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News Earnie Shavers, 1944-2022. A tribute to one of the hardest hitters of them all EARNIE SHAVERS, one of the last man standing from the greatest of all heavyweight eras, has died at the age of 78. While it would be untrue to label Shavers solely as a slugger, it would be unfair to focus

Letters Luis Ortiz shadowboxes (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) This week’s panellists were asked to pick a winner in Saturday’s heavyweight encounter between Andy Ruiz and Luis Ortiz Joe Gallagher (Top trainer) I’m really looking forward to this. Ruiz ripped the title away from Anthony Joshua, then overfed himself for the rematch, and Ortiz is one of

Letters • Premium John Conteh alongside Muhammad Ali. Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images With a major show heading to Liverpool this weekend, we look at some of the best boxers to have emerged from that city… 1 John Conteh After winning British, Commonwealth and European light-heavyweight titles, Conteh reigned as WBC champion from 1974 to ’78,

Feature • Premium Light-heavyweights Burim Ahmeti and Ryan Hibbert fight at York Hall on February 21, 2020 (James Chance/Getty Images) Journeymen are crucial to both a rising boxer’s ring education and to a promoter’s balance sheet, but have boxing fans become sick and tired of mismatches? Oliver Fennell investigates. NAEEM ALI. Dale Arrowsmith. Taka Bembere.

Editor’s letter • Premium KSI (R) punches Luis Pineda (L) during their cruiserweight main event at The O2 Arena on August 27 (Luke Walker/Getty Images) In the business of selling tickets and pay-per-views, is there much difference between a YouTuber dominating a “no-hoper” and a prospect doing the same thing? asks Matt Christie THERE was

Feature • Premium George Foreman with five opponents Forty-seven years before KSI claimed he became the first to fight more than one opponent on the same night, George Foreman fought, and beat, five. Declan Warrington recounts perhaps the strangest happening of one of the most remarkable careers of all “I WAS trying to get back

Letters • Premium Duke McKenzie was last week honoured with a plaque outside the house in which he grew up, courtesy of Ringside Charitable Trust and the British Boxing Hall of Fame IT was about a week ago I found out that I was being honoured with a plaque outside the house I grew up

News Gilberto Ramirez (Golden Boy) Dmitry Bivol’s reward for beating Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in May will be a November 5 fight against 44-0 Gilberto Ramirez in Abu Dhabi, writes Elliot Worsell FOR a while now we have been wondering what the reward for beating Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez looks like in real, tangible terms and now,

Bunce Diaries • Premium Christy Martin salutes the crowd before her fight against Laila Ali on August 23, 2003 at Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi (Chris Graythen/Getty Images) There was a time not long ago when women’s boxing was in the wilderness, writes Steve Bunce LUCIA RIJKER was lost in boxing’s wilderness years at

Letters KSI (R) punches Luis Pineda (L) during their cruiserweight main event at The O2 Arena on August 27 (Luke Walker/Getty Images) This week’s panellists were asked to discuss the growing trend of YouTube influencers choosing to enter the boxing ring Joe Gallagher (Top trainer) What do you class as a YouTube fighter these days?

Feature • Premium Oleksandr Usyk lands on Anthony Joshua during their heavyweight fight at King Abdullah Sports City Arena on August 20, 2022 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Francois Nel/Getty Images) The fight, its setting and the implications for boxing, by Thomas Hauser BOXING is the most basic of all sports. Two men engage in a

Feature • Premium BROOKLYN, NY – 1980: A view inside Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by: The Ring Magazine via Getty Images) Tales of American trainers from yesteryear, by Josh Alan Friedman, the author of Tales of Times Square THEY don’t make old boxing coaches like they used to. The world knows them

News • Premium World Boxing Council (WBC) President Mauricio Sulaiman (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) Kurt Emhoff investigates the lack of an overarching governing body and identifies a solution IN MAURCIO SULAIMAN’S World Boxing Council (WBC) newsletter a few weeks ago, he brought up an interesting topic regarding governance in boxing vis-a-vis other sports. Sulaiman

History • Premium Johnny Summers and Freddie Welsh The introduction of the Lonsdale Belt coincided with the birth of Boxing News in 1909, writes Miles Templeton IN AUTUMN 1909, boxing in Great Britain changed for the better. Two unique institutions, both still around today, were introduced to the sporting public for the first time. The

Opinion Anthony Joshua has always found comfort in numbers (Francois Nel/Getty Images) The team behind Anthony Joshua received criticism for not protecting their fighter in the aftermath of his defeat against Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday. But what exactly could they have done? asks Elliot Worsell THE concept of “yes men” is not a new one,

Letters • Premium Dillian Whyte (R) nails Hastings Rassani during their bout at Liverpool Olympia on January 21, 2012 (Scott Heavey/Getty Images) Mickey Helliet, a manager, promoter and matchmaker, explains why matching ticket-sellers with journeymen is an essential part of the business I’M NOT saying these fights that are scored 40-36 are Rocky Balboa-Apollo Creed

Feature • Premium Spencer Oliver exchanges blows with Sergei Devakov during their European super-bantamweight title fight at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998. (John Gichigi/Allsport) The boxing careers of Spencer Oliver, Jerome Wilson and Gilbert Eastman all ended prematurely due to brain injuries. But their lives still had to go on, writes Elliot Worsell THERE

News Leigh Wood (Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing) All-action featherweight Leigh Wood will return to Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on September 24 in a fascinating fight against fellow big-hitter Mauricio Lara NOT content with putting his body through the ringer in pursuit of one “Fight of the Year” candidate this year, Nottingham featherweight Leigh Wood will look to