The Boxing Truth®

On August 9th the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York played host to a Boxing card, which was headlined by a tripleheader that may produce some interesting storylines in the future.   Although some might feel the card headlined by Jr. Welterweight world champions Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson competing in separate bouts, and top Middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs, fighting for interim/regular champion status in the WBA’s Middleweight ratings did not provide much in the way of competition for the aforementioned headliners, it did serve as a showcase of what might lead to some interesting fights for all three. The Middleweight fight on this card pitted WBA number four rated contender Daniel Jacobs facing the number two contender Jarrod Fletcher in a bout to determine interim/regular champion status in the WBA ratings. Jacobs was very impressive in this fight as he controlled the tempo of the fight from the outset and scored knockdowns in rounds one and five to earn ...

The highly anticipated rematch between top Heavyweight contenders Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora has been officially rescheduled for November 22 and will take place at the ExCel Exhibition Centre in London, England.   The fight, which was originally scheduled to take place on July 26th, was postponed after Chisora fractured his left hand in his last sparring session before the fight was to take place. Both Fury and Chisora are coming off victories on the same card in February of this year. Fury’s fourth round knockout of Joey Abell and Chisora’s convincing twelve round unanimous decision over Kevin Johnson set the stage for the rematch of their fight in July 2011. In that fight Fury scored a twelve round unanimous decision over Chisora for the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight titles. The stakes of the rematch are higher than the first encounter between Fury and Chisora. This fight will not only have both the British and European Heavyweight titles on the line, ...

Over the last year a storyline that has continued to interest Boxing fans and experts alike has been the changing landscape of the Light-Heavyweight division. The division has seen three fighters emerge as it’s dominant figures. Future Hall of Famer and current IBF/WBA champion Bernard Hopkins and rising stars in WBO champion Sergey Kovalev and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson. A scenario that appeared would see two world champions face-off with the winner to face the third world champion of the division to determine an undisputed Light-Heavyweight world champion appeared as though it may not come to fruition due to the politics of the sport involving rival networks. This however, changed prior to Sergey Kovalev’s third title defense last Saturday against previously undefeated former IBO champion Blake Caparello in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was announced the day before the fight that Kovalev and Bernard Hopkins had signed a contract to meet in a unification bout in N...

Former WBA Light-Heavyweight world champion Gabriel Campillo has been a fighter who has seen his share of ups and downs throughout his career. Despite being a former world and former European Light-Heavyweight champion, Campillo is perhaps best known for being on the losing end of decisions that some believed should have gone his way in his fights with Beibut Shumenov and Tavoris Cloud. After losing to Tavoris Cloud in 2012, Campillo would suffer two knockout losses in his next four fights at the hands of current WBO Light-Heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev and recent world title challenger Andrzej Fonfara. Following his loss to Fonfara there were some who questioned whether Campillo’s days as a top contender in the hunt for a shot at a world title were behind him. Campillo returned to the ring following his loss to Fonfara in May of this year scoring a seventh round stoppage of British contender Ricky Pow. The former world champion looked to build on the momen...