number of different methods. Michael Conlan is no exception but the Northern Irishman is also doing some studying in his spare time. The 28-year-old Northern Irishman has, like so many, not fought yet in 2020 but that hasn’t stopped him watching and learning from one of his fighting colleagues at Top Rank.
As BoxingScene.com previously reported, John Ryder isn’t angry at Callum Smith for what happened after their world title fight last November. Smith walked into Liverpool’s Echo Arena a red-hot favourite, to not only beat Ryder but to win with something in hand ,when the Liverpudlian defended his WBA and WBC Diamond super middleweight titles for the second time following his World Boxing Super Series triumph over George Groves in 2018.
By Shaun Brown - Blair Cobbs knows a thing or two about perseverance. The unbeaten 30-year-old (14-0-1, 9 KOs) has faced the kind of trials and tribulations that would make Hollywood sit up and take notice, but a two-hour film wouldn’t be enough time to tell the whole story. The passing of his mother and grandmother early on in his life, learning how to box...
Boxing has always had a knack of creating sights and sounds that will live with you forever. The concussive punch from Juan Manuel Marquez landing on his nemesis Manny Pacquiao in 2012 to rubber stamp his greatness. The ring walk that Michael Conlan made at Falls Park, Belfast last year that gave you goosebumps whether you were in the arena or watching on television.
Former WBO light middleweight world champion Liam Smith (29-2-1, 16 KOs) has his eye on a fight with Jessie Vargas should a fight with Kell Brook not materialise this year. Boxing in 2020 is currently at a standstill because of the deadly Covid-19 worldwide pandemic, and Smith says that should boxing resume in the summer then a fight with Brook has to happen by the end of the year or it never will.
In his time as a boxing promoter Frank Warren has seen and overcome more than most. What the 68-year-old Londoner is facing, along with everyone else in the world is the unknown because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It has been described as the unknown enemy and now the hall of fame promoter faces an uncertain period. Boxing Scene caught up with Warren to get his opinion on how everything is being handled and how the outbreak is affecting him and his team at Queensbury Promotions.
The near two-year period that Liam Williams has spent working under trainer Dominic Ingle has been a transformative one. The 27-year-old Welshman made the difficult decision to leave Gary Lockett’s stable in the summer of 2018 citing that he “needed to change things within my team and freshen things up”.
The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) has announced that all events in March that fall under its jurisdiction have now been cancelled. Shows around the world have been pulled off the schedule at an alarming rate due to the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, with the BBBoC officially following suit.
It’s been a couple of weeks since Kal Yafai lost his WBA super flyweight title to future hall of famer Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez in one-sided fashion. The Brit went into the fight having won the vacant title in December 2016 against Luis Concepcion. From there Yafai, older brother to fellow pro Gamal and amateur talent Galal, went on a run of five defences which began in May 2017 against Suguru Muranaka.
Carl Frampton has drawn on the recent exploits of modern-day great Roman Gonzalez to inspire him in his bid to become a three-weight world champion. At the end of last month Gonzalez, 32, destroyed the three-year reign of Kal Yafai to take the Brit’s WBA super flyweight title in Dallas. Gonzalez topped off a mesmerising performance to knock Yafai out in the ninth round of their fight to become a two-time super flyweight champion adding to his stunning accomplishment as a four-weight world champion.