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Amateur • Premium Delicious Orie (blue) of Team England competes against Sagar Sagar (red) of Team India during the Men’s Boxing Over 92kg (Super Heavyweight) Gold Medal Bout (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Getty Images) Matt Bozeat wraps up how the home nations fared in the finals, and a star is born at super-heavy THE Commonwealth Games

News • Opinion Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn Both a huge fight and a curious one, Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn will meet on October 8 at London’s O2 Arena, writes Elliot Worsell BEFORE being exposed to the harsh reality of life, the only version of it we know and view as ours

Feature Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn With news that Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn will reignite their fathers’ rivalry on October 8, BN editor Matt Christie takes a closer look at what’s in store PUT the two surnames together, in any order, and you are immediately transported back to a golden era that

Reports Dalton Smith lands on Sam O’maison (Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) As widely expected, Smith proves he’s too good for O’maison, writes Andy Whittle from ringside THE all-Sheffield battle for the vacant British super-lightweight title at the Arena between former top-class amateur Dalton Smith and southpaw Sam O’maison went the way many had predicted, with impressive Dalton

News • Opinion Michael Conlan lands on Miguel Marriaga (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) Michael Conlan does what he needs to do – for him – against Miguel Marriaga, winning widely on the cards, writes Elliot Worsell THERE is a balance to be struck by any fighter whenever they set foot

Premium • Preview Michael McKinson and Vergil Ortiz weigh in Cancelled the last time it was arranged, tonight in Texas Michael McKinson finally gets the fight he wanted: against 18-0 (18) Vergil Ortiz. BACK in March, when we first previewed the Vergil Ortiz-Michael McKinson fight in detail, we concluded that the British boxer had an

Premium • Preview Michael Conlan (L) and Miguel Marriaga (R) pose during the weigh in ahead of their featherweight fight (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) Five months after being knocked out in the final round of a war against Leigh Wood, Ireland’s Michael Conlan returns against Colombian puncher Miguel Marriaga FIGHTER-TURNED-PROMOTER

Premium • Preview Dalton Smith and Sam O’Maison at the final press conference ahead of their British title fight (By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) Smith-O’maison looks like a vehicle for the former to impress DALTON SMITH is among the finest prospects in the country and on Saturday night (August 6) he gets the chance to win

Feature • Premium Gennady Golovkin exchanges punches with Sergiy Derevyanchenko during their IBF middleweight title bout at Madison Square Garden on October 05, 2019 (Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images) When Gennadiy Golovkin steps into the ring to face Canelo Alvarez on September 17, it will be his first major test in almost three years. Thomas

Feature • Premium Richard Slone in action After a brief period as the trainer of Nico Ali Walsh, Richard T. Slone, a protege of both Joe Frazier and Emanuel Steward, tells Declan Warrington how he is again focusing full-time on the art that is recognised around the world WHEN last year Richard Slone painted Joe

Letters “Smokin'” Joe Frazier To celebrate the announcement of the heavyweight clash between Joe Joyce and Joe Parker, we take a look at 10 other Joes who became world champions 1 Joe Louis Joseph Louis Barrow, as good a technician as there has ever been, reigned as heavyweight champion from 1937 until 1949 and accumulated

Opinion Manny Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach speak before a workout in preparation for his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2015 (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Portsmouth’s Michael McKinson will be in Texas this weekend fighting Vergil Ortiz Jnr, one of boxing’s hottest prospects. But is McKinson a fighter easy to ignore? asks Elliot

Feature • Premium Chris Small Craig Scott finds out how Chris Small’s artwork ended up on the walls of boxing champions “EVERY stroke you make on the paper when things are going well, more and more the likeness comes through and that’s a brilliant feeling, closing in. I’ve got to hold myself back sometimes, so I

Feature • Premium Matt Hookings as Jem Belcher How did the unknown son of a former British heavyweight champion convince Russell Crowe and Ray Winstone to appear in a film about a long forgotten bare-knuckle boxer who died over 200 years ago? And why did it take 10 years to reach our screens? Luke G.

News • Opinion Despite the obstacles in its way, the heavyweight fight between Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker will take place in Manchester on September 24, writes Elliot Worsell IT doesn’t happen too often in boxing, but sometimes common sense does prevail and sometimes fights that seem natural and easy ones to make do actually

Letters • Premium Dave Harris, Ringside Charitable Trust Join us in September so we can give the ex-boxers the care they deserve, says Dave Harris of Ringside Charitable Trust FOR MANY months Ringside Charitable Trust (RCT) had been organising a press conference which was to take place on Thursday July 28. The purpose was to

Amateur • Premium Jodie Charlotte Wilkinson of Team England (Red) looks on prior to the Women’s Over 60kg-70kg (Light Middleweight) Round of 16 fight on day two of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images) Matt Bozeat was ringside at Birmingham 2022 as the Commonwealths got underway DAY ONE – FRIDAY JULY

Bunce Diaries • Premium Kemrond Moses (red) of Team Grenada and Fiu Tui (blue) of Team Tuvalu fight in Birmingham at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images) The Pacific Islanders endure a difficult start to Birmingham 2022 but still we root for them, writes Steve Bunce A MAN from Kiribati was brutally