
Katie Taylor vows to bounce back stronger
Ireland’s Katie Taylor is still reeling from her quarter-final defeat to Finland’s Mira Potkonen yet the 30-year-old has vowed to put her Rio Games heartache behind her and bounce back stronger.

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Ireland’s Katie Taylor is still reeling from her quarter-final defeat to Finland’s Mira Potkonen yet the 30-year-old has vowed to put her Rio Games heartache behind her and bounce back stronger.

Ireland's 56kg hope Michael Conlan has revealed that a family moment caught on camera in Rio became the inspiration behind his Olympic dream and helped inspire his Round of 16 win.

Sheffield’s Kell Brook is leaving no stone unturned as he heads up to 160lbs from 147 in a bid to take Gennady Golovkin’s WBC, IBF and IBO titles. Brook held the IBF title down at light-welterweight and plans to skip 154 entirely to take on the challenge of his boxing life against the consensus number one in the division.

The BBBoC released this month’s Championship circular today to clarify the British title situation and announce some key eliminators. With the heavyweight title currently vacant, the Board dropped straight to cruiserweight to reveal that Ovil McKenzie (25-12-1, 13 KOs) will defend the his title against Craig Kennedy (15-0, 8 KOs) on a Frank Warren-promoted bill at the Manchester Arena on October 29

Liverpool’s Anthony Fowler has admitted that he was soundly beaten by Kazakhstan’s Zhanibek Alimkhanuly in Rio and that he knew he had a tough task on his hands heading into the middleweight encounter.

Team GB’s Joshua Buatsi registered the first KO at the 2016 Olympic Games on Sunday yet the Ghanaian-born 23-year-old never imagined that he would one day represent his adopted country at one of the world’s greatest sporting events.

Paddy Barnes suffered a shock upset defeat at the Rio Games yesterday, but one of his chief supporters has claimed that the Belfast-based boxer was hard done by on the cards following his nip-and-tuck tussle with Spain’s Samuel Carmona in the 49kg division. A score of 29-28 in his favour was overturned by two lots of 29-28 to send him home much earlier than many expected.

Middleweight world Champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) and challenger Kell Brook (36-0, 25 early) came face-to-face in London earlier today and produced a show of mutual respect ahead of their September 10 showdown at London’s O2 Arena, which will be televised by Sky Sports Box Office in the U.K. and HBO in the U.S.

By Terence Dooley - Frampton (23-0, 14KOs) moves up in weight and becomes a two division world champion with a twelve round majority decision over previously undefeated Leo Santa Cruz (32-1-1, 18KOs) to capture the WBA featherweight world title. The scores were 114-114 a draw, 116-112 and...

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18KOs) has decided to take legal action against the UKAD, according to reports in The Star and The Sun. Fury’s lawyers have lodged legal papers with the High Court demanding that the anti-doping authority explain why he was charged with a doping violation.