For a man that had proclaimed his intention to retire from boxing for as long as he has been a force on a global stage, today’s announcement that David Haye would not box again took a large portion of the boxing fraternity by surprise. When the BBBofC confirmed earlier this week that Haye was not [...]
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London Boxing Memorabilia Fare, October 15th. Regent’s Park, London. If you collect boxing memorabilia you surely will be interested to know that the annual boxing memorabilia fare is taking place next month, it’s possibly not that well advertised thanks to the trade paper Boxing News showing little if any interest in helping it gain any [...]
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Throughout his near three year crusade to secure a heavyweight world title shot against one of the Klistchko brothers, David Haye openly mocked and derided the quality of a division that allowed a string of boring, humdrum, one-sided defences in the brothers’ backyard. This week’s announcement that the one Klitschko he has managed to share [...]
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As I sat in the London presser for the Amir Khan – Lamont Peterson junior welterweight unification fight I couldn’t help but feel underwhelmed. Staged in London’s glamourous Mayfair hotel, the two fighters, along with Peterson’s trainer Barry Hunter, Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy and Khan’s manager Asif Vali, sat and attempted to sell the December 10 [...]
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Dressed in an expensively assembled casual grey suit, Amir Khan sweeps through the Danziger Suite of the May Fair Hotel and positions himself in front of a media throng, ready to announce his December 10th ring return against American Lamont Peterson. Almost sheepishly, the Bolton born fighter sits and simultaneously produces a phone , capturing a [...]
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For all the bitterness, posturing and name calling, there must be a little part of Joe Calzaghe that envies Carl Froch. Not financially, of course, Calzaghe’s final fights at super-middleweight and his brief venture into the light-heavyweight division made the Welshman a pretty penny and certainly enough to allow him to live in comfort for [...]
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When a list of inspirational sporting role models is drawn up by the wider sporting public, the name of a one Bernard Hopkins is unlikely to top the list. A man who was imprisoned for five years after a number of misdemeanors, did not actually make his professional debut until he was 23 and actually slumped [...]
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When George Groves got off the canvas to record a messy, ugly win over former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kenny Anderson last November, the thought of Adam Booth’s prodigy entering into the ring with the polished Olympic champion James DeGale sent shivers down the spine. In destroying Liverpudlian Paul Smith to win the British title the [...]
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This week I was flicking through the various Thursday evening offerings from Sky Sports. Before I sat down to watch the excellent documentary on the Michael Watson-Chris Eubank fight in 1991 I was subject to the final five minutes of ‘Ringside’ and a variety of assembled guests giving their views on last weekend’s big fights. [...]
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Between now and Christmas many of British boxing’s leading lights are involved in career defining fights, to the extent that by spring next year we could have as many as eight world champions on these shores. Whilst British boxing has not had so many exciting nights on the horizon for many years, the name of [...]
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