Boxing News 05 May 2022

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@MattCBoxingNews Editor NOW and again a fight comes along that changes everything. Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, we salute you. Not only for the effort you both put forth inside a prize-ring but for the cheer you gave an entire industry when we needed it the most. You reminded boxing fans how great this sport can be. More importantly, you crafted an advertisement we can now show to those who for too long have failed to see what this sport is really about. Eddie Hearn, take a bow, too. You believed in women’s boxing when so many did not. You provided the platform for female fighters to flourish. Now they thrive on the biggest stage. It did not, and could not, happen overnight. Even Jake Paul, not a exactly a hero to the hardcore,…

I ALWAYS had a distaste for women boxing. Probably because I am an elderly traditionalist. That has now changed! The magnificent contest between Katie Taylor and Serrano changed everything! That was an amazing fight that fully justified top billing at Madison Square Garden. Max Winberg THREE-MINUTE ROUNDS! I WON'T go into how exciting the Taylor-Serrano fight was as I am sure there will be plenty of letters already saying the same thing. But here’s a thought. If Taylor and Serrano have a rematch, can it please be made with three-minute rounds? If it is over two-minute rounds again the result will be exactly the same. Serrano has no option but to pressure Taylor but will be unable to get a stoppage. Taylor, being the class act she is, always finds a way to overcome the adversity and win.…

@BigDaddyBunce Voice of boxing THERE was once a boxing gym above a McDonalds next to the Port Authority in New York City. That part of the city in February 1991 was squalid; junkies, hustlers, retired junkies and retired hustlers were on every corner, in every gutter. It was smelly, dangerous and there were daytime rats. Nonchalant vermin, relaxed as a rat can be. Still, that’s where boxing gyms live in the city. I had an old-fashioned fax in my hands, a long sheet of details and boxing records; the gym was the right one, I checked the address. It was right, I was surprised. I still have that three-foot scroll, but time has erased every word. It’s a ghost sheet, packed with my notes from fight week. At about 2pm on that Thursday afternoon, the…

YOUTUBE POST-FIGHT press conferences don’t often produce much in the way of major news or soundbites. It’s often a lot of “we’ll wait and see what’s next” and the fighters will have (usually) just gone through a gruelling ordeal. They are an opportunity for these fighters, in particular the winners, to say their piece after the hard work is done. They can reflect on the outcome of the fight, their training camp; anything really. After the two main events this past weekend, Amanda Serrano – who lost her fight – and Shakur Stevenson – who won his – were both upstaged during their press conferences with the media. Serrano had just come through one of the greatest fights in the modern era, as well as making history as one half of the first female…

WWW.BOXINGNEWSONLINE.NET BOB ARUM has predicted Tyson Fury will fight again before the end of the year – and doesn’t expect him to have a problem travelling to America if he does. Fury insisted, after stopping Dillian Whyte in six rounds at Wembley Stadium on April 23, that he had retired from professional boxing and would only consider lucrative exhibitions against mixed martial artists or in sports entertainment. He repeatedly announced he had retired in the two-and-a-half years that separated his victories over Wladimir Klitschko and Sefer Seferi, however, and had since continued to improve. At 33, Fury is unquestionably at his peak and therefore capable of continuing to build the sort of legacy that a fighter with such an awareness of boxing’s rich history desires. He also has two fights remaining on his…