Championship mentality: Phumelela Cafu and Colin Nathan embrace the challenge of Bam Rodriguez
"Now that I’m fighting Bam, I’m ready to prove the world wrong once again,” Phumelela Cafu tells Tris Dixon.
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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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Trainer says Callum Smith vs. Anthony Yarde ‘sealed’ for Riyadh in August
"It’s the only fight that makes sense,” says Yarde's trainer, Tunde Ajayi.
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Out of the ring arguments sabotaging Sam Eggington-Lee Cutler rematch
It does not look like the rematch between Bournemouth’s Lee Cutler and Sam Eggington will take place any time soon.
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Paddy Donovan content to return to Belfast to end Lewis Crocker rivalry
Paddy Donovan appears to be headed into a September rematch with Crocker, probably back at the SSE Arena in Belfast
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Ramon Cardenas is writing a ‘new chapter’
Life will never be again the same for Ramon Cardenas, following his spirited fight-of-the-year effort against Naoya Inoue...
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The growing pains of Erickson Lubin
With both boxing and life experiences banked, Erickson Lubin has had the chance to realize the errors of his ways while still a young man: "I’ve learned what I had to learn."
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Darrelle Valsaint loves ‘the art of war’
Valsaint, a junior middleweight prospect who competed in the Olympics in 2021, will fight Rodolfo Orozco on the May 10 undercard of Erickson Lubin-Ardreal Holmes Jnr.
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Osleys Iglesias and Christian Mbilli won’t be as meek as William Scull, Canelo warned
Eye of the Tiger boss Camille Estephan says not all Cuban professionals will be as reluctant to engage William Scull was against Canelo Alvarez last night
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Live Blog: Times Square Fight Night Garcia-Romero; Lopez-Barboza Jnr; Haney-Ramirez
After much hype and hoopla, the fight night featuring Ryan Garcia-Rolly Romero, Devin Haney-Jose Ramirez, and Teofimo Lopez-Arnold Barboza is here
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Garcia-Romero, Haney-Ramirez, Teofimo-Barboza: Times Square big-fight preview
Tris Dixon takes a look at three interesting fights set to take place in front of very few fans in New York.
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