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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Amateur Boxwise is a development programme for young people that began in London and has grown rapidly. It’s also a source of funds for England Boxing clubs BOXWISE, a non-profit social enterprise, has grown rapidly. The organisation delivers 13-week courses based on boxing for young people to develop further skills and learning opportunities. It was
Feature • Issue • Premium A new, hi-tech mouthguard could be game-changing for boxing. John Dennen finds out more WHAT if you could know straightaway whether an athlete had a head injury? After sustaining an impact what if you could get an instant diagnosis of its potential for concussion? It would revolutionise contact sports. It
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
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
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
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
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
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;
Opinion Ethan Miller/Getty Images What would your wish for boxing be? Joe GallagherTop trainerGet rid of all fighters that have been caught taking illegal substances and banned. Ban them for life straightaway. Paul ReadyBoxing managerErrol Spence versus Terrence Crawford and Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua. Don’t care about what street you are on, get them
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
Boxers • Issue • Premium Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lisa Whiteside can box, and is handy with a firearm too When and why you started boxing:I just went for fitness. I Googled female boxers in the area and found a female boxer at Natbridge ABC. I think she won a national title
Feature • Issue • Premium Chris Hyde/Getty Images In his own words Malik Scott reveals what it was like to train Deontay Wilder, his role in one of the most exciting fights inh eavyweight history and explains why Tyson Fury has seen better days WHEN the whole world was saying ‘why did Deontay Wilder hire
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
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
Issue • News • Premium Matthew Pover/Matchroom Boxing Conor Benn knows next year could change his life. He spoke to John Dennen IF it were up to Conor Benn he would be going straight into a fight with Yordenis Ugás, the Cuban who ushered the great Manny Pacquiao into retirement in August and holds the
Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Matt Christie on the impossible decision facing Derek Chisora YOU nor I have the right to tell a grown man to stop fighting. Only a governing body, commissioner or doctor can do that. And even then, there will be other governing bodies, commissioners and doctors telling
Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Focus on Sport/Getty Images Tyrell Biggs is a cautionary tale that while Olympic gold might still be the most precious metal in the boxing game, but it’s not a shield, writes Steve Bunce AT ringside in Manchester a couple of British Olympians had a close and personal look at
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