Sep 26 2024
Life and times of ‘The Featherweight’, Willie Pep
Steve Hunt speaks to director Robert Kolodny about his acclaimed boxing biopic
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Apr 06 2021
Remembering the one and only Nosher Powell
'Watch it sunshine,' Nosher Powell had to warn Jean Claude Van Damme. 'Or you'll find my knee in your b*****ks'
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Feb 03 2021
Editor’s Pick: When the mob ruled boxing
The evil empire of Frankie Carbo and Jim Norris over boxing in the 1940s and 1950s left the sport’s reputation in tatters and several top fighters in financial ruin. Eric Armit tells the full story
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Sep 19 2020
On This Day: Defensive genius Willie Pep was born in 1922
Tris Dixon celebrates the life of Willie Pep, one of the greatest fighters of all-time
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Sep 16 2020
When Eddie Miller looked almost unbeatable but couldn’t get a fight with Willie Pep
Britain-born Australian Eddie Miller dazzled UK fight fans, but returned to his birth country too late to fulfil his title ambitions
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Nov 23 2019
Farewell to Willie Pep, a magical boxer
Claude Abrams pays tribute to master pugilist Willie Pep
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May 04 2019
10 of boxing’s worst insults
Boxing is renowned for its trash talk. Some elevate ‘sledging’ to an artform, others plumb new depths. Alex Zendra rounds up some of boxing’s worst (or best depending on your point of view) insults. Be…
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Feb 11 2018
On This Day: The sublime Willie Pep beats his great rival Sandy Saddler in one of the finest and bloodiest featherweight battles ever
Willie Pep rebounded from defeat to gain his revenge
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Oct 04 2016
Top 10 best featherweights
George Gigney lists 10 of boxing's best ever featherweights
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Jan 30 2016
The 10 greatest featherweights of all time
This week Tony Connolly asks Birmingham Mail boxing journalistic legend Mike Lockley to name the finest featherweights to ever lace them up
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