Elliot Worsell

1 week ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

In any instance of bull versus matador, the expectation to produce skill and a bit of panache lies squarely at the feet of the matador. It is they, not the bull, who are expected to impress the audience with both the speed of their feet and their intelligence and it is they who will then receive the audience’s acclaim for killing the bull and staying alive. The bull, by contrast, is simply acting out its nature.

1 week ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

When Walker Smith Jnr borrowed the amateur card of his friend, Ray Robinson, he could not have known that Ray Robinson would become the name by which he would forever be remembered. Nor for that matter could Smith/Robinson have predicted that being described as “sweet as sugar” after a fight in New York in 1939 would result in yet another name – this time a nickname – becoming a part of both his legacy and the sport’s lexicon. But it’s true. All of it.

1 week ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

For a time, it was Gennadiy Golovkin, the hard-hitting former middleweight king from Kazakhstan. Then, when that never materialised, Chris Eubank Jnr turned his attention to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, an opponent no easier to beat and a fight no more likely to happen. In the meantime, Eubank Jnr would build his record and reputation on the scalps of opponents several levels below the level he aspired to reach, making any potential jump that much greater.

1 week ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

Although he has only ever lost to the very best fighters in the world, there are only so many times tough Aussie George Kambosos can keep going back to the well to look for something that isn’t there. He tried again last night, against IBF junior-welterweight champion Richardson Hitchins, and once again Kambosos, now 22-4 (10), was found wanting. Not only that, he was hurt early by Hitchins, dominated for much of the fight, and eventually stopped by a body shot in round eight.

2 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

Such is the trauma of cutting weight, seldom does a fighter approach the scales with a smile on their face, let alone on the brink of laughter. They might, at best, flash a grin for the cameras having received confirmation that they have made weight, but anything more would indicate either that they are a heavyweight – and therefore don’t have to make a specified weight – or that they aren’t taking things seriously. In the case of Keyshawn Davis this time last week, the latter was true.