06 August 2020

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Come Together
@MattCBoxingNews Editor EDDIE HEARN has always done things his own way, likewise Frank Warren. The only things they have in common is their profession and their dislike for each other. But as boxing faces up to life behind closed doors, the two of th
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Don’t Do It, Sergio
Now that boxing is once again well and truly back on the sporting calendar, I was looking through the upcoming events for August. I noticed that there is an event on the 21st in Cantabria, Spain featuring Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez. There were rumou
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King’s Tricks
@BigDaddyBunce Voice of boxing THE leaflets were delivered late at night, slipped under doors in the grandest halls of the finest hotels in Las Vegas, left on the marble reception desks for personal delivery to people in the private suites and surrep
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What A Show!
MATCHROOM BOXING returned to action with a bang (literally, there were fireworks) this past weekend with a solid show in the grounds of their Essex headquarters. With a setup complete with a ring, canopy, pyrotechnics, waiting areas, ringwalk and mor
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Sunshine And A Scrap
“LOCKDOWN has been full of baking and drinking,” Tyrone Nurse laughed while explaining to Boxing News how his upcoming August 8 fight with Kerman Lejarraga, 30-2 (24), materialised out of the blue. “Originally, I couldn’t see myself fighting this sid
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Buchanan In Care
KEN BUCHANAN is lost in his own world. Life is increasingly complicated for the 75-year-old boxing legend and he now finds himself in a nursing home in Leith. Fifty years ago he was at the peak of his considerable powers, headlining Madison Square Ga
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Sibling Rivalry
WHEN the coronavirus pandemic took hold and forced the vast majority of fighters to take a break from training, two young Irish brothers went to work on each other at the bottom of their garden. “We’ve taken full advantage of lockdown,” 23-year-old s
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Fight Camp Fireworks
Reporters’ star ratings for main events and undercards are based on in-ring entertainment, competitiveness and whether overall expectation was met BRENTWOOD AUGUST 1 MAIN EVENT UNDERCARD HAVING been without a win in his previous three bouts, Ted Chee
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King Arthur
STRATFORD JULY 31 MAIN EVENT UNDERCARD “I HURT my right hand on his head early in the fight,” Lyndon Arthur said immediately after outpointing the hard as nails Dec Spelman over 12 rounds. It’s a quote that summed up the contest perfectly. The bout f
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Srisaket Back To Winning Ways
BANG PHUN, THAILAND AUGUST 1 SRISAKET SOR RUNGVISAI returned to the ring for the first time since losing his WBC super-flyweight title to Juan Francisco Estrada in April last year. Up at super-bantamweight, and taking on the rugged Amnat Ruenroeng, S
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All To Play For
The star ratings indicate how well the writer believes the fighters match up, the fight(s)’ contextual significance, and how good the fight(s) will be MAIN EVENT UNDERCARD ROUND three years ago, Stefy Bull, the Doncaster manager, trainer and promoter
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A Warrior’s Tale
“I STARTED off in the sport when I was 14 years old. I remember I was talking with a few of my mates at school and we said that we fancied going to the boxing gym round the corner – Collyhurst and Moston ABC. We said that we’d all bring our kit in th
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Miguel Cotto The Last Fight
ON Saturday, December 2, 2017, at 7:15 PM, Miguel Cotto walked into a dressing room at Madison Square Garden preparatory to fighting for the last time. In recent decades, there has been a premium in boxing on trash-talking and glitz. That was never C
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Choose Your weapons
CONTRARY to rumours going around, pro boxer and mixed martial artist Clay Collard has not picked up a baseball bat or basketball to fill in the time before his next fight. That’s not to say he hasn’t thought about it. “I am very athletic, so if I was
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At Arm’s Length
INSIDE Newbridge, South Wales’ tin can of a boxing gym, former Commonwealth champion and British title challenger Bradley Pryce became a man. He was surrounded by heavy bags, shaken from thudding punches, and carefully evaded snaked skipping ropes le
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Boxers Out Of Lockdown
The very best action, previews and news from Olympic-style boxing With JOHN DENNEN | @BoxingNewsJD SEND us your club's news, results or upcoming events to [email protected] or 020 7618 3478 A MATEUR clubs, under tight restrictions, hav
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A Legend Passes On
A HUGELY respected figure in Scottish boxing, Rab Bannan has passed away. For years he helped young people from Coatbridge at the Barn boxing club and he won the BBC’s Unsung Hero award in 2015. Three-weight world titlist Ricky Burns said, “My though
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This Week In history
August 6, 1966; Earls Court Arena, London WITH 13 losses going into a world heavyweight title shot against the 24-0 Muhammad Ali, including a points reverse to Thad Spencer just three months before, the 15-1 odds stacked against Brian London seemed a
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Boxing On The Box
The 24-7 boxing channel is overloaded with classic fights, featuring the likes of Manny Pacquiao and co, and also has an impressive catalogue of boxing magazine-style shows like KOTV and Boxing Matters. As long as you have access to Sky Sports Mix (w
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Bigger Than Valuev
@thealexdaley Historian & author JUST over a decade ago, David Haye made worldwide headlines when he relieved Russia’s Nikolay Valuev of his WBA heavyweight crown. The fight garnered great attention, not for its quality but for the gulf in size betwe
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We Meet Again
[email protected] EBA correspondent HOME COUNTIES EBA took the plunge and held their first monthly meeting since the lockdown on Sunday July 26 at Watford Town cricket pavilion. There were 23 in attendance, consisting of fighters, fans an
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Chad Sugden
When and why you started boxing: I started training at five years of age. My dad [Dean Sugden] was a kickboxer and had a gym, so I got involved naturally. Favourite all-time fighter: Muhammad Ali, not just because of his achievements in the ring but
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