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Premium • Preview Two stalled fighters make their cases for big fights down the line in televised show, writes Matt Bozeat NATHAN GORMAN and Josh Kelly are the star attractions on Wasserman Boxing’s latest offering on Channel 5 this Friday night (June 17). Both fighters are keen to get their careers back on track on

Editor’s letter • Premium Dave Harris and Johnny Clark Ringside Charitable Trust to stage press conference to heighten awareness of the plight of ex-boxers BOXING, on the surface, is flying high. Two months ago, Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte competed at a sold-out Wembley Stadium for the world heavyweight championship. In August, Anthony Joshua and

Letters • Premium A tribute to Tommy Wright who fought some of the best of his era THE sport lost another good man recently with the death of Tommy Wright of Doncaster, aged 70, in early May. Tommy had exactly 50 professional contests in a topsy-turvy career that lasted between 1973 and 1980. He lost

Letters • Premium Following Daniel Dubois’ straightforward win against Trevor Bryan last weekend, this week’s panellists were asked to predict the outcome of a fight between Dubois and Dillian Whyte Jason Cunningham (Current European super-bantamweight champion) Good fight. At this stage I’d expect the fresher of the two, Dubois, to win. Dillian’s always dangerous but

News TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images Surprise, surprise, Tyson Fury announces his intention to return to the boxing ring if paid enough money for his time, writes Elliot Worsell WHENEVER children declare they are taking a vow of silence in the name of competition, there is always one child who, despite wanting to win, has a crippling

Opinion Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Having successfully reached 5-0 (4) as a professional boxer, and also flourished as a manager and promoter, isn’t it about time Jake Paul actually boxed a boxer? Elliot Worsell investigates THERE was a time when the principal mystery surrounding the announcement of a fight promotion was all to do with matchups

Premium • Reports Dubois knocks out Bryan, David Martin-Warr/DKP Following Daniel Dubois’ destruction of Trevor Bryan, Declan Taylor looks back on a strange week in Miami and a promotion redolent of a Monty Python sketch A LITTLE under three hours before Daniel Dubois set about Trevor Bryan in an ageing Miami casino, his trainer Shane

Editor’s letter • Premium An integral part of the Boxing News setup for over 12 years, John Dennen gave a voice to countless British amateur boxers and this week left the team for pastures new, writes Matt Christie THERE are numerous things I could write about this week. Devin Haney being crowned the new lightweight

News Action Images/Andrew Couldridge Livepic EDITORIAL USE ONLY. Forget about the title he received at the end of it, Daniel Dubois’ fourth-round stoppage of Trevor Bryan in Miami was an impressive performance, writes Elliot Worsell IT was a strange fight in a strange location against a strange opponent for a strange belt, but in the

News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing New Zealand heavyweight Joseph Parker signs deal with Sky Sports, putting proposed fight with Joe Joyce in doubt IT wasn’t all that long ago we were being told New Zealand heavyweight Joseph Parker would be returning to UK soil in order to fight fellow jovial giant Joe Joyce at some point

News James Chance/Getty Images London cruiserweight Richard Riakporhe ends Fabio Turchi’s night with a vicious body shot in round two FOR the second fight running London cruiserweight Richard Riakporhe has solved a potential southpaw headache by folding an opponent in half to finish a fight just when it had started heating up. The last time

Amateur • Premium There’s so much to admire about boxing. But there’s plenty to worry about too when it comes to the sport’s Olympic future, writes John Dennen BOXING NEWS is the oldest and greatest sports magazine in the world. I can say that now without accusations of bias because after 12 years or three

Premium • Preview Declan Taylor is in Miami to preview Daniel Dubois’ fight with Trevor Bryan MANY of Daniel Dubois’ formative years were spent watching old tapes of Mike Tyson which often contained an easily recognisable promoter with a shock of grey hair lurking in the background – or sometimes the foreground. Now the 24-year-old

News Don’t expect a competitive fight between Trevor Bryan and Daniel Dubois this weekend in Miami, warns Nathan Gorman IF you are currently ranked somewhere in the top 20 heavyweights in Great Britain there’s every chance you are good enough to take the WBA ‘regular’ heavyweight title from America’s Trevor Bryan. That’s according to former

Opinion Top Rank As Japan’s terrifying bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue adds yet another victim to his list of KO wins, Elliot Worsell takes a look at five potential opponents for the ‘Monster’ EARLIER this week in Saitama, Japan we saw the difference between a fighter three years better and a fighter three years older. It

Letters • Premium Action Images In celebration of both Larry Holmes and Devin Haney, this week’s panellists were asked to name their favourite jab in boxing history Wayne Alexander (Former European light-middleweight champion) The boxer that had the best jab in my eyes was former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. His jab was near perfect.

Feature • Premium How a toxic heavyweight rivalry became an enduring friendship IT WASN’T supposed to be like this. The racial divide was meant to play the fighters off against one another. The insults, the stirring, the hostilities, the privileged, the resentful and the overlooked were multiple sides of the same toxic coin. It wasn’t

News • Premium For Salford’s Marc Leach, the art of juggling a boxing career with full-time work and full-time parenting is one he has had to learn to master, writes Elliot Worsell FOR some boxers there is more at stake when fighting than there is for others. While the danger remains the same for all,