Steve Bunce
76 articles · Setanta Sports
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The crucial unknowns behind Moses Itauma, boxing’s newest superstar
By Steve Bunce
It took Moses Itauma less than two minutes to drop and stop Dillian Whyte in Riyadh on Saturday night. Whyte was sent sprawling from a short right hook; he fell face first…
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Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford is the super fight with a twist
By Steve Bunce
It looks like the city, the venue, the weight and more importantly the money has been agreed for a fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez. Obviously, it could collapse in acrimony…
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Ryan Garcia’s insanity act was just a glorious diversion to shock Devin Haney
By Steve Bunce
After two months of disturbing behaviour, there were 12 rounds of quality from Ryan Garcia in a fight that divided boxing. Garcia dropped Devin Haney three times to win their fight at…
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Anthony Joshua coldly killed off Francis Ngannou. Now his destiny is Tyson Fury
By Steve Bunce
Anthony Joshua stood at the feet of Francis Ngannou in round two of their fight in Riyadh in the early hours of Saturday morning. Joshua just looked down, there was no merry…
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George Kambosos in Aussie wonderland as Teofimo Lopez pays price for disrespecting underdog
By Steve Bunce
George Kambosos was not only a massive underdog in his fight against Teofimo Lopez on Saturday night in the basement at Madison Square Garden, he was also dismissed and abused. The Australian…
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Canelo Alvarez cements his glistening legacy with devastating finish to end Caleb Plant’s resistance
By Steve Bunce
It was a cold finish in round 11 by Saul Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas late on Saturday night. It was also inevitable. Caleb Plant had the desire, the tactics, the belief…
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Billy Joe Saunders is a nightmare for Canelo Alvarez and will not be star-struck by Mexican superstar
By Steve Bunce
Canelo Alvarez had the easiest night of his boxing life in Miami on Saturday to set up possibly the hardest fight of his life. Alvarez forced his mandatory challenger, Avni Yildirim, to…
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Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and why it’s time in 2021 for boxing to just make the fights that matter
By Steve Bunce
The global boxing year will be dominated by the fists, hearts and minds of two British heavyweights at the very centre of a complex business deal. Never has one fight come to…
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Teofimo Lopez wins battle of minds against Vasyl Lomachenko as he turns the impossible into the routine
By Steve Bunce
Teofimo Lopez should be first-name mentioned when people look back on the night Vasyl Lomachenko got so much wrong in a business he dominates. Sadly, Lopez will probably be relegated. On Saturday…
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Celebrating Vasyl Lomachenko, boxing’s mesmerising genius
By Steve Bunce
That Vasyl Lomachenko is a fighting marvel has never been in dispute and next Saturday in his fifteenth consecutive world title fight he meets one more unbeaten boxer in the latest test…
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Dillian Whyte and Manny Pacquiao, boxing?s great underdog and living miracle, deliver a night to remember
By Steve Bunce
On Saturday night in two rings built in different boxing worlds an eternal showman exposed one fighter in Las Vegas and in London the heavyweight that time forgot rumbled on like a…
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Manny Pacquiao vs Keith Thurman: Filipino aims to defy sense once more and avoid bad ending to the Pacman story
By Steve Bunce
Manny Pacquiao left home because his father cooked his beloved dog to feed his hungry family and Keith Thurman left boxing to walk through the Himalayan wilderness in search of the snow…
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Canelo Alvarez vs Daniel Jacobs: Mexican proves efficient in victory but falls short on explosiveness
By Steve Bunce
Some expected a brawl, others a controversy and when it was over and Canelo Alvarez had his hands raised there was just praise, acceptance and a shrug from Danny Jacobs at the…
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Terence Crawford vs Amir Khan: A throwback to the old days, Crawford is on the path to joining the greats
By Steve Bunce
Terence Crawford knew that he would have to make it on his own, take some risks in fights he was meant to lose and defy the familiar odds as a shooting victim…
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Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch a fun fight to infuriate the purists and sucker the curious
By Steve Bunce
Floyd Mayweather and his merry gang of global travellers will have to settle for the fakery of a Las Vegas pyramid, Eiffel Tower and a shrunken Bridge of Sighs as the fighter…
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Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will regret not fighting each other, says Lennox Lewis
By Steve Bunce
Lennox Lewis believes Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will regret not fighting each other for the rest of their lives if they fail to agree terms for a massive unification showdown. The…
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Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker: Their press conference lacked fireworks, but had plenty of lurking menace
By Steve Bunce
There was a definite tension, even a nasty edge, when Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker finally sat down together in January to discuss their upcoming heavyweight title fight. Joshua wanted to put…
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Vasyl Lomachenko vs Guillermo Rigondeaux is one of the purest boxing matches ever staged – cherish it
By Steve Bunce
One man became the most expensive smuggled cargo in the world, the other is simply untouchable inside a boxing ring and this weekend in the basement at Madison Square Garden they meet…
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Canelo vs Golovkin is a perfect 50-50 contest and truly a fight of the decade
By Steve Bunce
Long before they became famous as boxers, rich beyond their dreams and viewed with admiration by everybody in the business, both Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez were tiny scrappers in two very…
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Floyd Mayweather was so bad he genuinely ran risk of losing to Conor McGregor – it is a relief he is now retired
By Steve Bunce
As expected there were no excuses at midnight on Saturday when Conor McGregor arrived back in the transformed ring to try and detail his disappointment under the close gaze once again of…