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Amateur • Issue • Premium Ben Whittaker has star potential that he could realise at the Tokyo Olympics. The light-heavyweight hope speaks to John Dennen IT was announced on last week that due to the pandemic overseas spectators will not be permitted to attend the Olympic Games later this year. It’s a blow for the

Amateur It’s only outdoors but at least padwork and the comeback for amateur boxing can start WHILE professional boxers and the Olympic squad have been able to train, it’s been a long, hard lockdown for the rest of amateur boxing. But at least now the first step on the return to boxing framework can be

Feature • Issue • Premium Nigel Collins meets Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and encounters a man surrounded by fighting stock A FRIENDLY old bulldog was on patrol at the open gate of J & M Auto, the property next to the PHILLY 1 ON 1 BOXING gym, which was locked down tight with a metal rollup

News Halesowen’s Lennox Clarke dents the dreams of Willy Hutchinson to win domestic titles LENNOX CLARKE emphatically burst the bubble of Scottish hope Willy Hutchinson with a fifth-round stoppage at the Copper Box Arena that brought him the vacant British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles. Frank Warren had described Hutchinson as a new Joe Calzaghe and

News A fit and ready Dillian Whyte thrashes a woeful Alexander Povetkin DILLIAN WHYTE gained revenge over Russian veteran ALEXANDER POVETKIN with an emphatic fourth round stoppage in Gibraltar. A right cross clattered into the man who knocked him cold last summer, another booming right hand followed before a left hook – Whyte’s honey punch

News ‘You could do a massive site deal abroad for rematch and go to Wembley first,’ Hearn says about Joshua-Fury EDDIE HEARN has appealed to the government to allow Joshua-Fury to take place on home soil despite planning a ‘worldwide tour’ comprising six meetings about the clash in four different countries. Although Hearn’s recent revelation

News Zach Parker cruises to expected victory but Danny Ball’s battle with Sam Gilley steals the show ZACH PARKER made an impression on his debut for Queensberry Promotions at the Copper Box Arena, taking less than five minutes to hand American veteran Vaughn Alexander his first stoppage defeat. Swadlincote switcher Parker, ranked No 1 by

Opinion Declan Taylor reports from Gibraltar on the key factors that could decide the fate of Dillian Whyte ahead of crucial rematch with Alexander Povetkin WHEN Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin took to the scales on a raised platform in the middle of the Gibraltar Rugby Football Union’s artificial pitch on Friday afternoon more questions

Opinion Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing We ask a panel of experts how they see the Whyte vs Povetkin rematch going Sunny EdwardsBritish championWhyte was in control before the knockout, but Povetkin showed again how dangerous he can be at any point in the fight. I expect Whyte to come through – but he can’t afford to

Opinion This week we asked the panel what they make of the Chisora vs Parker pay-per-view Sunny EdwardsBritish championIt’s hard for fighters to go from earning XYZ and drawing a certain amount of viewers/fans to taking a massively reduced purse. The fight probably wouldn’t have got made had it not been put on PPV. If

Opinion Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Ranking the superb 10-fight series featuring Estrada, Srisaket, Gonzalez and Cuadras SRISAKET w md 12 GONZALEZ (MAR 2017)In a spellbinding fight that lit up Madison Square Garden and left both boxers bloodied and bruised, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai became the first man to defeat then-pound-for-pound No. 1 Roman Gonzalez. ESTRADA w sd 12

Issue • Premium • Preview Willy Hutchinson takes on the more seasoned Lennox Clarke at the Copper Box Arena, writes Matt Bozeat ON Saturday night, Willy Hutchinson and Lennox Clarke meet in a fascinating clash for the vacant British and Commonwealth super-middleweight belts. BT Sport televise live from the Copper Box Arena. Hutchinson is an

Feature • Issue • Premium James Metcalf was shielded from the sport at an early age but that didn’t stop him from wanting to follow in his famous father’s footsteps, writes Chris Walker A YOUNG James Metcalf wasn’t allowed to attend his father’s fights. As Shea Neary planted the seeds for a Liverpool boxing boom

Issue • Premium • Preview Zach Parker steps up to headliner after cruel luck rules Ennis-Brown out of appealing Sam Maxwell showdown, writes Matt Bozeat QUEENSBERRY PROMOTIONS have back-to-back shows this weekend, starting on Friday night. Top of the bill was supposed to Gloucester southpaw Akeem Ennis-Brown defending his British and Commonwealth super-lightweight titles against

Feature • Issue • Premium Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs boxing’s powers-that-be and white supremacy. By Springs Toledo “YOU’RE not welcome in here,” the bartender said. The bar was across the street from a truck stop in Moody, Alabama where the Confederate flags drooped in the buzzing heat and the population was 98.8 per cent white

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium ‘A lot of people need this boxing gym. I had to stay in touch with some; I knew that they were in danger of going on the warpath.’ James Cook speaks to Steve Bunce THEY locked the doors on a thousand gyms a year ago and boxing’s waiting game

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Yet again, the cost of an event is overshadowing the fights taking place on it. Matt Christie on the pay-per-view question PAY-PER-VIEW: Three little words guaranteed to get many of us riled. Three words capable of tarnishing an entire fight card long before a punch has been thrown. Three

Issue • News • Premium Canelo Alvarez’s next fight is set for a huge crowd but George Gigney wonders if 60,000 fans attending an event in the current climate is good news or not CANELO continued to break new ground this week, in more ways than one. First, it was confirmed that Canelo Alvarez’s next