(Julio Diaz, left, connects on a shaky Amir Khan) Former amateur heroes Amir Khan and Audley Harrison have spent a good deal of their professional lives attempting to convince people that they could play alternative roles. In that sense they are U.K. sport’s answer to Mark Hammill and Christopher Reeve. Khan has been pigeon-holed as […]

Tyson Fury, the Manchester traveller who represents Ireland as a boxer, delivered such a ham-handed performance on his American debut over the past weekend that it felt almost exploitative. It was an indecorous display that left those deemed associates through living in the same geographical area blushing on his behalf. It felt like packing your […]

(Tyson Fury, left, tries to connect on Steve Cunningham) Steve “USS” Cunningham had chided Tyson Fury for being more like a one-man talk-show than a fighter before their NBC televised heavyweight clash at The Theatre in Madison Square Garden, New York, on Saturday. After an extreme yet strangely enthralling episode, Fury came across more Jerry […]

(Anthony Crolla, right, shares the spoils with Derry Mathews) On a promotion that had been marketed with the tagline “No Retreat, No Surrender” there were “No Winners” Saturday on Merseyside. Lightweights Anthony Crolla and Derry Mathews could not be separated after 12 tense rounds at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, while in the main event, light heavyweights […]

The scene: Las Vegas Hilton, Nevada, USA. June 6, 1988. Iran “The Blade” Barkley, 24-4 (15), a one-time hoodlum from the Bronx, had outswung the Liverpool-born Canadian Michael Olajide to earn a title crack at Hearns. Detroit’s celebrated “Hit Man,” 45-2 (38), had been busy busting heads and collecting title belts since his fall to […]

(Grimsby’s Kevin Hooper as photographed by Jon Corken for The Grimsby Telegraph) Some fighters rattle on about hard work and dedication as if they hold a monopoly on them. Floyd Mayweather uses it as his gym mantra in fact but there aren’t many that can match Grimsby lightweight Kevin Hooper. He goes for the English […]

Spoiling has stumbled back into fashion of late. After Cuban cephalopod Richard Abril put the dampeners on Ugandan Sharif Bogere within hours of England’s Matthew Hatton and South African Chris van Heerden hugging one another to professional death, fight fans were left to pine after a performance that might clear the airways. Unfortunately, the stink […]

The boxing bits blowing our hair back this month… Alex McClintock For all my moaning about the lack of quality fights on the boxing schedule, there will actually be some good bouts in March (it had to happen eventually, if only by pure chance). If I can, I’ll be keen to see Transnational Boxing Rankings […]

Such has been the clamour to uncover a fresh and exciting heavyweight — one able to defibrillate a weight class in cardiac arrest — a large proportion of somnolent observers had flocked to put stock in a mark that had been untouched throughout his three years as a professional. Unfortunately for David Price, when the […]

(David Price, left; Tony Thompson, right) Briton David Price returns to redesign the heavyweight skyline this weekend in a 10-round non-title bout against Washington D.C.’s condemned chimney stack Tony Thompson in Liverpool. The TNT-fisted Price has cantered through his first 15 starts as a professional; if his whiskers have felt a retaliatory punch in the […]

(Photo credit: Jason Cairnduff) If Barry McGuigan has a hint of Galileo about him this morning, then he can be forgiven. For, while it is unwise to put untiring faith behind anyone, anything in the hurt business, it is especially chancy to put such allegiance on record. In Carl Frampton, though, McGuigan has a boxer […]

The stuff floating our boats this month… Patrick Connor The last month has left a little bit to be desired for a few reasons, unsurprisingly, so I might take the road less travelled by and say that I’m actually interested in seeing how heavyweight match ups like Vyacheslav Glazkov vs. Malik Scott, Johnathon Banks vs. […]

TQBR staffers pick out January’s best bits… TIM STARKS This is the month where we find out what kind of fighter Mikey Garcia (right) is, against the man ranked tops in the featherweight division by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, Orlando Salido (left). On that same HBO card junior lightweights Roman Martinez and Juan Carlos […]