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During the dim days of his post Buster Douglas career, I would maintain in the face of often fervent opposition that Mike Tyson was over-rated. That he succeeded in a weak era and through the many attempts to recycle the myth he tip toed around any of the risk-laden contenders of the 1990’s. Fighters like Ray Mercer, Ge… Continue

The BoxingWriter.co.uk Fighter of Month award has now developed such prestige I've been asked if I can make an award more than twelve times a year. I've tried to explain how this plan has a numerical flaw but several fight figures assure me they're 150% sure nobody will care, "look at the 17 sanctioning… Continue

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Since the disappointment of David Haye’s withdrawal from this year’s biggest heavyweight title fight and a potential record breaking event to boot it has been widely assumed Ruslan Chagaev would prove to be the nat… Continue

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To announce the heavyweight division is in crisis, or a mess would be akin to Reuters running a story about the fall of the Berlin wall. In short, the perplexing landscape in the sport's most re… Continue

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I’m not sure of the exact wording of the urban myth, the one which declares you are never more than a few feet from a rat, whether it be London, New York or the sport of boxing, like most of these myths there is, somewher… Continue