A HEAD of your victory in December over Regis Prograis it was still being said that you didn’t deserve the decision over Vasyl Lomachenko. Heading into Saturday’s fight, it’s instead being said how superbly you performed against Prograis. How has tha

I THOUGHT Ellie Scotney was brilliant at the weekend and though I used to be very undecided about women’s boxing, though not against it, it is fighters like Scotney who have won me over. Technically, she is excellent and I'd be interested to hear fro

When and why you started boxing: I grew up very ‘rough’ and I quickly realised I needed to know how to defend myself. Favourite all-time fighter: Roy Jones Jnr. Best fight you’ve seen: My favourite would have to be the middleweight scrap between Marv

ALTHOUGH this week started with Frank Warren officially announcing his involvement in one of the most significant shows of his career over in Saudi Arabia, it will end with a return to the Hall of Fame promoter’s bread and butter at York Hall. The pr

A QUICK canvassing of opinion among regulars at The Eastside Rooms prior to the clash for the vacant Midlands Area welterweight title between unbeaten pair Ben Vaughan and Coseley’s Liam Gould revealed a majority who felt Northampton southpaw Vaughan

Elliot Worsell @ElliotWorsell Online Editor WE ARE all susceptible to it from time to time; just saying stuff, that is. Saying stuff that in the moment feels right, or wise, or the right thing to say, until, in the aftermath, it is reframed and all o

FLOYD MAYWEATHER once said, “I won’t get my dues as an active fighter. It will be when I’ve been retired for 20 years when you will all look back and realise how great I am.” Not quite as poetic – or humble – as Joni Mitchell’s timeless Big Yellow Ta

WILLIE LIMOND, the former British and Commonwealth super-lightweight champion, tragically passed away on Monday (April 15) at the age of 45. Limond, from Glasgow, had been preparing for a fight against Joe Laws on May 3 when, while driving, he suffer

RATHER than lazily call Joe Gallagher the repair man, or suggest he is boxing’s go-to fixer-upper, it might be better comparing him to someone like Quentin Tarantino, whose favourite thing in the nineties was to revamp the careers of actors and actre

IN HIS first fight for 308 days, Charlie Edwards, the former WBC flyweight belt-holder, comprehensively outboxed willing Frenchman Georges Ory at a sold-out York Hall. Judges Ali Oubaali (France), Francisco Alloza Rosa (Spain) and Kieran McCann (UK)

Miles Templeton Boxing historian BEFORE York Hall, London was once a hotbed of small hall venues that regularly hosted professional boxing. Bethnal Green’s York Hall is London’s last surviving example of the old-fashioned small halls that predominate

Steve Bunce @BigDaddyBunce Voice of boxing LET ME take you on a little journey from the back of York Hall, where there are always dead pigeons and discarded vapes on the floor, to the ring at the Olympics this summer in Paris. It is, I admit, not a d

Simon Euan-Smith simonoldtimers@googlemail.com EBA correspondent DESPITE problems with public transport there was a good turn-out at London EBA’s April meeting, with the raffle raising £388. It was nice that so many could make it, because the meeting

GLOUCESTER’S Jack Bannister topped a Mark Neilson card at the MECA and it ended when the corner of Wakefield’s overmatched Marcin Prostko signalled to referee Mark Bates to pull their man out at the end of the fourth of a six-threes. Prostko was dura

THABISO ‘TT’ MOYO was awarded the Dave Pratt Memorial Shield at Leicester Railwaymen’s ABC’s show on April 7. The shield is named after one of the founders of the original club, Old Robin Hood. Pratt, a former amateur and pro, set up Old Robin Hood i

THE new week began with a flurry of activity as, firstly, there was news of another last-minute purse bid cancellation. Following on from Adam Azim’s withdrawal from one ahead of a potential fight with Dalton Smith, this time Isaac Chamberlain decide

Matt Christie @MattCBoxingNews Editor IT IS still both peculiar and pleasing to see Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn together some five months after they were first photographed alongside each other, mere moments after they’d first met. One is left wonde