Declan Warrington

Sports Journalist at Freelance

Sports journalist. Boxing for @BoxingScene, @BoxingNewsEd, Boxing News Presents, @ST_Sport, and @talkSPORT. One-time contributor to @ringmagazine

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Articles

'I'm back': Manny Pacquiao confirms July 19 date with Mario Barrios

2 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

The comeback so many of the boxing world had feared was confirmed on Wednesday when the 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao revealed that his date with Mario Barrios on July 19 is official. That one of the very finest fighters of the modern era was preparing to return after a four-year absence had represented one of the worst-kept secrets of an industry that thrives on gossip and rumour.
Johnny Fisher’s trainer questioned the wisdom of fighting David Allen

3 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

Johnny Fisher’s trainer Mark Tibbs wanted the heavyweight to have at least one more fight before matching him with David Allen. The 26-year-old Fisher was awarded a split decision over Allen in December, but after having been knocked down and struggled to the extent Allen was more widely considered the deserving winner. Their rematch on Saturday at London’s Copper Box Arena therefore presents him with the challenge of having to again prove his potential.
Johnny Fisher-David Allen II and the acid test for both

3 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

Saturday’s rematch between Johnny Fisher and David Allen is coming too early for Fisher, according to Allen’s confident trainer Jamie Moore. The heavyweights fight again at the Copper Box Arena in London, five months after Allen – in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – came so close to inflicting the 26-year-old Fisher’s first defeat.
'Could this go wrong again?': The doubts, and the redemption, of Frazer Clarke

3 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

The first-round knockout of Ebenezer Tetteh may never quite make up for that inflicted by Fabio Wardley, but with it Frazer Clarke exorcised many of the demons that haunted him for the often-difficult six months he endured before returning to the ring.
Bruce Carrington dares Rafael Espinoza to ‘risk’ WBO 126lbs title

3 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

Bruce Carrington fears Rafael Espinoza is unwilling to “risk” fighting him. The 28-year-old Carrington was present at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena to watch Espinoza impress throughout the course of defending his WBO featherweight title against Edward Vazquez on the undercard of Naoya Inoue’s stoppage of Ramon Cardenas. It is with the WBO and at 126lbs that Carrington is the number-one contender, and in an increasingly competitive weight division he wants to challenge for a title in his next fight.
Naoya Inoue-Ramon Cardenas left Nonito Donaire hungry to return

4 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

Nonito Donaire is determined to secure a date and opponent to fight after watching his former rival Naoya Inoue stop Ramon Cardenas. Donaire was present at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena when Inoue and Cardenas contested the undisputed junior-featherweight title in what is certain to be considered one of the fights of the year.
Top Rank will have three new broadcasters ‘within the next few weeks’

4 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

Bob Arum hopes that Top Rank will finalise its new broadcast agreement in the coming weeks. The promotional powerhouse’s contract with ESPN is to conclude by the end of July, eight years after the start of a collaboration that at one point was intended to deliver 54 promotions a year. Despite suggestions regarding Top Rank’s potential demise, Arum expects the new broadcast picture they enter to have an increased number of dates than exists in their expiring agreement with the influential ESPN.
Naoya Inoue-Ramon Cardenas: The week that was

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

Thursday, May 1Sunday’s undisputed super-bantamweight title fight, between the champion Naoya Inoue and Ramon Cardenas, continues to be marketed as a fight for the popular Cinco de Mayo weekend, and yet it remains possible that Inoue will be the better-supported fighter at the T-Mobile Arena on Sunday evening.
Nonito Donaire questions Naoya Inoue’s limits against ‘bigger guys’ at 126lbs

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

LAS VEGAS – Nonito Donaire has cautioned Naoya Inoue against moving up to featherweight after watching him get knocked down by Ramon Cardenas. The 32-year-old Inoue produced a thrilling performance, recovering from a second-round knockdown to stop Cardenas in the eighth on Sunday at the T-Mobile Arena, and therefore successfully defending his undisputed junior featherweight championship. He is scheduled to next fight Uzbekistan’s Murodjon Akhmadaliev on September 14, again at 122lbs.
Wheels already in motion for Ramon Cardenas’ return

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Declan Warrington

LAS VEGAS – Ramon Cardenas’ co-promoters are already plotting his next move after watching him enhance his reputation in defeat by Naoya Inoue. The Mexican-American was stopped in eight rounds on Sunday but only after dramatically dropping the undisputed junior-featherweight champion in the second round at the T-Mobile Arena and willingly trading with one of the world’s most dangerous punchers.