| TOPDOG | Champion boxer maybe (3,3) |
| PETSIT | Attend to a boxer, maybe |
| PETSAT | Managed a boxer, maybe |
| PAIRUP | Young boxer maybe keeping cool for match |
| LAPDOG | Minion having round with boxer maybe |
| DOGNAP | Run off with a boxer, maybe? |
| HOTDOG | Fashionable boxer, maybe, gets some fast food (3,3) |
| DOGGED | Persistent boxer, maybe, starts to garner extra distinction (6) |
| EUBANK | Chris, boxer nicknamed 'Next Gen', born in 1989 and son of a former world champion boxer (6) |
| TUNNEY | Gene --, American world champion boxer (6) |
| SPENCE | Champion boxer Errol ___ Jr. |
| HATTON | Ricky ___, multiple world champion boxer (6) |
| JOSEPH | ... Parker, champion boxer (6) |
| CLONES | Small town in County Monaghan, Ireland, that is the birthplace of former featherweight world champion boxer Barry McGuigan (6) |
| CHAVEZ | Julio Cesar ....... six-time world champion boxer in three weight divisions (6) |
| LIONEL | First Aboriginal world champion boxer, in 1968, ... Rose (6) |
| SPEAK | Command to a boxer, maybe |
| PUP | Lightweight boxer, maybe? |
| SHOWDOG | Well-trained boxer, maybe |
| DOG | Shadow boxer, maybe |
