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Editor’s letter Sharifulin/TASS/Getty Images Introducing Boxing News’ new world championship policy that we implore everyone to embrace IN all of its 112 years Boxing News has never experienced such a convoluted world championship system as the one in place today. We will no longer support it. In some weight classes there are as many as

Issue • News • Premium The Jessie Vargas fight is ‘dead in the water,’ according to Liam Smith, but Tim Tszyu is not off the table yet, writes Paul Wheeler IT has been two months since Liverpool’s Liam Smith travelled to Russia and dropped a controversial unanimous decision to Magomed Kurbanov, who was fighting in

News Jed Jacobsohn/Allsport Lehlo Ledwaba falls to Covid-19 at the age of just 49 LEHLO LEDWABA, a leading super-bantamweight at the turn of the century, has died at the age of just 49. He passed away in his native South Africa after contracting Covid-19. “Hands Of Stone” fought as a professional between 1990 and 2006,

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Staff/Mirrorpix/Getty Images On the Friday Frank Bruno was cleared to fight and on Saturday night Michael Watson came close to death. Steve Bunce on a weekend that no one could forget ON Friday night Frank Bruno was cleared to fight and on Saturday night Michael Watson came close to death.

Issue • Opinion • Premium Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images News that Riddick Bowe is set to return to boxing at the age of 53 is the most depressing story of the week, writes George Gigney THIS column has probably focused too much on retired fighters getting back into the ring, but this time a true stand

Boxers • Issue • Premium Hennessy Sports Paul Wheeler speaks to Irish middleweight prospect Brett McGinty When and why you started boxing:I started boxing when I was nine years old. I initially did it just to lose weight and get fit for football. I come from a big footballing family. Favourite all-time fighter:Gennady Golovkin is

News Chris Colbert might be brash and cocky but he’s more than meets the eye IF you had never heard of Chris Colbert before you would think he was the latest garishly-styled frontrunner in boxing à la, say, Adrien Broner, the posterboy for perpetual underachievement. Colbert, after all, shows all the hallmark signs of the

Feature Original Boxing News interview with Marvelous Marvin Hagler from 1983 reveals the mind of a champion He’s the undisputed middleweight champion of the world and he has already fought for big money. Yet Marvin Hagler will tell you in earnest that he is still very much a hungry fighter. “I’m trying to make as

Issue • Opinion From the ridiculous to the sublime, Matt Bozeat rates the best (and worst) boxing films, from 50 down to 1. Read part one here 50. ROCKY V (1990)OK, OK, so it was hard to find 50… 49. GRUDGE MATCH (2013)My mate Gavin told me I had to buy this on DVD. We

Issue • Opinion From the ridiculous to the sublime, Matt Bozeat rates the best (and worst) fight films, from 50 down to 1. Read part two here 40. KILLER’S KISS (1955)This early Stanley Kubrick flick – he’s best known for The Shining and A Clockwork Orange – is an arty, unsettling and really rather strange

Issue • Opinion From the ridiculous to the sublime, Matt Bozeat rates the best (and worst) fight films, from 50 down to 1. Read part four here 20. THE SET UP (1949)Boxing and the film noir genre of the 1940s and 1950s were a good fit, giving writers and directors the opportunity to delve into

Opinion On the Opening Bell podcast Alex Steedman and Matt Christie examine the complexities of a sport that continues to excite and frustrate in equal measure, considering Gervonta Davis’ ‘world title,’ Lomachenko, DAZN and more GERVONTA DAVIS was hailed a ‘three-weight world champion’ after his latest victory at the weekend but the truth remains he’s

Issue • Premium • Preview Jack Massey steps up to headline status after Mahmood vs Ramabeletsa is postponed, writes Matt Bozeat CRUISERWEIGHT Jack Massey tops the bill on Dennis Hobson’s Fightzone show on Friday night (July 2) after Michael Ramabeletsa was ruled out of fighting Ramez Mahmood for the vacant English super-bantamweight championship. The 28-year-old

Feature • Issue • Premium John Gichigi/Allsport Racism. Boxing ignoring the colour of his skin. The rocky road to the British title. Fighting Steve Collins with a potbelly. No cash on the hip. Late-notice fights accepted. Prostate cancer. Tragedy. Neville Brown speaks to Terry Dooley OUTSIDERS find out that they are different at an early

Feature • Issue • Premium British boxers explain what it’s like to fight in truly hostile territory where almost everyone they encounter is baying for their blood. By Elliot Worsell DESPITE the intimacy they share with their opponent, a boxer is perhaps never lonelier than they are when gloved up on fight night. It is

Amateur • Issue • Premium Roberto Cammarelle hasn’t forgotten or forgiven his Olympic loss to Anthony Joshua, writes John Dennen ROBERTO CAMMARELLE doesn’t think Olympic gold medals should be reallocated, but he does believe he beat Anthony Joshua in the super-heavyweight final at London 2012. “Wrongful decisions did have an impact. The two against [Alexander]

Fitness • Training Olympic medallist Tony Jeffries speaks to the man who turned Logan Paul into a boxer, Milton Supreme I have a deep chat below with Milton Supreme, the world class trainer that got a YouTuber, Logan Paul to not only go the distance with Floyd Mayweather, but also seemingly win a couple of rounds against

News Mark Robinson ‘We have to open up,’ says promoter Eddie Hearn ahead of Anthony Joshua’s potential fight with Oleksandr Uysk EDDIE HEARN is hopeful that full capacity crowds are allowed to return to the UK by September at the latest. Matchroom are currently hoping to stage Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight collision with Oleksandr Usyk on