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Is Boxing in South London working?
Now, we have seen so many boxers from south London Chamberlain, Riakporhe, Azeez, Bentley, Cheeseman all winning titles, but we’ve never felt confident that, at the top level, we had guys that can do it.
In fact we haven’t had a guy we felt confident a boxer could dominate since David Haye.
Is that a sign that is the problems run deep in South London Boxing,
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So the Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney saga continues.
It now looks like both guys could be on the shelf for a whole year with Ryan Garcia serving a drug ban and Devin Haney, seemingly needing to get his whole life correct before he boxes again.
The sum total of it is, in the 140 pound division we’ve got chaos where we thought we were getting close to order and so for the next year we are going to get inundated with flights that we didn’t ask for but we’re going to get anyway. -
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Boxing is such a hard way to make money, but it’s an even harder way to build a singular proposition. What Turki is proposing to do in buying up promotional companies to create a boxing league is commercial madness.
It taps into the ongoing boxing saga of finding rich men and separating them from their money. The shameful thing is that people don’t see it coming. Boxing is so good at massaging egos, boosting peoples self-esteem, and then making them pay for the pleasure. -
A man should be able to have a beer in peace without the media watching and reporting on it, but when it comes to Tyson Fury and his history with substance abuse and depression, it’s always a worry to his fans and those that care about him.
When you dig deeper, and you look below the surface. You remember that this is the guy who, as much as he tells you that he’s a fighting man in his heart and soul he’s not a born fighter. He’s a guy that had to learn how to be a fighter and that can play well for the public, but in reality, if that’s not who you are it could cause problems for you further down the line. -
Top-level, Boxing is a rough rough spot. The one thing you should never do is deviate from who you actually are in a boxing ring.
On Saturday. We saw Deontay Wilder, try and be somebody he’s not. Now, the real questions to ask did that win over Robert Helenius and the effect it had on him post fight, did that change his outlook on knockouts or was the Tyson Fury fight so traumatic to him that he’s never been the same?
Maybe we will never know the answers, but the question do need to be asked -
The waiting is over we finally get Matchroom versus Queensbury five versus five supposedly the best versus the best
If we are being honest, we know there is a large amount of politics at play here and if you’re being transparent Eddie has probably sent the B team out and Frank has sent his A team.
As great a card as this is we don’t feel that it’s as competitive as it would’ve been four years ago when there was supposedly real animosity between Matchroom and Queensbury this feels like forced niceness and the fans we have to ask whether they are being taken for a ride. -
I was wrong about Usyk I can hold my hands up. I was 100% wrong about the man. He showed on Saturday night what it is to be truly elite
In a fight that was going against him for the first seven rounds, for him to turn it around, shows the mark of the man and shows why he’s a champion.
We have to see him as a great now. -
We're finally here. We finally get one face, one king of boxing.
Now will it be Tyson Fury or Oleksandr Usyk?
I don't think the answer is obvious, but I hope the analysis here helps. -
Sometimes it’s easy to forget how dangerous boxing is.
No parent should ever have to bury their child and this weekend was a reminder that for all the things we say, all the issues we talk about in boxing, boxer safety should always, and I mean always, remain top of that list.
We may not be where we want to be but we are further ahead than we were a decade ago.
However, that doesn’t ease the pain for the family of Sherifdeen Lawal. That doesn’t ease the pain for those who trained with him those who fought against him and those that knew him more widely.
These events are heartbreaking because we promise to keep your kids safe in our sport and when we can’t it hurts.
RIP SHERIFDEEN LAWAL.  -
So Ryan Garcia fails a drugs test. He failed for Ostarine and he failed for nandrolone and these are worrying substances because no boxers should really have them in the system.
We’ve been through this so many times with boxers that it’s no longer a joke and everything that Larry said it’s turning out to be correct.
Now that Boxing has a massive drug problem and this drug problem is allowed to happen because of the cracks between the lack of a governing body. weak sanctioning bodies, promoters and TV networks who all incentives to make sure that the show goes on regardless of failed drugs tests?. -
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We’ve all been able to witness the Ryan Garcia’s victory tour and as much fun as it has been and as interesting as it has been, I think we’re at the point now where those close to Ryan Garcia need to put their arms around him and bring him back down to earth, getting back in the gym and getting back training.
The scandal around Team GB selecting Amy Broadhurst to represent them in the final Olympic qualifier might just be the biggest story in boxing this year. -
When two people spend their formative years as rivals, it is hard to understand how intense a fight between them as men can be. Add to that, the eyes of the boxing world, and you have something that has the capacity to bend minds and upset odds.
