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Amateur Nouchka Fontijn takes revenge win over World champion Lauren Price at the Bocskai tournament in Hungary WELSH star Lauren Price and Nouchka Fontijn have a rivalry that spans European, World and now Bocskai finals. In Hungary on Friday (February 12) the Netherlands’ Fontijn scored a split decision revenge win over Price, who had beaten

Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson Josh Warrington is now a ‘former world champion’ after giving up the IBF title. It’s not a tag he wanted or expected at this stage of his career but he hopes the move will grant him the freedom to become the champion he deserves to be, writes John

History • Issue • Premium Getty Images We delve into the BN archives for an interview with the late, great British lightweight legend Dave Charnley THERE’S a topic that gets discussed on social media and net message forums with predictable regularity. Who was the greatest British boxer never to win a world title? Answers tend

Feature Mike Tyson’s then-trainer, Aaron Snowell, looks back on a disatrous night for the whole of Team Tyson “WOULD Don King, one of the wisest men boxing has ever seen, put me in the corner of the most valuable brand that not only boxing, not only sport, but entertainment had to offer if I didn’t

Feature Buster Douglas tells James Slater what came before, during, and after his fight with Mike Tyson COLUMBUS, Ohio’s James “Buster” Douglas will always be remembered for one incredible fight/upset: the one that occurred the day he challenged the seemingly invincible Mike Tyson on February 11th 1990 in Tokyo, Japan. Douglas simply shocked the entire

Feature • Issue • Premium So far BN readers have voted Frazier-Ali I as their favourite fight of the seventies and Hagler-Hearns from the eighties. What will be the choice for Desert Island Fights from the nineties? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To

Boxers • Issue • Premium Paul Wheeler talks to Reymart Gaballo, a man who pushes himself to his limits When and why you started boxing:I started boxing at a very young age, but I began to take it more seriously when my uncle encouraged me to train with him when I was 15 years old.

History • Issue • Premium Tris Dixon tells the Boxing Life Story of the one and only Frank Sinatra ANTHONY Martin Sinatra was a prizefighter. His ring name was Marty O’Brien because Italian boxers would use Irish names in the hope that it would endear them to a New York audience. Born in Sicily, he

Fitness • Technique Watch Tony Jeffries demonstrate the basics of how to box HAVE you heard the term ‘keyboard warriors’ or ‘internet tough guy’? Or maybe you’ve been called this? These are generally people who have never boxed a day in their life and know nothing about the actual art of boxing but sit there making abusive or

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Boxing’s image continues to suffer as the Daniel Kinahan saga rolls on, writes Matt Christie DANIEL KINAHAN, an influential boxing ‘advisor’, is not going away quietly. The Irishman is determined to be a legitimate figure in the sport despite last week’s BBC Panorama programme suggesting he should be in

Feature • Issue • Premium In a wide-ranging in depth interview Eddie Hearn lays out his plan to conquer the boxing world to Matt Christie THE first time Boxing News met Eddie Hearn he told us that Audley Harrison was going to win the world heavyweight title. Eleven years after that infamous prophecy, the promoter

Issue • Opinion • Premium Mark Breland breaks his silence on the Deontay Wilder split, writes George Gigney in his weekly boxing media round-up PODCASTS IN his first interview since being sacked by Deontay Wilder, trainer Mark Breland didn’t pull any punches when reflecting on his former charge and the state of the heavyweight division.

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Steve Bunce looks back on the night when a Yorkshire plasterer fought a bona fide legend, Roberto Duran DAVE the Plasterer hurt Roberto the Fighting God in round four when the pair somehow met at a casino in South Africa. This happened, by the way. At the end of

Steve Lott – a crucial member of Team Tyson in the early days – revealsed some extraordinary insight on why he might just have been the greatest underachiever in boxing history STEVE LOTT lived with a young Mike Tyson for three years and has known him for 35. A crucial member of the team –

News AFP via Getty Images Legendary heavyweight Leon Spinks has passed away at the age of 67 LEON SPINKS has passed away at the age of 67. He had suffered from cancer and health problems in the later years of his life. Spinks became an Olympic gold medallist at 1976 Montreal Games and famously defeated

History A 1951 article from the Boxing News archives revealed Ron was the more aggressive of the Kray twins and considered how they should be matched. The notorious gangsters of course went in a different direction IF any ambitious matchmaker is at a loss for a couple of attractive supporting contests may I suggest the

Feature John Gichigi/Getty Images Roman Greenberg was tipped to become boxing’s first billionaire heavyweight before he suffered his first loss and disappeared. Elliot Worsell investigated “SOMEBODY wins and somebody loses,” wrote W.C. Heinz in The Professional. “There’s as much of a story in a fighter losing as in a fighter winning, maybe more.’ This is

Boxers • Issue • Premium Paul Wheeler talks to O’Shaquie Foster, a man who knows that it always comes back to the basics When and why you started boxing:I started when I was eight years old. I followed my older cousin to the gym and it took off from there. Favourite all-time fighter:Floyd Mayweather because