Yesterdays

FOR A country with a population of less than a million, Guyana has produced some notable boxers.  The best of them is the great Joe Walcott, not the ex-heavyweight champion who took his name because he admired him so much, but the…

THERE are many ways that the modern heavyweight boxer might prepare for an important championship contest, but boxing three 15-rounders in a week would not be one of them. Phil Scott, our leading heavyweight in the mid-1920s, was so fed up…

WITH the war still raging in Eastern Europe, it is hard to imagine a time when a Ukrainian will again step into the ring with a Russian. After the two world wars spread across Europe in the 20th century, relationships between Britain and…

BACK in 2020 in our series on the top 50 contests that have taken place within the UK and Ireland, I ranked the February 1979 clash between Clinton McKenzie and Colin Powers for the British light-welterweight titles at number six. The…

FOR ANYONE interested in the British boxing scene back in the 1920s and 1930s they could do no better than read two books, both of which are exceptional in their portrayal of not only the domestic scene at that time, but provide some…

IT TAKES years to produce a world heavyweight champion. Even the greats like Ali, Marciano, Tyson and Dempsey had to learn their trade fighting six-rounders in the small halls prior to them crashing the world rankings and going on to…

IF YOU were a toff in Edwardian London then you would have watched your boxing at the National Sporting Club, the self-appointed headquarters of boxing and home of the elite. If you weren’t, then you would have journeyed down the…

LAST month marked 50 years since I purchased my first copy of Boxing News, and I have bought it ever since. The front cover featured a photograph of Ralph Charles that marked his official retirement, and another of Danny McAlinden, then the…

A THEME that I constantly parrot is that, back in the 1930s when there were so many professional fighters up and down the country, virtually every town had a stable of fighters, never more so than in the working-class towns and villages…

Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 15 runs in yesterday’s Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala. Sent into bat after losing the toss, DC put up an excellent…