Johnny Nelson

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Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder drew their heavyweight clash in 2018. Photograph: Andrew Coulridge/Reuters
Boxing the loser as Fury, Joshua and Wilder remain kept apart

Romeo and Juliet had an easier time getting together than Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have experienced lately. The courting of the voluble Gypsy Kin(...)

Brendan Ingle pictured ringside in 1997. Photograph: Inpho/Allsport
Brendan Ingle obituary: Trainer whose influence reached far beyond the ring

The boxing trainer Brendan Ingle, who has died aged 77 after a brain haemorrhage, could rightly be viewed as one of the most important men in the hist(...)

Brendan Ingle displays his MBE in 1999. The boxing trainer has died at the age of 77, the British Boxing Board of Control has confirmed. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA
Boxing trainer Brendan Ingle has died at the age of 77

In a sport that sometimes seems to be a never ending conveyor belt of interesting personalities, Brendan Ingle ranked among the brightest. Ingle, wh(...)

Anthony Joshua (left) and Joseph Parker at the weigh-in at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
Joshua and Parker will see plenty of thinking - and bruising

When Anthony Joshua said he wanted to clean up the heavyweight division he surely did not intend to be mistaken for the Dalai Lama. Yet, in the months(...)

Deontay Wilder after knocking out Luis Ortiz to defend his heavyweight boxing title at the Barclays Center in New York. Photograph: Sam Hodgson/The New York Times
Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua have to fight each other?

Deontay Wilder could hardly have done a better job of selling himself to Anthony Joshua, his promoter, Eddie Hearn, and a potential pay-per-view audie(...)

Frank Maloney: “I was born in the wrong body and I have always known I was a woman.” Photograph: Frank Miller
Former boxing promoter Frank Maloney now lives as woman
  • UK
  • August 10, 2014, 22:21

Frank Maloney, who guided Lennox Lewis to the world heavyweight title and was Irish Olympic bronze medalist boxer Darren Sutherland’s manager, has rev(...)