Katie Taylor became a two-weight undisputed world champion when she defeated Chantelle Cameron in their thrilling Dublin rematch. After losing for the first time in May, Taylor managed to win a majority decision (scorecards: 98-92, 96-94, 95-95) when the pair battled in front of 9k of Taylor’s home fans. Taylor started the fight strong, using…
Joe Cordina controversially lost his title at the end of 2022 when he pulled out of his mandatory defence against Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov due to injury. It was a hasty decision and met with plenty of criticism but the IBF are known to be strict and we saw the most recent example of that with Jai…
Naoya Inoue and Terence Crawford are each other’s biggest challenges, not inside the ring but outside of it. The pair will battle for the P4P #1 spot, Fighter of the Year (2023) and Performance of the Year (2023). But for NoSmokeSport, it is the Japanese Monster who takes the first two of those positions. Inoue…
The consensus over the past few years has been that Katie Taylor is ageing, slowing down and that her best years are past her. Taylor’s historic bout with Amanda Serrano was the fight that people thought we’d see as the beginning of the end but the P4P #1 managed to do just enough to nick…
On the undercard of Devin Haney vs Vasily Lomachenko, Junto Nakatani faced Andrew Moloney for the vacant WBO Super Flyweight title. What on paper could have been somewhat competitive, absolutely wasn’t. Nakatani pummeled Moloney, won every single round, and was landing heavy uppercuts and straight-back hands throughout. The Japanese pugilist floored the Australian in the…
Davison Eclipses BoMac For Trainer Of The Year The two clear frontrunners for trainer of the year are Brian McIntyre (BoMac) and Ben Davison. BoMac coached Terence Crawford to his 9th-round TKO win over Errol Spence in the most important fight in 2023 and helped Chris Eubank Jr avenge his only stoppage defeat to Liam…
Peter McGrail was set for his US debut on a Brit-heavy card against the once-beaten Ja’Rico O’Quinn. A strong favourite, the 2020 Olympian was proving just why he was dubbed the ‘Scouse Lomachenko’. McGrail scored his first knockdown in the second, stopping the jab of O’Quinn, moving to his left and catching the American square…
Hours after an event which left fans shocked as Tyson Fury was dropped by MMA fighter Francis Ngannou and edged a razor-thin split decision in their Saudi Arabia non-title fight, which was less than exemplary for boxing, O’Shaquie Foster and Rocky Hernandez provided the polar opposite in Cancun as two lesser-known fighters fought their hearts…
Terence Crawford produced a masterful performance in one of the most important fights in the sport, not only in 2023 but in the last few years in boxing. The timing is crucial. Naoya Inoue just four days earlier had lept to P4P #1 for a lot of fans after dominating and stopping Stephen Fulton in…
Naoya Inoue became only the second man to win undisputed world titles in two weight classes when he took out Marlon Tapales in ten rounds on Tuesday. Just over a year earlier, Inoue halted Brtain’s Paul Butler in 11 rounds to unify the four titles at the weight below; Bantamweight. Fans had thought the P4P…
Jai Opetaia scored a late entry into the knockout of the year candidates for 2023 as he dispatched another unbeaten Brit, Ellis Zorro, inside the opening stanza after pummelling Jordan Thompson in four rounds in September. Later in the night, P4P star Dmitry Bivol added the IBO strap to his WBA light heavyweight title with…
The WBC/WBO champion Naoya Inoue clashes with WBA/IBF titleist Marlon Tapales in a four-belt unification fight to establish the undisputed super bantamweight king. Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs), widely regarded as P4P #2 in world boxing, has already held the undisputed title at the weight below and a win for him on Tuesday, December 26 sees him join Terence…
Conor Benn will return to action in back-to-back American fights at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas against Peter Dobson on Saturday, February 3. The fight will air live worldwide on DAZN – with Benn headlining early afternoon in Las Vegas for prime-time viewing in the UK. Benn (22-0 14 KOs) stepped back through the ropes for the…
Jarrell Miller weighed in at a staggering 333 pounds for the biggest night of his carrer tommorrow night in Saudi Arabia. Miller faces 25-year-old British Heavyweight Daniel Dubois third down from one of the most stacked bills in recent years. Such an opportunity was a pipe dream for Miller just a few years when he…
