HEAVYWEIGHT: Fury vs Joshua Has No Rematch Clause. One Fight, One Winner, And The Loser Is In Trouble. HEAVYWEIGHT: Fury Wants Donald Trump To Lead His Ring Walk Against Joshua. It Is Pure Fury, And It Is Probably A Wind-Up. HEAVYWEIGHT: Fury And Joshua Shared A Stage In London Without A Cross Word. Ten Years On, I Still Fancy Fury. LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT: Ben Whittaker Faces Conor Wallace On Saturday With A Bivol Shot On The Line. I Think It Ends Early. HEAVYWEIGHT: Johnny Fisher Made 243 For Michael Pirotton. Tonight At The Copper Box, The Numbers Stop Mattering. CRUISERWEIGHT: Abel Sanchez Says David Benavidez Needs To Start Eliminating Contenders. He's Right, And Cieslak Proves It. WELTERWEIGHT: Manny Pacquiao And Shakur Stevenson Are Still Talking Cardiff. The Money Is The Only Thing Holding This Up. HEAVYWEIGHT: Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua Is Finally Official. December 11, Cardiff, And The Vacant WBA Super Title Up For Grabs. LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT: Richardson Hitchins Will Fight Keyshawn Davis In Cardiff. He Just Wants The Same Money He Was Promised For New York. SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT: Jaime Munguia's Team Are Weighing Up Handing Back A Title He Only Just Won. Bektemir Melikuziev Is Why. HEAVYWEIGHT: Johnny Fisher Wants Dillian Whyte Next, Richard Riakporhe Is Offering The British Title. First He Has To Get Past Michael Pirotton. CRUISERWEIGHT: Lucas Roehrig Has Signed With Zuffa Boxing. George Groves' Unbeaten Cruiserweight Now Has To Take The Risks He Keeps Talking About. CRUISERWEIGHT: Team Benavidez Have Mapped Out Cieslak, Opetaia, Bivol And Then Andy Ruiz At Heavyweight. Only The First One Is Real. WELTERWEIGHT: Ryan Garcia Says There Have Been No Talks For Teofimo Lopez On February 6. That Is The Catterall Order Doing Its Job. WELTERWEIGHT: Teofimo Lopez Has Been Ordered To Fight Jack Catterall. His Team Are Talking To Lawyers. That Tells You Everything. SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT: Jacob Bank Complained About Janibek Alimkhanuly Jumping The Queue. Now The WBO Have Told Him To Fight Him. MIDDLEWEIGHT: Carlos Adames Has Been Ordered To Fight Meiirim Nursultanov. The Best Middleweight Nobody Wants Just Got The Fight Nobody Wants Either. MIDDLEWEIGHT: Denzel Bentley Wanted Conor Benn Or Aaron McKenna. He Is Getting Yoenli Hernandez, And A Purse Bid On September 29. SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT: Jaime Munguia Has Run Out Of Voluntary Defences. Bektemir Melikuziev Is Exactly The Puncher His Career Was Built To Avoid. LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT: Craig Richards Has One Night Left To Get Back In The World Title Conversation, And Radivoje Kalajdzic Is The Worst Possible Test ANALYSIS: George Groves Has Told The Truth About Moses Itauma. He Is A Three-Round Fighter, And That Is The Fixable Bit. SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT: James DeGale Is Coming Back At Forty, In Wolverhampton, On A Card With Influencers. Somebody Should Have Talked Him Out Of It. MIDDLEWEIGHT: Nathan Heaney Gets One Last Night In Birmingham. Gerome Warburton Took His Belt, And Heaney Wants It Back Before He Goes. HEAVYWEIGHT: Johnny Fisher Is Back At The Copper Box On Saturday, And Michael Pirotton Has Already Told Him His Mind Is Gone SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT: Sam Goodman Finally Gets His Tokyo Night. Ryosuke Nishida Is The Man Standing Between Him And Naoya Inoue. CRUISERWEIGHT: Pat Brown Took The British Title In His Seventh Fight. John Hedges Had No Answer To The Body. LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT: Isaac Cruz Ended An Ugly Night With One Left Hook. Nestor Bravo Never Looked Like Getting Up. WELTERWEIGHT: Ryan Garcia Has Put A December Offer On The Table And Called It Cruz's Last Chance. FEATHERWEIGHT: Shabaz Masoud Won Every Round Against Cani Mansilla. A Shutout Is Not Always A Statement. SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT: Mark Jeffers Beat Kieron Conway And Earned The British Super Middleweight Mandatory.
HEAVYWEIGHT

Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua Is Finally Official. December 11, Cardiff, And The Vacant WBA Super Title Up For Grabs.

