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2018 – A Year of Great Fights

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By Tyler “The Miracle Man” White

So far, 2018 has already been an excellent year for boxing fans. We’ve seen some really entertaining; 50/50 fights and we still have a load more to come before the year ends!

So far in 2018, we’ve already seen Lomachenko stop the incredibly talented Jorge Linares.

We also witnessed Deontay Wilder just about keep hold of his WBC World title, after a shootout with Luis Ortiz. Badou Jack took on Adonis Stevenson which ended in a draw and Gary Russell, JR. beat the young and talented Joseph Diaz.

Errol Spence, JR. proved his dominance in the welterweight division, by dominating former World Champion Lamont Peterson. Whilst Scott Quigg and Oscar Valdez went toe-to-toe in an absolute war for 12 rounds.

We also saw the end of David Haye’s professional career as he lost for the second time to Tony “Bomber” Bellew.

The aforementioned fights only consist of a few top level contests which we’ve had the pleasure of witnessing so far this year, but of course, we’ve also had all the excitement of the World Boxing Super Series.

The WBSS has seen George Groves dominate the Super Middleweight competition so far, taking Eubank, JR. apart in his semi-final and dislocating his shoulder in the process (which made for great entertainment).

Meanwhile Oleksandr Usyk went on to win and to dominate the Cruiserweight competition, securing the Muhammad Ali trophy by putting in a disciplined performance against the scarily powerful Murat Gassiev.

This high profile win and unification of the cruiserweight titles, has helped Usyk to set up a fight with Tony Bellew, which we can now add to our growing list of fights to look forward to this year.

So, after an exhilarating first half to the year, which has also just seen Kovalev suffer a stoppage defeat to Eleider Alvarez and the tricky Tevin Farmer win World honours, we still have so many more big fights to look forward to!

These massive fights include:
• The rematch between Canelo and Golovkin
• Joshua’s next World title defence against Alexander Povetkin
• Bellew Vs Usyk

And there is also a possibility of the following fights taking place by the end of the year:
• Amir Khan Vs Kell Brook
• Mikey Garcia Vs Lomachenko
• Tyson Fury Vs Deontay Wilder

With all of the fights we’ve witnessed so far this year and with all the fights that are potentially there to come, could this be one of the best years in recent boxing history that we’ve had?

Whatever the answer, we can certainly look forward to what’s to come in boxing over the next few months!

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