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WHEN Nigel Benn blasted the world WBO middleweight crown from the sorely abused head of American Doug Dewitt, he partially expiated the ghost of Michael Watson which had been haunting him since last May. In Boxing Monthly’s fight of the month...
BAKHODIR JALOLOV has hinted to Boxing News he may bid to join the Olympic greats in Los Angeles. ‘The Big Uzbek’ supposedly rang the final bell on his amateur career after making it back-to-back superheavyweight golds in Paris two summers ago.
Usyk-verhoeven: Unusual but on the level THE CONSIPIRACY theorists were out in force in the wake of Oleksandr Usyk’s win over Rico Verhoeven. Verhoeven was robbed, they said. He’d won every round, they said. The referee stepped in at the...
How fight cancellations can change careers
Coach Lockett fine-tunes a Rolls-royce FROM THE Big Apple to Sin City, the United States has long served as the proving ground for British fighters seeking to cement their legacies. While the rise of Saudi-backed events has shifted the sport’s...
FIGHTING in Madison Square Garden? Wow, I was like a kid in a candy shop! I mean, I’m still just a fangirl at heart, so it was surreal seeing all those other world champions there, like Franchon Crews-dezurn, Tiara Brown, Amanda Serrano, and all...
FOR YEARS, boxing’s relationship with performance-enhancing drugs has followed a familiar pattern. A fighter fails a test, a statement gets released, and somewhere along the line fans hear various takes on the same explanation: it was...
investigates tragedy-hit promotion Ultra White Collar Boxing gives ordinary people a chance to shine in the ring, all while raising money for charity. But in allowing raw novices to fight after just eight weeks of training, can it really...
