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News Dan Mullan/Getty Images Reporting from ringside, Andy Whittle saw the teak-tough Carlos Molina succumb on points to Sam Eggington BOXING returned to the Skydome for the first time since 2010 on Saturday (May 22) and the fans were allowed in too – albeit limited in number to just 400. But it is another step
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Opinion Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul is being screened on Sky Sports Boxing’s pay-per-view platform Thomas StalkerGB Boxing Olympic captainIt is a circus. But I’ll watch it. Don’t hate, enjoy, I suppose. Lisa WhitesideCommonwealth Games gold medallistMayweather vs Logan Paul on Sky Box Office is a bit of a circus event. It may well get good numbers
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News Josh Taylor becomes the first British boxer to simultaneously hold all four world belts with rousing victory over Jose Ramirez JOSH TAYLOR is the undisputed world super-lightweight champion after defeating Jose Ramirez via unanimous 12-round decision in Las Vegas. Taylor, who dropped Ramirez twice inside the Virgin Hotel, now holds all four sanctioning body
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Opinion Ten current pro standouts who boxed at the 2012 Olympics OLEKSANDR USYKGifted Ukrainian Usyk won a gold medal in the heavyweight category at the 2012 Olympic Games, before going on to earn undisputed status at cruiserweight as a professional. He is now targeting pro heavyweight glory. ERROL SPENCE JNRAfter reaching the quarter-final stage at
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News Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions As the big fight everyone was talking about collapses, Manny Pacquiao delivers a contest with Errol Spence that no one was expecting WHILE the big fight everybody was talking about, Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury, was falling apart, a great fight nobody was expecting was being made. Manny Pacquiao will fight Errol
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News Andrew Couldridge/Pool/Getty Images The dream of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fighting for the undisputed heavyweight title has, at least in the near term, crumbled. Matt Christie reports ANY hope of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fighting in a boxing ring this summer, as opposed to just squabbling on social media, has dramatically faded
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Issue • Premium • Preview Alex Gough Paul Wheeler analyses Taylor vs Ramirez, an enticing battle for super-lightweight supremacy AGE AND PHYSICAL EQUIPMENTTAYLOR: Having turned 30 at the beginning of this year, Josh Taylor is in his fighting prime. Standing at 5ft 10ins, the Scotsman is a good-sized super-lightweight. At the weigh-in ahead of his
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Feature • Issue • Premium Thirty-five years after his retirement Birmingham middleweight Willie Wright – the kind of fighter they just don’t make anymore – talks to Mike Lockley WILLIE WRIGHT’S rugged features – a nose bent and broken more times than the 10 commandments – betrays an uncompromising, 56-fight career against Britain’s best boxers.
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Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Runnacles/Getty Images Josh Taylor tells Matt Christie about his frustrations surrounding the impending showdown with Jose Ramirez and his long-term plans for retirement JOSH TAYLOR still has seven pounds to lose and undisputed recognition as the best super-lightweight in the world to gain. But right now, nine days out
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Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium The story of Remigijus Ziausys and other hard nuts who made careers out of losing in British boxing rings, writes Steve Bunce IF Saul Canelo Alvarez is building a chess set of the British men he has beaten for display somewhere in his latest mansion, then Remigijus Ziausys could
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Issue • News • Premium Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images John Dennen speaks to Fightzone’s Jim McMunn about the new boxing broadcaster that launches this week A new boxing channel is being launched in the UK. Fightzone TV will stream their first event on Friday (May 21), the first of what they expect to be 50 shows
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