by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Dec 6, 2015 | Analysis, Previews, Predictions, Tale of the Tapes
This weekend at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, top Middleweights Daniel Jacobs and Peter Quillin will be taking lumps out of each other to decide the rightful owner of the WBA title. I’ve said this a few times already this year (before Golovkin-Lemieux,...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Dec 4, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
With British fight fans having only just shelled out for the overly-tame Klitschko vs Fury, you can’t blame them for grumbling about next weekend’s Joshua vs Whyte. But to be fair to Matchroom Boxing and Sky Sports, the card has shaped up rather nicely. No, every...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Dec 3, 2015 | Training, Workout, Fight Episodes
Jacobs vs Quillin is one of those fights that seems to have popped up out of nowhere. Yes, we knew it was in the calendar, but with Cotto-Canelo and Klitschko-Fury recently saturating sports’ sections, it’s easy to see why it’s kind of fallen off the radar. But with...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Dec 3, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
It turns out Wladimir Klitschko did need that rematch clause, after all, and the recently dethroned champ has now exercised the contractual right to revenge. Klitschko lost his IBF, WBO, WBA titles to Tyson Fury after failing to pull the trigger in a 12 round...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Dec 2, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
Deontay Wilder wasn’t too impressed with Tyson Fury’s winning performance against Wladimir Klitschko at the weekend. Wilder, the WBC champ and our No.4 Heavyweight, not only labeled it the dullest fight of all time, but promised he would’ve knocked out Klitschko had...
