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Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua has to happen this year, promoter Frank Warren has said. Warren, who co-promotes Fury with Bob Arum, isn’t interested in the fight happening in a year or two and told BT Sport that Fury is this generation’s number one heavyweight.
Lee Selby believes experience will be key when he faces the unbeaten George Kambosos Jr on May 9. Selby, along with fighters from the undercard including Joe Cordina, James Tennyson and Chris Billam-Smith were in attendance for Tuesday’s press conference in Cardiff for the Matchroom Boxing card at the Welsh capital’s Motorpoint Arena.
Tyrone McCullagh went to a library (14-0, 6 KOs) after he got the contract to take part in the MTK Golden Contract Featherweight tournament. McCullagh and close friend Tyrone McKenna, who is involved in the Super Lightweight equivalent, didn’t need much persuading to participate in the brand new format which has landed at the semi-final stage for the contenders of the 126lbs and 140lbs events which take place on Friday night at York Hall in London.
Ryan Walsh is on a mission. The 33-year-old British Featherweight champion, ranked number two with the World Boxing Organisation, is out to win the MTK Golden Contract Featherweight tournament and land himself a world title shot soon after.
Three and a half years ago Jazza Dickens (28-3, 11 KOs) suffered a broken jaw against Cuban maestro Guillermo Rigondeaux when the pair met for Rigo’s WBA Super Bantamweight title in Wales.
The MTK Golden Contract semi-finals are the fight nights that Leigh Wood (23-1, 13 KOs) has been wishing and praying for after enduring a career that has stalled at times because of inactivity and injuries. On Friday night at York Hall, live on Sky Sports, Wood will defend his WBO European and Commonwealth Featherweight titles against former world super bantamweight title challenger Jazza Dickens with each man just two wins away from changing their careers.
Tyrone McKenna was having a nightmare. There was sweets, cakes, pizzas and he couldn’t eat any of it. Two weeks in a row at birthday parties watching people scoff what they wanted to. “It was very annoying.” The life of a fighter in camp readying himself for their next fight.
This Saturday night in Nashville Vincent Feigenbutz (31-2, 28 KOs) will aim to upset hometown hero and IBF Super Middleweight champion Caleb Plant (19-0, 11 KOs) when he faces the American in the champion’s second defence of his title. A win for the German would match an accomplishment made by historic heavyweight Max Schmeling and would give Feigenbutz the honour of being world champion at the second attempt. All of that was discussed and more when Boxing Scene caught up with the 24-year-old heavy hitter.
Caleb Plant (19-0, 11 KOs) is now into his second year as IBF Super Middleweight champion and the 27-year-old believes he is only now beginning to blossom. In January 2019 the Tennessean shone against tough Venezuelan Jose Uzcategui, who had been elevated from interim to full IBF champion six months prior following James DeGale’s decision to vacate the title, over the 12 round distance to take the championship home to Nashville where the second defence of his title takes place this weekend.
Kell Brook’s message was clear in the post-fight press conference after the Super Welterweight returned to action from a 14-month lay-off to beat Mark DeLuca with a seventh round stoppage in Sheffield on Saturday night. The former IBF Welterweight world champion, now 33, who is being linked with a fight against Matchroom stablemate Liam Smith, picked up the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Super Welterweight strap with win number 39 from 41.. The WBO currently has Liam Smith as their number two contender and Brook will now move into the top 15 when the next set of ratings are published.