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Feature • Issue • Premium Elliot Worsell got to see the inner workings of Carl Froch as he readied himself for Andre Ward in the culmination of the long and winding super-middleweight tournament HAVING overtaken him on the steepest of hills, I waited at the top, hands on both knees, for a world champion to

Feature • Issue • Premium Mikey Williams/Top Rank From the streets of Nogales to the top of the game, Oscar Valdez discusses his inspiration, what’s next and that knockout with John Dennen OSCAR VALDEZ swayed back. He weaved under punches before bursting upwards, uncorking a hellacious left hook. Now a signature shot, it left Miguel

Issue • News • Premium Michael Jennings went from being a world title challenger to a drummer supporting Ian Brown to a boxing trainer. He tells John Evans why his latest role will be his most successful ROCK and roll and boxing aren’t natural bedfellows. Late nights and excess don’t tend to fit in to

Issue • News • Premium Danny McAlinden passed away 50 years to the day since his victory over Muhammad Ali’s younger brother Rahaman on the undercard of The Fight of the Century. Daniel Herbert pays tribute DANNY McAlinden, the former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion, passed away at the age of 73 on Monday (March

Issue • Opinion • Premium In his own words, Josh Taylor explains how he intends to leave his own legacy when he fights Jose Ramirez for the undisputed title on May 22 in Las Vegas TRAINING for Jose Ramirez (on May 22) is going well. I started sparring last week, so it’s good to get

History • Issue • Premium Getty Images Elliot Worsell examines the 50-year-old Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier heavyweight superfight through fresh eyes THEY called it the ‘Fight of the Century’ before a punch had even been thrown. Someone must have known. In time Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier would become inextricably linked, the phrase Ali-Frazier

Feature • Issue • Premium Paul Simonetti tells Jack Hirsch all about the day he boxed in the same ring as Frazier and Ali PAUL SIMONETTI answers the phone with a degree of suspicion. In this day of robocalls that attitude is to be expected. But his demeanor quickly changes when he realises why he

Jessica McCaskill became an unlikely star when she toppled welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus. She speaks to John Dennen about her unusual path through the sport, her mindset and what she wants next IN 2017, on a raucous night at York Hall in Bethnal Green, Jessica McCaskill challenged Katie Taylor for the lightweight world title. The

Feature • Issue • Premium Michael Brennan/Getty Images In 1967 Marvin Hagler found himself in the thick of the Newark riots. He emerged from them with the mindset that made him one of the greatest fighters in history, writes Declan Warrington FIFTY-THREE years have passed since Marvin Hagler, then aged 13, had to spend five

News Claressa Shields unifies second division but it’s important to put her achievements in context CLARESSA SHIELDS, in her unofficial role as spokesperson for boxing history, claims she’s the greatest female fighter who ever lived. Plenty don’t agree – like her old amateur rival Savanah Marshall – but in true Floyd Mayweather style, she plucked

Between sharing a tiny room with five people and having a football pitch in his back garden, Acelino Freitas enjoyed a supreme boxing career that began with 29 straight KOs but threatened to go sour when he was accused of quitting. ‘Popo’ explains all I HAD a difficult childhood, like so many in Brazil. To

There is a growing suspicion among some of the sport’s key figures that boxing gloves are damaging more than they are protecting, writes Elliot Worsell INSIDE a boxing glove you will find a hand, a left or a right, wrapped in bandage, covered in tape and curled into a fist. Inside the word glove, meanwhile,

Amateur James Chance/Getty Images The dates and location have been announced for the rescheduled European Olympic qualification event THE dates for the European Olympic qualification event have now been set. The tournament will pick up from where it left off when it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic last year. It will be held

History • Issue • Premium British boxing has a long history of football ground fights, writes Miles Templeton TOP-FLIGHT boxing in Britain has always had a strong connection to football grounds. In recent years, Tony Bellew has fought at Goodison Park and Josh Warrington at Elland Road, while Ricky Hatton boxed in front of close

‘He looked like Popeye after the spinach.’ Steve Bunce remembered Matthew Hatton taking on future boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez on this day in 2011 THERE was always more than just Guinness, karaoke and drinking naked at dawn in Las Vegas between Ricky and Matthew Hatton. Each time they sat down to watch each other fight,

Opinion Mikey Williams/Top Rank Does Teofimo Lopez’s move mark the beginning of the end for fighters being tied to promoters in the long term? Matt Christie and Alex Steedman discuss all this and more TEOFIMO LOPEZ is seemingly taking charge of his own career after a fall-out with Top Rank and Triller bidding a whopping

Boxers • Issue • Premium Chris Hyde/Getty Images Ranked at No. 2 by the WBO and No. 3 by the IBF, super-lightweight Liam Paro meets Terry Tzouramanis in Eatons Hill, Australia this Friday When and why you started boxing:I started boxing when I was 13 years old up in Mackay, Australia, while I was in

Issue • Premium • Preview Claressa Shields is striving to set yet more records, writes Paul Wheeler MAKING history, or “herstory”, as she calls it, is nothing new to Claressa Shields. It is what she does. Whether it is being the only American boxer to earn back-to-back Olympic gold medals, or winning world titles in