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Wayne Alexander (Former European welterweight champion) Salvador Sanchez is a personal favourite. He simply had it all: a great chin, balance, footwork, timing, combination punching and very decent power. He was the WBC and Ring champion from 1980 to ’82 and beat future world champion Juan Laporte and a future Hall-of-Famer in Azumah Nelson. His

JERMAINE FRANKLIN has fanned the flames of his burgeoning rivalry with Anthony Joshua by suggesting it may be a little introspection and not another new coach that AJ needs most. For the second time in five months, Franklin will be heading to Britain to face a London heavyweight with a new trainer in their corner

RAY “BOOM BOOM” MANCINI, the fan-friendly former lightweight titlist, has got a new job. Mancini has been an actor and movie producer since retiring and after a 29-5 pro career that peaked with his reign as WBA belt-holder between 1982 and 1984. Now 61, Mancini, who made four successful title defences, has got the job

1 Salvador Sánchez Despite the fact his career was tragically cut short at the age of just 23, Sánchez built his legacy by winning the WBC featherweight title in 1980, when stopping Danny Lopez in 13 rounds, and then defending the belt nine times, beating the likes of Azumah Nelson, Juan Laporte and Wilfredo Gómez

ALTHOUGH this fight may not illuminate Instagram reels quite as adequately as most of his other ones, there is no doubt Adam Azim will look back on this as a crucial night for his development. The 12-0 Nicaraguan Santos Reyes was brought over in the hope that he would provide some rounds for Azim, who

THE World Boxing Council (WBC) have been good to Rey Vargas over the years and on Saturday night inside San Antonio’s Alamodome in Texas, the Mexican attempts to win his third divisional belt with the sanctioning body. Also contesting the vacant WBC super-featherweight strap (relinquished by Shakur Stevenson) will be Houston’s O’Shaquie Foster, a boxer

FIVE wins, five knockouts, four different cities. That was the tale of Adam Azim’s 2022. And now probably the hottest prospect in British boxing has been rewarded with a headline slot at a major British arena for the first time in his burgeoning career. Azim, still only 20, will face Santos “Starboy” Reyes, the 12-0

ONCE a punch line, his name a synonym for everything from “slow” to “simple”, Joe Joyce now suddenly has the opportunity in 2023 to capitalise on the missteps of his British rivals and prove he is everything they are not: ambitious, hungry, honest. It is a rise he has been planning for some time, in

ADAM AZIM successfully navigates through the final spar of this latest training camp and then sits down to discuss life as British boxing’s latest wonderkid. But there is a startling lack of bravado from the 20-year-old hailed as the future of the sport in this country by the likes of Amir Khan, and he would

THE smart thing about announcing a show headlined by a pay-per-view star but telling the world it is not a pay-per-view event – despite the fact they will, as DAZN subscribers, still have to pay money to watch it – is that you organically lower expectations, relieve some pressure and can say, if ever questioned

LAST WEEK, amid whispers that the World Boxing Council (WBC) were about to announce that Conor Benn would be eligible for inclusion into their world rankings, the boxing Twitterati lost their minds. How dare they, plenty screamed. And how dare Benn even suggest he is innocent, remains the general opinion among fans. Boxing News understands

1 Dmitry Bivol After winning a life-changing fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last May, Bivol then impressively followed this six months later by thrashing Mexico’s Gilberto Ramirez, someone previously undefeated in 44 fights. His brilliance was, after that, hard to argue. 2 Artur Beterbiev With 19 knockouts from 19 wins, there is no denying either

ALMOST a century has passed since Harry Greb breathed his last, frenetic breath but his legend shows no sign of fading. Among the afficionados any hint of something new prompts waves of delight – a fresh four-second clip of him play-sparring with Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, an Instagram site dedicated to his memory, a new press

GENE HACKMAN once assaulted bad guys on the street in Brooklyn where there are now plans to build an urban beach. Big Gene hunted them down through traffic, jumped through dustbins and battered them in dirty streets in the shadows of this city’s greatest bridges. There had to be dustbins – trash cans to the

Marcus Morrison (Middleweight contender) It doesn’t interest me in the slightest and I wouldn’t be fussed if I missed it. I completely understand that he’s coming off back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, but Joshua’s a former unified world champion who has consistently fought at world level, and the Franklin fight just isn’t good enough for

ANNOUNCED yesterday, having been rumoured for a while, the April 1 heavyweight fight between Anthony Joshua and Jermaine Franklin is neither an April Fool’s joke of a fight nor, on the flipside, one of any great relevance or meaning in global terms. It is instead a fight that falls somewhere in the middle; a whatever

SO IT won’t be Tyson Fury, Otto Wallin or Demsey McKean. The next man to face Anthony Joshua will be Jermaine Franklin, the 21-1 (14) American who was unknown in the UK until he gave Dillian Whyte a tough comeback fight in November. It was confirmed on Monday that the 29-year-old will tackle Joshua in

AS frustrating as it is sometimes to watch as British boxing pivots away from the traditions of the game – namely, British title fights – towards what they consider to be a meal more easily digestible for a “chronically online” audience, consider for a moment how it feels for the boxers left on the shelf,