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Feature Al Bello/Getty Images ‘Tough fight? It was easy!’ roars Floyd Mayweather IT was the perfect storm of contrasting fighting styles and of personalities and backgrounds, built on one’s status as the finest of their era, and another then seen as his greatest threat. More than a decade has passed since Ricky Hatton’s fight with

Issue • Opinion • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing In his own words Chris Algieri explains why Conor Benn in Liverpool will be a special fight WHAT kind of fights excite me? What kind of opportunities, what kind of challenges? I’ve made a career of fighting tough fights and fighting tough guys and never turning anyone

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Al Bello/Getty Images Faint hopes of Tyson Fury facing Oleksandr Usyk look they’ll have to be abandoned for the time being. Matt Christie considers the implications for the heavyweight division and the problems of the rematch clause TYSON FURY, the world heavyweight champion, has been ordered by the WBC

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Attending the national amateur championships reminds me what a wonderful sport this is, writes Steve Bunce THE man in the blazer was once handed 1,000 dollars at a tournament in Cuba by a big Russian, the guy with the ponytail is a national hero for stopping a suicide, the

Issue • Opinion • Premium Alex Pantling/Getty Images Skeete didn’t recover from flagrant illegal blows. The Hamzah Sheeraz foul should have been called, writes George Gigney as he examines the weekend’s boxing coverage IT was not a particularly successful night for the BT Sport broadcast team on Saturday night. The Queensbury Promotions card at the

Feature • Issue • Premium Steve Marcus/Getty Images Prior to fighting Sergey Kovalev, Canelo Álvarez observed, ‘It’s a challenge. But I won’t know how big a challenge until I get in the ring with him.’ By Thomas Hauser ON November 2, 2019, Canelo Álvarez and Sergey Kovalev met in the ring at the MGM Grand

Amateur Andy Chubb/England Boxing Plenty of upsets light up the semi-finals and quarterfinals of the National Amateur championships. Matt Bozeat reports from Cannock TOP seed Ramtin Musah had back-to-back wins over a pair of England internationals at Chase Leisure Centre, December 4-5, to reach the middleweight final of the National Amateur Championships. In the last

History • Issue • Premium From staging Scotland’s first British and European title fight to setting attendance records, Nat Dresner made remarkable strides in his six years as a promoter, writes Alex Daley TODAY, Glasgow is widely seen as the spiritual home of Scottish boxing, but in the 1920s, when the sport first flourished north

News Alex Pantling/Getty Images Anthony Yarde stops Lyndon Arthur inside four rounds at the Copper Box in Stratford ANTHONY YARDE secured an extraordinary revenge win over Lyndon Arthur at the Copper Box in London on Saturday (December 4). Arthur had won their first bout in style last year, relying on his jab after injuring his

Issue • Premium • Preview Isaac Cruz steps up for a Sunday showdown with Gervonta Davis, writes John Dennen ISAAC CRUZ was not expecting the summons. Four weeks out, he got the call to step into a Showtime pay-per-view against Gervonta Davis this Sunday (December 5) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Given Davis’

News Gennady Golovkin and Jerwin Ancajas were due to box in Japan later this month but both of their fights have been postponed PRECAUTIONS against the new Omicron strain of the coronavirus have forced the postponement of two major fights that were set to take place in Japan this month. Gennady Golovkin was due to

Amateur WABA Gareth Jones on the boxers who impressed in the finals of the Welsh Elite championships The Croft twins from Cardigan celebrated their last weekend as teenagers with a Welsh Elite double before an enthusiastic crowd at the Sport Wales National Centre on November 26, the first such competition since 2019. Southpaw Ioan, fresh

Amateur Andy Chubb/England Boxing Dan Toward versus Ramtin Musah will be one of the bouts to watch in the England Boxing Elite championships. John Dennen watched the tournament progress to the quarter-final stage THE national Elite championships reached the pre quarter-final stage at the Spiceball leisure centre in Banbury on November 28. At 75kgs Dan

Issue • Premium • Preview Devin Haney faces his next examination when he boxes Joseph Diaz in Las Vegas on Saturday, writes John Dennen JOSEPH DIAZ was meant to be fighting Ryan García. But with a hand injury ruling out the Golden Boy star it was natural to put him in with Matchroom’s rising American

Opinion Lawrence Lustig/Boxxer It’s coming much too late, but Amir Khan and Kell Brook will finally settle their differences in 2022. Here are their 10 best wins… 1. Kell Brook vs Shawn PorterDespite his potential, few expected Brook to go to America and usurp undefeated IBF welterweight belt-holder Porter in 2015, but that is exactly

Opinion We ask the Boxing News panel how they see Saturday’s Lyndon Arthur vs Anthony Yarde rematch going Jon ThaxtonBritish and European championTough to call. I’m going to go for Arthur again. He won the first time, it was close. But I think Arthur just had his number, just had a bit too much and

Opinion Lawrence Lustig/Boxxer We ask the Boxing News panel about Amir Khan vs Kell Brook, whether it’s a case of better late than never or better never than too late Jon ThaxtonBritish and EBU championI’m glad it’s happening. Better late than never. I don’t think it’ll have the same impact which it would have had

Issue • Premium • Preview Warren Little/Getty Images The Frank Warren-promoted Lyndon Arthur vs Anthony Yarde rematch speaks highly of everyone involved, writes Matt Christie ANTHONY YARDE now claims that Lyndon Arthur never wanted a rematch. If true, that’s understandable: On December 5 last year, Arthur earned the right to move forward, not back, by