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Roots Of Fight
Mark Butcher @KOwriting Editor ON the DAZN broadcast for Usyk-Fury II, presenter Kate Scott coolly remarked that Saudi Arabia is the new home of boxing. Yet, crucially, this doesn’t relate to physical attendance and a passionate crowd. You can’t buy
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Off The Mark
I THINK Frank Warren’s reaction immediately after the Usyk-Fury II fight suggesting there was something wrong with the judges' scoring was off the mark. I scored 116-114 in favour of Oleksandr Usyk. I had Tyson Fury winning just one round after the s
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The Losers
Steve Bunce @BigDaddyBunce Voice of boxing JOE CORDINA, Callum Smith, Tyson Fury, Dan Azeez, Sandy Ryan, Liam Davies, Terri Harper and a dozen other quality British boxers lost big fights in 2024. The tendency at the end of the year is to remember th
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Itauma Stumped
FIGHT week in Riyadh kicked off in earnest on Monday with the now-customary media day where all the fighters on the card mill around at a hotel and get interviewed relentlessly by any media outlets who are already in town. One of those, of course, wa
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Hail To The King
Cormac O’Donnell @cormacodonnell_ RINGSIDE IT’S time to give Oleksandr Usyk his flowers. He had already done enough to deserve them by achieving undisputed champion status at cruiserweight. He has gone on to defeat three reigning or future heavyweigh
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Teenage Sensation
THE ‘Reignited’ undercard lived up to the high standards we’ve come to expect from Riyadh Season, delivering a night of compelling fights even before the big one. In keeping with the nationalities of the Ukrainian-British main event, fighters from bo
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Wizard of Az
A DAM AZIM boxed only twice in 2024, but the 22-year-old has hailed it as a year of personal development which started with Enock Poulsen and ended with Harry Potter. In keeping with every year of his professional career to date, Azim has once again
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Cinderella Man
THE whispers that Prince Naseem Hamed may return to the ring puts a smile on Steve Robinson’s face. “I’m up for it,” he says. “If he wants it, we can do it. “I have heard rumours he has lost some weight and wants to make a comeback. “I think he fanci
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In King Artur’s Court
CONTRACT terms are ongoing for the highly anticipated rematch between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, reveals Marc Ramsay, trainer of the current undisputed light-heavyweight champion. Their original fight night in October produced a chess match of
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The Dazzling
ROY JONES JR W PTS 12 JAMES TONEY MGM GRAND, LAS VEGAS NOVEMBER 18, 1994 EVEN though people in the boxing business respected Roy Jones Jr’s skills, there were doubters as he prepared to meet James Toney in a PPV attraction for the 168lbs championship
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Moving On Up
WHILE James Toney seemed to take his loss to Roy Jones Jr well enough on the night, what might have been a display of pent-up anger erupted when he was back home in Detroit two days later. His mother, Sherri, phoned Toney’s manager, Jackie Kallen, to
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The History of British Boxing
HAVE you ever wondered who were the first two men to step into the ring to box under the Queensberry Rules? Or why those rules were written in the first place, and what it was that they replaced? One hears a lot about the fighters of the ‘old days’ w
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Rising Scotland
HOLDING less than a tenth of the UK’s population, Scotland only packs a smidgen of our southern neighbours’ promotional clout. But, having had 15 world champions, from Tancy Lee in 1915 through to Josh Taylor’s undisputed reign during our own era, th
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King Of The Hill
BILL-TOPPER on the first of two promotions at the Eastside Rooms in the space of five days was a clash for the vacant Midlands Area super-welterweight title between heavy-handed Coventry puncher Amir Abubaker and Biddulph’s previously unbeaten Callum
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Kai High
WIGAN’S Kai Dawber rounded off his first year as a professional by claiming a shutout points win over Poland’s Marcin Prostko at the Hideout. Dawber cruised his way to a 40-36 victory in a bout officiated by referee-for-the-afternoon Mark Downing and
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David and Goliath
Previewing the best upcoming fights around the world IT is not often that one fight falls out of bed and is replaced at late notice by a better one. But that is exactly what has transpired in the case of Jai Opetaia and the fulfilment of his mandator
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Tommy Gun
BACK at the Eastside Rooms in a mere blink of an eye and, with the Herald Angels clearing their respective throats, Errol Johnson’s BCB Promotions served up this four-bout offering, appropriately as it turned out, ‘Winter War’ with a clash for the va
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Fighter Of The Week
Eastwood Rooms, Birmingham Amir Abubaker (153lbs), (7-0, 5 KOs), w tko 5 Callum Hill (153lbs 7oz), (4-1, 1 KO); Mykey Lee-Broughton (142lbs 1oz), (11-1), w pts 4 Owen Durnan (145lbs 2oz), (3-15); Francy Luzoho (147lbs), (7-2, 3 KOs) w pts 6 Richard H
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Major Fight Schedule
JAI OPETAIA vs DAVID NYIKA Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach DAZN (IBF cruiserweight title) CALLUM SIMPSON vs STEED WOODALL Canon Medical Arena, Sheffield SKY SPORTS (British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles) Caroline Dubois vs Jessi
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Back To The Future
The very best action, previews and news from Olympic-style boxing THE future of amateur boxing in the Olympic Games looks set to be decided in March. Boris van der Voorst, the President of World Boxing, made the revelation when addressing the WBC Con
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Sankey On Song
CHARLIE SANKEY was named Best Boxer after Leominster Police Boxing Academy held their annual show at the Leisure Centre on December 7. The 24-year-old southpaw was a unanimous points winner against Alain Rehman (Grange). Rehman was tall and rangy and
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All’s Well At Halliwell
HALLIWELL ABC ended a successful year with a sold-out show in Farnworth on December 13. The Bolton club had four national champions and an Olympic bronze medallist in 2024. Joe Peel, Jamie Kes, Ely Muya and Samuel Aikinsele were all ruled out of boxi
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Coming To America
Miles Templeton Boxing historian ON SATURDAY, July 31, 1926, three British boxers left Southampton to sail to the United States to seek fame and fortune. Only the week before, one of them, Birmingham’s Jack Hood, had put a second notch to his Lonsdal
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Gains Honoured
Simon Euan-Smith [email protected] EBA correspondent HAPPY New Year to all ex-boxers and EBA members everywhere. I hope the EBA movement continues to flourish over the next 12 months. And may I, once again, thank everyone who sends me new
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Ekow Essuman
Why you started boxing: Because I wasn’t good at basketball. Favourite all-time fighter: Bernard Hopkins. Best fight you’ve seen: Leigh Wood v Michael Conlan. Personal career highlight: Anyone I’ve knocked out. I just love knocking people out. Toughe
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