Audley Harrison is the firm favourite to beat Micheal Sprott this Saturday 17th February.

The Olympic gold medal winner, is an incredible 1/7 according to SportingOdds.com (read more…)

Nicky Cook has been added to the already star studded cast featuring in the Joe Calzaghe-Peter Manfredo show at the Millennium Stadium on April 7 (read more…)

Jamie Cox, one of Britain’s top amateur boxers has admitted that the next 12 months of training are crucial if he is to be able to put in a good performance at the Olympics (read more…)

Since the heroic performance of Amir Khan, amateur boxing has been given a big boost, should it be included in schools (read more…)

Boxing fans all over Britain are mourning the death of one of its young potential talents; Gary Barker.

Barker, who was laid to rest on Monday in Barnet, was killed in a car crash near Luton on the 10th of December (read more…)

Finally a fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather will happen; according to reports it will be next May. 33-year-old De la Hoya told the media that the contest is set to be on the 5th of May next year and that it was a “done deal”.

Mayweather, who won the WBC welterweight belt at the beginning of this month month, will gain enough weight to become light middleweight for his “last fight”. It will definitely be a worthwhile payday for the 29-year-old against De la Hoya, who has won ten different titles in six different divisions; but has not been in the ring since May (read more…)

Tragically, on the 28th of October 2006, the ex-heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick was murdered at a church in Norwich. He suffered multiple blows to the head which resulted in him dying at the scene of the attack.

Many people will only ever remember Trevor Berbick as the last guy to fight Muhammad Ali or the guy that got brutally knocked out by “Iron” Mike Tyson, but this is a short biography of the late boxing legend that recently lost his life.

He was born on August 1, 1955 (although it may have been 1954) in Jamaica. When he was 16 he claimed to have had a vision from God which was the first of many colourful events in an eventful, yet troubled, life. At the age of 21, Berbick represented his Jamaica in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada as a heavyweight boxer, even though he only had only 11 amateur bouts before this. This lack of experience was clearly shown as he lost to the eventual silver medalist: Romanian Mircea Simon; even though he still showed a lot of potential as a young heavyweight boxer.

After the Olympics Berbick left Jamaica decided to fight professionally in Canada (read more…)

The last ever boxer to have fought the great Muhammad Ali, Trevor Berbick, was killed in Jamaica by an attacker using a hatchet or machete, claim police. He was aged between 51 and 52 – as his birth date was clarified - he was found dead near a church 90 miles east of Kingston, with serious head wounds and police are currently treating his death as murder.

Berbick, who claimed as a teenager that he had a vision of God, beat Ali back in 1981 and for a short time held the WBC heavyweight belt in 1986 prior to losing to “Iron” Mike Tyson. The great Jamaican represented his country at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, losing to the concluding silver medallist. After that he chose to stay in Montreal and fight as a professional in Canada. In the beginning he was a talented and dominant heavyweight and won his first 11 fights before losing to another growing gift called Bernardo Mercado in the year 1979. But, as he usually did, he came back from that loss to lock a world title shot against the awesome Larry Holmes back in April 1981; even though he lost the fight after 15 rounds to a unanimous decision. After whipping a worn-out Ali over 10 rounds in the Bahamas in 1981, Berbick transferred to Florida and signed up with the notorious promoter Don King.

Nearly five years after his defeat to Holmes, Berbick came back in style to trouble Pinklon Thomas to claim the WBC edition of the heavyweight crown (read more…)

34 year old professional boxer Joe Calzaghe has claimed that he will never be nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, which is on the 10th of December, because he is ‘a winner’. The great Welsh champion believes that only losers ever do well in the contest.

He told reporters “The football team loses, the cricket team loses. Listen, I’m a winner, I’m a champion.” And “It seems like the country only gets behind losers.”
The WBO, IBF and IBO super-middleweight champion Calzaghe has never made the call in of nominees for the award, but claims that he is not at all bothered and says he does not care about recognition: “Does it bother me that I’ve not been put up? Of course not. At the end of the day, maybe it’s because I’m a winner (read more…)

Commonwealth heavyweight champion Matt Skelton, 39, will defend his title against Olympic heavyweight gold medallist Audley Harrison, 34, on the 9th of December at London’s ExCel Arena. Skelton, who is from Bedford, won the Commonwealth belt back in July when he won a unanimous decision over fellow citizen Danny Williams.

Harrison, who is from London, is attempting to do what fellow heavyweight Mike Tyson has decided to do, and to try and get his career back on the straight and narrow after a succession of poor defeats. The former Olympic champion was once the owner of the Commonwealth belt before he lost it to Williams in back in late 2005. Harrison’s status as a world heavyweight champion took a thrashing following that pathetic excuse for a fight (read more…)