Month: January 2024

The first knockout loss of Callum Smith’s career understandably still stings the former WBA super middleweight champion. With the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO light heavyweight titles all out of his reach in the foreseeable future, Smith isn’t sure whether he’ll continue to fight. The 33-year-old Liverpool native believes he can still win at the
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Sergiy Derevyanchenko definitely wants an opportunity to avenge his close loss to Jaime Munguia in their memorable battle 7½ months ago. The Ukrainian veteran’s manager, Keith Connolly, informed BoxingScene.com that he intends to revisit that fight with Munguia’s representatives at Golden Boy Promotions if the unbeaten Mexican contender doesn’t secure an opportunity to challenge Canelo
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Mikaela Mayer is hoping what she feels was her gracious post-fight conduct will compel Natasha Jonas to give her a rematch. Last Saturday night at M&S Bank Arena in Jonas’s hometown of Liverpool, England, Jonas retained her IBF 147-pound title with a close split-decision win over Los Angeles’s Mayer. The two went toe-to-toe in a
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A solid UK domestic tussle is on the horizon, as Florian Marku and Chris Kongo have signed on for a grudge match “expected to take place in March.” The pair’s longstanding animosity boiled over last August when Kongo (14-2, 7 KO) crashed an interview with Marku (13-0-1, 8 KO) ahead of “The Albanian King’s” 54-second
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