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Issue • News • Premium Huw Fairclough/Getty Images Chris Jenkins tells Elliot Worsell about a truly bizarre encounter IF someone had told you in August 2017 that Namibia’s Julius Indongo would, come 2022, be returning to the UK – the scene of his career-best win – to fight Wales’ Chris Jenkins as a fighter 1-4

Issue • Opinion • Premium Steve Lott made his mark in boxing history but is too often forgotten, writes Jack Hirsch JANUARY 17 was designated Martin Luther King day in the United States. It was also a day that had been eagerly anticipated by fans of actress Betty White, who in the end fell a

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Lewis Storey/Getty Images Steve Bunce on an extraordinary 24 hour period in the sport JUST before noon last Thursday I was in a studio finishing a 10-part podcast series on the Winter Olympics for the BBC. It was a mixture of the truly great, Jean-Claude Killy, the heroic, Philip

Sergio Martinez had drifted from Argentina to Spain before he ended up in England as an opponent for the fancied Richard Williams and a fight that changed his life, writes John Evans SERGIO MARTINEZ had had enough. Enough of the bullies who stole his childhood. Enough of the gangs and thieves who made life in the

Issue • News • Premium Boxing legend Joe Calzaghe is returning to the sport, but on the safe side of the ropes. He and Darren Barker talk about their new venture BRITISH boxing legend Joe Calzaghe is returning to the sport. He is launching a management agency, International Sports Group, in partnership with Darren Barker,

Issue • News • Premium Holly Stein/Allsport Claude Abrams pays tribute to the free-thinking Brian Hughes MBE, a man of value and principle I OWE a lot to Manchester boxing coach Brian Hughes, who passed away on January 25. He was 82. Brian and I go back over 35 years. There was probably no-one who influenced

Issue • Opinion • Premium Amanda Westcott/Showtime In his media review George Gigney considers the options being presented to Canelo Alvarez, Bob Arum courts controversy and more OFF the back of some good news involving Top Rank – the purse bids for Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte finally being settled, and breaking records at that

News Ilunga Makabu beats Thabiso Mchunu, and with a win over lowly Jonathan Guidry now Trevor Bryan claims he belongs in the mix with Fury, Joshua and Usyk ILUNGA MAKABU needed to hold on to his WBC cruiserweight belt to keep his dreams of fighting Canelo Alvarez alive. He did that when he outpointed Thabiso

22 years have passed since Mike Tyson created an unforgettable storm when he came to the UK amid objections from the media, the government and never-before-seen adulation from fans. Julius Francis was the proverbial sacrificial lamb served up to the monster and here, alongside trainer Mark Roe and promoter Frank Warren, he spoke to Declan

Feature Mikey Williams/Top Rank/Getty Images SugarHill Steward and Stitch Duran recall the incredible intensity of being in Tyson Fury’s corner. They spoke to John Dennen IT was a fight of extraordinary brutality. Even for a battle at the top end of heavyweight boxing, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder subjected one another to a degree of

News ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Queensberry and Top Rank win the purse bid for Tyson Fury’s heavyweight championship showdown with Dillian Whyte AFTER many delays and longer discussions, the purse bid for Tyson Fury versus Dillian Whyte, mandated by the WBC whose heavyweight belt Fury holds, went ahead on Friday. Queensberry and Top Rank, Fury’s UK

Alan Hubbard, who was ringside during the glorious 1970s heavyweight era, tells the story of the enduring grudge between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier THE first act in the historic trilogy starring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier was an epic drama which transfixed the world. New York was buzzing with anticipation and inside a packed

Boxers • Issue • Premium James Chance/Getty Images John Hedges will box on the February 27 O2 Arena show When and why you started boxing:My brother boxed, my dad boxed. I come from a fighting family. Favourite all-time fighter:It changes but I’d have to say Canelo Álvarez, for his inside and outside the ring performance.

History • Issue • Premium Getty Images Jack Hirsch examines the consequences and what ifs of some huge pivotal moments in boxing history BOXING’S best rivalry of the 1960s was the series of fights between Emile Griffith and Nino Benvenuti. Within the space of a year they boxed three times, all in New York, with

Opinion Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing With the world of boxing waiting to see what happens with Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte the Opening Bell podcast catches up with Eddie Hearn to get his view AS the world of boxing waited to see what happened with Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua and

News LUIS ROBAYO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Galal Yafai has signed with professional promoters Matchroom and he won’t be hanging about. In an exclusive interview he tells John Dennen why he wants to be fighting at world level in two years’ time GALAL YAFAI, the outstanding flyweight gold medallist from the Tokyo Olympics, is turning professional.

Opinion HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP/Getty Images Augusta hero Vernon Forrest, a former two-weight world champion, died tragically in 2009 at the age of just 38. He left, however, quite a legacy in the sport of boxing… 1. Shane Mosley IArguably one of the finest performances of the modern era, Forrest used his jab and right hand

History • Issue • Premium Sanctioning bodies and broken titles continue to infuriate and will for as long as they’re allowed to do as they please. Simon Euan-Smith examines the roots of the confusion to reveal some important lessons IN the late 1960s, the WBC and the WBA were the only two sanctioning bodies –