IN the midst of a busy five month spell, former IBF featherweight champion Billy Dib is hoping to end the year on a high when he faces Brazilian livewire Isaias Santos Sampaio on December 6th. Looking to make a swift rise up the super featherweight world ratings, Dib, 29, will fight fo
LAST week, Erin McGowan solidified her place as one of the best Australian female fighters of her generation, earning a second legitimate world title with a clear cut decision over Arlene Blencowe at the Italian Club in Perth. McGowan, 33, earned the title in unique circumstances by ou
AUCKLAND placed host to a memorable night of boxing, where one career ended, another became rejuvenated and a third became stuck in limbo. In all, the results – albeit unforgiving – were ultimately memorable. Once-beaten cruiserweight talent Brad Pitt endured an admi
DANIEL Geale is well aware his December 3rd date at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion with fellow Aussie star Jarrod “Left Jab” Fletcher (18-2, 10 KOs) could very much be make or break for his decorated career. He talks exclusively to Aus-Boxing about his thoughts on his upcoming fight w
BRAD Pitt will look to turn a career lifeline into a career best payday when the talented cruiserweight takes part in the second edition of the Super 8 in New Zealand tonight. With talent to burn and a stack of unfulfilled potential, Pitt (15-1, 12 KOs) will roll the dice in the high-s
BEING labelled as potentially Australia’s best ever can be a curse as we have seen with others in the past. But reading the headline to this story, it will soon dawn upon you that Jeffrey Horn (8-0, 6 KOs) has a world championship mentality as well as a cool and calm persona that [&h
ON paper, Arlene Blencowe doesn’t sport the most truthful of resumes. To the outsider looking in, her record reads as a modest 2-3, but in reality, Blencowe is a former WIBA light welterweight world title holder and signed on the books of arguably the second biggest mixed martial
UNDEFEATED former Olympian and talented super featherweight Paul Fleming took time away from boxing. In that time, Fleming returned home to Queensland, where he started a family and focused on being a father. After a prolonged absence, he returns tomorrow night in Perth against former
RICKY HATTON has paid tribute to Anthony Mundine, but he still feels his fighter, Sergey Rabchenko, beat the Aussie veteran. Mundine picked up the WBC Silver light-middleweight crown with a contentious split decision verdict over the Belarusian in Melbourne on Wednesday night. I
IN a near fifteen-year professional career, Anthony Mundine had held a version of the world championship three times in two divisions and had beaten a level of competition that was overall far superior to that of unbeaten Belarusian Sergey Rabchenko. In spite of this, there were many w