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Bunce Diaries • Premium Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) I could see the old Joshua this week in Jeddah, says Steve Bunce A LONG way from the Shangri-La hotel in Jeddah there was a night when the referee had to pull Anthony Joshua off Dillian Whyte. That was in a

Letters • Premium Julian Finney/Getty Images Whether he truly plans to stay ‘retired’ is another matter entirely, writes George Gigney AS WE entered fight week for the highly-anticipated rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua, it was Tyson Fury who had grabbed the headlines. The undefeated Mancunian took to social media to “officially” announce that

Letters • Premium George Groves (R) and Callum Smith fought at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on September 28, 2018. (PAMER HILABI / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMER HILABI/AFP via Getty Images) I’ll never forget being in Jeddah and I suspect Joshua won’t either, says George Groves IT’S a strange

Feature • Premium Steve Hunt investigates why Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier, two heavyweight greats, never fought and wonders what would have occurred if they had December 10, 1968 ON A WINTER’S night at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Joe Frazier, world heavyweight champion as recognised by the New York State Athletic Commission, defended his title

News • Premium Don King and Daniel Dubois Why the heavyweight is filing a lawsuit against the ageing promoter, by Kurt Emhoff DANIEL DUBOIS has been forced to bring a lawsuit against Don King Productions, Inc (DKP) in the state of Florida in order to get paid for his WBA-sanctioned bout with Trevor Bryan. The

News Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn attend a press conference at Glaziers Hall on August 12, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Leigh Dawney/Getty Images) Benn and Eubank Jnr begin training for their huge showdown but, for one of them, a crucial component has gone missing, writes Declan Taylor CHRIS EUBANK JNR’s training camp

Letters • Premium Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua at a press conference to announce their August 20 rematch in Saudi Arabia (Picture: Mark Robinson) This week’s panellists were asked to predict a winner in Saturday’s heavyweight fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua Chris Billam-Smith (European cruiserweight champion) Robert Garcia could be beneficial to AJ

Letters • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Ahead of their rematch this weekend, we look at the best wins registered by both Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua 1 Usyk UD 12 Anthony Joshua While a dominant and special cruiserweight, the jury was out on Usyk as a heavyweight until the night in 2021 when he entered

Letters • Premium This week’s panellists were asked to name their number one heavyweight fight involving a British boxer Chris Billam-Smith (European cruiserweight champion) I’d probably go with one containing two British fighters and that’s Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno. It was a great fight between two great jabbers; a high energy fight with bragging

News Chris Eubank Jnr (left) and Conor Benn (right) meet at a press conference to announce their October 8 fight (Photo by Leigh Dawney/Getty Images) With his sights set on winning a world middleweight title, Chris Eubank Jnr says his career is over if he can’t get past Conor Benn on October 8, writes Declan

News • Premium Lawrence Lustig/Boxxer Inspired by the success of her sister, Nikita Parris, and the Lionesses, Natasha Jonas sets her sights on a massive fight in Liverpool on September 3 LIVERPOOL’S Natasha Jonas has spent much of the summer multi-tasking, a skill, as a parent, she has presumably by now almost mastered. In recent

News Fury on his throne (Julian Finney/Getty Images) New research somehow reveals the Internet’s most “loved” and “hated” boxers, writes Elliot Worsell ORDINARILY you would receive an email titled “Jake Paul is ranked as the most hated boxer on the Internet” and treat it with the disdain it deserves, ignoring if not deleting it altogether.

Feature • Premium Jake Paul and Hasim Rahman Jnr were destined never to fight According to Madison Square Garden, Jake Paul vs Hasim Rahman Jnr would have been the 1,750th fight card held at the fabled arena. It’s safe to say that when Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali plied their

Feature • Premium Bobby Goodman Meet Bobby Goodman who, in his seven decades in boxing, ran with Marcel Cerdan, made friends with Joe Louis, worked alongside Muhammad Ali and became a Hall of Famer BOBBY GOODMAN, 82, is now retired from boxing, but when he sits in his home in Mays Landing, New Jersey, there

Bunce Diaries • Premium Stephen Zimba (blue) of Team Zambia competes against Ioan Croft (red) of Team Wales during the Men’s Boxing Over 63.5kg-67kg (Welterweight) gold medal bout (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Getty Images) Steve Bunce reflects on a successful 2022 Commonwealth Games Kerry Davis lost a fight she should have won and was walking through

Editor’s letter • Premium Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker alongside promoter Frank Warren As well as it being a decent heavyweight fight, the September 24 match between Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker could be a positive sign of things to come, writes Matt Christie THERE is plenty that we, as boxing fans, should be grateful

News • Opinion Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester on March 20, 2014 (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images) Whether it’s genuine or a private joke, Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora are teasing the possibility of the most pointless trilogy of all time, writes Elliot Worsell THE last time Tyson Fury and

News • Premium Saul’ Canelo’ Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol alongside WBA president Gilberto Mendoza (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Potential showdown between WBA and ABC over bribery for ratings, writes Kurt Emhoff THE month of July saw the WBA facing claims on two fronts of taking bribes from promoters in exchange for rating their fighters.