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Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder are still on track to rubber stamp their rivalry this year as Bob Arum expects the trilogy fight to take place in October.  Wilder exercised his contractual right to a rematch after losing his title to Fury following a seventh-round stoppage back in February. However, as expected, Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter with Frank Warren, told …

Bob Arum and Dana White don’t exactly see eye-to-eye.  The Top Rank Promotions boss and UFC president have made that much pretty clear at just about every opportunity they get to discuss the other. Dana recently revealed his plans to move into boxing promotion in 2018 as well as mixed martial arts moving forward. The UFC boss, along with Frettita …

Last month, as part of their campaign for a unification bout with IBF and WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, WBO titlist Joseph Parker and his team hosted a truly bizarre press conference in Auckland during which they attempted to cast aspersions upon AJ’s chin. They had promised “rare footage” of Joshua being “dropped repeatedly by little known opponents” but what …

Since turning professional earlier this year there has been no looking back for Michael Conlan. The Belfast native made a memorable debut in Madison Square Garden on St. Patrick’s Day with a stoppage victory and has since gone on to amass a 5-0 record. Conlan is showing absolutely no intentions of slowing down his rise up the ladder in the …

Manny Pacquiao sent speculation over a boxing match between himself and Conor McGregor taking place in Spring 2018 into overdrive this week with a suggestion that the fighters’ representatives were in negotiations to make it happen.  In the days which followed, the rumour mill began churning heavily. Was this fight really going to take place? Well, UFC boss Dana White …

After a shock loss to Jeff Horn in Brisbane over the weekend, Manny Pacquiao’s coach and promoter both stated that the fighter needs to make a serious change or retire from the ring. Although the majority of pundits felt that Manny Pacquiao comfortably won his 12 round contest with Jeff Horn on Sunday evening, when the judges’ scorecards were announced, …

As the world’s of boxing and MMA prepare to collide on August 26 in the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas when Floyd Mayweather takes on Conor McGregor, debate is rife about the validity of this fight.  Floyd, regarded as one of the best technical boxers of all-time, holding an undefeated record of 49-0 from a professional career that has spanned over …

Ever since the Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight was first mooted last year, the UFC and the contractual power the promotion wields over the Irishman have been seen as the biggest obstacles along the dicey road towards it’s materialization. However, last week, UFC president Dana White produced one of the more significant plot twists in the saga so …

The eagerly anticipated super fight between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and former unified light-welterweight champion Amir Khan will not be happening, according to promoter Bob Arum. Last week a match between the two was announced to reportedly take place in the United Arab Emirates on April 23. This followed a Twitter poll carried out by Pacquiao, which asked the fans …

In the latest installment of the ‘will-they-wont-they’ story that is a potential superfight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather, legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum and once again rubbished any such notions. In the last week Mayweather has offered McGregor $15 million plus a pay-per-view percentage. This was countered by UFC president Dana White with a $25 million payday for each …

Top boxing promoter Bob Arum has described the potential super fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as ‘preposterous’. Arum, who worked as Mayweather’s promoter from 1996 to 2006, told RTÉ 2fm’s Game On: “It’s preposterous. Conor McGregor is probably the leading mixed martial arts professional, that’s a different sport from the sport of boxing,” McGregor made history in 2016 as …

The majority of fight fans around the world are all for Conor McGregor stepping inside the boxing ring with the undefeated Floyd Mayweather, but some of those stitched into the sport aren’t warming up to the heavily-rumoured fight. Veteran boxing promoter Bob Arum, a man who knows a thing or two about the sport, decided to weigh-in on the possible …

Speculation has been rife for several months over the identity of Manny Pacquiao’s next and perhaps final opponent. Britain’s Amir Khan had looked the most likely candidate for quite a while, but Lucas Matthysse and Terence Crawford had also been proposed as possibilities by Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum. Another fighter who’s name had been mentioned alongside that of the Filipino icon …

Floyd Mayweather has shot down Manny Pacquiao’s claims that the pair are in talks for a sequel to their massive May bout, and accused the Filipino icon of “piggybacking” his name to sell Pay-per-views. In early October an Agence France Presse reporter claimed that Manny Pacquiao had spoken of negotiations that were supposedly ongoing between his team and Floyd Mayweather’s. However shortly …