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CONGRATULATIONS to the following: Jessica McCaskill, Sandy Ryan, Richardson Hitchins, Jose Zepeda, Joe Joyce, and Zhilei Zhang. Somehow, against all odds, those six professional boxers all managed to get through training camps ahead of…

THOUGH typically good at avoiding eye contact on the Las Vegas strip, I happened to fail on this mission when approaching two Jehovah’s Witnesses standing outside a Shake Shack as a man nearby tried to sell me a CD of his rap music and a…

TWENTY-ONE years ago, I was taken by my dad to London Docklands to watch the final fight of Naseem Hamed’s professional boxing career. Neither Hamed, my dad nor I knew we were about to experience Hamed’s last fight yet the possibility…

WHETHER in a physical sense or a sense more figurative, the idea of the little man being overlooked is hardly anything new. It has been this way since the beginning of time and therefore it is perhaps only fitting that boxing reflects this,…

THIS morning, motivated by a bout of self-loathing and the peculiar guilt attached to never having boxed for a living, I tried to recall each of the times I had been hit in the face by punches; the ones painful to receive but not the ones…

THE day started with a video of a man locked inside a suitcase as his girlfriend filmed him both struggling to breathe and pleading for help. From behind her phone this woman spoke of teaching the man a lesson. Meanwhile, those watching the…

BREASTS. They have been one of society’s great distractions since time immemorial and never truer is this than today. Capable of distracting human beings from rational thought, sensible decisions, daily plans, and all that is both important…

OF all the reasons to admire Marvelous Marvin Hagler, what stands as a finer achievement than any title or victory he procured was his ability to walk away from his love and, unlike Orpheus in the case of Eurydice, resist the temptation to…

FIRSTLY, are you okay? I hope so. It feels very strange indeed sitting here writing about Oleksandr Usyk signing with Saudi Arabia-backed Skill Challenge Promotions. I imagine you might have been feeling a lot like I have: shaken; troubled;…

SUCH is the nature of both the British justice system and the growing obsession with going viral, it is quite conceivable in 2023 that you can spend the morning in a police station and the evening chatting to Piers Morgan on his TalkTV…