The aftermath of the controversy surrounding the Froch v Groves fight seems a good time to examine the role of the referee in boxing. Firstly, let me state th... Read More...
Freddie Welsh
Part One:
In the British Isles we are all invaders to a certain extent. Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Normans (who were Vikings or... Read More...
With Blackpool light middleweight Brian Rose on the verge of a world title shot, it seems a good time to salute another world title challenger from Blackpoo... Read More...
The question of what makes a puncher is best addressed by discounting the things that don’t have anything to do with whether a boxer is a puncher or not. The fi... Read More...
For every champion there is a string of contenders and for every contender there must also be a string of journeymen. To an outsider the term journeyman might s... Read More...
The forthcoming fight between David Haye (26 fights, 24 wins and 2 losses) and Tyson Fury (21 fights and 21 wins) is a difficult fight to predict: there are s... Read More...
Chris Eubank
A few years ago a boxing writer opined that there had been so many good boxers and good fights a middleweight, because it was at 160 lbs that t... Read More...
British boxing legend Randolph Turpin defeated the Greatest of all time Sugar Ray Robinson at Earls Court London in July 1951
In the early days of prizefigh... Read More...
Joe Bugner
Growing up in the seventies with curly blond hair and standing around six feet two inches tall, I was frequently compared to heavyweight boxer, J... Read More...
Jock McAvoy - By Brian Hughes MBE
In the far off, distant times when bare knuckle prizefighting was at its peak, sluggers – they were rarely boxers as we un... Read More...
Pele Reid had stopped Vitali Klitschko
There can be few things that excite boxing fans as much as the meteoric rise of a hot prospect. This is doubly so if ... Read More...
The city of Liverpool has produced many great boxers, but few of them were as talented, as likeable and as telegenic as the great John Conteh, who was world... Read More...
The 1970’s – what a decade: the make-up, the glitter, the high heels and sequins, and as for the women! But the 70’s was a particularly rich era for British... Read More...
I was born in 1959 and I'm from Poulton-le-Fylde - outside Blackpool and I've been a Boxing fan since 1976. I boxed as an amateur (briefly and badly)
I have been lucky enough to meet Tim Witherspoon, Joe Frazier and have met and translated for my idol, Roberto Duran. I have lived in Spain for 10 years and speak fluent Spanish. I teach Spanish and write e-books, with an e-book in the pipeline on the subject of boxing. I am also very interested in wildlife and cooking. See more of my work on Amazon here: view my published books
