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Ignorance is futile • Celebrity boxing is not real boxing by any stretch of the imagination but there are lessons to learn

TIME FOR A RETHINK?

NO MIDDLE GROUND • Ahead of their fight this weekend, here are the 10 best wins recorded by Chris Eubank Jnr and Liam Smith to date…

CROSSING OVER BUT NOT TAKING OVER • Don’t sweat it, folks; the last thing Misfits Boxing needs is ‘real’ boxing

PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS • It will take more than the farcical Misfits to improve DAZN’s dire financial performance, writes George Gigney

A Fairly Honourable Defeat • Humbled and all out of mantras, Anthony Joshua returns from…

TRAILBLAZER • Vernon Vanriel was a fighter I looked up to when I started my boxing journey in the 80s

Gerrie Coetzee, 1955-2023 • Gavin Evans tells the story of a softly spoken wheeler-dealer who flirted with the top of the heavyweight division before claiming to throw his last meaningful bout

BEST OF COETZEE • Rating Gerrie’s five finest professional outings

ONE FOR THE FANS • Wood-Lara has been rescheduled, with both fighters confident of victory

HANEY VS LOMA? • Sumptuous world lightweight title fight in the offing for May

POWERFUL MESSAGE • The play based on the life of Vernon Vanriel is worthy of your attention, writes Simon Euan-Smith

BACK TO YORK HALL • Chamberlain, Turner and Adeleye set to star in Queensberry’s latest offering at Bethnal Green

PREVIEWS • Previewing the best upcoming fights around the world

MUST-WIN • The top-flight careers of Eubank and Smith hang in the balance ahead of enticing showdown that is so hard to call, writes Matt Christie

Inside/Outside • A boxer and a coach who both have an inside track on Eubank-Smith give their opinions about what might happen on Saturday, writes Elliot Worsell

The Odd Couple • Career cruiserweight Massey rolls the dice against a big-name heavyweight, writes Elliot Worsell

STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED • HOW DID JACK MASSEY, A CRUISERWEIGHT STRUGGLING FOR AN OPPONENT, END UP FACING JOSEPH PARKER, A WORLD-FAMOUS HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDER?

“AFTER A LOSS I HAVE TO PROVE MYSELF” • Joseph Parker insists that his primary focus, for now at least, is Jack Massey

EFE EDGES IT • But one-time prospect Ajagba doesn’t look like a champion in the making against Shaw, writes Eric Armit

World rankings • In conjunction with the Transnational Boxing Rankings. As of January 16, 2023

NEARLY MAN • Johnny Turner’s coach threatened to knock Howard Cosell’s wig off before Turner himself almost blew his chance to star in Raging Bull when he thumped Robert DeNiro to the floor. And that’s all before he encountered one of the very best boxers of all time…

The Boxing News Cup • Sell-out crowd attend South Wye’s annual show

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