Boxing North East
Savannah Marshall will face former world champion Femke Hermans when she makes the maiden defence of her WBO middleweight title. Promoter Eddie Hearn has announced that the 31-year-old, from Belgium, …
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Savannah Marshall v Claressa Shields has gone a bit quiet hasn’t it? For now. Talk over a super-fight was all the rage after the American legend, self-styled ‘Greatest Woman Of …
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Claressa Shields: The greatest woman of all time or GWOAT, if you prefer? Self-appointed it must be stated. Irish legend Katie Taylor, for one, might have something to say about …
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Savannah Marshall v Claressa Shields. It’s a fight that simply has to happen. And for the man who launched the phenomenal career of the ‘Silent Assassin’ it’s a unification showdown …
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Lewis Ritson’s alliance with coach Neil Fannan is over. Punch-lines understands ‘The Sandman’ will now be trained by dad, Davy, at his father’s Forest Hall gym. Ritson had risen to …
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Savannah Marshall is excited to have been handed her first fight of 2021 even though a couple of key questions remain unanswered. Of the four Ws, who, what, where and …
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Tommy Ward would welcome a clash against highly-regarded Kiko Martinez for his debut fight as a featherweight. Punch-lines reported last month how the unbeaten 26-year-old had called time on his …
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Tommy Ward’s days as a world-class super-bantamweight are over. But don’t panic, the 26-year-old is instead firmly intent on becoming a featherweight world champion. Unbeaten Ward has found beating the …
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Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall. It’s a fight first talked about when Noah was still a young carpenter. But it is getting ever nearer. So near you can almost feel …
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Savannah Marshall world champion. Four words we’ve already seen before but now the Hartlepool boxer has completed an amazing double after stopping Hannah Rankin to win the vacant WBO middleweight …
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