24 August 2023

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Drug-free Sport?
THE issue of performance-enhancing drugs in boxing was again the biggest story of last week when it was confirmed Alycia Baumgardner had failed a test. It was conducted on July 12 by Drug Free Sport, an American agency used regularly by Matchroom Box
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The Opening Bell…
• The BN podcast has been described as the ‘most impartial and informative podcast around’ and a ‘mustlisten’. • Joe Gallagher is on hand this week to talk Joshua, drugs in boxing and look ahead to Usyk versus Dubois. • Listen (for free) via Apple, S
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Weed Out The Drug Pushers
IT seems clear from the amount of drug tests being failed that either the boxers taking illegal substances are getting careless or the drug testers are getting luckier. What isn't so obvious is what now happens to those boxers who are caught. Zolani
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Larger Ladies
The first woman to win a major world heavyweight title, the 6ft 6ins ‘All-American Girl’ outpointed Martha Salazar in 2007 for the WBC belt, but she is best known for her one defeat – a hellacious one-punch KO to Ann Wolfe at light-heavy. It’s a YouT
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A Different Breed
NICKY BOOTH once told me that he had always wanted to swim the British Channel and asked if I fancied going with him to Kent to launch his bid. He meant that day, that moment. Booth was not in a great way at the time, but he was determined to swim to
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At Home With The Furys
LAST WEEK, Netflix launched its latest docuseries, At Home With The Furys, a nine-episode rollercoaster that looks at the everyday life of one Tyson Fury and his family. While this might not be that exciting for hardcore boxing fans (it’s more Keepin
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A Positive Test
IT’S TRUE – if you are able to ignore the rate at which boxers are getting caught taking performance-enhancing drugs, and the fact that each failed test appears to be a matter of inconvenience for promoters rather than an impetus for change, and that
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The Deep End
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 FOR any parent, there comes a time when they must decide whether to continue e
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Heavy Hopes
AMERICA no longer churns out heavyweight prospects like it used to, so when one comes along, like 23-year-old JARED ANDERSON, there is a weight of expectancy on their shoulders. So far, the 15-0 (14) Toledo man [below] has handled it well. Quick wins
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Making Dynamite
“DANIEL’S just walked in,” shouts an unidentified voice in the direction of the office adjacent to PUG, Don Charles’ Finchley-based gym. “The show must go on,” the trainer, sat behind his desk, in turn tells Boxing News, mentally and physically prepa
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“I Know Oleksandr Usyk Better Than Anybody”
DON CHARLES’ faith in what he refers to as “the universe” is perhaps particularly relevant in the context of him recruiting the experienced James Ali Bashir to work alongside him during Daniel Dubois’ preparations for Saturday’s fight with Oleksandr
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That’s The way To Do It
MARCH 17,1897. CARSON CITY, NEVADA CORBETT laughed off the idea of fighting Fitzsimmons after it was put to him. ‘Gentleman Jim’ had little regard for his boxing or manners and thought there would no interest in a match against the former middleweigh
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Cutting Deep
Reporters’ star ratings for main events and undercards are based on in-ring entertainment, competitiveness and whether overall expectation was met BETHNAL GREEN AUGUST 18 MAIN EVENT UNDERCARD ATMOSPHERE THERE was a feverish atmosphere at a sold-out Y
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Home Sweet Home
BIRMINGHAM AUGUST 19 MAIN EVENT UNDERCARD ATMOSPHERE A FIRST outing on home soil as a pro for Olympic flyweight gold medallist Galal Yafai proved one to savour for the 30-year-old who, late to the paid ranks yet impressive from the very outset, neede
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Big Girls Do Cry
ASK any boxing writer who they’d like to interview, and chances are the heavyweight champion of the world will be on the shortlist. Journalists have made their names by writing about the champions of the sport’s glamour division, or by doing so have
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When Barker Beat The Count
DARREN BARKER: My mum graduated as a mature student. We was up at the Southbank, and my phone rang, and it was Eddie [Hearn]. I was walking over the bridge, back to Embankment. “Good news – got the fight with [Daniel] Geale.” “Right – that is it. Thi
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Facing The Hurricane
IN ENGLAND in the summer months of 1939, it was clear that a storm was coming. Just over two decades on from the end of the First World War, another terrible conflict approached in Europe. However, danger also approached from the west, in the shape o
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Olaore Gets Olympic Chance
THERE will be British interest in next month’s African Olympic qualifying tournament in Senegal. Adam Olaore will be representing Nigeria at heavyweight in Dakar (September 9-15) after winning the African Championships in Cameroon earlier this month.
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Decision Time
THERE was only one person in Ben Litwin’s thoughts about he was finally crowned NAC Champion. At the fourth attempt, he won the title by outpointing Reece Readshaw (Phil Thomas) in the under-49 kgs final in Newcastle in April. “I had to win it for Te
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The first Nordic Nightmare
THE first professional boxing tournament to be held in Finland took place on May 16, 1935, at the Messuhalli, in Helsinki. British boxing under Queensberry rules had commenced 64 years previously and the United States, Australia and France all become
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Sanigar Joins Eba
A FAMILY reunion meant I had to miss London EBA’s August meeting, so I was pleased to hear from Chairman Bob Cheeseman that it was a terrific success, with 122 members and friends checking in. “A great meeting,” Bob said. “One of the best. It looked
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Tyler Rivers
When and why you started boxing: I started boxing at the age of 10 after watching Rocky and asking my dad to take me to a gym. Favourite all-time fighter: Sugar Ray Leonard for how slick he was, but he also didn’t mind having a tear-up. Best fight yo
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