A Boxing Memory: Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook It always looked like a bridge too far for Kell Brook in 2016. It was a gamble in many ways for the reigning IBF welterweight champion of the world. Brook and the 19,000 inside the O2 Arena in London came with hope if no real expectation. But … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook
A Boxing Memory: Julian Jackson vs. Herol Graham Herol Graham is certainly up there when the discussions begin about the greatest British boxer never to win a world title. Three times he tried. Three times, he came agonisingly close to being crowned a world champion. But that night in Spain in 1990 was most certainly … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Julian Jackson vs. Herol Graham
A Boxing Memory: Amir Khan vs. Breidis Prescott It was a fight that brought back memories of the night Errol Christie got flattened inside a round by an unheralded import. The Belgium light-heavyweight Jose Seys knocked out the highly-touted Christie in 1984. Seys didn't build off the win and struggled to win any fight thereafter. … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Amir Khan vs. Breidis Prescott
A Boxing Memory: Moorer vs. Foreman “It happened! It happened!” Jim Lampley The New York Times labelled it 'a right hand thrown from about 1973 that enabled George Foreman to once again reclaim what was lost in Zaire twenty years previously. Foreman wasn't quite in retirement when that call came to fight the WBA and … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Moorer vs. Foreman
A Boxing Memory: Froch vs. Groves 2 It was a rematch that was born out of controversy. A perceived early stoppage in their first meeting. George Groves denied a rightful victory. Carl Froch cheered into the ring. Booed on his way out of it. The initial reluctance soon gave way to the inevitable. What started … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Froch vs. Groves 2
A Boxing Memory: John H. Stracey John H. Stracey was born in Bethnal Green in 1950, near where the great Ted ‘Kid’ Lewis called home. The East End of London is the ideal place for an aspiring boxer, Stracey grew up on a council estate, and he learned to use his fists from an early … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: John H. Stracey
A Boxing Memory: Maurice Hope Maurice Hope was just nine when he left his native Antigua and grew up in Hackney, London. Inspired to take up boxing by his elder half-brother Lex Hunter. Hunter was a decent enough professional, and Hope followed his older sibling by joining the Repton Amateur Boxing Club when he was … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Maurice Hope
A Boxing Memory: Tony Sibson vs. Alan Minter "Sibson hit me with a blinder of a punch. I think it would have knocked out any fighter in the world." Alan Minter Boxing rarely allows a former champion to leave the sport without shedding at least some semblance of their dignity. Very few leave boxing on … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Tony Sibson vs. Alan Minter
A Boxing Memory: Pat Cowdell When I remember Pat Cowdell, I think largely of three fights. That almighty struggle with the brilliant Mexican Salvador Sanchez in 1981 for the WBC featherweight championship of the world. The mind also flickers back to two nights when Cowdell didn’t see out the opening three minutes. The big punching … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Pat Cowdell
A Boxing Memory: Miguel Cotto Miguel Cotto didn't get the fairytale finish to his quite magnificent sixteen-year career. But in truth, it didn't matter. Cotto still had his peace. At 37, his time was up. He knew it. His body knew it. Like virtually every fighter before him, Cotto went out on a defeat. It … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Miguel Cotto
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