Boxing News

THREE IN A ROW!

Boxing News pick up another British Sports Journalism Award

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BOXING NEWS beat off stiff competitio­n to claim their third consecutiv­e British Sports Journalism Award at the Sports Journalist­s’ Associatio­n’s annual ceremony on Monday night (February 26) at Westminste­r’s Park Plaza.

BN again won the Special Sports Edition category, this time for the wellreceiv­ed 100 Greatest Heavyweigh­t Boxers which followed awards for 2017’s

100 Greatest British Boxers and 2016’s tribute issue to Muhammad Ali.

Editor Matt Christie was surprised to get the nod this year over the highly commended Lev Yashin: From bullet maker to Balon d’or Winner from the BBC and The Telegraph’s World Cup 2018 supplement. The Guardian, The Independen­t, The Sunday Times and

Daily Mail were the other publicatio­ns who made the shortlist.

“To stand up here and represent Boxing News while accepting this award from the SJA is a great surprise and a great honour,” said Christie. “This all began for Boxing News

way back in 1909 and since then, the brand has been churning out top content week in, week out. It’s not often I get chance to thank the team for all their hard work but cheers guys, we did it again.”

Host Jim Rosenthal joked, “It’s Boxing News,

punching above their weight yet again.”

There was a win in the Sports Feature Writer category for The Guardian’s

Donald Mcrae, who is also a keen contributo­r to Boxing News. There was another winner with links to BN in the shape of Daily Mail’s Daniel Matthews who once spent time in our offices while he was still at University. The education obviously served him well; he was named as the Young Sports Writer of the year.

Others from the boxing industry who were recognised included the BBC’S Mike Costello, who was highly commended in the Sports Commentato­r category where Ronald Mcintosh was also shortliste­d. Steve Bunce made the shortlist for the Sports Pundit award for his work alongside Costello on BBC Radio 5 Live.

‘IT’S BOXING NEWS, PUNCHING ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT YET AGAIN’

 ??  ?? WINNING TEAM: Boxing News celebrate winning their latest SJA Award
WINNING TEAM: Boxing News celebrate winning their latest SJA Award

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