Month: August 2024

Fear not, your weekly dose of Stephen “Breadman” Edwards is right here. This time, the man with the educated boxing brain discusses internet trolls, Marlon Starling, Boots versus Norman, the finest off-the-floor victories, the best gameplans in boxing history and a whole lot more besides. Enjoy! Hey Sir, After reading last week’s mailbag I remembered
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JULY 13, in the Wells Fargo Center, Jaron Ennis laid a beating on David Avanesyan. Returning home to Philadelphia, now under the guidance of loquacious UK promoter Eddie Hearn and his powerful Matchroom brand, Ennis appears to be finally reaching the point of his potential. Reigning as the IBF welterweight champion, ‘Boots’ was supposed to
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By Oscar Pick THE tragic news that Sherif Lawal was pronounced dead after making his professional debut sent shock waves across the boxing world. Paramedics tended to the 29-year-old as he collapsed in the ring at Harrow Leisure Centre, London, before being taken to hospital, where the much loved and widely supported middleweight ultimately lost
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ESPN’s Salvador Rodriguez brings word that Golden Boy Promotions and Riyadh Season are gearing up for a November show in Saudi Arabia headlined by a cruiserweight unification between Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez and Chris Billam-Smith. After outgrowing 168 and getting chased out of 175 by Dmitry Bivol, Ramirez (46-1, 30 KO) kicked off his cruiserweight campaign
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Negotiations to stage a welterweight unification fight between Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Brian Norman Jr don’t appear to be going so well, with Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn lashing out and saying Norman and others have been turning down generous offers to fight Boots. After Brian Norman Sr has repeatedly gone to social media to supposedly
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By Elliot Worsell WHILE it is perhaps not unusual to be informed that a press conference is “open to the public”, it is still strange to comprehend such a thing and indeed consider it completely normal – which, today, it is. Just last week, in fact, there was another press conference about another big fight,
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By Declan Taylor EDDIE HEARN has accused the IBF of ‘ruining boxing’ after they ordered Jaron Ennis to defend his welterweight title against Karen Chukhadzhian. ‘Boots’ only beat the 28-year-old 18 months ago but the IBF have installed the Ukrainian as their mandatory challenger following his three victories since that defeat. Ennis and his promoter
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SEBASTIAN FUNDORA has been ordered to face Terence Crawford in a super-welterweight unification this year. Fundora currently holds the WBO and WBC titles as a result of his blood-soaked split decision victory over Tim Tszyu in March. The division’s newcomer Crawford, meanwhile, is the WBA champion following his win against Israil Madrimov in LA earlier
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