Francesca Hennessy Moves To 2-0 in Bournemouth It's far too early to say if Francesca Hennessy really is the Billion Dollar Baby, but the young bantamweight prospect has done nothing wrong in her two professional fights to date. On Sunday night in Bournemouth, Hennessy eased past Argentina’s Lucrecia Bellen Arrieta on points over six rounds … Continue reading Francesca Hennessy Moves To 2-0 in Bournemouth
Miyo Yoshida Shocks Ebanie Bridges in San Francisco The 1/7 odds on favourite Ebanie Bridges shockingly lost her IBF bantamweight title to the Japanese fighter Miyo Yoshida in San Francisco in a major upset on Saturday night. The former two-time WBO super-flyweight champion was dominant for the vast majority of their ten-round contest at the … Continue reading Miyo Yoshida Shocks Ebanie Bridges in San Francisco
A Boxing Memory: Ricky Hatton: By Garry White If you are from my generation and maintain even the most casual interest in boxing, then there is only a finite volume of British names that you are likely to immediately recall. If you don’t want to tax the grey matter too much, then Tyson Fury or … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Ricky Hatton
Ebanie Bridges Returns in San Francisco: New Opponent. Same Goal Despite everything else that surrounds the life of Ebanie Bridges, you sense inside a boxing ring is where she calls home. She doesn't have to fight. It's for the love of the sport that Bridges dares to be different. It's what she does best. The … Continue reading Ebanie Bridges Returns in San Francisco: New Opponent, Same Goal
Jajaira Gonzalez: "It feels great. But at the same time, I can't quite believe it because it hasn't hit me yet." For all the controversy around the lack of drug tests within the sport, the fact that my scheduled Zoom interview with Jajaira Gonzalez was delayed slightly by an unscheduled visit from the United States … Continue reading Jajaira Gonzalez: “It feels great. But at the same time, I can’t quite believe it because it hasn’t hit me yet.”
Amanda Serrano Vacates WBC Featherweight Title It was always a case of when and not if Amanda Serrano would vacant her WBC featherweight bauble, and now she has. “Moving forward, if a sanctioning body doesn’t want to give me and my fellow fighters the choice to fight the same as the men, then I will … Continue reading Amanda Serrano Vacates WBC Featherweight Title
The Top Twenty British Female Fighters The Covid pandemic put a stop to virtually everything in 2020. Life as we knew it came to a grinding halt. But when life began its new cycle, and sport found some semblance of life, women’s boxing found a place that wasn't there previously. When Boxing News ran a … Continue reading The Top Twenty British Female Fighters
CHLOE WATSON CROWNED NEW EUROPEAN FLYWEIGHT CHAMPION, LIVE ON CHANNEL 5 Watson sees off France's Justine Lallemand in bruising battle in Bolton as Dan Toward makes pro debut with crushing KO win Chloe Watson says, "This is just the beginning" after she won the European flyweight title in a bruising Bolton battle, live and free-to-air … Continue reading CHLOE WATSON CROWNED NEW EUROPEAN FLYWEIGHT CHAMPION, LIVE ON CHANNEL 5
A Boxing Memory: Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan They fought for personal supremacy, pride, a meaningless bauble, one fighter left the ring fighting for his life, the other had endless cold baths in a futile attempt to rid his aching body of the sustained intense pain it felt. And probably a mind haunted forever by … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan
A Boxing Memory: Hagler vs. Sibson Marvelous Marvin Hagler had many good nights in a boxing ring, and most of them went underappreciated, at least until 8 minutes of mayhem with a ‘Hit Man’ in a shootout for the ages. Hagler was an angry man in 1985. He went to war for many reasons in … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Hagler vs. Sibson
