Amy Andrew looks to the pros
She s beaten the likes of Shannon Courtenay before and now, with her Olympic dream over, Amy Andrew can look to the pros
AMY ANDREW’S Olympic dream is over. The Haringey boxer had come to the sport late but won a place to represent New Zealand in international competition. She had been waiting for the final World qualification event, her last chance to qualify for the Tokyo Games. But the global pandemic has enforced a wholesale change on the qualification system, scrapping the last qualifier and instead having using a rankings system to allocate the places that would have been awarded there. Andrew won’t be one of the beneficiaries of that new system.
Rachel Ball overcame late replacement Jorgelina Guanini to claim the vacant interim WBC Super Bantamweight title Photo Credit: Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing
Rachel Ball has had an utterly unpredictable rise to mixing it at the top of women’s boxing and that’s by her own admission.
In the space of three years Ball went from fighting for free to the interim WBC world champion and fighting on Sky Sports. 2021, then, was meant to be even bigger than the 12 months beforehand until COVID struck in January.
Ball’s recovery from the long term impacts continues with a return in July tentatively set.
Conor Benn takes on Samuel Vargas.
Conor Benn defends his WBA Continental Welterweight title for a fourth time, and it’s another gradual step up in class as he meets ten stone seven gatekeeper Samuel Vargas over ten rounds at the Copper Box Arena, live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN worldwide.
Benn (17-0, 11 KOs) is still only 24, but the comparisons to his illustrious father Nigel have resulted in a lot of expectation placed on him ahead of his clash with Vargas (31-6-2, 14 KOs)
‘The Destroyer’ has been matched well so far in a 17 fight career that began in April 2016, and his only real scare came in a December 2017 six round thriller with Cedrick Peynaud, where he was down twice in the opener, before rallying to drop Peynaud in rounds five and six to secure a disputed points win.
Racy Aussie star accused of âdegrading boxingâ Australiaâs Ebanie Bridges is fighting for a world title this weekend but all anyone can talk about is the lingerie sheâs been wearing.
Celebrity by Jai Bednall 7th Apr 2021 1:07 PM A war of words has erupted ahead of Australian boxer Ebanie Bridges world title fight in London this Sunday after her opponent Shannon Courtenay accused her of disrespecting the sport.
Bridges, a former ring girl, is undefeated in five fights and will challenge Courtenay for the WBA world female bantamweight title on the undercard of Conor Benn s fight against Samuel Vargas.
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