All news by author: Colin Hart

MAURICE HOPE — because of his nasty, contemptible, bigoted neighbours — endured far more pain outside the ring than he did from the blows he took

RASH, brazen and bombastic Brummie Ben Whittaker will once again bring his stomach-churning showboating antics into the ring with him on Saturday.The

ONE of the most distressing sights I’ve seen was watching Oliver McCall having a mental breakdown during his world title fight with Lennox Lewis.&nb

JOE BUGNER Jr and Ross Minter, the sons of famous champions, have been reliving the psychological traumas they endured when they set out on their prof

SORRY for sounding like a broken record but someone should strongly advise Joe Joyce to retire from the ring.Nearly a year ago giant Zhilei Zhang frac

EVERY few years a British fighter emerges with such exceptional talent that they have future world champion written all over them.In my 60 years

BOXING's cut-eye curse has struck again, but at least Tyson Fury hasn't been made a prisoner in Riyadh until after his rescheduled fight with Aleksand

ONE must assume Eddie Hearn has ­forgotten ridiculing Francis Ngannou before the martial arts star fought Tyson Fury.Hearn was at his most scathing w

FOLLOWING the Riyadh heavyweight hype and hoopla last weekend, there’s been time to reflect and put matters into some perspective.Eddie Hearn declar

SIR BOBBY CHARLTON was an inspiration to his Manchester United and England team-mates and to everyone else who knew him as a man of unimpeachable inte

IT’S very difficult to take the desert dust-up between Tyson Fury and MMA star Francis Ngannou seriously. Because the Rumble in Riyadh a week tomo

BRITAIN’S greatest champions were born and raised on the mean streets of our major cities and had to fight their way out of hardship and poverty.It

IF Joe Joyce has been unable to work out a new strategy in the last five months, there’s every chance he  finds history painfully repeating itself

OSCAR DE LA HOYA has finally come cleanand admitted he blatantly lied about one of boxing's most heart-wrenching stories.Two years before going

FRANK WARREN —  ever the optimist  — has always maintained that faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

IF he were still around today, Henry Armstrong would be amused at those concerned about Robert Helenius being asked to fight twice in a week.Helenius,

FOR THE last five years any knowledgeable boxing fans would tell you the fight they most wanted to see was Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford against Errol Sp

WHEN the sublime Ken Buchanan fell on  financial hard times thanks to an expensive divorce and failed business ventures, he turned to his old trade a

TRASH-TALKING is one thing but when fighters make serious-sounding death threats, boxing chiefs should take the severest disciplinary action.Teofimo L

FOR 33 years the excruciating bore-draw clash between Johnny Nelson and Puerto Rican Carlos De Leon has been unopposed as the worst world title fight

JOE JOYCE’S nearest and dearest should be eternally grateful the gruesome swelling beneath his eye meant his fight with Zhilei Zhang was halted befo

ANTHONY JOSHUA, at his training camp deep in the heart of Texas, should think long and hard about the boxing adage: “Fighters make trainers — trai

JOE BUGNER will be completely unaware that Tuesday will be the 50th anniversary of his first fight with Muhammad Ali, at the Las Vegas Convention Cent

NOW Harry Kane has broken Jimmy Greaves’ Spurs scoring record, the insoluble debate can begin in earnest.Fans in the rival camps are going to have h

BOXING has now given Liverpool another Fab Four who rival The Beatles in bringing pride and glory to the people of Merseyside.Brothers Paul, Stephen,