Tris Dixon
Freelance Boxing Journalist at Freelance
BoxingScene. Former Boxing News editor. British Boxing Hall of Famer. Ringside Charitable Trust and Ring of Brotherhood board member
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1 week ago |
boxingscene.com | Tris Dixon
It’s the eve of another important fight, and Galal Yafai could not be more relaxed about it. The 2020 Olympic champion, who is nine fights into his professional career at flyweight is relaxed as ever and, in conversation with BoxingScene, sighs in his laidback Midlands accent: “Yeah, it’s just a fight, you know. Obviously there’s pressure in winning in my home city and fighting against a good fighter. “I’m expected to win for people that don’t really know who I’m fighting.
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1 week ago |
boxingscene.com | Tris Dixon
Liverpool talent Peter McGrail believes he is only a fight or two away from a world title opportunity, but knows he cannot afford a misstep against Ionut Baluta this weekend. They meet in Birmingham and the experienced Romanian, a frequent traveler to British shores in recent years, will be hoping to enhance his own world title aspirations with victory over the 11-1 (6 KOs) Englishman.
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2 weeks ago |
boxingscene.com | Tris Dixon
(Photo: One of DiSanto's previous gravestone projects, for former light heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Muhammad)John DiSanto is continuing his quest of making sure Philadelphia’s finest fighters are remembered. Historian DiSanto, who set up the PhillyBoxingHistory.com website more than 20 years ago, is now raising funds for a headstone for the unmarked grave of former welterweight contender Gil Turner.
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2 weeks ago |
boxingscene.com | Tris Dixon
When the career obituaries of Ohara Davies were written at the end of 2024, apparently he had not been such a bad guy after all. The often-divisive Londoner was likeable, friendly, and had been playing a character for us – the media and the fans – all along. Stopped in eight rounds by Adam Azim, Davies retired and did so to plenty of fanfare. However, faced with the opportunity to box in Ghana he returns on Saturday against Mohamed Aliseni on a bill co-promoted by Amir Khan.
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2 weeks ago |
boxingscene.com | Tris Dixon
James Cook MBE leaned in towards me and pointed to a framed photograph of him meeting the Queen. “You know what, T,” he said – and he’s the only person who has ever called me that – “I’m proud of that picture and I’ll tell you the reason why. When I was at school in Peckham in the seventies, I used to run round telling people that a Black guy like me would never meet the Queen. I remember it very clearly, and to meet her, talk with her, and shake her hand.
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For years, I’ve heard and seen so many fighters stick their fingers in fans & media’s faces about not understanding the sweet science and treating fighters as pieces of entertainment. Now, you’ve got a guy trying to get the Ali Act repealed and he says this. Where are they?
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