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Opinion Matt Christie examines Boxing News readers’ choices for the best fights to watch from the last five decades 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 only one – fight from each of the
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Feature • Issue • Premium Denver Post via Getty Images Light-heavyweight contender James Scott became a contender while serving time in Rahway prison, Ferdie Pacheco called it the ‘boxing university’ and Bob Hatrak, the prison warden, tells Tris Dixon the full story YOU would imagine that if an imprisoned boxer became a leading contender by
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Feature • Issue • Premium Queensberry Promotions James Cook MBE on the transformation of Anthony Yarde, his relationship with Tunde Ajayi, the boost their triumph has given to his beloved Pedro Youth Club and his advice for Lyndon Arthur. By Melanie Lloyd AS the opening bell rang to kick off the eagerly anticipated rematch between
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Feature • Issue • Premium The deaths of four family members was quickly followed by depression that Anthony Yarde tried to ignore. It’s only now, 12 months later, that the light-heavyweight can start to understand the consequences of his heartache, writes Elliot Worsell IT WOULD seem glib and perhaps cruel to define Anthony Yarde’s past
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Opinion With the domestic scene thriving now, we take a look at some of the other British light-heavyweights to have flown the flag 1. Joe CalzagheMore famous for his super-middleweight exploits, Calzaghe dipped his toes in light-heavyweight waters in 2008 to outpoint division number one Bernard Hopkins and a faded Roy Jones Jnr. 2. John
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Feature • Issue • Premium Getty Images Matt Bozeat counts down the greatest rounds in boxing history from 50 to one 50. DENNIS ANDRIES vs JEFF HARDING IIISeptember 11, 1991Round 11These granite-tough light-heavyweights slugged it out for 31 rounds over three fights and this may have been the best of them, a round that left
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History • Issue • Premium Philipp Kester/ullstein bild/Getty Images Stanely Ketchel either agreed to an authentic finish or betrayed Jack Johnson halfway through their swindle. Carlos Acevedo tells the story AFTER it was all over, after heavyweight champion Jack Johnson had left Stanley Ketchel horizontal, seemingly lifeless, on the canvas, a few teeth newly dislodged;
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History • Issue • Premium Roy Chaplin Terry Lawless certainly knew how to produce world-class fighters, writes Miles Templeton WHAT a fantastic set of fighters there are in this week’s photo. You can say what you like about Terry Lawless, and his connection with the Duff, Barrett and Levene promotional syndicate, but he certainly knew
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Feature • Issue • Premium Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc/Getty Images Everything that Nico Ali Walsh does in boxing is viewed through the prism of his grandfather’s legacy. By Thomas Hauser ON December 11, 21-year-old Nico Ali Walsh won a majority decision over Reyes Sanchez on the undercard of Vasiliy Lomachenko vs Richard Commey at Madison
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Amateur • Issue • Premium IBA The end is almost nigh for boxing as an Olympic sport but there is a lifeline, writes John Dennen. The rebranded AIBA must realise the severity of this situation before it’s too late AS things stand, boxing will drop out of the Olympic Games after Paris 2024. The International
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