Hearn Dubs Madrimov 'The New Golovkin' After Thrashing Kurbanov
Ismail Madrimov dazzled and caught the eye with a convincing victory to snare the vacant WBA super welterweight title
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Biography
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.
Area of Expertise
Interviews, long-form features, columns, and investigations
Interests
Attended an amateur fight card in an old barn in 1996. I started attending pro shows in 2000.
Career Background
I freelanced from 2001 to 2006 and started full-time with Boxing News in 2007. However, as a freelancer I was living and breathing it and working well beyond full-time hours. I started boxing in 1995 as an amateur and fell in love with it there and then. I was welcomed into my amateur gym, made to feel part of the community and managed to find some self-respect and confidence. Boxing does that to you, and that’s a significant reason for doing what I do, along with having so much respect for what fighters put themselves through to actually fight.
Awards & Honors
Inducted into the British Boxing Hall of Fame; shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Damage: The untold story of brain trauma in boxing), Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year (Warrior: A champion’s search for his identity), Daily Telegraph biography of the Year (War and Peace, Ricky Hatton’s autobiography); Boxing Writers Association of America Award winner with multiple placings and honorable mentions.
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By the end of the first round against Mark Chamberlain, the writing was on the wall for Welshman Gavin Gwynne. A huge, lumpy swelling had formed around his right eye, his vision was limited, and the clock was ticking
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Knockout Chaos Undercard Wins for Greene, Fury, Almaayouf and Novytskyi
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Lee Warns Concentration Is Key for Parker Against Zhang
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Ngannou Is A ‘Dangerous' Fight For Joshua
Anthony Joshua meets Francis Ngannou in a fight that fewer and fewer people have referred to as a circus act since Tyson Fury had his hands full with Ngannou last October
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Kurbanov-Madrimov Is On
“The fight is on,” according to Robert Smith, general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control
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Nick Ball: 'There’s No Turning Back' Now
Mexican star Rey Vargas did not talk at the Grand Arrivals for the Knockout Chaos bill this Friday in Saudi Arabia, but his challenger for the WBC featherweight title Nick Ball did. The Liverpool man said he knew people expected him to entertain in his fights, as a crowd-pleasing puncher.
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