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The long and winding road to a superfight THEY SPARRED BACK IN 2010. THEY WERE FIRST LINKED TO A FIGHT A DECADE AGO. AND IT’S BEEN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS SINCE WE WERE TOLD IT WAS ‘100%’ ABOUT TO BE ANNOUNCED. BUT THE MOST PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS THE...
Brilliant Batten accepted his fate with grace JIMMY BATTEN will remain one of the great forgotten fighters from a time of excellence, suffering and abuses in the British boxing business. He had been a boy star in London’s East End at a...
I HAVE been doing stand-up comedy for four years. I’m booked up pretty much every weekend at the moment. In boxing terms, I’m still on the smallhall circuit and working my way up. The goal is to headline at the SSE Arena in Belfast, where I...
The quiet rise of a top-class coach
Food for thought with WBA champion MURAT GASSIEV has a piece of the pie, but he wants more. And if boxing politics conspires to deny him further servings of this metaphorical pie, he can at least enjoy a few slices of the real thing at home.
Reflections on one of the great robberies