Ryan Garcia surprised the world in beating Devin Haney, despite the antics leading up to the fight. In truth, if someone was going to expose Haney for the man he is, it was always going to be Ryan Garcia. -
We finally get the Queensberry v Matchroom clash we were promised in the pandemic – only took us one vaccine and 4 boosters to get there.
As boxing fans, we should be happy that we have a big card, which has meaning, supported by 5 really strong fights.
The only dark cloud is whether we are running this Saudi experiment at the expense of our domestic British boxing product.
In terms of British boxing, the decline of London amateur boxing has been hard to take. We have become so smug, stealing ideas off the internet, and sharing clips of things we cannot do, or teach, that our boxers are suffering.
Until we can bring hard work back into our gyms. Until our coaches can emphasise their own skills, we will remain behind the rest. We could learn a lot from The North right now. -
What is going on with our promoters? It seems like chaos in the worlds of Hearn, Warren, and Shalom.
It’s a great soap opera for men that like to be the little spoon, I guess. However, it doesn’t help make the sport stronger.
The sad bit is, now that Eddie and Frank are forced to be cool, Eddie has taken to bully Ben Shalom.
Yes…this is really how a middle-aged man is behaving. -
Before anything, a few ‘thank yous:’
Alfie Warren - @alfieRwarren
Warren Boxing Management - @warrenboxingmanagment
Hannah Rankin - @team_rankin
Rival Boxing Gym - @rivalboxinggymkingsx
Amy Andrew - @amyandrewboxing
Human Hussain - @numan007hussain
Masood Abdulah - @mas_masood1
Steve Broughton - @sb_boxing_
We are in the era of boxing where we have media created personalities that seem to be everywhere in the sport.
media personalities that end up training fighters, managing fighters, and promoting fighters, without them having worked their way up the ladder.
With Alfie Warren you have someone who is really from the sport, his bloodline is boxing. Boxing is what he knows and through that he’s been able to come up the right way and now with his brothers and Warren Boxing Management, they have an opportunity to show the public what they can do.
Hopefully, you enjoy the first outside recording in over 300 episodes. -
The world needs more superheroes…
It’s very rare that you get a British title fight where two men leave everything in the ring, where two men go to places they’ve never been before, and where they find out things about themselves that they never knew.
It is so rare to see that Sunday’s fight between Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke, even though it ended is a draw, elevated both men to a new level of love and affection from the boxing fans and hopefully, to a new level commercially.
If only we had more of these fights in the United Kingdom, because we’ve got enough names and enough talent to do so.
If only we were able to get more of these fights on television more more often we could grow the sport of boxing to a new level.  -
At some point, British boxing has to address its issues around doping.
Doping in Boxing has massively watered down the credibility of the sport and left us in a position where we don’t believe results anymore.
We don’t believe fighters are clean and we don’t believe our boxes are competing with honour.
UKAD and the British Boxing Board of Control won their appeal against the National Anti-Doping Panel, which means one of two things is true:
1. Conor Benn will hold his hands up and take his punishment then we can move on or
2. The Board. will simply say he is not welcome back in a British ring.
However it goes, we need a line drawn under the situation as fast as possible.  -
What do you do if you’re Canelo?
Do you chase legacy or do you chase money, or do you chase safety?
It seems clear that Canelo is at the point in his career where he is chasing safety in terms of safe paydays and low risk fights, as if he’s built his legacy and has nothing further to prove.
But, is this good for boxing when the main man in the sport, the money man in the sport, is not really trying to elevate anybody else and what future is there for boxing if the superstars are not prepared to give opportunities to up-and-coming stars? -
For as long as the Saudi Arabia money flows into boxing Frank Warren won’t put any of his A team in a UK ring.
So, what we going to get on TNT sport and in UK venues will be Frank’s B team, and on Saturday we got a glimpse of that and based on Saturday it’s not too promising.
Nathan Heaney showed that, without enough of those serious fights against your rivals, it becomes harder and harder to defend your title .
Credit to Brad Paul’s for a hell of a performance but he also suffers from the lack of big fight experience, but he is slowly building that up and hopefully both men are better for this experience. -
You can define being a professional as, the ability to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, in the way that it needs to be done.
Anthony Joshua is the best example of being a professional from rarely being out of shape to very rarely being out the gym, he stays focused on his craft in a way that many of his rivals do not.
What we saw against Francis Ngannou was the ultimate professional performance and maybe this marks the changing of the public’s relationship with Anthony Joshua and maybe this is the moment when Anthony Joshua becomes a national treasure. - Laat meer zien