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Issue • Premium • Reports Small hall boxing, with spectators, makes a welcome return as Liam Taylor wins in Manchester, writes Andy Whittle NINETEEN long months had passed since the last show at the Victoria Warehouse. So the eight-bout offering served up by Pat Barrett’s Black Flash Promotions on Saturday (July 24), a rust shedding

Amateur Sam Mellish/GB Boxing The Olympic boxing schedule, with timings for key bouts OLYMPIC BOXING SCHEDULE DAY ONE – SATURDAY JULY 24 Women’s 57kgs Preliminaries Women’s 69kgs Preliminaries Men’s 57kgs Preliminaries Men’s 69kgs Preliminaries Men’s 91kgs Preliminaries Men’s 91&kgs Preliminaries Read our day one report here Karl Bridgeman/Getty Images/BOA DAY TWO – SUNDAY JULY 25

Amateur Allsport Hulton/Archive The Val Barker Trophy has been awarded to the ‘outstanding boxer’ at each Olympic Games since 1936. Here are 10 famous past recipients DICK McTAGGART (1956)Regarded by many as Britain’s best-ever amateur boxer, McTaggart had to overcome the stiffest of competition to claim the Val Barker Trophy, as the legendary Laszlo Papp

News Joe Joyce is victorious in his heavyweight clash with Carlos Takam at Wembley Arena JOE JOYCE halted Carlos Takam in the sixth round of their heavyweight clash at Wembley Arena on Saturday (July 24). Early on Takam scooped rights over the top to catch out Joyce. The Briton found the timing for his right

Amateur LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images GB medal hope Peter McGrail loses in the preliminary stages at the Tokyo Olympics PETER McGRAIL suffered a bitter blow in his first contest at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. In the years building up to this event the Liverpudlian 57kgs has excelled, medalling at almost every major competition and becoming

Opinion Sam Mellish/GB Boxing Who are you picking to win gold medals at the Olympic Games? Lewis RichardsonGB middleweightGB Boxing have a special team in Tokyo. I believe any one of them could medal, but if I had to pick one to win gold it would be Pat McCormack. What a story it would be

Feature James Chance/Getty Images In this audio documentary relive York Hall’s great nights, fights and events that are the pillars of British boxing history YORK HALL – the spiritual home of british boxing. Join us on an atmospheric deep-dive into the magic of the old venue that’s provided fight fans of all ages with so many

Feature • Issue • Premium Dave Thompson/Getty Images British and Commonwealth welterweight king Chris Jenkins has been a stellar servant to boxing over the past two decades but lockdown has been a real struggle and he’s still waiting to get the rewards he really deserves. He explains in his own words here EVEN as a

Amateur Sam Mellish/GB Boxing After five years of training for the event, any athlete’s nightmare is failing a Covid test and missing out on the Olympics. Galal Yafai tells John Dennen how he is just keeping his focus on the mission THE nightmare for every athlete at these Olympic Games is, after five years of

Opinion Anthony Joshua’s next fight, the Tokyo Olympics and much more feature on the latest Opening Bell podcast THE excellent heavyweight matchup between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk was officially announced this week.  Okay, it’s not Tyson Fury-Joshua but, as consolation prizes go, this is a terrific fight in the heavyweight division. And a very

Amateur Sam Mellish/GB Boxing John Dennen considers the implications of the Olympic draw for the GB boxers in Tokyo (inc. dates and UK times for their first bouts) THE draw is in for boxing at the Tokyo Games. It’s a nervy moment for the athletes. For many their chances at a medal can be dictated

Feature • Issue • Premium A year on from his untimely passing, Elliot Worsell talks to rivals, friends and admirers of Pernell Whitaker who explain the wizardry of ‘Sweet Pea’ WHILE both stuck in time and stuck inside, my boxing comfort watch at the peak of last year’s COVID-19 lockdown seemed to be anything that

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Amanda Westcott/Showtime Jermell Charlo vs Brian Castano still shows that matching the best versus the best should be the aim for every division, writes Matt Chrisite WITHOUT wishing to labour the point we’ve been making in recent weeks, but instead to make it abundantly clear, matching the best against

Amateur Karl Bridgeman/Getty Images/BOA The men’s and women’s featherweight divisions will intensely competitive at the Olympics. But in Peter McGrail and Karriss Artingstall GB have medal contenders in both THE 57kgs featherweight divisions, for both the men and the women, will be intensely competitive at the Tokyo Olympic Games. But Great Britain has medal contenders

News Andrew Couldridge/Pool/Getty Images It might be a consolation prize but the excellent fight between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk is official and coming to a London stadium, writes Matt Christie WE have spent the last few weeks grumbling about the sanctioning bodies – rightly so, too – but now and again they do create

Amateur James Chance/Getty Images As well as listing the top seeds, here we pick out other Olympic gold medal contenders Men’s 91&kgs Top seed: Bakhodir Jalolov (UZB)Other contenders: Kamshybek Kunkabayev (KAZ), Frazer Clarke (GB) Men’s 91kgs Top seed: Muslim Gadzhimagomedov (RUS)Other contenders: Vassiliy Levit (KAZ), David Nyika (NZL) Men’s 81kgs Top seed: Bekzad Nurdauletov (KAZ)Other

Issue • News • Premium Sam Maxwell hopes to come through against Ennis Brown for the British and Commonwealth titles, writes John Dennen SAM MAXWELL has had a hard five years working his way through the professional ranks. He had been a talented amateur on the Great Britain squad, a Commonwealth medallist who was overshadowed

Issue • Opinion • Premium Tris Dixon watches The Kings, the brand new docuseries on Hagler, Hearns, Leonard and Duran YOU know I have no love for Showtime and I f**king hate [Showtime’s head of boxing Stephen] Espinoza, but this is the true history of our sport, not that YouTuber s**t,” admitted Bob Arum. It