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Ali - Rise Of A Hero

There he was, the dancing master, shuffling up the steps as though battling through an invisible blizzard, his clasp on the flickering torch heartbreakingly compromised by hands that shook uncontrollably. For over two decades, from his professional d...

Bernard Hopkins: Cries of a Wolf

The last morsel of action is coming to a close, the seconds tick, tick, tick away until the final burst of fury is snuffed out by the timekeepers clang. It’s out of his hands now…just like it was last time. The crowd bellow, the cameras pop, and the...

The Legacy of Roy Jones Jr.

The clucking and crowing fill the morning air on the ranch. We’re in Pensacola, Florida, and the pale glow of the freshly risen sun has brought out in the grass and trees every imaginable shade of green. Light, dark, emerald, verdant, moss, they all...

The Punch That Never Came

You always wondered what would happen if It got fed up with bailing him out…that was, until you found out. Surely, you thought, Its loyalty to him will evaporate as swiftly as a shallow stream under the beating sun once it realizes the extent to whic...

Courtney Fry - An Opportunity Missed

A forlorn figure watched longingly from the shadows as his team-mate stood illuminated on the Olympic podium, about to receive his Gold.

The Battle of Britain - Audley Harrison vs. Danny Williams

On a frostbitten morning in Cardiff, Wales, Frank Bruno was a man infused with the spirit of a nation. Resolute and utterly fired up beyond a mere mortal’s boundary of comprehension, a career best performance looked to be reaching a stunning cresc...

Time to Stop Looking the Other Way

Jermain Taylor, Undisputed Middleweight Champion – With the unfortunate passing of Leavander Johnson, boxing has lost not only a world champion, but it lost a world class man. After I won my title in July, I came to New York to meet the media and I a...

Can Roy Jones Turn Back The Clock?

Roy Jones was king of the world. With the exquisiteness of a Picasso brushstroke, the Pensacola, Florida native illustrated against the comparatively hulking John Ruiz that the cosmic gap between brilliance and mediocrity cannot be bridged by a meagr...

Joe Calzaghe Only Fooling Himself

Britain’s longest reigning world champion, Joe Calzaghe, made yet another successful defense of his prized WBO super-middleweight title this past Saturday. It was a dreary points win over Denmark-based Kenyan Evans Ashira in front of an adoring home...

Clinton Woods: A Long and Bumpy Road

After three failed world title attempts, Britain’s Clinton Woods looked destined to be just another in a staggeringly long line of nearly men churned out by the sport over the last century. He was set to join the likes of Jerry Quarry, Bennie Briscoe...

Danny Williams: It's Not Over For Him Just Yet

With the debilitating weight of national expectation burrowing down on his massive shoulders, we witnessed ‘Brixton Bomber’ Danny Williams cruelly and unmercifully exposed by current WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko over eight shockingly one...

Remembering Lewis-Rahman II

For six months, Hasim Rahman poked, teased, and mocked the man who he sensationally knocked out in five rounds to call himself the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

Audley Harrison: A Brit’s-Eye View

For Britain, the Sydney 2000 Olympics – five years ago this summer – was special. If I were to go to a busy town centre in London, politely pull aside ten random passing by and ask them each individually to tell me what made the games of that year...

Tszyu-Hatton: I Had a Dream

England, June 5th, 2am: The noise is deafening, almost frightening. Chants, screams, whistles, they are all for one man. The crowd, a sea of excitement and anticipation, had erupted into hysteria a few minutes earlier at the first sight of their hero...

Calzaghe’s Quest For Greatness

Super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (39-0) kept his mega-fight ambitions alive on May the 5th with a repeat victory over former first round KO victim, Mario Veit (45-2). The long reigning Welsh champion showed his mettle by traveling into hostil...