Ed Warner: My 10 sports for a slimmed down Commonwealth Games October 3, 2024 The self-styled ‘friendly games’ are no longer quite so friendless: it appears Glasgow will indeed host a slimmed-down edition of the Commonwealth Games in 2026, although still we await official confirmation. The trouble is that 20 into 10 won’t go, and boxing’s political turmoil is holding up a decision on which sports will be left [...]
Ed Warner: A player power reckoning is coming for football and cricket September 26, 2024 Whether or not Rodri truly believes over-worked footballers are close to taking strike action, his comments have certainly had cut-through. Athlete strikes are not without precedent, in football and elsewhere. Think of the four strikes in the NFL’s history plus its owner lockouts, and Argentina’s football strike of 2017. Back in 2001, English footballers voted [...]
Ahead of the Game: ECB threatens to withhold Hundred franchise over Hampshire sale September 25, 2024 Hampshire have been warned they will be blocked from taking control of the Southern Brave if prospective new owners Delhi Capitals do not pay a fair market value for the Hundred franchise. In a significant intervention that could also apply to Yorkshire, who are in takeover talks with Sunrisers Hyderabad, the England and Wales Cricket [...]
Dubois: I’ll face Joshua or Usyk if the price is right September 24, 2024 Daniel Dubois said he would “love a rematch” with Anthony Joshua or Oleksandr Usyk, depending which fight pays the most. Dubois knocked out Joshua in the fifth round of their Wembley clash on Saturday in front of 96,000 fans to retain his IBF world heavyweight title. He could be rewarded with a rematch against fellow [...]
Why Anthony Joshua’s defeat leaves Tyson Fury fight out of reach again September 22, 2024 Saturday was supposed to be the night when Anthony Joshua joined the likes of Muhammad Ali and Lennox Lewis as three-time world heavyweight champions, the culmination of a career rebuild following back-to-back defeats by Oleksandr Usyk and proof that there was life in the London 2012 hero yet. Daniel Dubois didn’t just deviate from the [...]
Daniel Dubois sets sights on Oleksandr Usyk after destroying Anthony Joshua September 22, 2024 Daniel Dubois is targeting a rematch with Oleksandr Usyk after defending his IBF world heavyweight title with a devastating five-round win over Anthony Joshua on Saturday night at Wembley. On a card where Joshua was expected to join an elite club of three-time world champions in front of a British record 96,000 crowd it was [...]
Ed Warner: Seb Coe, Gary Glitter and the most powerful job in sport September 19, 2024 Seb Coe, newly confirmed as one of seven candidates for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is regarded as a serial vote winner. It wasn’t always thus. Witness his single term in office as the MP for Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall, ousted by Candy Atherton as Labour swept to power in 1997. [...]
Watch: Guy Ritchie’s short film for Joshua-Dubois fight night September 5, 2024 Guy Ritchie has made a short film to promote this month’s bumper boxing card at Wembley headlined by Anthony Joshua’s fight with Daniel Dubois. Joshua, Dubois, Hamzah Sheeraz, Josh Kelly, Liam Smith and other British boxers set to feature on the 21 September card appear in the film, titled Touching Hands. The short draws on [...]
Joshua v Dubois promoter aims to surpass record Wembley crowd of 94,000 August 27, 2024 The show on 21 September has sold out of its initial allocation of 90,000 tickets but an application has now been made to local authorities to increase capacity.
Matchroom gets the Drive to Survive treatment in Netflix series August 21, 2024 Barry Hearn, Eddie Hearn and the Matchroom sports promotions empire are to feature in a new Netflix documentary series from the makers of Drive To Survive. The fly-on-the-wall show has a working title of Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen and is being produced by Box to Box, whose success has made them the go-to sports docs [...]