External Manny Pacquiao's defeat by Jeff Horn provoked the hysterical, darker side to boxing It is perhaps convenient to forget the dismal performance by Manny Pacquiao in the ring and concentrate on the outrage at the decision in Su… Tue, 04 Jul 2017
External Retirement beckons for Manny Pacquiao after dreadful defeat Today should be the first day of Manny Pacquiao's permanent retirement from boxing. On Sunday afternoon in Brisbane he was pushed, hit, cut … Sun, 02 Jul 2017
External Forget Mayweather vs McGregor, Gennady Golovkin's showdown with Canelo Alvarez promises a real spectacle There is an alarming sparkle in the eyes of Gennady Golovkin when he recalls his brief nights in the boxing ring and becomes oddly animated … Tue, 20 Jun 2017
External Kell Brook challenger Errol Spence has it all to prove, says Steve Bunce Kell Brook is still slightly amused that he is expected to lose his latest world title defence on Saturday night against Errol Spence in She… Fri, 26 May 2017
External Predictable, weary and no killer instinct - is Gennady Golovkin's reign at the very top of boxing finally nearing its end? It is far too simple to dismiss the odd performance of Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night in the Madison Square Garden ring as the start of … Mon, 20 Mar 2017
External Amir Khan vs Manny Pacquiao: Despite the endless speculation, this is a fight that was always going to happen The fight between Amir Khan and Manny Pacquiao was guaranteed to take place at some point from the first time the pair sparred together in O… Mon, 27 Feb 2017
External Reputations improved, Andre Ward, Sergey Kovalev unite in rematch calls There was a rare moment of unity in the boxing business at the end of Saturday's fight in Las Vegas when all three judges agreed on the scor… Tue, 22 Nov 2016
External Manny Pacquiao's brilliant return switches attentions to Floyd Mayweather rematch The first fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather generated $600 million, took six years to get to the ring and was forgettable af… Tue, 08 Nov 2016
External Santa Cruz vs. Frampton restores sense at time of freak fights The Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz fight is a great fight in any era and at any weight. At a time of entertaining and wildly popular freak… Fri, 29 Jul 2016
External Kell Brook vs Gennady Golovkin continues British tradition of hard to invent fights On Saturday in Cardiff the greatest Cuban boxer to ever climb over the wall and escape, to what was always called the West in the Cold War h… Wed, 13 Jul 2016
External The remarkable night Sugar Ray Robinson met his match, recalls Steve Bunce Sugar Ray Robinson had a dwarf called Arabian Knight in his entourage of 13 during his tour of Europe that ended at Earl?s Court in July 195… Tue, 05 Jul 2016
External Amir Khan vs Canelo Alvarez: Flame of 2004 Olympics still burns in fearless Khan as he faces biggest challenge He has walked through the tinkling cash caverns in Las Vegas before, gazed at sixty-feet of his smiling face, mixed it with 11 world champio… Sat, 07 May 2016
External Replacing Mayweather the real title for Khan Last September Floyd Mayweather left vacant the pay-per-view title, earlier this month Manny Pacquiao regained the lavish crown and then vac… Tue, 19 Apr 2016
External Guillermo Rigondeaux digs a big hole for himself by going underground again Some reports claimed that the two Cuban amateur boxers dressed up as women to slip through Brazilian security, and everybody agrees the pair… Fri, 11 Mar 2016
External Golovkin the new pay-per-view boy but Lemieux won't be happy fall guy Gennady Golovkin is boxing's scariest fighter according to the men that he has left reeling during five years of world title fights. The Kaz… Tue, 13 Oct 2015
External Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao: The aftermath in Vegas A man was shot outside, not far from the MGM Grand, inside just over 50,000 people had queued patiently to wager just under $30 million (?20… Tue, 05 May 2015
External Bunce: Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao superfight is finally here - and it won't disappoint It's here. On Saturday night a crowd of 16,800 people will stand and holler when Michael Buffer and Jimmy Lennon have performed their lines … Tue, 28 Apr 2015
External Mayweather, Paquiao could disappoint One day in January 1990, at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson announced the world's most lucrative fight, with Don … Tue, 24 Feb 2015
External Floyd Mayweather ends the carnival this week and picks his next fight - but will it be Amir Khan, Manny Pacquiao or Miguel Cotto This week the $150m soap opera dominating boxing will finally end and all will be revealed as Floyd Mayweather picks his opponent for May ? … Tue, 27 Jan 2015
External Mayweather and Pacquiao at the risk of joining boxing's 'lost fights' In the movie Grudge Match two old hams meet up in the ring when they are both pensioners. I think of this disaster when people tell me that … Tue, 16 Dec 2014
