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1 week ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
ONE is an all-time great, the other was a national hero. The careers of Roberto Duran and Rolando Navarrete are remembered when their sons clash in bareknuckle boxing’s trigon later this month. Robert Duran-Rolando Dy will take place in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 31. For Dy, it is the sport’s equivalent of Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn. “Eubank and Benn inspire me,” said the Filipino. “Both sons of boxing legends and different kinds of style. “I am more of Eubank Jr and Duran is more of Benn.
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3 weeks ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
A COUPLE of minutes into ‘Boxing News’ interview with Nyall ‘Non Stop’ Berry, the line went silent. “Nyall, are you still there?”Turns out he was still there and just needed a few extra moments to think over the answer to my question. The question was: ‘What’s the best punch you’ve landed in your pro career?’ and Berry had a few to choose from.
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3 weeks ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
PROFESSIONAL promoters and managers have been told they will have to wait to sign Britain’s next super-heavyweight hope after World Boxing took a huge step towards securing the future of boxing at the Olympic Games.
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1 month ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
THOMAS TREIBER shivers when he remembers the night he became the most famous ring announcer in the world. “It was my second time on ESPN,” he said, “a show at the Freedom Civic Center in Johnson, Tennessee. “The fight ended in a TKO and I got the time off the timekeeper and got in the ring. “I realised I left my card outside the ring and I couldn’t remember the name of the fighters.
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1 month ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
JESS Barry is heading home to defend her English featherweight championship after winning in France. The 30-year-old from Coventry won a six-round majority decision over Laela El Ksiri in Auch, Southern France. Her next fight will be closer to home. Barry is set to defend her St George’s belt on the latest Excelsior Sporting Club show in Cannock on Thursday, May 29. Excelsior chief Scott Murray has got behind Barry – promoting four of her last six fights – and was in France with her.
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1 month ago | 
express.co.uk | Mark Whiley |Matt Bozeat
'I floored Chris Eubank Jr with first punch of fight – Conor Benn can do the same'EXCLUSIVE: One of Chris Eubank Jr's former opponents recalls dropping him with the first punch of their fight. Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn will collide in their controversial fight on Saturday night (Image: Getty)Eubank, who usually fights at super-middleweight, is the favourite to defeat Benn, whose previous 23 fights have been at welterweight.
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1 month ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
KARRISS Artingstall, bronze medallist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, handed out the trophies when Macclesfield Boys Club celebrated their 20th anniversary with a show at Wilmslow Leisure Centre. To the delight of a sell-out crowd, Macclesfield had eight winners from nine bouts, including James Rowlinson. There was big support for the 24-year-old cruiserweight as he returned from an eight-year break and he sent his supporters home happy by outpointing Lewis Crawford (Rainford).
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1 month ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
ROTUNDA ABC look set to enter five hopefuls in the National Amateur Championships this month – including the teenage light-heavyweight with the Hollywood name and boxing DNA. Callum Makin and Olivia Holmes – last year’s champions at 71kgs and 57kgs respectively – are unlikely to enter and coach Mikey Albertina told Boxing News he was uncertain if Amber Moss-Birch would return to defend her 80 kgs title.
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1 month ago | 
peterboroughtoday.co.uk | Matt Bozeat
Orton man Martin Reffell fell short in his bid to bring a World Bareknuckle Boxing title to Peterborough. He was beaten in the sixth and last round by Liam Rees in Cardiff when challenging for his super-welterweight belt. Commentators said: ‘The belt is on the line’ going into the last round after five tight rounds. Rees had been docked a point, leaving the fight close on the cards at Vale Sports Arena.
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1 month ago | 
boxingnewsonline.net | Matt Bozeat
IN the darkest days of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, those who pleaded for peace would say: ‘Leave the fighting to McGuigan.’Barry McGuigan was way more than a boxer, way more than a world champion. He came from a country divided by war, but both sides came together when he fought and 40 years ago this summer, McGuigan gave Ireland one of the best nights in its entire sporting history.
