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Feature • Issue • Premium Scott Heavey/Getty Images Lee Noble, a great character and much loved fighter, has passed away. Matt Bozeat pays tribute to him AT the Ingles’ gym in Sheffield, Lee Noble, who died this week aged 33 after a long battle with cancer, was known as ‘Daisy.’ “Brendan [Ingle MBE] would say:

Feature • Issue • Premium Even elite-level boxers suffer from feelings of anxiety and self-doubt before a fight. Elliot Worsell speaks to five former world champions to find out how they were able to combat their nerves SPEND time in a boxer’s changing room on fight night and you will come away not only certain

Issue • Premium • Reports Lee McGregor was in stunning form as he captured the European title, writes Andy Whittle FRENCHMAN Karim Guerfi was looking to successfully defend his European bantamweight title in the spacious surrounds of the Whites Hotel, tucked away beneath the stand at Bolton Wanderers’ football ground. Edinburgh’s Lee McGregor, though, had

Amateur Police in Camden have started a new youth initiative combining amateur boxing and education CAMDEN police have begun a new youth initiative, combining boxing training with educational workshops. The ‘Off the Hook’ programme, launched with the Queen’s Crescent Community Association and Gospel Oak Action Link, aims to direct young people away from behaviours that

News With ferocious intensity Vergil Ortiz drops and stops Maurice Hooker in Texas VERGIL ORTIZ tore into Maurice Hooker with a furious intensity to make sure of seven-round victory at the Dickies Arena in Forth Worth. Ortiz set a fierce pace from the first round, tearing into the former champion as he cranked out straight

News Artur Beterbiev retains his unified light-heavyweight champion in Moscow BOXING in his homeland for the first time as a professional fighter, Artur Beterbiev retained his WBC and IBF light-heavyweight titles halting Germany’s Adam Deines at the Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow on Saturday (March 20). Deines landed his southpaw left on Beterbiev only for

News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Lawrence Okolie demolishes Krzysztof Glowacki to become a new world champion. John Dennen reports from Wembley Arena LAWRENCE OKOLIE became the WBO world cruiserweight champion at Wembley Arena on Saturday (March 20) as he left Krzysztof Glowacki laid out on the canvas 46 seconds into the sixth round. Okolie, already a

News England Boxing launches #WinWithThe Jab Covid-19 vaccine campaign ENGLAND BOXING is helping to support the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the UK. London 2012 Olympic medalist Anthony Ogogo and professional prospect Joe Maphosa are among those joining in with the #WinWithTheJab campaign. With almost 1,000 clubs and 20,000 members around the country at the onset

Boxers • Issue • Premium Vergil Ortiz tells Paul Wheeler about the moment people realised he was the real deal, and much more When and why you started boxing:I started at the age of five. My dad took me to the gym one day to check it out. I didn’t like it at first because

Feature • Premium Natasha Jonas has been planning her revenge for nine years. After an epic Olympic clash, she will fight Katie Taylor for all the lightweight world titles IT’S a fight that for Natasha Jonas has been nine years in the making. She met Katie Taylor in an outstanding Olympic quarter-final at London 2012.

Feature Rising prospect Vergil Ortiz takes on former champion and fellow Texan Maurice Hooker in Fort Worth GOLDEN BOY welterweight prospect Vergil Ortiz gets a key test in his career against fellow Texan Maurice Hooker on Saturday (March 20) at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. So far in his professional career Ortiz has answered

Issue • Premium • Preview Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Lawrence Okolie makes the step up to world level against Glowacki, writes John Dennen FOR once in his career Lawrence Okolie has had to wait. With little amateur experience he qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games, while as a professional he raced to winning British, Commonwealth and

Issue • Premium • Preview Two title fights featuring Lee McGregor and Maxi Hughes are on a card made up of competitive bouts, writes Matt Bozeat TOP of the bill on MTK’s show at the Bolton Whites Hotel this Friday (March 19) is Lee McGregor’s bid to add the European bantamweight crown to his British

‘When Eubank wanted to rest, I made him busy, when he wanted space, I’d crowd him,’ says Steve Collins about a famous psychological victory MY greatest night was the first fight with Chris Eubank, at the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, Ireland, and it came on St Patrick’s weekend in March 1995. It was my

Opinion The Opening Bell podcast discusses the latest Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury developments, pays tribute to Marvin Hagler and more THREE days before Eddie Hearn declared that both Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have signed to fight each other, Alex Steedman spoke to Fury live on television and found the WBC heavyweight champion to

History Juan Manuel Marquez put his name back on the map after Indonesian nightmare, wrote Claude Abrams from ringside in 2007 GOOD things come to those who wait and Lord knows Juan Manuel Marquez has been waiting to announce himself to the world. He had, of course, held Manny Pacquiao to a draw in 2004,

Issue • Opinion • Premium He might have beaten me up but I will always adore Marvelous Marvin Hagler, writes Tony Sibson FOR some reason, Marvin Hagler took a shine to me. He bashed me up in six rounds (in Worcester, Massachusetts in February, 1983) and we stayed in touch. Every time Marvin was in

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Steve Bunce on the trials and tribulations of a heavyweight motley crew IT was a morning of true glory in Tokyo when the George Foreman roadshow started at 9am with Tommy Morrison in denial, Mark Gastineau in tears and the most ferocious women’s fight I have ever seen. The Bay NK