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I can’t be mithered with arena shows. Post-lockdown I probably won’t attend any, either. It had reached the point where I thought to myself that if I wanted to sit in a row of self-obsessed egomaniacs I should probably just start going ...
British boxing has had some brilliant commentary teams in recent decades. For instance, ITV’s Reg Gutteridge and Jim Watt. Then you had the one-two of Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory when Sky Sports was on the rise, with the ever-present Watt...
WHEN Boxing Social caught up with Glenn McCrory (30-8-1, 12 KOs) the former IBF cruiserweight champion of the world was knocking up a chicken curry. Hopefully he turned the fire off from under it as the 55-year-old was in a garrulous mo...
BOXING has a culture of vilifying people. As a collective we enjoy nothing more than dragging someone out of the chorus line and saying, to quote the film that all boxers love, “There goes the bad guy.” Former prisoner (he did five-year...
THE Greater Manchester market town of Bury — initially named Buri, an early form of the word borough — was given its name because a stronghold grew around an ancient marketplace during the Roman occupation of what we now know as the Uni...
A common convention long-held in boxing was that a defeat is the end. Promoters, trainers and fighters went to great lengths to preserve the mighty ‘0’ when, for some, it was a sign that a fighter has not been through and overcome genui...
Tyson Fury (29-0-1, 20 KO’s) fight weeks are always a whirlwind of words, proclamations, often outlandish, and face offs that are either intense or completely surreal. Throw WBC heavyweight holder Deontay Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs), himself ...
People who are only used to Elton John’s flamboyant “Piano Man” persona or know him by way of his greatest hits collections could be forgiven for not realising that in the 1970s he had an astonishing run of LPs alongside songwriting p...
It is always nice when you make a tenuous connection between two boxing bills then realise they have more in common than you initially thought. The tagline “The Clash On The Dunes” that was given to Anthony Joshua’s successful...