Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.
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Attended an amateur fight card in an old barn in 1996. I started attending pro shows in 2000.
Promoter Boxxer announced Friday that they had formed a partnership with Riyadh Season, which would start with Saturday’s show at the Copper Box Arena in London.
Boxxer promoter Ben Shalom has thus far had a week to forget, with marquee fighters Frazer Clarke and Ben Whittaker having the worst nights of their young careers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and having exchanged barbs with rival promoters via YouTube channels.
Promoter Ben Shalom nodded in agreement when told last weekend in Riyadh was not a good one for him. The stock of two of his highest profile signings, heavyweight Frazer Clarke and light heavyweight Ben Whittaker, plummeted sharply after Clarke was stopped by a Fabio Wardley right hand in the first round and Whittaker looked listless until he and Liam Cameron jointly fell backward over the top rope and Whittaker failed to continue.
Anthony Yarde returns to the ring this weekend, on the Boxxer show at London’s Copper Box Arena, and the bill's fight poster lists Yarde’s AY Promotions as a co-promoter.
Junto Nakatani, one of the best fighters in the world, retained his WBC bantamweight crown and stayed on course for possibly the biggest fight in Japanese history, against Naoya Inoue, with a sixth-round stoppage victory of Thai Petch Sor Chitpattana.
In an excellent fight, South Africa’s unbeaten Phumelele Cafu won the WBO super flyweight championship, scoring a fifth-round knockdown on his way to a contentious split decision win over Kosei Tanaka.
The WBO flyweight championship fight between Anthony Olascuaga and Jonathan Gonzalez at the Airake Arena in Tokyo, Japan ended after just 2:25 of the first round following a clash of heads.
Former IBF light flyweight champion Sivenathi Nontshinga has vowed to bounce back and become a three-time world champion after losing his title to heavy-handed Japan star Masamichi Yabuki.
They say if you come for the King, you better not miss. Dmitry Bivol fought as well as he ever has, but he fell agonisingly short in his bid to claim light-heavyweight domination against “King” Artur Beterbiev...
The IBF world cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia, a Sydney southpaw reigning with the title for the second, dismantled poor Jack Massey in the sixth round to defend his crown...
