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Boxers • Issue • Premium Hennessy Sports Paul Wheeler talks to Shakan Pitters, a man who loved the energy of Mike Tyson fights When and why you started boxing:I first started boxing at 22 years old when I was expecting my daughter. She gave me the drive to want to do well to set her

News Amanda Westcott/Showtime David Benavidez lost his title on the scales but remains unbeaten in the ring DAVID BENAVIDEZ failed to make weight on Friday, losing the WBC super-middleweight championship on the scales. But on Saturday (August 15) he maintained his unbeaten record when he chalked up the 23rd win of his career as he

News Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Jessica McCaskill takes surprise win over Cecilia Braekhus to become the undisputed champion JESSICA McCASKILL upset Cecilia Braekhus to become the undisputed welterweight champion on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was the first defeat of Braekhus’ decorated career. The Norwegian first became a world champion in 2009 and unified the WBC, WBA,

History The start of Joe Frazier’s legendary professional career JOE FRAZIER w rsf 1 WOODY GOSSAugust 16, 1965; Convention Hall, PhiladelphiaMOST boxing fans know the name Tunney Hunsaker, the unremarkable fighter who greeted Cassius Clay into the professional ranks but Woody Goss – Joe Frazier’s first unvested rival – isn’t nearly as famous. Frazier was

News Belfast stars Carl Frampton and Michael Conlan take wins at York Hall in London CARL FRAMPTON was in an unusual situation. He was making a lightweight debut against late replacement Darren Traynor, competing on a quiet, behind-closed-doors show at York Hall and boxing without his accustomed legion of supporters roaring him on. The size

Preview Cecilia Braekhus must beat Jessica McCaskill to stay on course for a showdown with Katie Taylor CECILIA BRAEKHUS has waited a long, long time for a truly defining fight. She’s 36-0 (9), she has unified titles, even achieving the impossible by managing to keep the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO happy at welterweight as

Opinion Esther Lin/Showtime The 10 best wins of Carl Frampton’s career LEO SANTA CRUZ (MD 12 – JUL 2016)Although he lost his rematch with Santa Cruz the following year, Frampton was victorious in their initial fight, which at that point was a clash of unbeatens. The win saw the Belfast boxer claim the WBA featherweight

Issue • Opinion • Premium Carlos Ortiz is living proof that legends of the sport are too often discarded as yesterday’s news, writes Jack Hirsch THIS summer I was on a WBC podcast. The panel was asked if there was one dream fight they could make which one would it be? No pun intended, but

Opinion Mikey Williams/Top Rank Michael Conlan, Carl Frampton and more on the second episode of the Opening Bell is available now Take a bow Natasha Jonas and Terri Harper! Alex Steedman and Matt Christie present the latest mix of boxing interviews, analysis and big fight predictions as they look back on the weekend, preview what

Harry Simon is still unbeaten but he’s no longer the man he was. Everything changed when the car he was driving in 2002 killed a baby and two other passengers. He talks to John Evans “ONE thing you should know,” there is a weight to Harry Simon’s voice. “Sometimes people ask me, ‘How are you,

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Natasha Jonas and Terri Harper should be championed for their ability, not their gender writes Matt Christie SOME Boxing News readers don’t like women’s boxing. That’s fair enough. Just last week we received a letter from a long-time subscriber who has decided not to renew their subscription because of

Matt Bozeat previews Carl Frampton’s and Michael Conlan’s fights this Saturday CARL FRAMPTON wants his name at the top of the list when the conversation turns to Ireland’s greatest ever boxer. To be sure of that, the 33-year-old believes he needs a world title at a third weight and it’s that thought that has kept

Issue • Premium • Preview Felix Cash vs Jason Welborn is another tasty-looking encounter atop the latest Matchroom Fight Camp, writes Matt Bozeat THE Ted Cheeseman-Sam Eggington war may be topped for action when Eddie Hearn promotes in the back garden of his family’s Essex mansion again on Friday (August 14). In the top-of-the-bill fight,

David Benavidez was a chubby teenager but sparring partners Gennady Golovkin and Kelly Pavlik recognised the talent of the future champion. He describes how he became a man I AM really settled in Seattle now but it hasn’t always been that way. For real long periods in my life all my family did was move

Opinion Mikaela Mayer, Stacey Copeland and a panel of boxing experts on the Harper-Jonas result and whether women’s boxing should go to three-minute rounds Was the draw between Terri Harper and Natasha Jonas a fair result? Mikaela MayerSuper-featherweight contenderI was watching the Harper fight the way a judge who was in favor of the champ

Chris Kempson appraises all of GB’s Olympic gold medallists BOXERS representing Great Britain have won eighteen gold medals (16 for the men and two for the women) between 1908 and 2016. Over half the gold medal supply (nine in fact) was earned in the years 1908, 1920 and 1924, when very few countries supplied boxers to

Amateur John Dennen on Emeralds boxing club and their fight to survive EMERALDS Boxing club in Chippenham is in a fight for survival. The gym is trying to weather the impact of the coronavirus, like all clubs across the country, and on top of that they now face losing their premises as their landlord plans

Carl Frampton tells John Dennen how he plans to close out his career and the final accomplishment he needs to achieve How has it been preparing for a fight in lockdown? How different has this training camp been from what you’d normally do? It hasn’t been that different if I’m being honest. I suppose, as