Pacquiao meets Lucas Matthysse in Kuala Lumpur‘Definitely this is not my last fight,’ says 39-year-oldManny Pacquiao is not thinking about retirement just yet and believes he can continue boxing beyond his first contest for more than a year in July, wh…
Golovkin to fight Vanes Martirosyan on 5 May at StubHub CenterOriginal fight with Canelo scrapped over Álvarez’s failed drug testKazakh risks losing IBF title for not facing mandatory challengerGennady Golovkin’s plans for Cinco de Mayo weekend are fin…
Ructions are so common in boxing that the apparent dismissal of Freddie Roach passed with little commentManny Pacquiao sounds like a confused fighter in the autumn of his career or, at the very least, the team around him are in disarray. Last week the …
Lomachenko won 396 fights and two Olympic gold medals as an amateur. His next aim is to beat Jorge Linares and become a three-weight world champion after just 12 professional fightsBy Jonathan Drennan for Behind the LinesVasyl Lomachenko may be the mos…
• World champion’s ‘sparring partner’ beats Satish Kumar in final• Clarke caps England boxing’s best Games display with six titlesAt 6ft 3in and weighing more than 14st, Frazer Clarke is not accustomed to being in anyone’s shadow but when you train wit…
Who is racing? Who remain unbeaten? And who won big at 68? Related: Football quiz: name the missing club in these playing careers Where are Rachael Blackmore, Katie Walsh and Bryony Frost racing this weekend?The Gold Coast Shanghai International Circui…
• Fury banned for two years after testing positive for steroids• Former world heavyweight champion to fight in JuneTyson Fury will fight for the first time in nearly three years when he returns to the ring in Manchester on 9 June.The former world heavy…
The best images from the Gold Coast as boxers, divers, gymnasts and athletes are among those going for gloryClick here to check out all our photographic content from the 2018 Games Continue reading…
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After becoming a world champion for the second time in Las Vegas on Saturday, DeGale wants to take on his end-of-career banker if Groves is not forced to retireJames DeGale is one of boxing’s nice guys, endlessly polite and as open as a children’s Chri…
DeGale wins back title he lost from Caleb Traux in London last yearOlympic gold medalist wins by scores of 117-110 and 114-113 (twice)James DeGale has regained his IBF super middleweight title with a unanimous-decision win over Caleb Truax at the Hard …
Weightlifting, swimming and gymnastics are some of the sports that the world’s best sports photographers have trained their lenses on during the second day of action on the Gold Coast Continue reading…
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Taylah Robertson secures medal nine days before first boutAll losing semi-finalists guaranteed a bronzeThe Australian boxer Taylah Robertson has secured the first medal of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games – nine days before actually stepping in the ri…
Fighters had been set for rematch on 5 May in Las VegasMexican boxer failed pair of drug tests in February One of the most anticipated fights of the year is off after Canelo Álvarez withdrew from his rematch with Gennady Golovkin.Álvarez was under a te…
• Wilder’s co-manager says: ‘Deontay wants the fight’• ‘Deontay is ready to sign and come to the UK to fight this summer’Deontay Wilder is ready to fight Anthony Joshua in the UK this summer to decide the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, a…
Deontay Wilder could well be Anthony Joshua’s next test – but his biggest one may prove to be Tyson FuryAt some point, surely, the money will talk. And the negotiations between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder, which increasingly carry the pheromonal …
• Barry Hearn also suggests that Joshua could fight in the US• ‘It is a fight Joshua really wants and I think he wants it this year’The promoter Barry Hearn expects negotiations for a world heavyweight title unification fight between Anthony Joshua and…
Anthony Joshua beat Joseph Parker on points in Cardiff on Saturday night, with attention now turning to whether Deontay Wilder will be his next opponentAnthony Joshua beats Joseph Parker on points in heavyweight unification Continue reading…
The British fighter has three of the four major heavyweight belts but his path to the fourth may not be entirely straightforwardOf all the boxes that Anthony Joshua had rushed to tick during his whirlwind four-year professional career, only one had rem…
