Donald McRae
Sports Reporter at The Guardian
Author of 14 books about fighters, surgeons, trial lawyers, South Africa & real life. Interviewer The Guardian https://t.co/3NXuM5Fznd…
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“This man is my hero,” Michael Watson says simply as he turns to Peter Hamlyn, the neurosurgeon who saved his life and carried out seven operations on the stricken boxer’s brain in the aftermath of his fight against Chris Eubank in September 1991. “We are like family, me and Peter, and we have unusual banter.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“I am a little scared,” Joe Gallagher says quietly as, in a deserted room upstairs at his famous old gym in Moss Side, Manchester, he addresses the stage four bowel and liver cancer that has taken hold of him. Two hours earlier, while giving me a guided tour of the Champs Camp gym where history and sweat seep from the peeling walls, Gallagher had been in roaring flow.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“Oh, mate, absolutely,” Ruby Tui exclaims from the other side of the world when asked if she will be in England for the women’s rugby World Cup this August. “It’s not even a question, bro. I’ll be there supporting my team or I’ll be in my team. Whatever it is, there’s no way you can miss the World Cup 2025.”We are deep in an interview that began at seven o’clock on a sleepy Monday morning in England, and eight o’clock that evening in New Zealand, and Tui is flying.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“It feels like such a sweet week and of course I’m very happy and proud,” Boris van der Vorst says as, in his role as the founder and president of World Boxing, he takes a rare break to reflect on a mighty achievement. Just over two years ago, boxing had been struck off the initial programme for the Los Angeles Games in 2028 and it was about to be banished entirely from the Olympic movement.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
Boxing seems a smaller and darker world now. George Foreman has gone and, with his death, he takes a little more of the fading light and lost glory of the ring with him. My own life in boxing, which stretches across 55 years, can be divided into stages and all of them carry markers Foreman left in the dirt and dust of the fight game.
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https://t.co/JsJ4WM15ir New show out today joining me is #DonaldMcRae In “The Last Bell,” award-winning author Donald McRae reflects on six tumultuous years in boxing, grief, and redemption—featuring Tyson Fury, Canelo Álvarez, and more itsan unflinching, emotional journey https://t.co/hGUwPBXtIb
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