Once more into the trenches

Danny Winterbottom
10/06/2016 9:16am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lni10OKmocQ

Back in 2010 Enzo Maccarinelli suffered a brutal knockout loss at the hands of Alexander Frenkel in the first defence of his European cruiserweight title in Birmingham. David Haye, Ola Afolabi and Denis Lebedev had previously separated Maccarinelli from his senses in high profile fights prompting concerned fans and sport insiders to call for the Swansea man to retire from the sport. Enzo wasn’t just losing; he was getting badly hurt. But after attempting to reinvent himself as a light heavyweight with mixed success ‘Big Mac’ is making a late career charge to get back in the cruiserweight mix. 

Dream team

John Evans
08/06/2016 1:39pm

As James "Chunky" DeGale descended the podium at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, gold medal around his neck, he probably couldn't have imagined it would be another seven years before he once again stood on top of the world. The IBF super middleweight champion finally fulfilled his potential in 2015 and is now widely regarded as the world's best 168lbs fighter. In the long journey, the one man constantly by his side has been his trainer, Jim McDonnell.

Paying tribute to 'The Greatest'

Boxing Monthly
05/06/2016 8:48am

The world is still in mourning after the news that 'The Greatest' Muhammad Ali is no longer with us after he passed away on Friday, 3 June at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Tributes have been pouring in from every corner of the world, his interviews and fights replayed to remind us how special he was and how much he meant to so many people. The Boxing Monthly online team have taken some time to pay their own individual tributes to 'The Greatest'. There will never be another human being like him, he is gone but he will never ever be forgotten.

A few words about Muhammad Ali

Shaun Brown
04/06/2016 8:50am

Where to begin. It wasn’t just boxing where Muhammad Ali had a seismic impact, it was the world over. If you didn’t know anything about boxing you most likely knew about Ali. Sometimes a fighter chooses to do his talking in the ring, Ali did it outside the ring with boastful predictions that entertained millions and have been repeated many times over.

Ice-cold Kovalev

Paul Zanon
03/06/2016 4:58pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bvZfFGDvYs

We are all products of our environment, so the saying goes. In boxing, the merits of that expression are more relevant as many boxers emerge from environments where fighting is part of their existence. A person's future is often moulded by where they are raised.  Born in 1983, Sergey Kovalev grew up in the industrial town of Kopeysk in south-east Russia and before he was a teenager he had started to get a taste for fighting. by the early 90’s had started to get a taste for fighting.

The art of war

Mark Butcher
01/06/2016 12:29pm

Few fighters embody the spirit of the Mexican warrior more than Orlando ‘Siri’ Salido. Chanelling his inner Aztec, the battle-grizzled 60-fight veteran has been fiercely campaigning at world title level for a war hungry eleven-and-a-half years and grafted as a pro for an astonishing two decades. Yet the four-time world champion is showing no signs of slowing down ahead of his highly anticipated, all-Mexican clash against WBC 130lbs title-holder Francisco Vargas at the StubHub Center in California this Saturday night (4 June).

Below The Belt - Episode 5

Below The Belt
31/05/2016 12:41pm

The BTB team break down the Haye/Briggs show at The O2, discuss the fall-out from Canelo vs Khan and the future for both fighters. They drop knowledge on sanctioning bodies, discuss Povetkin's failed drug test and the potential sanctions to follow and much more. 

 

Below The Belt - Episode 5

Below The Belt
31/05/2016 11:52am

Welcome to Episode 5 of Below The Belt. The BTB team break down the potential Haye-Briggs show at The O2, discuss the fall out from Canelo vs Khan and the future of both. We drop knowledge on sanctioning bodies. We also discuss Alexander Povetkin's failed drug test and the potential sanctions following it. We also talk drugs in boxing and people's response to it. We heap praise upon Anthony Crolla but bash the May 7 undercard, talk about the other leading lightweights and much more.