World Boxing News 2010-2013

Phil D. Jay  WBN Editor All clear needed for Roy Jones Jr. grudge match Former world champion Steve Collins is to undergo medical examinations to evaluate whether his is up to the task of making a boxing comeback at the age of 48 - following 15-years plus out of the ring. The rugged Irishman, who reigned as a two-weight world title holder between 1995 and 1997 before retiring, is contemplating a spectacular return to face the one man who he feels avoided him throughout his career – Roy Jones Jr. The two have both accepted the contest, as exclusively revealed by WBN’s Frank Stea on December 6th and 8th of last year, and could now begin negotiations if Collins is passed fit by doctors in the near future, as the ‘Celtic Warrior’ explained to talkSPORT today. “I’d love the fight to be in the UK but there is interest from Dubai, Russia, China. Dubai looks the favourite, but we’ll have to see where the offers come from,” Collins told Richard Keys and Andy ...

Frank Stea Senior Reporter Recently World Boxing News had the honor to speak to former 2 division world champion “The Celtic Warrior” Steve Collins.  Collins who has been retired since 1997 had expressed his disdain towards fellow all-time great Roy Jones Jr. Collins told WBN that he would come out of retirement after fifteen years to face Jones if he were to accept. Less than 24 hours after the story broke, Roy Jones was interviewed in response to Collins and told the outlet that he accepts Collins’ challenge and to let him know when and where. Collins recently recent contacted WBN via email in response to Roy Jones’ acceptance. “If Roy Jones thinks that I have gone soft being out of the ring so long he is making a big mistake," Collins told World Boxing News. "Roy Jones avoided me when I was at my best.  He is fooling himself if he thinks it’s safe to mouth off now. Google Roy Jones v Fraser in Pennsicola and you will see me in the ring challenging him a...

Frank Stea Senior Reporter Irish ring legend and former WBO middleweight and super middleweight world champion Steve Collins recently made headlines on WBN for being appointed the new President of the Malta Boxing Commission. Since retiring as world champion in 1997, Collins made appearances on the big screen and as a television pundit, but mainly stayed away from the spotlight as far as boxing was  concerned. Now, as he readies himself to tackle his new position as the head of Maltese boxing outside of the ring, Collins spoke on the one fight that he felt truly eluded his historic career inside of the ring. “I was very happy with my boxing career but there was one thing I wished for and chased for a very long time,” Collins told World Boxing News. “When Roy Jones was at his best and I was at my best, we were the two best super middleweights in the world. I had beaten Eubank, Benn and all these guys and Roy had beaten James Toney and these other guys in the U.S. “My argument wa...