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History • Issue • Premium Matt Bozeat journeys back in time and examines 11 of the most memorable all-British heavyweight rivalries LEN HARVEY vs JACK PETERSEN (1933-36) HARVEY and Petersen were two of Britain’s most popular prizefighters of the 1930s. A pro at 12, Cornishman Harvey boxed at every weight from flyweight up to heavyweight

BN Investigates • Issue • Premium Boxing has continued at the top level in the face of a worldwide pandemic but promoters and fighters without TV contracts still face a long and arduous battle to remain in the sport, writes Elliot Worsell IT’S only natural to see men and women throwing punches on television during

Issue • News • Premium But Danny Jacobs moves on from his last fight, looking for victory over Gabriel Rosado to set himself up for bigger fights to come, writes John Dennen AFTER boxing both Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez, Daniel Jacobs could be forgiven for seeing Gabriel Rosado as a step down for him

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Without financial assistance the future of boxing is uncertain THE government last week published their Sport Winter Survival Package which announced plans to split £300m across ‘major spectator sports’ in England to ‘protect their immediate futures over the winter period.’ Boxing was not among the sports that will get

Feature • Premium Yes you can. John Dennen speaks to the authors of two new books about Muhammad Ali and what they reveal about the great man MUCH has been written about Muhammad Ali, the greatest figure in 20th century sport and possibly cultural life. Several books about him are indeed sportswriting classics (The Fight

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Steve Bunce on master snapper Charles Hoff THERE is a famous black and white picture by the great boxing photographer, Charles Hoff, of Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles exchanging left hooks. The photograph and nearly 40 others are collected in the book, The Fights: Photographs by Charles Hoff. It

Issue • Opinion • Premium As the price point for the Anthony Joshua vs Kubrat Pulev is in focus, as is the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones exhibition being on pay-per-view Broadcasts THOUGH there were a few shows over the weekend, the bigger news came from events that have yet to happen – Anthony Joshua’s upcoming heavyweight

Feature • Issue • Premium Thomas Sports Photography/Getty Images Matt Bozeat pays tribute to Greg Steene, the manager and matchmaker who guided Dennis Andries from oblivion to the top of the world GREG STEENE, who died last week aged 67, will be remembered for taking Dennis Andries from the scrapheap to the WBC light-heavyweight championship.

Fitness • Technique Tony Jeffries breaks down the boxing styles of Floyd Mayweather, Winky Wright, Gennady Golovkin and Naseem Hamed. And explains how to beat them What do Floyd Mayweather, Winky Wright, Gennady Golovkin and Prince Naseem Hamed all have in common? Easy right? All extraordinary fighters and world champions who made a real difference in

History Sub for a sub Bert Cooper drags Evander Holyfield into the trenches EVANDER HOLYFIELD w rsf 7 BERT COOPERNovember 23, 1991; The Omni, Atlanta, GAHOLYFIELD was originally set to defend his world heavyweight championship against Mike Tyson on November 8, 1991 before the former king pulled out with an injury.Sub Francesco Damiani then withdrew

Feature Alex Davidson/Getty Images The standout fighters on Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce’s list of victims 1. BERMANE STIVERNE Joe Joyce powered past Stiverne in six sessions to successfully retain the Commonwealth heavyweight crown in February last year. Stiverne had previously reigned as WBC champion from 2014 to 2015. 2. BRYANT JENNINGS In July 2019,

History • Premium Larry Braysher The Green Man was a place for both boxing luminaries and music stars BLACKHEATH – a quaint, affluent, relatively leafy part of south-east London – has no obvious boxing ties. From a sporting perspective it’s best known as the start point of the London Marathon and for housing the world’s

History Mike Tyson serves the spaghetti legs to Trevor Berbick MIKE TYSON w rsf 2 TREVOR BERBICKNovember 22, 1986; Hilton Hotel, Las VegasTYSON entered the ring against WBC heavyweight titlist Berbick after the lengthiest layoff of his professional career to date: A whopping two-and-a-half months. But he dominated from the start. Tyson (who would later

Premium • Reports Christopher Lee/Getty Images The improving Conor Benn impresses in his step-up fight against Sebastian Formella IN the biggest test of his career to date, rising welterweight Conor Benn, the son of British boxing legend Nigel Benn, faced off against Sebastian Formella at the SSE Arena in Wembley. The tough German, who went

Boxers • Premium Martin Rose/Getty Images Robin Krasniqi reveals the hardships he has had to overcome to get to where he is today When and why you started boxing: I started training at a little gym in Munich at the beginning of 2005 when I was 17. A few months later I watched some of

Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson In his own words Peter Fury reflects on training John and Tyson Fury and explains how Savanah Marshall restored his affection for boxing BOXING first became a part of my life back when I was a baby listening to my father speak about our relations, and it would

Feature • Issue • Premium In a year largely locked down by a global pandemic Maxi Hughes tells John Evans how he’s managed to break out EVERYBODY thought they knew Maxi Hughes. He was a good lad and a hard night’s work. A real pro who would always give his best but fall just short.

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Steven Bunce highlights a forgotten journalist who moved a young Frank Bruno towards stardom THIS is a story of a forgotten man in British boxing, a journalist, a fixer, a mixer and ducker and diver during a time of great change, conflict and hate in British rings. Al Hamilton