You would never have guessed Terence Crawford was supposed to be up against it in the early hours of Sunday morning when he embarked on a quest to unify half of the super lightweight division, live on BoxNation.
Bob Arum, My old Top Rank sparring partner certainly remains on top of his game. With the likes of Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko, he is continuing to demonstrate his knack of identifying and developing the pick of the crop in world boxing.
It was my pleasure to welcome Oscar De La Hoya and his team from Golden Boy Promotions to London for the second leg of the media tour to publicise the forthcoming WBO Junior Middleweight World Championship fight between our own Liam Smith and the marauding Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.
Our sojourn over the Severn Bridge on Saturday night proved a successful one and also demonstrated clearly the hearty appetite for big time boxing in South Wales.
LONDON (July 21) - One of this year’s most eagerly anticipated matchups has landed exclusively live on BoxNation with undefeated Irish sensation Carl Frampton taking on unbeaten featherweight world champion Leo Santa Cruz next Saturday night (July 30).
Legendary promoter Frank Warren has compared Liam Smith to fellow Brits Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton before the Liverpudlian travels to Dallas, Texas to defend his WBO World Title against Canelo Alvarez.
The surprise twist of events with the announcement that Kell Brook, rather than Chris Eubank Jnr, would be tasked with taking on multi-titled middleweight Gennady Golovkin did not come as too much of a shock to me.
The response from fight fans in Wales to our stacked card in Cardiff next Saturday, I have to say, has been terrific. From the moment the match of the unbeaten pair of Liam Williams and Gary Corcoran was first mooted to be on the home patch of British champion Liam, the interest was instant and the demand for tickets gathered pace straight away.
The Welsh boxing public know a good fighter when they see one – and they have had more than a few of their own over the years. The likes of Howard Winstone and Colin Jones immediately spring to mind, along with the more recent champions such as Joe Calzaghe and Enzo Maccarinelli.
Welsh light-middle star Liam Williams knows that big things await if he can shine in the homecoming defence of his British and Commonwealth belts against Wembley wildman Gary Corcoran at Cardiff Ice Arena on July 16th, writes Glynn Evans.