Boxing News 12 May 2022

ENJOY THESE EXCLUSIVE PRINT SUBSCRIBER BENEFITS: SAVE 60% • FREE DELIVERY OF EVERY ISSUE TO YOUR DOOR • ENJOY THE DIGITAL EDITION OF EVERY ISSUE • UNLIMITED ONLINE ACCESS TO OUR CONTENT • FREE 100-PAGE TYSON FURY BOOKAZINE ORDER NOW: VISIT BIT.LY/BN4FOR4FURY OR CALL 01959 543 747 UK Direct Debit offers only, You will pay £4 for your first 4 weekly issues (£1 per issue). Your subscription will then continue at the normal rate. Discounts are calculated on the full cover price. For overseas and UK credit/debit card offers, visit our website at shop.kelsey.co.uk. Order lines open 8.30am-5.30pm, Monday-Friday. Full T&Cs can be found at shop.kelsey.co.uk/terms. Kelsey Publishing takes your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you have…

@MattCBoxingNews KELL BROOK could have retired last year with nothing left to prove and ticked almost every box. A British champion at welterweight. The winner of a sanctioning body belt on American soil. Some serious cash in the bank. But the Sheffield star had one last thing to do before he could walk away in peace. And that was to remove the Amir Khan-shaped thorn that had been lodged in his side since 2005. Brook will likely be remembered for the February 2022 thrashing of Khan, the fighter who had long claimed that Kell was not in his league. Seventeen years of hurt forgotten in 16 minutes of one-sided combat. It was the kind of happy ending that even the best Hollywood scriptwriters would struggle to craft because, unfortunately, happy endings are…

Super-welterweight XHULJO VRENOZI will be my first fight back since losing to David Avanesyan. The old school fighters won and lost and beat each other and went on to do great things. This ‘0’ mentality, keeping your ‘0’, is just protecting your record. You’re never going to really, truly find your level that way. It’s better to fight these people like Avanesyan now and get the experience. I know what I would do different next time round. I’d definitely be confident of getting the ‘W’ next time. It’s just one of them. Put it this way, it weren’t a full version of myself that night. But it is what it is. Everyone can always make excuses. There’s no excuses here. I jumped in, took the fight and it is what it is. The…

IS ANYONE going to ask the Nevada Athletic Commission why all three ringside judges gave Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez the first four rounds and no one else did? Seriously, was there another living being of sane mind who could see how Canelo won those rounds? I have seen countless Tweets, listened to several podcasts, I have read numerous reports and NOT A SINGLE PERSON saw that fight, particularly the first four rounds, the same way as the judges did. And don't tell me it was about where the judges were sitting. Whether ringside or watching on television, the only three people on planet earth who scored the first third of that fight 4-0 to Canelo were the ringside judges. Can reporters stop wondering what happens next for the fighters and focus instead on…

WHAT SHOULD CANELO ÁLVAREZ DO NEXT? Stacey Copeland Former C'wealth champion It’s hard to say what a fighter should do next, as it’s their career and depends on their motives and the legacy they want to leave; however, there are still lots of options for Canelo. The trilogy with GGG has been talked about most, and given his recent win, maybe that will happen. Paul Smith Former British champion I think Canelo should rematch. He didn’t look himself and tactically they got it wrong. He doesn’t belong at light-heavy, and the win against an ageing Kovalev flattered him. I’d usually say go back to 168lbs but for him it’s about legacy, not correcting that loss would damage his fantastic career. Micky Helliet Manager & promoter Canelo should cement his legacy at light-heavy and unify. There are weight divisions for…

1 TYSON FURY Peter is the least decorated of the dads here (with a pro record of 8-4-1), but there is no disputing Tyson Fury’s accomplishments. As the world’s premier heavyweight, he has more than put his family name on the map. 2 CHRIS EUBANK JNR Eubank Jnr has still to win a world belt as a pro but, at 32-2, has been in contention for a while. Chris, of course, won and defended WBO titles at both middleweight and super-middleweight. 3 CONOR BENN Conor Benn now stands at 21-0, winning his last two fights by knockout, and showing attributes his father, Nigel, displayed when engaging in some astonishing top-level warfare in the Nineties. 4 JAMES METCALF Metcalf is 22-2 as a pro and a former Commonwealth super-welterweight champion. He is also the son of Shea Neary,…