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Right then. Two days ago Queensberry won the purse bid to stage Hamzah Sheeraz against Janibek Alimkhanuly. Tonight the WBO have confirmed there is no fight to stage, because Sheeraz has handed the belt back rather than defend it.
Right then. Fight week was going perfectly in San Diego until Thursday night, when Jesus Ramos Jr was taken to hospital and the best matchup on the whole card quietly disappeared off the board.
Right then. Two unbeaten British cruiserweights stepped on the scales in Manchester on Friday and came in within an ounce and a half of each other. That is not a coincidence, that is two men refusing to give an inch before the first bell.
Right then. David Benavidez climbed into the ring after Jai Opetaia flattened Noel Mikaelian and called him the cruiserweight boogeyman. Opetaia's answer was to accept the fight, anywhere, any date, no conditions. That is how you win a negotiation before it starts.
Right then. Terence Crawford called Ryan Garcia an internet creation who only talks tough with his security nearby. Garcia told him to square up on or off the ring. And then Crawford mentioned his age, which is the most revealing thing either of them said.
Right then. Oscar Collazo has damaged ribs in training and the October 10 flyweight title fight with Ricardo Sandoval is gone. Collazo calls it a change of date. Nobody has confirmed that Sandoval is waiting.
Right then. The biggest all-British heavyweight fight left on the board has spent the week being pulled across the Atlantic by a man who does not promote either fighter, and Eddie Hearn has finally said out loud what everyone has been muttering since the summer.
Two unbeaten British cruiserweights, a Lonsdale belt, a Commonwealth strap and a pair of Intercontinental baubles on top — and one of them walks out of Co-op Live on Saturday night with a nought where a one used to be. This is what British boxing is supposed to look like.
Fight week has done its rounds in San Diego and we are nearly there. Isaac Cruz defends his interim WBC super lightweight belt against Nestor Bravo at Pechanga Arena on Saturday, and the man himself has spent the week telling anyone who will listen that people are getting their money's worth.
For a retired man, Terence Crawford is doing an awful lot of talking. He has spent weeks needling Jaron Ennis online, got Ennis to publicly accept a fight, and has now revealed the whole thing was a set-up to make a point about somebody else entirely.
Netflix have put the trailer out for a four-part series simply called Tyson, landing on October 13. Brooklyn to the youngest heavyweight champion in history, billed as greatness, fall and redemption. Which is a lovely three-word summary of a life that does not summarise.
A million and one thousand, eight hundred and nine dollars. That is what Frank Warren's lot put on the table on Wednesday to keep Hamzah Sheeraz vs Janibek Alimkhanuly in house, and it is comfortably more than Hamzah Sheeraz suggested he would be prepared to get out of bed for.
Twenty-five pounds is the biggest gap between any two divisions in boxing and it has been quietly wrecking British careers for decades. From January 1, 2027, there is something in the middle of it. Light-cruiserweight, 13st 5lbs, 187 pounds, and it is a UK-only affair.
Five days on from being flattened in two rounds in Las Vegas, Conor Benn has had a four-weight world champion tell the world he has not got it and never will. It is brutal. It is also the most honest thing anybody has said about him in a fortnight.
The WBO middleweight champion has gone on the record saying he would hand Conor Benn a shot at his belt, and then said the quiet part out loud: the public will not think Benn deserves it, and he is taking it anyway because of what it pays.