On October 14, 1980, it will be remembered as a black day in a British professional boxing, and a particularly low point between the editor and...
Just three weeks ago I wrote an obituary for Bn on Ron Cooper, Olympian at the 1948 Games. Ron was one of the two survivors from...
Between the wars, when British boxing was the most strenuous -working, there were plenty of entrepreneurial promoters who want to earn a few pounds, putting professional...
In this column I can’t ignore Ken Buchanan’s recent death. Earlier I said that I think Ken was the best purist that the United Kingdom has...
When Lonsdale’s belts were first awarded in 1909, the first three three went to Welshmen. Freddie Welsh from Pontypridd won the first BELT competition in the...
After the departure of Steve Hiser Bem, Amateur Boxing lost the third of the three titans who dominated the London coaching stage for half a century....
In boxing, there is a saying that if the promoter wants to make a compact fortune from sport, he will start better with a enormous one....
The theme in which the parrot still lies in the fact that in the 1930s, when there were so many professional fighters up and down, virtually...
Last month it was marked 50 years since I bought my first copy Boxing newsAnd since then I bought it. On the front cover there was...
If you were a toff in Edwardiański London, you would see your boxing at the National Sports Club, Self -proclaimed boxing and the Elite House. If...
The production of heavyweight master takes years. Even great such as Ali, Marciano, Tyson and Dempsey had to learn their fighting with six dates in tiny...
For everyone interested in the British boxing scene in the 1920s and the 1930s, they could not do anything better than read two books, which are...
In 2020, in our series at the 50 best competitions, which took place in Great Britain and Ireland, I took a clash of February 1979 between...
Because the war is still crazy in Eastern Europe, it is demanding to imagine the time when the Ukrainian will again enter the ring with the...
There are many ways in which a contemporary heavyweight boxer can prepare for an crucial championship competition, but the boxing three 15-rounds during the week would...
Randolph Turpin, despite a long and colorful career, is best to remember today for two meetings with Sugar Ray Robinson, which took place in 1951. His...
Two brothers are unusual, winning the British title, and even more so because they won the same British title. Dick and Harry Corbett were the first...
The first professional boxing tournament that will take place in Finland took place on May 16, 1935 in Messuhalli, Helsinki. British boxing under Queensberry began 64...
