Yesterday’s final press conference in North Greenwich, London added fuel to the heavyweight fire between New Zealand’s WBO mandatory challenger Joseph Parker and rising Brit Fabio Wardley. With just today’s weigh-in left, they finally meet head-on at the O2 Arena on the Greenwich peninsula Saturday night (25th). The winner will likely go on to face …
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The PressBox
Fight of the week sees the long awaited return of the heavyweights. The scene has lay dormant since July. This Saturday (25th) in a Queensberry promotion at London’s O2 Arena mandatory world title contender Joseph Parker returns to the ring against recent British champion Fabio Wardley. It’s a potential crossroads fight which promises much and …
The Weekender
Get ready ! In the context of world boxing and its headline acts this is a big weekend. Three of the Ring Magazine ‘pound-for-pounders’ enter the four ropes to stake their claim to be the ‘main man’. Two of them face off against each other. It’s largely accepted that multi-heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is the …
Ron’s Reflections
Who are the top fifty South African fighters of all time ? For those of you who retain, or have a keen interest in South African boxing, here is a historical article from the doyen of boxing writing from that proud boxing nation, Ron Jackson. He is a former contributor to The Ring and South …
The Weekender
If you believe the hype and copy on world heavyweight contender Moses Itauma you’d think we have an emerging Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis all rolled into one ! The undefeated 20 year-old boxing out of Chatham, England is good, and to date, has massively impressed doing more than he should …
Ron’s Reflections
South African Boxing Hall of Fame When Chris Lessing died on June 1, 1976 at the age of 43 at Garden City Clinic in Johannesburg he left behind a superb collection of boxing books, autographed photos of famous boxers, 16mm films and museum memorabilia including statuettes, trophies and signed gloves. Subsequently his collection was donated …
The Friday Faceup
This is BIG. In the context of the 150+ year history of the Heavyweight Championship of the World, the fact that it fills Wembley Stadium, London with some 90,000 spectators, and, as they love to say, it’s “For all the marbles”. Factor in a worldwide TV audience, albeit the majority through the new phenomena of …
The Monday LunchBox
As a survivor from the last Benn-Eubank dust-ups, prior to a sensational Saturday night (26 April) at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, north London, I feel I’m well placed to put it into context. Firstly, the highest compliment I can give the enthralling twelve round middleweight non-championship fight is that “It was as good as any …
The Fight.
When I, and seldom others ask me, “So, what got you into boxing ?” I think; 1) about my father who loved and competed in the sport with a passion, and 2), back to April 15, 1985. Yes, it was exactly 40 years ago tonight ! That was the night in a temporary ring in …
Ron’s Reflections
Boxer with no hands In the first issue of Fight in December 1946, South Africa’s first boxing magazine the lead story was Fight’s Fighter of the month Johnny Le Roux. It was reported that Johnny Le Roux who was 25-years-old and quoted as one time light heavyweight amateur champion was trying to make a comeback …
The Undisputed 