Tyson Fury’s latest Tweet sure to cause speculation: Fury says we will never guess who his next fight will be against!

02/15/201602/13/2016 James Slater

Reigning heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is no stranger to Twitter, with the unbeaten giant often writing outlandish and sometimes humorous messages on his official Twitter page. But today’s announcement of sorts from Fury is sure to cause speculation and probably plenty of debate.

Fury, who claims he has huge news that he will share soon, took to Twitter two hours ago to write the following:

“Some massive news coming soon, had to come to London for an urgent meeting about a massive fight, TBA very soon, u will not believe who!!!!!!”

Floyd Mayweather enjoying his UK Victory Tour, says he too wants to see Tyson Fury Vs. Deontay Wilder showdown

02/12/201602/12/2016 James Slater

Retired superstar Floyd Mayweather Junior may not have sold as many tickets as he had hoped on his UK Victory Tour, but the 49-0 great known as “Money” says he has had a good time “touching so many fans” whilst here in the UK. On the Manchester leg of the tour, Mayweather – who will soon celebrate his 39th birthday and insists he has no urge to fight again – said yesterday he had nothing but respect for the city’s favourite fighting son, Ricky Hatton (“a hell of a fighter with a big heart”) – while Floyd also revealed to The Manchester Evening News how he bet on Tyson Fury to score that shocker over Wladimir Klitschko back in November.

Wilder vs Povetkin getting closer, May 21st date in play for New York

02/12/2016 James Slater

The current heavyweight division seems to be as slow moving as ever – we are still waiting on a definite date for the big Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko rematch and neither British star Anthony Joshua nor David Haye has announced an opponent for their upcoming bout – but fight fans are slowly but surely getting the fights that matter.

Jerry Jones wants GGG Vs. Canelo super-fight at his AT & T stadium in Dallas this September

02/11/201602/10/2016 James Slater

It’s the middleweight unification the entire world wants to see, including Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones. It’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Vs. Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, and for a few months now, we’ve all wanted to see who is the best 160-pounder on the planet. If the billionaire fight fan gets his way, we will find out this September at The A T& T stadium in Dallas.

Tom Loeffler, promoter of the fighter dubbed The most feared man in Boxing, spoke with TMZ Sports and he said that he too would love to see the mega-fight take place at the huge Dallas stadium.

Shannon Briggs to David Haye: “Let’s give the people what they wanna see!”

02/10/2016 James Slater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-tp6pvh_c

Do you want to see a David Haye-Shannon Briggs fight? Former champ Briggs thinks you do, and he is ready to come to the UK to give you what you want!

Andre Ward vs. Sullivan Barrera official for 3/26 on HBO

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Roc Nation Sports is pleased to announce that Two-Time World Champion and top-rated pound-for-pound fighter Andre Ward (28-0, 15 KOs) will return to the ring on Saturday, March 26, to begin his assault on the light heavyweight division when he takes on undefeated and number one rated IBF light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (17-0, 12 KOs) in a 12-round bout at Oracle Arena in Ward’s hometown of Oakland, California. The event will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT.

Exclusive Interview with super-middleweight prospect Ronald Ellis

02/06/2016 James Slater

Unbeaten super-middleweight prospect Ronald Ellis makes his Showtime debut on February 19th and the 12-0(10) talent says he will “make a statement” in the scheduled 8-rounder with Jerry Odum.

A confident fighter who talks well, Ellis also says he wants an active 2016 so as to make up for a couple of injury-enforced layoffs earlier in his now five-year pro career.

Here the 2010 National Golden Gloves champion speaks exclusively with Eastside Boxing:

Deontay Wilder says he’ll come to UK to fight Tyson Fury, claims he will “bring boxing back like it once was”

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Unbeaten KO star and reigning WBC heavyweight king Deontay Wilder wants a lot of things: he wants to unify the heavyweight titles, he wants to go out of boxing having left a great legacy and he wants to give his many fans great, exciting fights. But right now, it seems the thing topping Wilder’s wish list is a fight with fellow unbeaten, Tyson Fury.

Virgil Hunter will study Mayweather’s win over Canelo ahead of Khan’s May 7th challenge, says Khan is bigger than Floyd, can add to his performance

02/03/2016 James Slater

Ace trainer Virgil Hunter is talking a very confident game ahead of his fighter Amir Khan and his up against it challenge of middleweight king Saul Alvarez. Hunter, who has now been with Khan for five fights, since beginning working with him towards the end of 2012, says he will be looking at a tape of the Floyd Mayweather Junior-Alvarez fight from September of 2013, which Mayweather won via comfortable points decision (barring the simply baffling card of one judge!).

Canelo Vs. Khan: Amir Khan receiving plenty of praise for taking unexpected mega-fight!

02/03/201602/02/2016 James Slater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27VH8lzzAmg

The boxing world is still trying to come to terms with what has surely been the biggest, “I didn’t see that coming!” mega-fight announcement of the year: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Vs. Amir “King” Khan, set for Las Vegas on Cinco de Mayo weekend of May 7th.