Billy Ward

After squeaking by Daniel Jacobs last month, it appears that Gennady Golovkin is on track to fight Billy Joe Saunders this summer in a match that would unify all four middleweight belts before he, assuming Golovkin wins, takes on Canelo Alvarez in the…

The defeat of Katie Taylor in her first fight in Rio brings boxing in a full circle. A week beginning with scandal has ended in disappointment as Paddy Barnes and Joe Ward failed to live up to expectations, Michael O'Reilly was sent home and is…

They are still the all-time motion-picture champs. Billy Hope, the fictional light heavyweight in Southpaw, presents not even a puncher's chance against the actual boxing lives of Ward and LaMotta as were memorably dramatized in, respectively, The…

The Australian Olympic boxers, tough young men used to pain, are devastated. "I'm absolutely gutted," boxing team captain Luke Jackson, 28, told The Daily Telegraph from Hobart. "Billy was a quiet, shy kid without a lot of confidence and in London I…