Don Robbie

Have YouTubers overtaken professional boxers? The influx of YouTubers and huge internet personalities turning their hand to boxing has caused quite a stir across both the sporting and social media landscapes.  You either love it or you hate it with millions of new eyes on the sport, but many have suggested that the rapid rise to ‘professionalism’ of some fighters is potentially degrading to the sport.  Whether you are more of a Logan Paul man or a Floyd Mayweather follower, there is undoubtedly a debate to be had.  Yes  Quite simply, the numbers do not lie.  If we take it back to the initial stages of YouTube boxing, Logan Paul’s first contest against British star KSI was billed as the “biggest internet event in history”.  And the momentum has hardly halted, Paul somehow ended up in a ring alongside undefeated legend Money Mayweather himself.  But in the technological age we live in, YouTubers, TikTokers and the like are the people capturing the imagin...

Where does Canelo Alvarez rank in the pantheon of fighters?  Canelo Alvarez is the boxer on everyone’s lips after his history-making win over Caleb Plant last weekend. The Mexican brawler TKO’d his opponent in the 11th round to become the first-ever undisputed super middleweight world champion.  That is a feat that not even the undefeated Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather, the only man to beat Canelo, could manage. This victory means Canelo is firmly in the conversation when it comes to discussing who is the greatest super middleweight boxer of all time. After getting Plant out of the ring at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the 31-year-old added the scalp of a 17th world champion to his fighting CV. Canelo has won 57 of his 60 fights, two draws accompanying that 2013 loss to Mayweather when he was just 23. Mayweather saw off 22 world champions in his glittering and mega rich career to lay claim to leave most regarding him as the division’s GOAT. Canelo has won four world title bouts...