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Opinion UESLEI MARCELINO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Boxing was a revelation at the Olympic Games, all this and much more comes under discussion on the Opening Bell podcast BOXING was a revelation at the Olympic Games. John Dennen joins Alex Steedman and Matt Christie to reveal his Tokyo highlights, star performances and overall best boxer with

Opinion Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images Matt Christie on David Haye’s preposterous ‘comeback’ bout against Joe Fournier DAVID HAYE is coming back, but not making a comeback, when he takes on his long-time good friend, the allegedly filthy rich Joe Fournier, in an eight-rounder on September 11 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The meeting will

Opinion AFP via Getty Images What performances stand out in Olympic boxing history? Richie WoodhallOlympic medallistIt’s probably too broad a question but I’d give it to three people. You’ve got to give it to Laszlo Papp, Felix Savon and Teofilo Stevenson. Each won three Olympic golds over three Games. Because to win three golds at

Feature • Issue • Premium Thomas Hauser reviews Don Stradley’s new book, The War: Hagler-Hearns and Three Rounds for the Ages IT’S a line in boxing’s record book: April 15, 1985 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas – KO 3. Hagler-Hearns was marketed as “The Fight” and later

Feature • Issue • Premium Elliot Worsell catches up with Mahmoud Charr, the much-maligned ‘titlist’ with a hefty rap sheet, who unknowingly exposes the daft policies of the WBA while revealing the inner workings of his own mind IT could be argued there is no better embodiment of the current state of the heavyweight division

News Errol Spence discovers a retinal tear and is out of the Manny Pacquiao. But a new opponent comes in MANNY PACQUIAO’S showdown with Errol Spence has been cancelled. The two elite welterweights were due to box on August 21 but Spence has had to withdraw due to a retinal tear in his left eye.

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images Steve Bunce on the hellraiser, Randall Tex Cobb RANDALL ‘TEX’ COBB would have been a great Olympian, fighting in one of those Cold War classics from the Seventies or Eighties. After the carnage in Tokyo when Ricardo Torres Jnr beat Cuba’s Dainier Pero, they should be

Issue • Opinion • Premium An investigation into some poor judging uncovers yet another fine mess from the WBA, writes George Gigney THE World Boxing Association (WBA) now find themselves involved in yet another potential scandal, though this time it has nothing to do with their spurious titles or laughable rankings; it’s something far worse. On

Issue • News • Premium Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Lyon Woodstock’s patience has been tested like never before, as he explains to Elliot Worsell ALTHOUGH Hackney super-featherweight Lyon Woodstock has always known the importance of patience, never has his been tested as much as it has in the past two years. Aside from the general chaos

Issue • News • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Ferocious Kid Galahad impressively dismantles the plucky Jazza Dickens, writes Declan Warrington from ringside EVEN with three years having passed since Brendan Ingle’s death, his unmistakeable influence could be detected throughout the masterclass Kid Galahad produced to so impressively defeat Jazza Dickens. A further generation removed from

Amateur • Premium Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Galal Yafai is adjusting to being an Olympic gold medallist. He speaks exclusively to John Dennen WHAT would go through your mind if, in the biggest contest of your life, with the eyes of the world watching, you dropped your opponent in the first round? That was the situation

Amateur Lauren Price’s Olympic triumph was so good, she hasn’t ruled out a second run in 2024 LAUREN PRICE has done it all. As well as playing football for Wales, as well as having a successful kickboxing career before joining GB taekwondo, she is the first Welsh boxer to win an Olympic gold medal. But

Amateur Lauren Price is in control as she defeats China’s Qian Li to win Olympic gold in Tokyo WELSH middleweight Lauren Price defeated China’s Qian Li to win the Olympic gold medal at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo on Sunday (August 8). Price was calm and in control from the beginning. Li was taller but

News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing After halting Jazza Dickens, Kid Galahad vows to ‘dominate’ the featherweight division KID GALAHAD stopped James ‘Jazza’ Dickens after 11 rounds in an increasingly brutal fight on Saturday (August 7) at Matchroom’s HQ  on the second show in the new Fight Camp series. Liverpool’s Dickens had started brightly, aiming shots at

Amateur LUIS ROBAYO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The future can wait as Galal Yafai absorbs his Olympic gold medal triumph, writes John Dennen CARLO PAALAM wanted to beat Galal Yafai at his own game. In the 52kgs Olympic final on Saturday (August 7) he had wanted to meet Yafai head on and force the Briton on

News Steve Marcus/Getty Images Michael Conlan continues his progression with a clear win over TJ Doheny MICHAEL CONLAN took a clear unanimous decision over TJ Doheny, defeating him at Falls Park in Belfast on Friday (August 6). He took the fight 119-108 for Victor Loughlin and 116-11 for both Steve Gray and Ian John-Lewis. Conlan

Amateur Galal Yafai beats Carlo Paalam in the Olympic flyweight final in Tokyo GALAL YAFAI is the Olympic flyweight champion. At the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo on Saturday (August 7) he took a split points decision over the Philippines’ Carlo Paalam in their 52kgs final. Yafai started with intensity. The Birmingham southpaw closed in on

Amateur • Premium BUDA MENDES/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Frazer Clarke on his Olympics, his team and his bronze medal. He speaks to John Dennen from Tokyo FRAZER CLARKE has 25 stitches in the cuts healing over his eyes and a broad smile across his face. Not yet, but soon, he’ll have a bronze medal around