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A Harder Sell
@KOwriting Editor IT’S been a surreal year for boxing. At times, it feels like we’ve stepped into a parallel dimension where the big fights will happen, no matter the obstacle, after years of what is best described as boxing purgatory. Promotional di
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Here We Go, Olympic Dawn In The Ring
@BigDaddyBunce Voice of boxing THERE are no shortcuts and few fairy tales in the boxing business at the five-ring circus. There are a lot of broken hearts, cuts and accusations each day. A lifelong dream and four or five years of hard graft can finis
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Mum’s The Word
THE new week started with a word from the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Oleksandr Usyk, who sat down with YouTube channel Boxing King Media to provide an update on life since he beat Tyson Fury. And it was all good news for those of us
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Crawford Steps Up
Previewing the best upcoming fights around the world The star ratings indicate how well the writer believes the fighters match up, the fight(s)’ contextual significance, and how good the fight(s) will be HAVING won titles in three divisions, Terence
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Family Guy
THE question to Israil Madrimov is a simple one: At 36, and with only three fights across the best part of the past four years, might the great Terence Crawford be there for the taking? A wry smile breaks across the Uzbek world champion’s face. “Let
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Pitch Perfect
ON Saturday night, we may witness a touted fighter prove he is beyond domestic level when Callum Simpson challenges Zak Chelli for the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight belts in Barnsley. The 27-year-old Simpson stands at 6ft 3ins, is unbea
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Field Of Dreams
ON SATURDAY night, the British super-middleweight title will be contested for the 47th time – but it will be the first occasion where the winner will have their hand raised inside a football stadium. Launched in Belfast when Sammy Storey defeated Ton
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Can’t Stay Away
IN December, Tyrone McKenna announced his retirement after a tough 28-fight, 11-year career. He told Boxing News: “With my kind of style, I can’t really take more punishment. I want to keep the last remaining brain cells that I have.” But McKenna [be
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The It Factor
The ever-growing tentacles of Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season will reach boxing’s epicentre of America this Saturday when Terence Crawford steps up to super-welterweight to challenge Israil Madrimov for the WBA world title. The expensively stacked ca
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Winning The Battle
IT WAS in December of 2021, at the Edison Ballroom in New York, where Teofimo Lopez Jr and Sr were being honoured by the Boxing Writers Association of America for having won the 2020 Fighter and Trainer of the Year awards, respectively. It was a time
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Fighting Spirit
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? AS THE first round of the 1997 fight between Junior Jones and Kennedy McKinney closed, Jones ripped off a combination, prompting HBO commentator (and former heavyweight champion) George Foreman to quip: “The thing about Junior Jon
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War Lord
Reporters’ star ratings for main events and undercards are based on in-ring entertainment, competitiveness and whether overall expectation was met Declan Taylor @DeclanTaylor87 RINGSIDE THE old adage goes that there is boxing and then there is heavyw
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Yoka Stops The Rot
FORMER Olympic super-heavyweight champion Tony Yoka came good by halting Amine Boucetta in four rounds at Tolworth Recreation Centre. Boucetta was trapped in a neutral corner and Yoka landed head shot after head shot (mostly rights) until the Belgian
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Hill’s Magnificent Seven
TOM HILL exorcised a demon or two by being crowned Northern Area welterweight champion following a seventh-round stoppage of Ewan Mackenzie. Hill had been halted inside four rounds by Darlington’s Ellis Corrie when he challenged for the belt in 2019,
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Short But Sweet
LATE withdrawals proved so numerous for this show at the Double Tree Hilton that, come fight night, only two contests remained. The men’s bout was scheduled for six and was over early, but the ladies’ contest thankfully went the six-round distance an
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Heavy Set
NOW the self-proclaimed GWOAT can also call herself a world heavyweight champion – not that it is as impressive as it sounds. Claressa Shields earned that distinction by stopping the WBC’s titleholder Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in two rounds at Little C
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Fighter Of The Week
O2 Arena, Greenwich Derek Chisora (256¾lbs), (35-13, 23 KOs), w pts 10 Joe Joyce (281¼lbs), (16-3, 15 KOs); Ryan Garner (129½lbs), (16-0, 8 KOs), w pts 10 Archie Sharp (129lbs), (25-1, 9 KOs); Moses Itauma (239¾lbs), (10-0, 8 KOs), w tko 2 Mariusz Wa
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Major Fight Schedule
ZAK CHELLI vs CALLUM SIMPSON Oakwell Stadium, Barnsley SKY SPORTS (British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles) Stephen McKenna vs Joe Laws ISRAIL MADRIMOV vs TERENCE CRAWFORD BMO Stadium, Los Angeles DAZN (WBA/WBO Interim super-welterweight t
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Orie Unlucky
The very best action, previews and news from Olympic-style boxing DEFEAT for super-heavyweight Delicious Orie on Monday night meant Great Britain’s torrid start to the Olympic Games continued. Orie had seen team-mates Pat Brown, Charley Davison and R
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Hope For 2028
WORLD Boxing have stepped up their bid to keep the sport in the Olympics by announcing their first show in Asia. Currently boxing isn’t included on the programme for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The International Olympic Committee say they need
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The Royal Matchmaker
Miles Templeton Boxing historian CAN you imagine if Prince William, the heir to the throne, was to contact one of London‘s leading small hall promoters asking him to arrange a contest between two top-class welterweights and, furthermore, to put the f
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Revell’s Way
RAY REVELL says every time he goes into Wellingborough town centre, someone wants to shake his hand. The Northamptonshire Telegraph estimated he has had more than 4,000 youngsters through the doors of Wellingborough Amateur Boxing Club over the past
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Bradley Goldsmith
When and why you started boxing? I started boxing at eight years old, initially to get fit. Favourite all-time fighter? The great southpaw middleweight champion, Marvin Hagler. Best fight you’ve seen? Too many to choose from! Personal career highligh
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Shaw Story
simonoldtimers@googlemail.com EBA correspondent THERE are so many well-known cases of promising boxers being killed in one of the two World Wars – but the Battle of Waterloo? But that’s what happened to bareknuckle fighter John Shaw, whose story is t
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