Author: John Dennen

“I had just one chance – boxing.”To quote his hero Wladimir Klitschko, for Serhii Bohachuk failure was not an option. The Ukrainian was born in Vinnytsia and by his own admission his youth was a struggle. “I had a hard childhood. I didn’t have money, I didn’t have nothing,” Bohachuk told Sky Sports.Then he saw Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko. Their example opened his mind. “My favourite boxers were the brothers Klitschko. When I was young I followed the brothers Klitschko and I wanted to be like them,” he explained. “I wanted to be a champion. And they’re from Ukraine and…

Sam Gilley puts a nightmare year behind him when he steps up to middleweight to fight Aston Brown in Glasgow on Friday.Gilley, a former Commonwealth champion, drew with Gideon Onyenani last July and then came close to winning the British super-welterweight title only to suffer a unanimous decision defeat to Ishmael Davis. To compound his misery that loss came on an undercard at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the home of the football club he supports. “I still think I won both fights. I just had a [rubbish] year. It taught me a lot of lessons,” Gilley told Sky Sports. “It…

Tyson Fury has demanded that Anthony Joshua accept his challenge and fight him next.Fury revealed that he has signed for the all-British mega-fight, but that AJ, his great rival, is yet to agree to their heavyweight showdown. “I don’t want to put no deadlines on it,” Fury declared. “He either wants to do it or he doesn’t. “Now or never.”Ever since Fury first became a world champion, back in 2015, and Anthony Joshua rocketed through the professional ranks after his Olympic triumph at London 2012, the clamour to see the two finally square off has only grown. Over the years…

Ellie Scotney stands to write her own chapter in British boxing history on Sunday night.If she beats Mayelli Flores to unify the WBA, WBO, WBC and IBF super-bantamweight titles, she will become Britain’s youngest undisputed world champion in the four-belt era. Her trainer Shane McGuigan is not only backing Scotney to be victorious when she fights Flores at Kensington’s Olympia, live on Sky Sports tonight, but considers there to be far more to come from her yet. “If you want my honest opinion, I want her to be an undisputed three-weight world champion. That’s the next goal, that’s the next…