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Boxing

  • Dan Azeez interview: Britain’s next boxing superstar on swapping financial services for the fight game

    Boxing clever

    Dan Azeez was planning for a career in the City when an encounter with Anthony Joshua in 2011 changed his life.  The south Londoner’s parents, first generation Nigerian immigrants, impressed upon him the importance of education and a profession, so Azeez took a degree in accounting and finance at Essex University and set his sights [...]

  • Why Michael B Jordan’s Creed is the coolest franchise in Hollywood

    new movies

    The Creed movies are an outlier in modern Hollywood. Their modest success at the box office might undersell the fact that they’ve done what few franchises have achieved convincingly: passed the torch. Yes, they aren’t the cultural landmarks that the Rocky films were, but the character has established himself enough to make this third chapter [...]

  • Britain to boycott boxing championships over decision to allow Russia athletes to compete under flag

    bout time?

    Great Britain will snub the women’s boxing world championships in India over the decision to allow Russian athletes to compete under their flag. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had advised all governing bodies to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing under their own flags but the International Boxing Association (IBA) has gone against such [...]

  • Best of 2022: Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall and the rise of women’s boxing

    December 30, 2022

    Women’s boxing enjoyed unprecedented prominence in 2022, not least when Britain’s Savannah Marshall and American Claressa Shields met in a blockbuster fight at the O2. This preview, originally published in October, set the scene for the biggest night of women’s boxing ever seen in the UK. The last time Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields met [...]

  • Middle East investment in Manchester United or Liverpool: Sports law predictions for 2023

    December 29, 2022

    As has become traditional at this time of year, City A.M. has called on the wisdom of Mishcon de Reya’s Simon Leaf and Tom Murray to dust off the crystal ball, don their best Mystic Meg outfits and offer their sports law predictions for next year. So here is our take on 2023 – and [...]

  • A year in sport: The big moments from 2022’s sporting calendar

    December 25, 2022

    It’s been a monumental year for sport both on British shores and further afield. Take a look at some of the year’s biggest moments ahead of another year of exhilarating action. January Cricket: Ashes series concludes with 4-0 defeat for England. The result would extend England’s winless run in Australia to 15 matches and mark [...]

  • Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall and the rise and rise of women’s boxing

    October 13, 2022

    The last time Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields met in a boxing ring, they were both amateurs with no realistic prospect of making a good living from the sport. A decade on, the bitter rivals are due to renew hostilities at the top of the professional ranks on a historic occasion that promises to earn [...]

  • Ed Warner: Boxing’s parallel existence, Benn-Eubank, and a Trussian shambles

    October 13, 2022

    The Sweet Science. The Noble Art. Boxing has a lore of its own and is a law unto itself. It occupies a parallel existence in which its rules, first published under the sponsorship of the ninth Marquess of Queensbury in 1867, and a love of litigation – real and threatened – are deemed sufficient to [...]

  • Boxing set for ‘Battle of Britain’ after Anthony Joshua accepts offer Tyson Fury

    September 13, 2022

    One of the most long-awaited matches in boxing has moved a major step closer after Anthony Joshua accepted terms to fight British heavyweight rival Tyson Fury later this year. Joshua made the announcement via his management company, 258, on Tuesday morning. Fury’s camp confirmed contracts would now be formally drawn up. “258 and Matchroom Boxing [...]

  • Club Wembley chief on why fans still want personalised experiences

    September 5, 2022

    After a sensational tribute to Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins on Saturday night, sold out Coldplay and Ed Sheeran concerts throughout July and August, not to mention the iconic Lionesses win, all at Wembley Stadium, demand for hospitality shows no signs of slowing down. We know this generation prioritises experiences over luxury goods, and that is [...]

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