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WHILE you can never say with any real certainty that a scheduled fight will be a “Fight of the Year” candidate, some fights tend to be safer bets than others. The recently announced February 18 featherweight fight between Leigh Wood and Mauricio Lara, for example, is one fight which, were it measured like a football

IT WAS confirmed a few days ago that the fight between YouTubers KSI and FaZe Temperrr this weekend will come at a cost of £11.99 on DAZN PPV. Fans in the US would have to stump $39.99 for the show. What a wonderful start to 2023. KSI was initially scheduled to fight mixed-martial artist Dillon

A ROWDY sellout crowd of 19,731 at Capital One Arena witnessed a 12-bout mixed bag, featuring a bevy of mismatches, a couple of upsets, a winning but disappointing performance by a rising star and a stellar outing by the boxer the crowd came to see, Gervonta “Tank” Davis. As is his wont Davis got off

BACK in 2020, within my series of the top 50 British contests, I ranked the 1950 bout between the heavyweights Johnny Williams and Jack Gardner at number 28. I wrote that “The contest was sensational and the hardened Leicester fight fans, who had seen every heavyweight of note in Britain over the previous 20 years,

NEW BOXING year, same old boxing stories in the heavyweight division. You know the ones: this will be my last year, I will have three fights, new saviour found, deal being discussed, I’m invisible, nobody wants to fight me, I’m coming back, contract sent. And on it goes. It is close to the same just

JULY THE RISE OF AYALA IN one of the most gripping and important interviews BN conducted in 2022, Alejandra Ayala detailed her recovery after falling into a coma following her defeat to Hannah Rankin in May. Back with her parents after a lengthy stay in hospital, Ayala said of the moment she woke up: “It

JANUARY JONATHAN GUIDRY EMERGES THE year began with British boxing locked down as the coronavirus pandemic that had threatened to decimate an entire planet continued to loom large over our sport. For Boxing News, a weekly boxing magazine largely reliant on some fighting actually taking place, it left us with pages to fill. Thankfully, the

DESPITE the quality produced by its frontline workers, 2022 was the year the boxing industry twerked for fast food and then had the temerity to sell it on to its loyal customers as gourmet. It was the year the sport finally got with the times, in other words, and did its best to attract a

THERE was plenty of disgruntlement on New Year’s Eve when we announced that Jack Catterall was our choice for Male British Fighter of the Year. ‘This has to be a joke,’ was a common reply. Our reasoning, which was not designed to make anyone laugh, is fairly simple: We felt he comfortably defeated Josh Taylor

BOXING fans can pick up each new book by Tris Dixon with confidence that it will be a good one. Warrior, Dixon’s biography of Mathew Saad Muhammad (Pitch Publishing), continues this tradition. Maxwell Antonio Loach (the fighter’s original name) was born in 1954 and abandoned at age four on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

Interview: Alex Steedman BN: Explain what you’ve gone through since the sudden collapse of your fight against Conor Benn. You can’t have a more frustrating experience than going through a whole camp, cutting weight, and then have the fight fall through 48 hours before you’re supposed to get in the ring. What’s even more crazy

AS THE year began, a lot of our attention was focused on how the PPV market within boxing would change, if at all, in 2022. While there have certainly been developments on that front, it’s another topic that proved to be far more important this year: accountability. Boxing is often referred to as the Wild

BACK in 2019 I wrote about the inglorious end to the career of Jack Bodell, the British heavyweight champion between 1969 and 1970, and again between 1971 and 1972. Jack will sadly always be remembered for the last three contests of his career, very quick stoppage losses at the hands of Jerry Quarry, Jose Urtain

IT WAS like an old-fashioned slugfest between two men trying to deny the inevitable clock. That was, in my opinion, the story of British boxing in 2022, a year of constant struggles. They fought for giant prizes and the old lines of decency were blurred repeatedly by scares, injustices, grand finishes, pointless fights, beautiful nights, history and

1 Clarity regarding failed drug tests Sadly, the abomination that was Conor Benn vs. Chris Eubank Jnr has brought this topic very much back into focus, with transparency going forward – from promoters, boxers and regulators – now vital. 2 After care While the Ringside Charitable Trust are always making strides in this department, they

Nate Collins (Commonwealth featherweight champion) I would like to see Leigh Wood vs. Mick Conlan II in 2023. Their first fight was one of the best fights I have watched in a long time! I might be biased as a featherweight, but that’s the fight I would like to see again. Gervonta Davis and Shakur

1 Jordan Gill W KO 9 Karim Guerfi In a year featuring some of the most dramatic one-punch knockouts we have seen for some time, the number one spot ultimately goes to Jordan Gill and the right hand he pulled from nowhere to extinguish the attack of a buoyant Karim Guerfi in February. This shot,

1 Dmitry Bivol W UD 12 Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Even though we knew Bivol was good going into this fight, and even though there was always the risk of Alvarez one day biting off more than he could chew, that should take nothing away from the way in which Bivol outclassed and played with “Canelo”