Boxing News Magazine Boxing News Annual 2013 Special Issue

INSIDE the Boxing News Annual 2013, we select the five best British and International fights of the year, as well as the five best British and International fighters of the year.

We look at the life and times of the sport’s biggest box-office star Floyd Mayweather Jnr and wonder how he would have fared against certain boxing legends of past eras.

Experts’ views are sampled as we analyse the achievements of the ‘Four Little Kings’ – Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao. ‘Pacman’ is also the subject of a four-page feature examining the extent to which he has declined since his peak years in the sport.

The story of the infamous David Haye-Dereck Chisora fight is retold in depth, ‘The Voice of Boxing’ Larry Merchant talks us through his 34-year association with fight broadcaster HBO and we chart the progress of boxing on the Internet.

We look back on a glorious golden summer for Team GB’s boxers at the London 2012 Olympics and pick out our top 10 hot prospects to keep an eye out for in the coming year.

Memories of the ‘Golden Era of Heavyweights’ are brought back to life as we look back on the career-defining fights of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton and Larry Holmes.

We take a trip back in time as we recount the big events that took place in the sport throughout the ages. We also showcase the best boxing photographs of the year, as well as the most entertaining 60-second interview responses from a variety of fighters.

Finally, the Boxing News team look into their crystal ball and offer their predictions for the 2013 boxing year.

All this and much more in over 170 action-packed pages.