The Boxing News Cup

Ignorance is futile

Celebrity boxing is not real boxing by any stretch of the imagination but there are lessons to learn

CROSSING OVER BUT NOT TAKING OVER

NO THREAT: KSI and his mates are simply

PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS

Examining the best and worst of the sport’s weekly coverage

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Humbled and all out of mantras, Anthony Joshua returns from...

TRAILBLAZER

Vernon Vanriel was a fighter I looked up to when I started my boxing journey in the 80s

TIME FOR A RETHINK?

BRITISH GREAT: Lewis' standing continues to rise Photo:

IS CHRIS EUBANK JNR VS LIAM SMITH A BETTER FIGHT THAN EUBANK JNR VS CONOR BENN?

Michael Conlan (Featherweight contender) Yes, I believe

NO MIDDLE GROUND

Ahead of their fight this weekend, here are

Gerrie Coetzee, 1955-2023

Gavin Evans tells the story of a softly spoken wheelerdealer who flirted with the top of the heavyweight division before claiming to throw his last meaningful bout

BEST OF COETZEE

Rating Gerrie’s five finest professional outings

ONE FOR THE FANS

Wood-Lara has been rescheduled, with both fighters confident of victory

POWERFUL MESSAGE

The play based on the life of Vernon Vanriel is worthy of your attention,

BACK TO YORK HALL

Chamberlain, Turner and Adeleye set to star in Queensberry’s latest offering at Bethnal Green

Inside/Outside

A boxer and a coach who both have an inside track on Eubank-Smith give their opinions about what might happen on Saturday,

The Odd Couple

Career cruiserweight Massey rolls the dice against a big-name heavyweight, writes Elliot Worsell

STRANGER THING HAVE HAPPENED

OLD VS NEW: Promoter Jack Solomons hard at

“AFTER A LOSS I HAVE TO PROVE MYSELF”

Joseph Parker insists that his primary focus, for now at least, is Jack Massey

World rankings

In conjunction with the Transnational Boxing Rankings. As of January 16, 2023

NEARLY MAN

Johnny Turner’s coach threatened to knock Howard Cosell’s wig off before Turner himself almost blew his chance to star in Raging Bull when he thumped Robert DeNiro to the floor. And that’s all before he encountered one of the very best boxers of all time...

WHAT A RETURN!

Now that’s how to end a five-year layoff

Rising star

Broadhurst moves up in weight again as the Ulster Finals gather pace

NEW BEGINNING FOR EPSOM

Amateur boxing returns to the area for the first time since 1989 thanks to the 20/20 vision of founder Joe Harding

HANEY VS LOMA?

Sumptuous world lightweight title fight in the offing for May

MUST-WIN

Previewing the best upcoming fights around the world

EFE EDGES IT

But one-time prospect Ajagba doesn’t look like a champion in the making against Shaw, writes Eric Armit

Old fasioned fisticuffs

Though bad-tempered rivalries are a current trend, they’re nothing new

A FULL HOUSE

The first LEBA meeting of 2023 is a roaring sucess

MASON CARTWRIGHT

If he wasn’t a boxer, he’d be fighting fires, writes Andrew Fairley