There is a stand-by column always available to anyone who attempts to write about sport. It goes roughly like this: why is an activity as hideous as boxing called a pastime, and why is that hideous pastime eternally seductive? For...
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Budd Schulberg sees Diego Corrales go four days without food and water then suffer an even greater sacrifice
The highly anticipated Diego Corrales/Joel Casamayor III showdown for the former’s WBC lightweight title turned out to be a near disaster for the defending champion. After Casamayor had stopped his rival on cuts in the first one, and Corrales had...
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During the next 12 weeks, all four of the recognised world heavyweight champions will defend their titles in fights that will barely cause a ripple on the global sporting scanner. First of the four, all of whom are from former...
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Steve Bunce hopes the time has finally come for Britain’s most neglected fighter
Junior Witter is Britain’s most neglected fighter. That is a boxing fact and not a convenient bit of fiction. In nine years as a professional he has lost just once in 36 fights and, since 2000, he has stopped or...
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It’s been a turbulent year but now Scott Harrison is ready for a fight, reports Steve Bunce
Scott Harrison is clean and ready to fight. On Tuesday in Puerto Rico, at the offices of the World Boxing Organisation, a few envelopes will be opened containing purse bids for Harrison’s next fight. If his promoter, Frank Warren,...
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