Right then. Fifteen years of talk, false starts and broken promises, and it took one press release to end it. Fury and Joshua fight on December 11 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, live on Netflix, for the vacant WBA Super heavyweight title.

25 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT

Richardson Hitchins Will Fight Keyshawn Davis In Cardiff. He Just Wants The Same Money He Was Promised For New York.

Right then. The fight is not the problem. Richardson Hitchins has accepted Keyshawn Davis, accepted the travel, and accepted the date. What he has not accepted is getting paid less for a bigger card just because the venue moved.

25 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT

Jaime Munguia's Team Are Weighing Up Handing Back A Title He Only Just Won. Bektemir Melikuziev Is Why.

Right then. Four months after winning it back, Jaime Munguia's camp are reportedly deep in discussions about giving up the WBA super middleweight title rather than defend it against the one man on the shortlist nobody wants.

25 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
HEAVYWEIGHT

Johnny Fisher Wants Dillian Whyte Next, Richard Riakporhe Is Offering The British Title. First He Has To Get Past Michael Pirotton.

Right then. Two days out from the Copper Box and Johnny Fisher has already got two names lined up for his next fight. The trouble is the Belgian in the other corner has read every word.

24 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
CRUISERWEIGHT

Lucas Roehrig Has Signed With Zuffa Boxing. George Groves' Unbeaten Cruiserweight Now Has To Take The Risks He Keeps Talking About.

Right then. Lucas Roehrig is 23, unbeaten in nine and trained by George Groves. Zuffa have just signed him, and he says he wants world titles and risky fights. Good. Now prove it.

24 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
CRUISERWEIGHT

Team Benavidez Have Mapped Out Cieslak, Opetaia, Bivol And Then Andy Ruiz At Heavyweight. Only The First One Is Real.

Right then. Jose Benavidez Sr has sketched out a four-fight route through three weight classes that ends with his son fighting Andy Ruiz at heavyweight. He called it daydreaming. He is right.

24 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
WELTERWEIGHT

Ryan Garcia Says There Have Been No Talks For Teofimo Lopez On February 6. That Is The Catterall Order Doing Its Job.

Right then. A report said Garcia vs Lopez had a date and a venue. Garcia says nobody told him. With Jack Catterall ordered, that fight just got a lot further away.

24 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT

Jacob Bank Complained About Janibek Alimkhanuly Jumping The Queue. Now The WBO Have Told Him To Fight Him.

Right then. Bank protested when Janibek was put straight back at the top of the rankings after his suspension. Be careful what you wish for.

23 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
MIDDLEWEIGHT

Carlos Adames Has Been Ordered To Fight Meiirim Nursultanov. The Best Middleweight Nobody Wants Just Got The Fight Nobody Wants Either.

Right then. Nursultanov was supposed to fight for an interim belt last Saturday. Instead he has skipped the queue and gone straight to the man who holds the real thing.

23 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
MIDDLEWEIGHT

Denzel Bentley Wanted Conor Benn Or Aaron McKenna. He Is Getting Yoenli Hernandez, And A Purse Bid On September 29.

Right then. Denzel Bentley had the big domestic payday lined up in his head. The WBO had other ideas, and now the first defence of his reign is heading to a purse bid.

23 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT

Jaime Munguia Has Run Out Of Voluntary Defences. Bektemir Melikuziev Is Exactly The Puncher His Career Was Built To Avoid.

Right then. The WBA ruled Munguia's voluntary period ran out on August 30. That means the dangerous Uzbek southpaw who has been shouting from the sidelines finally gets his shot.

23 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT

Craig Richards Has One Night Left To Get Back In The World Title Conversation, And Radivoje Kalajdzic Is The Worst Possible Test

Right then. Richards says his story has not been written yet. On Saturday night in East London he gets handed the pen and a man who has just knocked out a former world champion.

22 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
ANALYSIS

George Groves Has Told The Truth About Moses Itauma. He Is A Three-Round Fighter, And That Is The Fixable Bit.

