On a Saturday night thick with the roar of borrowed hope, Johnny Fisher and Dave Allen will step into a ring not consecrated by world titles or golden legacies, but by something older and arguably …

A world away from the fireworks of the week prior. As long as boxing has been gilded with illusion, it has lived with bitter truths. There is no newer tale in the sport than the grand card, spectac…

Like many who had long harboured a quiet bemusement at the scale of Conor Benn’s following—and the way this contest had swelled into something close to a national event—I might easily have passed o…

Like many who had long harboured a quiet bemusement at the scale of Conor Benn’s following—and the way this contest had swelled into something close to a national event—I might easily have passed o…

They said,”You’re durable, lad. Not quite good. Not quite bad.Just the type promoters loveTo fold beneath a rising glove.” The changing room’s a tomb of tape and piss,The glamour ends w…

A second think-piece ahead of Chris Eubank Jr. vs Conor Benn this coming Saturday 26th April. Read the first via the homepage. By any measure worthy of the fight game’s heritage, the 18th of …

A second think-piece ahead of Chris Eubank Jr. vs Conor Benn this coming Saturday 26th April. Read the first via the homepage. By any measure worthy of the fight game’s heritage, the 18th of …

They said,”You’re durable, lad. Not quite good. Not quite bad.Just the type promoters loveTo fold beneath a rising glove.” The changing room’s a tomb of tape and piss,The glamour ends w…

You threw it in—a damp white flag, mid-round, mid-dream,as I stood blind with pride,bloody, bowed, but with a beam. I saw your face,that furrowed guilt, that pleading stare—you snatched my chancean…

In a sport often cast in the shadows of sacrifice and stoicism, there remains a curious space – not carved, but swaggered into – by the brash, the cocky, and the downright detestable. These are box…

In a sport often cast in the shadows of sacrifice and stoicism, there remains a curious space – not carved, but swaggered into – by the brash, the cocky, and the downright detestable. These are box…

You threw it in—a damp white flag, mid-round, mid-dream,as I stood blind with pride,bloody, bowed, but with a beam. I saw your face,that furrowed guilt, that pleading stare—you snatched my chancean…

I laced my heart into leather hands,In some sad gym off the A12 strand.The spit-bucket shimmered like morning rain,And I prayed for love,But I settled for pain. He danced like youth I couldn’t recl…

“Why is everyone talking about me walking away?” Joe Joyce asked, his voice level but edged with something unmistakably stern, in the aftermath of another punishing evening under the lights. The qu…

“Why is everyone talking about me walking away?” Joe Joyce asked, his voice level but edged with something unmistakably stern, in the aftermath of another punishing evening under the lights. The qu…

I laced my heart into leather hands,In some sad gym off the A12 strand.The spit-bucket shimmered like morning rain,And I prayed for love,But I settled for pain. He danced like youth I couldn’t recl…

There was a time—indeed, there were many times—when George Foreman would say the words “Heavyweight Champion of the World” as if reciting the most wonderful lie he’d ever managed to get away with. …

Whether Saturday’s event truly lived up to its billing as the “greatest card of all time” remains a matter for debate. That notion wobbled perilously in fight week when Floyd Schofield’…

February 2025 promises a carnival of boxing, a swirling tapestry of hopes and fears, destinies and downfalls. The stage is vast, the stakes immense. For one glorious night, a once unlikely corner o…

On February 1st, David Benavidez and David Morrell will step into a ring that will become their proving ground. This isn’t just another fight. It is a reckoning. Two unbeaten warriors, standing on …

This Friday evening in Tokyo belonged to Naoya Inoue, whose dominance in the ring once again seemed less like sport and more like a sombre inevitability. The Japanese star, unbeaten in 29 fights wi…

The tangled narrative of boxing continues to unfold with all the drama, contradiction, and controversy that has long defined the sport. Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, names now etched into the consci…

February 2025 promises a carnival of boxing, a swirling tapestry of hopes and fears, destinies and downfalls. The stage is vast, the stakes immense. For one glorious night, a once unlikely corner o…

Boxing has always danced between splendour and ruin, like a prizefighter on the edge of glory, only ever a misstep away from disaster. It is a sport that inspires undying devotion and bitter cynici…

To give Tyson Fury his due, when he spins this brand of yarn, he does so with the bare-faced swagger of a seasoned raconteur who knows full well that truth will never outrun a good story. The Gypsy…

To give Tyson Fury his due, when he spins this brand of yarn, he does so with the bare-faced swagger of a seasoned raconteur who knows full well that truth will never outrun a good story. The Gypsy…

There are nights in boxing when the visceral truth of the sport unfurls in all its unsettling beauty—when the artistry of anticipation gives way to a savagery as breathtaking as it is inevitable. S…

There are nights in boxing when the visceral truth of the sport unfurls in all its unsettling beauty—when the artistry of anticipation gives way to a savagery as breathtaking as it is inevitable. S…

It feels only fitting to revisit this most tantalising missed opportunity following my previous post on the end of an era. Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua. This is not just a story of two men’s jo…

It feels only fitting to revisit this most tantalising missed opportunity following my previous post on the end of an era. Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua. This is not just a story of two men’s jo…

Despite the triumph of Oleksandr Usyk over Tyson Fury—an achievement that should stand as one of the sport’s most luminous moments—the mood surrounding it feels like a wake rather than a coronation…

Despite the triumph of Oleksandr Usyk over Tyson Fury—an achievement that should stand as one of the sport’s most luminous moments—the mood surrounding it feels like a wake rather than a coronation…

Boxing, more than any other sport, exposes the truths we try to hide. And on December 21st, in the artificial oasis of the Kingdom Arena, two of the most extraordinary heavyweights of this or any e…

It is one of sport’s crueler realities that even the mightiest champions must one day reckon with the fading of their gifts. Wladimir Klitschko, for all his towering achievements, appears unwilling…

It is one of sport’s crueler realities that even the mightiest champions must one day reckon with the fading of their gifts. Wladimir Klitschko, for all his towering achievements, appears unwilling…

For a brief chapter in the volumes of sporting legend, the borough of Queens bore witness to a grand experiment in pugilistic theatre: the Madison Square Garden Bowl. It was an outdoor colossus, ha…

For a brief chapter in the volumes of sporting legend, the borough of Queens bore witness to a grand experiment in pugilistic theatre: the Madison Square Garden Bowl. It was an outdoor colossus, ha…

Boxing, as ever, can be a theatre of raw emotion and brutal truths, and on Saturday night, Sunny Edwards found himself cast in the most unforgiving of roles. The former IBF flyweight champion, just…

Boxing, as ever, can be a theatre of raw emotion and brutal truths, and on Saturday night, Sunny Edwards found himself cast in the most unforgiving of roles. The former IBF flyweight champion, just…

Boxing, more than any other sport, exposes the truths we try to hide. And on December 21st, in the artificial oasis of the Kingdom Arena, two of the most extraordinary heavyweights of this or any e…

Boxing, more than any other sport, exposes the truths we try to hide. And on December 21st, in the artificial oasis of the Kingdom Arena, two of the most extraordinary heavyweights of this or any e…

Boxing, more than any other sport, exposes the truths we try to hide. And on December 21st, in the artificial oasis of the Kingdom Arena, two of the most extraordinary heavyweights of this or any e…

Boxing, more than any other sport, exposes the truths we try to hide. And on December 21st, in the artificial oasis of the Kingdom Arena, two of the most extraordinary heavyweights of this or any e…

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