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“After my operation, the weight blew up and I wasn’t in the gym for a while, and I think at one stage I thought, ‘Nah – this isn’t happening for me again. I don’t think I’ll fight again’. I was too far away from it.” The Stewart Burt (13-2-1, 1 KO) speaking to Boxing Social right now versus the […]
With his phone propped up against the turnbuckle of an empty ring, Andrzej Fonfara (30-5, 18 KOs) is all smiles. He’s far more relaxed and recognisable now in retirement than he was during the peak of his fighting career, when he was often grimacing, biting down on his gumshield, or cloaked in blood. Now, it’s […]
“They would take kids and throw them in ovens – they’ve discovered bodies that are just ash now. They [adults in positions of power] would impregnate young, Native girls and sexual abuse was very common – those are just some stories that I’ve heard. The last residential school was closed in 1998. That really affects […]
It’s been 14 years since former female battler Terri Moss (9-9, 3 KOs) walked to the ring for the last time as a professional boxer. But ever since, she’s been continuing to give back to the sport in a multitude of ways, and this Thursday she hosts and promotes two events simultaneously in Atlanta, Georgia. […]
“I’ve been in front of 18 thousand people, and I got into a fight that night on the ice, actually. People say, ‘The eyes aren’t all on you,’ but in that moment, they were. We squared up, took our gloves off and it was a bare knuckle fight on thin, ice hockey skates.” Hunter Warner is […]
When reaching out to Lenin Castillo, the purpose had been to shine a light on some of the Dominican Republic’s former Olympic representatives, where had they gone? What had become of them? Castillo, outpointed when stepping up to challenge Dmitry Bivol for his WBA light-heavyweight title in Chicago in 2019, had just returned to the […]
Christy Martin is restless. She’s sitting, then standing and walking around the room, before sitting again and fixing her hair. This is one of tens of calls she’s joined in the last week, discussing Netflix’s documentary ‘Untold: Deal with the Devil’ which features Martin’s equally torrid and triumphant story, discussing her latest professional boxing promotion, or slicing open […]
Big Hebert Sousa was handed an Olympic draw from the devil, squaring off against top seeds and trailing in his gold medal bout. In the most extraordinary of finishes, the man from Brazil summoned an enormous, debilitating left hook to end the almost guaranteed, podium-topping hopes of top seed, Oleksandr Khyzhniak. Sousa was trailing, he’d […]
There was a sense of relief following Manny Pacquiao’s loss to Yordenis Ugas; relief that the Filipino icon hadn’t been staring down the barrel of Errol Spence Jnr’s punches as originally intended, and that maybe, it has dawned on the fallen fighter that enough is enough. Pacquiao didn’t look awful, but he didn’t look […]
Antonio Mireles is a man of few words. The Des Moines, Iowa native, a promising heavyweight recently signed to Split-T Management, looks set for an explosive introduction to professional boxing, but when speaking to him, you’d assume his chosen discipline was surfing or something far safer. It isn’t so much what he says though; it’s how he […]
“The only reason I’m still here is because I love the game. Boxing has been one of the biggest blessings in my life directly from God. With that being said, it’s been one of the biggest heartbreakers in my life, too. To be in love with this game, it’s definitely not for the weak. You […]
It’s quite a sight: giant Wasserman heavyweight prospect Matty Harris squeezing himself out of the window of his current residence – an old, classic caravan that he could probably lift and move on his own, if he so desired. This is home from now until the eve of his professional debut, but the home/vehicle has […]