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History • Issue • Premium Ray Opoku and the history of Ghanaian fighters in the UK GHANA has a long and proud tradition of producing top-class boxers. In recent years, Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey and David Kotey stand out among the finest, while current stars include Isaac Dogboe and Richard Commey. Back in the 1950s,

Chris Walker sat down with Luis Resto – a man who will forever be remembered for one of the most notorious incidents in the sport LUIS RESTO stands on a Bronx street corner, outside the Morris Park Boxing Club where he sometimes offers valuable nuggets of advice. The ex-fighter, notorious for a single sickening moment

Feature • Issue • Premium John Gichigi/ALLSPORT Robbie Regan plunged into alcoholism when his career was cut short while still a world champion. Now he recounts the darkest times while revealing what made him see the light, writes Oliver Fennell ROBBIE REGAN’S tale is a love story – and like so many love stories, it

Feature • Issue • Premium In last week’s Desert Island Fights the first Ali-Frazier contest was named as the best fight of the seventies, but what will your choice be for the eighties? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you

Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson Tommy McCarthy is living proof that persistence pays off in the end, writes Paul Wheeler BEFORE he was the European cruiserweight champion, Tommy McCarthy was a wide-eyed 11-year-old putting on boxing gloves for the first time under the tutelage of Patsy McAllister at Oliver Plunkett ABC in West

Opinion Dave Thompson/Matchroom These fighters would fit the bill for the WBC’s proposed new bridgerweight division at 200-224lbs OLEKSANDR USYKAs a former undisputed cruiserweight king, Usyk’s talent is not in doubt, but it remains to be seen whether he will be big enough to conquer the heavyweight division. He is made to measure for bridgerweight.

Amateur Sam Mellish Efforts are ongoing to ensure the Tokyo Olympics take place but the qualification process has stalled. What should a potential Olympian do? Paul SmithWorld title challengerIf it’s 100 per cent guaranteed to happen in 2021 then I’d wait, there’s no point turning pro now if it’s only six months away. If it’s

Feature • Issue • Premium Lennox Lewis heard talk in 2000 that Michael Grant was boxing’s next great heavyweight. By Thomas Hauser THE mid-20th century gave birth to a new breed of athlete; men who were big, well-coordinated, and faster than men their size had been before. By the start of the new millennium, athletes

The evil empire of Frankie Carbo and Jim Norris over boxing in the 1940s and 1950s left the sport’s reputation in tatters and several top fighters in financial ruin. Eric Armit tells the full story I SUPPOSE I am not the only one of a certain age (don’t ask) who longs for “the good old

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Turning a blind eye is not the solution to the problems in boxing, writes Matt Christie LAST Friday, a crooked old promoter persuaded a powerful sanctioning body to hastily attach a ‘world heavyweight title’ to a bout involving two fighters contracted to him, neither of whom could be deemed

Amateur • Issue • Premium Freddie Barr should remembered for his achievements and for the impact he had on a host of boxers KINGSTON boxing coach Freddie Barr passed away on January 19. He was 88 years old. He was an England coach, who took boxers to a sequence of Olympic Games, and a highly

Amateur • Issue • Premium Daniel Herbert pays tribute to Repton head coach Tony Burns TONY Burns, who has died at the age of 80, left a huge mark on amateur boxing both as a boxer and coach. As the driving force behind the Repton club in Bethnal Green for half a century, he produced

Issue • News • Premium Laurence Williams has a message for British boxing legend, Jim Evans. It’s a message shared by all at Boxing News and the entire industry ONE of the great characters of British boxing, Jim Evans – trainer, manager, promoter and top class amateur boxer – is not well at the moment.

Opinion LUIS PEREZ/AFP/Getty Images John Dennen considers the must-watch fights coming up this month GIVEN the rapid spread of coronavirus, it’s no wonder, of course, that the boxing year got off to a slow start in January of 2021. But February will see a host of boxing shows in the UK and America and there

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Frankie DePaula found himself in so deep he could not get out, writes Steve Bunce THERE is too much comedy and violence in the life, times and crimes of light-heavyweight contender Frankie DePaula. The fighter bashed and crashed and slammed his way through a boxing career, his life inside

Issue • Opinion • Premium Billy Joe Saunders is on course to fight Canelo Alvarez. But there might be a date clash with Taylor-Ramirez, writes George Gigney in his weekly analysis of the boxing media WE could already be looking at our first major date clash of the year – and it’s not in the

Amateur The rescheduled European Olympic qualifier will be rescheduled again as the Boxing Task Force announce it will not be held in London in April THE European Olympic qualification event will be rescheduled once again. The event had to be cancelled after three days of competition last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The European

News Sean Michael Ham/TGB Promotions Caleb Plant shuts out former champion Truax to remain a leading figure in the super-middleweight division CALEB TRUAX was strong, gritty and determined but he could not claw a round off IBF super-middleweight Caleb Plant on Saturday (January 30) behind closed doors at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles.