Matt Christie, a lifelong fight fan, has worked in boxing for more than 20 years. He left Boxing News in 2024 after 14 years, nine of which were spent as editor-in-chief. Before that, he was the producer of weekly boxing show “KOTV.” Now the co-host of “The Opening Bell” podcast and regularly used in the UK as a pundit, Matt was named as the Specialist Correspondent of the Year at the prestigious Sports Journalism Awards in 2021, which was the seventh SJA Award he accepted during his stint in the hot seat at Boxing News. The following year, he was inducted into the British Boxing Hall of Fame. He is a member of the BWAA and has been honored several times in their annual writing awards.
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As a young boxing fan, I attended the first Chris Eubank-Nigel Benn fight with my father in 1990
The World Boxing Association (WBA) have confirmed they will only sanction bouts in Britain which are governed by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC).
The British Boxing Board of Control will examine the contentious outcome of Saturday’s heavyweight bout between David Adeleye and Jeamie “TKV” Tshikeva on Wednesday (April 9), with the governing body’s ruling on Adeleye’s stoppage victory to be released thereafter.
Thirty-five years ago this week, the paths of two wrecking machines crossed when Terry Norris obliterated John Mugabi inside a round to win his first junior middleweight title. Neither was destined to emerge unscathed.
The junior middleweight class is among the hottest in the sport with several quality fighters who can legitimately claim to be the best in the world
Ras-I Ajuah Bramble, better known as Livingstone Bramble and one of the most underrated lightweights of the talent-laden 1980s, died Saturday at age 64.
The heavyweight division that George Foreman briefly ruled over in the seventies was the strongest in history. The only other era that could compare arrived 20 years later and, incredibly, a middle-aged George Foreman was among the leaders of that wrecking crew, too.
George Kambosos Jnr outpointed the feisty and gutsy late substitute Jake Wyllie over 12 gruelling rounds.
Tiara Brown scored a sizeable upset as she claimed the WBC featherweight title and a split decision over Australia’s Skye Nicolson after 10 messy and hard-to-score rounds
Sustained pressure from Cherneka Johnson persuade the corner of Nina Hughes throw the towel in round seven
Chris Eubank Jnr has always thought a lot of himself but a loss to bitter enemy Conor Benn could change all of that in an instant, writes Matt Christie
