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Editor’s letter • Premium WHERE to start? Do we open with the adverse drugs test and the subsequent failure of the system to act upon it, or should we talk about a whole fight card being moved from one US state to another to allow a 58-year-old man with a long history of absorbing punches
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Feature • Premium Gennady Golovkin (Al Bello/Getty Images) ‘GGG’ reinforced the view that he was the best middleweight in the world when he fought Curtis Stevens at Madison Square Garden TIMES SQUARE in New York City is often referred to as “the crossroads of the world.” On November 2, 2013, the crossroads moved nine blocks
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Opinion • Premium Mikey Williams/Top Rank This week’s panellists were asked to discuss Oscar Valdez and his failed drug test, as well as 58-year-old Evander Holyfield and his return to the ring Question: How do you feel about Oscar Valdez being cleared to fight this Friday despite failing a performance-enhancing drug test? Michael Conlan (featherweight
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News Christian Petersen/Getty Images Conor Benn has named the opponent he would like to fight next, writes Elliot Worsell LIKE some glutton for punishment who can’t get enough of a bad thing, Conor Benn wants to follow up his frustrating decision win over Adrian Granados last weekend with a fight against one of the most
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Bunce Diaries • Premium Mauricio Lara vs Josh Warrington, Featherweight Contest, Emerald Headingley Stadium, Leeds. 4 September 2021 Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing Steve Bunce looks back at a night of drama and disappointment in Leeds It was the finish people feared and after just six minutes of boxing the fight was over, the debate started
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Reports Mauricio Lara vs Josh Warrington, Featherweight Contest, Emerald Headingley Stadium, Leeds. 4 September 2021 Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing An unfortunate headbutt in round two of their rematch left hungry featherweights Josh Warrington and Mauricio Lara unsatisfied, writes Elliot Worsell IT was supposed to be the night Josh Warrington either slayed his demons or begrudgingly
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Feature • Premium Mark Robinson John Evans finds Josh Warrington in a lake, immersed in water, focusing solely on the man who threatens to drown his entire career when they meet in a rematch on Saturday night IT is a rainy Sunday in the hills above Manchester and Josh Warrington finds himself neck deep in
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Editor’s letter • Premium Dave Thompson/Matchroom In pursuing immediate Lara rematch, Josh Warrington has shown exactly what kind of man and fighter he is, writes Matt Christie JOSH WARRINGTON was waiting so patiently for the biggest fight of his life he didn’t see it coming. It arrived unexpectedly, quietly at first, inside an empty Wembley
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Opinion Dave Thompson/Matchroom Josh Warrington’s mountainous task is analysed alongside reflections on Anthony Yarde, Daniel Dubois, Diego Corrales and Sonny Liston MUCH of the discussion this week centres around Josh Warrington, his balls of steel, and the danger that awaits as he again takes on Mauricio Lara this weekend, just seven months after the Mexican
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Opinion We have a date and a location for Dillian Whyte’s next fight but are yet to receive the name of the opponent. Elliot Worsell looks at seven potential candidates IT was announced on Wednesday that Dillian Whyte, the heavyweight nearly man desperate to become The Man, will box again on October 30 at London’s
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Letters • News • Premium WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 03: Michael Stupart of Great Britain recieves treatment to a cut during his leightweight bout against Les Byfield of Great Britain at the Civic Hall on October 3, 2015 in Wolverhampton, England. (Photo by Ben Hoskins/Getty Images) Former boxer Michael Stupart is stuck in a vicious
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Letters • Opinion • Premium John Scully, Iran Barkley Ex-boxers in trouble should not be a secret, they need our help, says John Scully IT was a tremendous honour to be awarded the Humanitarian Award from the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame recently for the work I am doing for ex-boxers here in America.
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