Right then. Groves has said the thing everybody has been dancing around since Itauma gassed out in the ninth. He is a three-round fighter. The good news is that is a training problem, not a talent problem.

22 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT

James DeGale Is Coming Back At Forty, In Wolverhampton, On A Card With Influencers. Somebody Should Have Talked Him Out Of It.

Right then. The first British fighter ever to win Olympic gold and a professional world title is boxing six rounds in a civic hall against a man from West Bromwich. Nobody needed this.

22 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
MIDDLEWEIGHT

Nathan Heaney Gets One Last Night In Birmingham. Gerome Warburton Took His Belt, And Heaney Wants It Back Before He Goes.

Right then. Heaney said in August he was going one last time. He could have picked anybody. He picked the man who beat him, which tells you everything about him.

22 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
HEAVYWEIGHT

Johnny Fisher Is Back At The Copper Box On Saturday, And Michael Pirotton Has Already Told Him His Mind Is Gone

Right then. The Romford Bull returns from nine months out on Saturday night, making his Zuffa Boxing debut against a Belgian who has never been off his feet and is not remotely bothered about the away corner.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

Sam Goodman Finally Gets His Tokyo Night. Ryosuke Nishida Is The Man Standing Between Him And Naoya Inoue.

Twice he was booked to fight Naoya Inoue in Tokyo. Twice a sparring cut took it away. On Sunday Sam Goodman gets to Japan anyway, for an interim IBF belt and the mandatory position he has been chasing for two years.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
CRUISERWEIGHT

Pat Brown Took The British Title In His Seventh Fight. John Hedges Had No Answer To The Body.

Right then. I called Brown by decision. I was wrong about the method and right about the man, and I have never been happier to be half wrong in my life.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT

Isaac Cruz Ended An Ugly Night With One Left Hook. Nestor Bravo Never Looked Like Getting Up.

Right then. Isaac Cruz won, retained and looked every inch the wrecking ball he is billed as. He also spent five rounds in a wrestling match nobody asked to watch.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
WELTERWEIGHT

Ryan Garcia Has Put A December Offer On The Table And Called It Cruz's Last Chance.

Right then. Cruz called him out with the sweat still on him. Garcia answered before the arena had emptied. Now comes the part where boxing usually ruins everything.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
FEATHERWEIGHT

Shabaz Masoud Won Every Round Against Cani Mansilla. A Shutout Is Not Always A Statement.

Right then. Ten rounds, thirty scoring rounds across three cards, and Cani Mansilla did not win one of them. That is control. It is not quite the same as a statement.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT

Mark Jeffers Beat Kieron Conway And Earned The British Super Middleweight Mandatory.

Right then. I said this was the sleeper fight on the Manchester card. It was, and Mark Jeffers is now first in the queue for a Lonsdale belt of his own.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
BANTAMWEIGHT

Takuma Inoue And Tenshin Nasukawa Go Again On Sunday. The First Fight Answered Nothing.

Right then. Last November Takuma Inoue beat Tenshin Nasukawa on points and ended a 53-fight winning run. Ten months on, almost nobody thinks that was the final word.

21 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT

Hamzah Sheeraz Has Vacated The WBO Title Rather Than Fight Janibek Alimkhanuly. That Is A Belt Given Back, And A Reputation Handed Over With It.

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.

19 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
MIDDLEWEIGHT

Jesus Ramos Jr Was Hospitalised On Thursday Night And The Nursultanov Fight Is Gone. San Diego Has Lost Its Best Fight.

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.

19 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
CRUISERWEIGHT

Hedges 199.3, Brown 199.15. Nobody Blinked On The Scales And Nobody Will Blink Tonight Either.

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.

19 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
CRUISERWEIGHT

Jai Opetaia Has Taken Every Excuse Off The Table. Now David Benavidez Has To Sign Or Stop Talking.

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.

19 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
WELTERWEIGHT

Terence Crawford And Ryan Garcia Spent Thursday Arguing On The Internet. One Of Them Wants A Fight. The Other Wants An Alibi.

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.

19 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
FLYWEIGHT

A Rib Injury Has Just Taken The Best Fight Off The October 10 Card, And Ricardo Sandoval Is The One Left Holding Nothing.

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.

19 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout
HEAVYWEIGHT

Eddie Hearn Says Dana White Wrecked Fury vs Joshua. He Is Right, And It Still Might Not Save The Fight.

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.

18 September 2026 • Boxing Lookout