Month: May 2021

Amateur The amateur championships, eventually, are coming back IT’S a moment so many people in amateur boxing have spent so many months waiting for; the dates for championships in 2021 have come in. After a punishing lockdown, amateur boxing training indoors has restarted with limited padwork coming back. The next step is to bring back

Amateur • Issue • Premium James Chance/Getty Images Cheavon Clarke has one chance to shoot for the Olympic Games, writes John Dennen FOR Cheavon Clarke there will just be one opportunity to qualify for the Olympics Games. In the previous cycle there were several qualification events. But now with the World qualifier cancelled, to be

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Michelle Farsi/Matchroom Quit the bravado. Boxers claiming they’d rather be carried out on a stretcher do the sport no favours, reflects Matt Christie after Billy Joe Saunders’ loss to Canelo Alvarez MIDWAY through the eighth round of his fight with Canelo Alvarez, Billy Joe Saunders realised that having the

Issue • Opinion • Premium Eric Armit highlights the mind-boggling chaos in the WBA’s boxing rankings IT is a truth universally acknowledged that a sanctioning body in need of fees must work with promoters and promoters of a certain status will want to stage title fights. It happens. It is a fact of life in

Issue • Premium • Reports Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Billy Joe Saunders was a stop along the way for the best fighter and biggest star in boxing, Canelo Alvarez, writes Thomas Hauser BOXING is going through a difficult time. Fights between elite fighters are few and far between. Bogus “world championship” belts have devalued the sport. Contests

Opinion Meg Oliphant/Matchroom How were you scoring the fight when Billy Joe Saunders was stopped on his stool after eight rounds? Matthew HattonFought CaneloNo I didn’t have Billy Joe up as the fight got stopped. Personally I had Canelo one round up, I thought Billy Joe was boxing really well, it was a great fight,

Opinion Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Canelo Alvarez has defeated seven British fighter now. Is there anyone in the UK who could beat him? Matthew HattonFought CaneloI don’t think there’s any fighter out there, British or otherwise. I never say anybody’s unbeatable but he almost is. You don’t see him hit that much these days, you don’t see

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium When Razor Ruddock came to London to take on Lennox Lewis he was far from alone, writes Steve Bunce BILLY JOE SAUNDERS gathered his closest friends and family in a circle of prayer in the minutes before he walked to the ring last weekend. They could probably hear and

Issue • Opinion • Premium Floyd Mayweather looks out of place as hype ramps up for his latest circus act while DAZN let themselves down by criticising Billy Joe Saunders for “not going out on his shield”, writes George Gigney ALTHOUGH the bar was already extremely low, somehow the press conference for Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition

Opinion Michelle Farsi/Matchroom On the Opening Bell podcast Matt Christie and Alex Steedman consider how the Billy Joe Saunders-Canelo Alvarez fight finished, the scorecards and the future for both fighters CANELO ALVAREZ underlined his status as the best fighter in the sport as he forced Billy Joe Saunders to stay on his stool after the