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Opinion 40 years ago we had one of the greatest fights of all time, Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns, and this weekend we had the worst: Belfort-Holyfield FORTY years ago we had one of the greatest fights of all time, Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns, and this weekend we had the worst: Vitor Belfort-Evander Holyfield. Matt Christie

Issue • News • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing British boxing’s latest Cinderella Man, Maxi Hughes speaks to Elliot Worsell MAXI HUGHES didn’t know when his time was going to come. All he knew was that it was going to one day come and that he would have to remain patient and improving until that day

Opinion To help wash away the image of a 58-year-old Evander Holyfield being destroyed inside a round by a mixed martial artist, here are 10 of his best wins MIKE TYSON IIf it wasn’t for James “Buster” Douglas upsetting Mike Tyson, this would be considered THE Mike Tyson upset. Regardless, Holyfield bullied the bully for

History Sugar Ray Leonard overcomes points deficit to stop Thomas Hearns in epic battle SUGAR RAY LEONARD w rsf 14 THOMAS HEARNSSeptember 16, 1981; Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV IN 1981, Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard produced an exhibition – or should we say a lesson – of what happens when two great fighters

News Matt Christie pays tribute to 1964 Olympian Brian Packer FIFTY-SEVEN years before Team GB excelled at the Tokyo Olympics, Brian Packer represented his country at the 1964 Games in the very same city. The world was different then, so too the sport of boxing that Packer thought long and hard about giving up, so

Issue • News • Premium Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Ronnie Davies remains a crucial component of the Chris Eubank Jr business as he prepares to welcome Roy Jones Jnr to the Hove gym, writes Matt Christie ROY JONES JNR was due to arrive in Hove on Tuesday (September 14) to put the final touches to Chris

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images The sport that stages events like the Evander Holyfield show is on the brink of a catastrophe that will not only kill a boxer, it will kill boxing, writes Matt Christie EXHIBITION can mean different things. It can mean a public display of items of interest.

Issue • Opinion • Premium Holyfield getting bashed up at the age of 58 made for depressing viewing, writes George Gigney as he reviews a busy weekend of live broadcasting BOXING has a fairly extensive history with freak shows, but in recent years they’ve come thick and fast. Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor. The Paul

Issue • Premium • Reports Queensberry It’s tough going but Louie Lynn comes through, writes Daniel Herbert HALL of Fame promoter Frank Warren staged the first of his “Prospects” shows at the Copper Box Arena and saw all his hopefuls win, although the main event proved much harder for Louie Lynn than the straightforward victories

Issue • Premium • Reports Mikey Williams/Top Rank Oscar Valdez beats Robson Conceicao but surely the fight should not have occurred, writes Jack Hirsch YOU can put all the drug-testing measures in place but they are utterly useless unless strict penalties are enforced. Without punishment, the end result is nothing more than a facade, with

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Anyone who shared a ring with Ron Lyle remembered it… and not always fondly, writes Steve Bunce RON LYLE died 10 years ago and left behind his fair share of memories and myths. Lyle was a guest once on a show I did on BBC London,

Issue • Premium • Reports CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images The woeful and dangerous Vitor Belfort vs Evander Holyfield card is even worse than we feared, writes Elliot Worsell THE key is to try not to care. Don’t care to watch it and don’t care about the wellbeing of the fighters participating, either. It’s easier that way.

Opinion Getty Images Thomas Gerbasi reviews Patrick Connor’s new book on the demise of Oscar Bonavena EVEN as one of the most visible heavyweight contenders of the division’s golden age in the 1960s and ‘70s, Oscar Bonavena always had an air of mystery around him. That aura only got more mysterious when he was shot

News Anthony Joshua responds to Fury, discusses Holyfield’s comeback and recognises threat from Usyk BRACE yourselves for another story about Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury wanting to fight each other but not actually fighting each other. Days after Tyson Fury indicated he would like to fight Anthony Joshua twice next year, the latter agreed when

News IT’S not the welterweight fight we want to see happen but it’s preferable to most of the ‘fights’ we are seeing taking place in boxing today. The fight in question is Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter, which, according to promoter Bob Arum, could be announced officially as early as next week. That seems as

History • Premium Eugene Corri was one of the most distinctive and important figures in early 20th-century British boxing, but endured a dramatic fall from grace outside the ring You’ll see Eugene Corri in footage shot at the National Sporting Club (NSC) in London’s Covent Garden, the HQ of British boxing from 1891 to the

Letters • Premium De La Hoya is long past his fighting best 1 Julio Cesar Chavez I Although De La Hoya fought a faded Chavez not once but twice in his career, it was their first fight, in June 1996, which announced Oscar as the new star of American boxing. A fourth-round stoppage also landed

News THERE was some hope, albeit only a glimmer, that Oscar De La Hoya being struck down by COVID-19 ahead of his proposed comeback fight against mixed martial artist Vitor Belfort on September 11 would act as the wake-up call he needed to see sense and scrap the idea of a comeback altogether. Any chance