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News James Chance/Getty Images London cruiserweight Richard Riakporhe ends Fabio Turchi’s night with a vicious body shot in round two FOR the second fight running London cruiserweight Richard Riakporhe has solved a potential southpaw headache by folding an opponent in half to finish a fight just when it had started heating up. The last time

News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing New Zealand heavyweight Joseph Parker signs deal with Sky Sports, putting proposed fight with Joe Joyce in doubt IT wasn’t all that long ago we were being told New Zealand heavyweight Joseph Parker would be returning to UK soil in order to fight fellow jovial giant Joe Joyce at some point

Amateur • Premium There’s so much to admire about boxing. But there’s plenty to worry about too when it comes to the sport’s Olympic future, writes John Dennen BOXING NEWS is the oldest and greatest sports magazine in the world. I can say that now without accusations of bias because after 12 years or three

Premium • Preview Declan Taylor is in Miami to preview Daniel Dubois’ fight with Trevor Bryan MANY of Daniel Dubois’ formative years were spent watching old tapes of Mike Tyson which often contained an easily recognisable promoter with a shock of grey hair lurking in the background – or sometimes the foreground. Now the 24-year-old

News Don’t expect a competitive fight between Trevor Bryan and Daniel Dubois this weekend in Miami, warns Nathan Gorman IF you are currently ranked somewhere in the top 20 heavyweights in Great Britain there’s every chance you are good enough to take the WBA ‘regular’ heavyweight title from America’s Trevor Bryan. That’s according to former

Opinion Top Rank As Japan’s terrifying bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue adds yet another victim to his list of KO wins, Elliot Worsell takes a look at five potential opponents for the ‘Monster’ EARLIER this week in Saitama, Japan we saw the difference between a fighter three years better and a fighter three years older. It

Letters • Premium Action Images In celebration of both Larry Holmes and Devin Haney, this week’s panellists were asked to name their favourite jab in boxing history Wayne Alexander (Former European light-middleweight champion) The boxer that had the best jab in my eyes was former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. His jab was near perfect.

Feature • Premium How a toxic heavyweight rivalry became an enduring friendship IT WASN’T supposed to be like this. The racial divide was meant to play the fighters off against one another. The insults, the stirring, the hostilities, the privileged, the resentful and the overlooked were multiple sides of the same toxic coin. It wasn’t

News • Premium For Salford’s Marc Leach, the art of juggling a boxing career with full-time work and full-time parenting is one he has had to learn to master, writes Elliot Worsell FOR some boxers there is more at stake when fighting than there is for others. While the danger remains the same for all,

Letters • Premium Stan Meagher/Getty Images As Daniel Dubois looks to become the latest heavyweight from London to make his mark on the world stage, here are 10 other heavyweights born in the nation’s capital who did just that… 1 Lennox Lewis Born in West Ham, Lewis is a three-time world heavyweight champion and arguably

Letters • Premium Scott Heavey/Getty Images Following Joe Cordina’s stunning one-punch knockout of IBF super-featherweight champion Kenichi Ogawa, we asked this week’s panellists to name their favourite one-punch KO produced by a British boxer Wayne Alexander (Former European light-middleweight champion) The best one-punch knockout I’ve seen delivered by a British boxer happened when Pat Barrett

Amateur • Premium Clive Wood/England Boxing Jack Dryden and co impress at new Angel of the North Box Cup, writes John Dennen THE inaugural Angel of the North International Box Cup, the first even of its kind for the North East, was held from May 28-29 at the Rainton Arena. The event was organised by

Premium • Preview Two fascinating domestic fights top a competitive bill in Telford, writes Matt Bozeat THERE’S a good night of British title action in Telford on Saturday night (June 11). BT Sport take their cameras to the International Centre for a show that features a pair of 50/50 fights that are anticipated by the

Premium • Reports Mikey Williams/Top Rank Eric Armit watches Inoue blaze through old rival Donaire NAOYA INOUE blasted out old rival Nonito Donaire in less than five minutes to become the world champion at bantamweight. The stunning two-way violence of their first encounter, which Inoue won on points in 2019, was always unlikely to be replicated. So it

News Dereck Chisora and Kubrat Pulev will meet in a rematch few saw coming or indeed asked for on July 9 in London THE latest installment in the series ‘Rematches You Didn’t Want to See but You’re Going to Get Anyway’ will feature series regular Dereck Chisora taking on 2016 opponent Kubrat Pulev at London’s

Premium • Reports Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Brilliant Cordina starches Ogawa with one sizzling shot to prove he can punch after all, writes Gareth Jones from ringside JOE CORDINA became the 13th Welshman to lay claim to being world champion in front of 4,000 delirious fans, including seven of his predecessors, at a sold-out Motorpoint Arena

News Quinn Rooney/Getty Images American Devin Haney is the world’s best lightweight after outpointing George Kambosos Jnr over 12 rounds in Australia AFTER winning his first version of the ‘world’ title via an exchange of emails rather than punches, American lightweight Devin Haney tonight (June 4) proved himself a worthy champion by travelling to Australia

News Action Images/Adam Holt Wales’ Joe Cordina scored one of the best knockouts of the year to end the IBF super-featherweight title reign of Kenichi Ogawa tonight in Cardiff THEY say to look out for the quiet ones; the silent types; the dark horses. Yet nobody – nobody – could have foreseen Wales’ Joe Cordina,