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21 hours ago | boxing247.com | Jeepers Isaac

Keyshawn Davis is dealing with a huge backlash from fans after missing the 135-pound weight limit by 4.3 lbs. at Friday’s weigh-in for his maiden title defense of his WBO lightweight belt against Edwin De Los Santos on Saturday in Norfolk, Virginia. For Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KOs) to miss weight by such a wide margin, people believe he never attempted to make weight.

22 hours ago | boxing247.com | James Slater

Fans of a certain age will recall, perhaps with some vividness, how special, how gifted Michael Nunn was. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Nunn was not only the best middleweight on the planet, he was also right up there, either at the top or near the top of the Pound-for-pound rankings. This weekend, Nunn will get his overdue place in the Hall of Fame.

1 day ago | boxing247.com | James Slater

With the recent, disappointing collapse of the Teofimo Lopez-Devin Haney fight, both men are now in need of their next opponent. And Britain’s Adam Azim has called out Haney, saying he would fight him “next week.” Azim, still only 22 years of age, is unbeaten at 13-0(10) and he has already won both the European and IBO 140 pound titles. Next up, Azim will face late-replacement foe Eliot Chavez of Mexico, this on Saturday night’s card headlined by Callum Simpson-Ivan Zucco.

1 day ago | boxing247.com | James Slater

Brilliant bantamweight Junto Nakatani of Japan is already a feature in some pound-for-pound lists, and rightly so. The unbeaten southpaw who holds the WBC belt at 118 pounds and will attempt to add the IBF strap to his collection this weekend, when he will fight countryman Ryosuke Nishida in Japan’s first-ever bantamweight unification fight, has left fans in awe with his performances.

1 day ago | boxing247.com | James Slater

Carl Froch, speaking on his ‘Froch on Fighting’ podcast, was asked to name his three greatest ever British fighters. “The Cobra,” who of course ranks up there amongst the British greats himself, came out with a list that might be somewhat surprising to some fight fans. “My top three fighters, in order, Lennox Lewis, Naseem Hamed, and Ricky Hatton,” Froch said. All good fighters to be sure, but great? Lewis, no doubt, was and is a true great, no problem there. But Hamed and Hatton?