The Australian welterweight hasn't concerned himself with wondering why he's been given a golden ticket against the Filipino great. But he has no doubt he can deliver in one of the biggest bouts ever held on these shores.

Meetings with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Sports Minister Curtis Pitt on Tuesday week will decide if a Brisbane boy bullied at school to take up boxing can fight the world's ruling welterweight champion in front of 50,000 people at Suncorp Stadium and become the world's new welterweight champion.

Arguably the biggest fight in Australian boxing history has been confirmed.

Brisbane is about to compete for Australian boxing's bout of the century when Brisbane's "fighting schoolteacher" Jeff Horn is confirmed on Wednesday as the contender against "legendary" world welterweight champ Manny Pacquiao in April 2017.

Danny Green has dismissed talk of a weight mismatch in his long-awaited boxing rematch with old foe Anthony Mundine.

With all the talk about ​Ronda Rousey's apparent lack of striking capabilities following her 48-second loss to women's bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes last month, it seems logical to ask one of her sparring partners: Did Rousey really have trouble grasping the basic concepts of boxing? Or was her poor showing at UFC 207 just a really ill-timed fluke?

Organisers of the April fight between Filipino icon Pacquiao and the rising Brisbane star Horn are set to start scouting Sydney venues as a bidding war looks set to erupt for one of the biggest bouts in Australian history.

Promoters of the Brisbane fighter head to the US next week to try and finalise a deal that would pit Horn against the Filipino icon, potentially amid the cauldron of Suncorp Stadium.

Seeing is believing in boxing but talks after underway to bring the great welterweight to Australia in April for a bout against Brisbane's rising star, 'The Hornet' Jeff Horn.

Ronda Rousey has broken her media silence to thank her fans and ask for "some time to reflect and think about the future" following her devastating loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 on Friday night.

Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton has revealed he tried to kill himself several times during his battle with depression.

Paul Gallen has called for Sonny Bill Williams to meet him in a super bout of football stars after the Cronulla hardman took his boxing record to 7-0.

Paul Gallen has taken his professional boxing record to 7-0 with an impressive knockout win over Ryan Carr-Ketu at Sydney's Southern Cross Group Stadium.

Ryan Carr-Ketu has kicked the hornet's nest ahead of his boxing bout with Paul Gallen, invoking the Cronulla peptide scandal.

Former world champion Bernard Hopkins' long and illustrious career ended in a brutal defeat when the 51-year-old light heavyweight was knocked out of the ring in the eighth round of his final fight in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Fledging boxing professional Tim Tszyu did a good job on his debut, but still has plenty to learn and will get further tuition in Russia, according to his famous father Kostya.

"There's a pattern here," he whispered as if revealing a secret. "The pattern is the DNA of who you are." Bernard Hopkins went on like this for more than an hour, sharing thoughts he formed over a Hall of Fame boxing career that has covered nearly three decades. Some of his lines were insightful, some humorous and some incomprehensible.

Brock Lesnar has been banned from the UFC for a year and had his victory over Sydney-based Mark Hunt overturned for doping.

Britain's Anthony Joshua set up an April showdown with veteran heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday after retaining his IBF world title with a clinical third-round stoppage of outclassed American Eric Molina in Manchester.