Nigel Benn

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Chris Eubank fights Michael Watson for the WBO middleweight title at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London in 1991. Photo: Brendan Monks/Mirrorpix/Getty Images
‘That’s boxing, you can be fascinated but it appals you’

June 1991 and Donald McRae found himself alone on the outskirts of Las Vegas. Excited, uncertain, anxious he stood under a burning sky, the desert sun(...)

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(...)

Steve Collins in action against Nigel Benn during their WBO super-middleweight world championship fight in 1996. Photograph: Inpho/Allsport
Third fight between Steve Collins and Nigel Benn ‘unlikely’

The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) has not received boxer licence applications for Steve Collins or Nigel Benn, and considers a fight betwee(...)

Former middleweight and super-middleweight world champion Chris Eubank on his first defeat to Steve Collins: “Collins won but if you watch that fight start to finish and score it, I didn’t lose the fight.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Chris Eubank: ‘I had the balls to fight an Irishman on St Patrick’s Day’

Chris Eubank doesn’t do interviews. He gives talks, he muses, he quotes. A bitter man might say his philosophies are borrowed from the life-affirming (...)

Andy Lee celebrates becoming WBO middleweight world champion after victory over Matt Korobov at the The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Photograph: INPHO/Raymond Spencer
Andy Lee produces shock to become WBO middleweight world champion

Following his concussive counter-right hook for a sixth round technical knock-out that crumbled the dreams of two-time world amateur champion Matt Kor(...)