Australian challenger Jeff Horn weighed in slightly heavier than Filipino great Manny Pacquiao on Saturday ahead of their World Boxing Organization welterweight title fight in Brisbane. Pacquiao tipped the scales at 66.1 kg (146 pounds) and Horn came in at 66.3 kg (146 pounds) at the official weigh-in. Unbeaten Horn, a former schoolteacher, said he … Read more
Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao faces unheralded Australian challenger Jeff Horn in Sunday’s world welterweight title fight in Brisbane in pursuit of a dream rematch with Floyd Mayweather. The Pacquiao camp says it is anticipating a “short and sweet” win over the unbeaten Horn, a former school teacher and 2012 Australian Olympian, before an expected 50,000 … Read more
Boxing legend, Floyd Mayweather, says he is “giving the people what they want” by coming out of retirement to fight Irish UFC champion, Conor McGregor. The former five-weight world champion, 40, retired unbeaten in 2015 after 49 bouts, but will face McGregor, 28, in Las Vegas on 26 August. The light-middleweight bout could earn both men as … Read more
Kazakhstan’s Zhanat Zhakiyanov survived two first-round knockdowns to upset Rau’shee Warren by split decision on Friday and claim the World Boxing Association bantamweight world title. On the same card in Toledo, Ohio, unbeaten Robert Easter retained his International Boxing Federation lightweight title with a unanimous decision over Puerto Rico’s Luis Cruz. Warren, making his first … Read more
It’s time for another throwback. This time we’re transporting to the far-away year of 2009, when English welterweight Rickie Hatton was one of the best boxers on the planet. He had lost to Floyd Mayweather two years earlier but recovered with impressive wins over Juan Lazcano and Paulie Malignaggi, the latter under the guidance of … Read more