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Opinion Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions We ask the Boxing News panel what they’d say their highlight of 2021 has been Kalle SauerlandPromoterThat night between Wilder and Fury. A fight that makes any Rocky film look dull. Those are fights that get the mainstream into our sport and what we all love to watch. That’s not

Opinion Ethan Miller/Getty Images Our wishlist for fights for 2022 1. Terence Crawford vs Errol Spence JnrThis fight has headed lists like this for years and needs to happen before it is too late. Crawford and Spence are not just the two best welterweights in the world but two of the best pound-for-pound on the

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing It was a boxing year of extremes, excitement and deliverance, writes Steve Bunce IT seems that all the Savage wanted was a loss before Christmas and in one of the very last fights of the year he very nearly got his wish. Welcome to an alternative

Issue • Premium • Reports Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Oleksandr Usyk teaches Anthony Joshua and the sport a thing or two about boxing at the highest level, writes Matt Christie SOME will call it an upset while others will say he was exposed. It was just a bad night at the office, say his team. But

Feature Al Bello/Getty Images In 2007 Kelly Pavlik climbed off the canvas to dethrone Jermain Taylor in one of the most exciting middleweight title fights ever. By Thomas Hauser ON September 29, 2007, Kelly Pavlik challenged Jermain Taylor at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City for the middleweight championship of the world. Pavlik was born in

Opinion Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions The latest Opening Bell podcast covers the highs and lows of boxing in 2021 and looks ahead to the year to come ON the latest episode of the Boxing News podcast, we reflect on the highs – and lows – of the last 12 months. Both Alex Steedman and Matt

Issue • Premium • Reports Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions Luis Ortiz looked every bit his age against Charles Martin, but got the result he needed. Jack Hirsch was ringside in Florida FOR the sport of boxing, it was not New Year’s day, it was Saturday, the night reserved for PPV events, no matter how worthy,

Issue • Opinion • Premium Ed Mulholland/Matchroom In his media review George Gigney looks back on an eventful year for boxing broadcasting and wonders what’s in store for the next 12 months 2021 was a significant year for broadcasters in the UK and perhaps the biggest development we saw was Matchroom Boxing’s shift to streaming

History Steve Marcus/Getty Images After one of the greatest of all boxing careers, the only thing left for Manny Pacquiao was retirement following his loss in August to Yordenis Ugas, wrote Matt Christie THE eighth loss of his career did not feel like the other seven. Manny Pacquaio could justify, explain and then wipe those

Feature So far we have: Frazier-Ali I (seventies); Hagler-Hearns (eighties); Chavez-Taylor (nineties)… Matt Christie went back to the 2000s to reveal the fight you voted as your favourite THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one –

Feature BN readers voted Frazier-Ali I as their favourite fight of the seventies and Hagler-Hearns from the eighties. What’s their choice for best fights from the nineties? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one – and

News Ryan Hafey/PBC Tyson Fury versus Deontay Wilder wins the Boxing News 2021 event of the year award THE BOXING NEWS EVENT OF THE YEAR 2021 1. TYSON FURY-DEONTAY WILDER IIIThere were ‘bigger’ events, in terms of attendance levels, but the third contest between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder trumped the lot for worldwide interest.

News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Eddie Hearn is the Boxing News promoter of the year. Plus more in our 2021 review BOXING NEWS PROMOTER OF THE YEAR 2021- EDDIE HEARNTHE promoter a section of hardcore fans love to hate was unquestionably the hardest working promoter in 2021. Across 10 different countries, Hearn promoted or co-promoted 44

News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Kiko Martinez wins the prize for Boxing News comeback of the year. Plus Kamil Sokolowski is the journeyman of the year THE BOXING NEWS COMEBACK OF THE YEAR 2021 1. Kiko MartÍnezOkay, we know Kiko didn’t really go anywhere. But his return to the world rankings at the age of 35

Amateur • Issue • Premium Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Galal Yafai and Lauren Price are the male and female amateur boxers of 2021. John Dennen reviews the Olympic year BRITISH boxing has never had a year like 2021. It surely won’t again for another century. Amid a global pandemic, that for the first time in their

News Melina Pizano/Matchroom George Kambosos’ victory over Teofimo Lopez is the upset of 2021 UPSET OF THE YEAR 2021 1. GEORGE KAMBOSOS JNR w pts 12 TEÓFIMO LÓPEZIF anyone bar George Kambosos Jnr or his team tell you they knew the Aussie was going to beat Teófimo López be very, very suspicious of that person’s

News Al Bello/Getty Images Tyson Fury’s final punch to finish his epic rivalry with Deontay Wilder wins the 2021 knockout of the year award KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR 2021 1. TYSON FURY w ko 11 DEONTAY WILDERAfter 29 rounds, it had to end this way. It had to be clean, there could be no judging

Opinion Boxing News readers named the first Ali-Frazier contest as the best fight of the seventies, but what were your choices for the best fights of the 1980s? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one –