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Opinion Ten current pro standouts who boxed at the 2012 Olympics OLEKSANDR USYKGifted Ukrainian Usyk won a gold medal in the heavyweight category at the 2012 Olympic Games, before going on to earn undisputed status at cruiserweight as a professional. He is now targeting pro heavyweight glory. ERROL SPENCE JNRAfter reaching the quarter-final stage at

News Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions As the big fight everyone was talking about collapses, Manny Pacquiao delivers a contest with Errol Spence that no one was expecting WHILE the big fight everybody was talking about, Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury, was falling apart, a great fight nobody was expecting was being made. Manny Pacquiao will fight Errol

News Andrew Couldridge/Pool/Getty Images The dream of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fighting for the undisputed heavyweight title has, at least in the near term, crumbled. Matt Christie reports ANY hope of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fighting in a boxing ring this summer, as opposed to just squabbling on social media, has dramatically faded

History • Issue • Premium Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Ten years have passed since George Groves got the better of bitter amateur rival James DeGale in the professional ranks. Elliot Worsell was closer to the rivalry than most and remembers it well HE appeared heavier in the face but lighter in both the head and shoulders

Boxers • Issue • Premium Mike Stobe/Getty Images Hank Lundy, a man who fights through the pain barrier, talks to Paul Wheeler When and why you started boxing:It was in my senior year at high school, when I was about 18. Some guy – he had to be about 24 – was out in the

Feature • Issue • Premium Thirty-five years after his retirement Birmingham middleweight Willie Wright – the kind of fighter they just don’t make anymore – talks to Mike Lockley WILLIE WRIGHT’S rugged features – a nose bent and broken more times than the 10 commandments – betrays an uncompromising, 56-fight career against Britain’s best boxers.

Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Runnacles/Getty Images Josh Taylor tells Matt Christie about his frustrations surrounding the impending showdown with Jose Ramirez and his long-term plans for retirement JOSH TAYLOR still has seven pounds to lose and undisputed recognition as the best super-lightweight in the world to gain. But right now, nine days out

Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium The story of Remigijus Ziausys and other hard nuts who made careers out of losing in British boxing rings, writes Steve Bunce IF Saul Canelo Alvarez is building a chess set of the British men he has beaten for display somewhere in his latest mansion, then Remigijus Ziausys could

Issue • News • Premium Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images John Dennen speaks to Fightzone’s Jim McMunn about the new boxing broadcaster that launches this week A new boxing channel is being launched in the UK. Fightzone TV will stream their first event on Friday (May 21), the first of what they expect to be 50 shows

Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury hits an almighty Wilder-shaped snag just as we were starting to believe, writes Matt Christie TYSON FURY said it first. Then Eddie Hearn said it and kept saying it in different ways. Bob Arum said it, seemed to change his mind for

Issue • Opinion • Premium Sky Sports confirm the latest Floyd Mayweather pantomime will be a Box Office event, writes George Gigney as he casts his eyes over the boxing media IN the latest sign of the apocalypse, Sky Sports revealed that it will be broadcasting Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition bout against YouTuber Jake Paul –

Feature • Issue • Premium Tommy Welch was two years old the first time he told his father he wanted to be a boxer. It’s taken a long time for Scott Welch to take his son seriously, writes Matt Christie “YOUR son is out of control, Mr. Welch,” Tommy Welch’s father was told by Tommy

Boxers • Issue • Premium Paul Wheeler talks to Idris Virgo, a man who is certainly not lacking in confidence When and why you started boxing:I started boxing when I was 15 years old. I was hit over the head with a wooden stick, so I needed to learn self-defence. I did kickboxing at first

News Alex Livesey/Getty Images The negotiations appear to be on course. Tyson Fury says the Anthony Joshua mega-fight is on and provides a date and location for it TYSON FURY has said his mega-fight with Anthony Joshua is on. This is a significant statement, even if it’s not the first time this heavyweight unification clash

News Esther Lin/Showtime Brandon Figueroa breaks Luis Nery’s resistance and looks ahead to a clash with Stephen Fulton BRANDON FIGUEROA seized the WBC super-bantamweight title from Luis Nery with a seventh-round KO in a wild shootout in Carson, California. With both fighters being aggressive front-foot punchers, fans were anticipating an action-packed matchup between Figueroa and

Premium • Reports Dave Thompson/Matchroom Joshua Buatsi delivers an emphatic finish in the Manchester main event, while an upset occurs on the undercard IN his first fight under the guidance of esteemed trainer Virgil Hunter, highly touted light-heavyweight Joshua Buatsi demonstrated his predatory instincts once more by producing a brutal finish at Manchester Arena. Going

History • Premium Larry Braysher Looking back on a glorious victory for British amateur boxing THE BRONX, New York City, July 2, 1935. The spectacular Yankee Stadium, home to the New York Yankees, was playing host to 48,000 fight fans there to witness a special amateur show refereed by ex-world heavyweight king Gene Tunney. New

Opinion Amanda Westcott/Showtime Luis Nery, who fights Brandon Figueroa tonight (May 15), is far from the only ‘Panther’ in boxing 1. HARRY WILLS (BLACK PANTHER) One of the very best heavyweights of his era and a bona fide all-time great, Wills was a high-profile victim of boxing’s shameful colour bar, which prevented him from deservedly