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Feature • Premium Ryan Garcia should have been on top of the world when he hit rock bottom. Thoughts of suicide and deteriorating mental health forced the young star out of boxing but now he’s back, writes Dan Rafael RISING lightweight star Ryan Garcia had just scored the biggest win of his career. It was

Letters • Premium Kash Farooq vs Luis Gerardo Castillo, 14 August 2021 (Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever been through but I’m now only looking forward,” says Kash Farooq I’VE KNOWN for over a month that I had to retire. It’s easier now than it was then, when

News Ethan Miller/Getty Images Outspoken UK trainer Ben Davison has shown both the good and bad of being a young man in an old man’s game, writes Elliot Worsell ONE of the great things about being young is that you are ambitious, full of both ideas and hope, and have yet to have your expectations

News • Premium Kash Farooq and Luis Gerardo Castillo, Weigh In ahead of their WBC International Bantamweight Silver Title Fight tomorrow night. 13 August 2021 Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing Kash Farooq Farooq announces retirement after taking advice from doctors following his annual medical, writes Matt Christie KASH FAROOQ, one of the brightest young

News Mairis Briedis and Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr are the latest boxers to offer their chins and bank details to YouTuber Jake Paul, writes Elliot Worsell IT was easy to pretend Jake Paul carried no relevance in the so-called real boxing world when so-called real boxers were united in turning the other cheek. However, with

News Picture By Ian Walton Matchroom Boxing Gifted Scottish bantamweight Kash Farooq has announced his retirement from boxing on medical grounds A shock to all in British boxing, it was announced at the weekend that Scottish bantamweight Kash Farooq has been forced to retire from the sport at the age of just 26. In a

Opinion • Premium Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Estrada-Gonzalez III the pick of an enticing DAZN 2022 schedule, writes George Gigney Broadcasts DAZN was the first major broadcaster to announce its schedule for the first quarter of 2022, and it set the bar fairly high with a few surprising matchups plus a bout that could end up being

Letters • Premium Lawrence Lustig There are some decent all-British fights in the offing for February and there are many others crying out to be made too As 2022 gets under way, we look at some of the best all-British matchups that can be made this calendar year. 1 Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua It

Issue • News • Premium Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty Images Deion Jumah endured a difficult year but is chasing a shot at the British cruiserweight title after getting his licence reinstated by the Board of Control, writes Elliot Worsell TWO years ago, Deion Jumah appeared to have at last cracked it. Following years in the wilderness, he

Boxers • Issue • Premium James Chance/Getty Images Rising middleweight Jordan Reynolds tells John Dennen how boxing has done wonders for him When and why you started boxing:I started boxing quite late, at 16 years old. A boxing trainer came to my gym, Graham Earl. He took me on the pads. My home life wasn’t

History • Issue • Premium Jackie Brown [left] and Johnny King in Blackpool Alex Daley tells the story of the ramshackle Collyhurst gym that produced three outstanding champions THERE’S a fairytale quality to the boxing trope of the kid from humble beginnings who hits the big-time after learning his craft in a rundown, dingy gym,

Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Tony Sims, one of the trainers of 2021, on life with Benn, Cash, Ryder Cordina, Cheeseman… and Covid “IT’S crazy isn’t it? Boxing’s a crazy world. I got Covid. I had both jabs and I didn’t get Covid until I had my jabs, then I had the

BN Investigates • Issue • Premium Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images An investigation into the ever increasing role social media plays in the boxing world reveals that a huge change in the sport we once knew is upon us. By Elliot Worsell IF once upon a time the ideal boxer was, like a child, one seen and

News Ian Walton/Matchroom Boxing Joshua set to reveal new training team as he prepares for Usyk return in the UK ANTHONY JOSHUA is set to face Oleksandr Usyk in his ‘make-or-break’ rematch at an outdoor stadium in the UK this April. Joshua was beaten convincingly on points by the Ukrainian southpaw at the Tottenham Hotspur

Opinion Jonathan Guidry has emerged in the WBA rankings. We ask why while also looking back on the life of Edwin Valero WHO is Jonathan Guidry? That’s the big question this week as the heavyweight emerges from obscurity to land in the latest WBA world rankings. With only one fight since 2019 – an eight

News A tribute to Mark Rowe. ‘To watch him box was a pleasure. It was mesmerising to watch him slip punches.’ FORMER British and Commonwealth champion Mark Rowe passed away on December 27, 2021, at the age of 74. He was suffering from dementia. His father, Bill Rowe, was a wildly successful pig farmer, a

Issue • News • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Elliot Worsell catches up with Macauley McGowan, who is set to take his place in a growing line of Britons who have tackled Sergio Martínez IF, in some parallel universe, Manchester’s Macauley McGowan ends up in the Mastermind chair and not the boxing ring, there’s every chance his

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Matt Christie on the warnings, lessons and hopes for the sport of boxing THE infrastructure of boxing, or lack of, can drive us to the edge of despair on a daily basis. The inconsistent rules, the unfathomable officiating decisions, the tawdry belts, the nonsensical rankings and