Boxing

JAMIE Edwards had to dig deeper than ever before to take the vacant Midlands lightweight title in a brutal, breath-taking, barnstormer of a battle. The...

“BEEN digging holes all day,” Conor Baker, still remarkably chipper, said at the end of a 16-hour working schedule that would break most. For the...

THE future is as bright as Ollie Cooper wants it to be, his trainer insisted, after the tall, unbeaten super-middle added the English title...

LEXIE Walker has a goal – and her self-belief makes it more than a dream. “I want to become the greatest female boxer of all...

KINGS Heath southpaw Hamza Azeem again rolls the dice as he bids for his first title. And the 26-year-old will start an underdog on BCB’s...

AFTER seven contests, Jamie Edwards, the Sky Blue lightweight with serious power, contests his first title on Saturday. And it looks a cracker. He meets...

LEO Fanthome took a huge gamble on his first major arena show by facing an unbeaten known puncher, a division heavier, at four days'...

JAMES Griffiths, the likeable “Baggie Boy” of pro boxing, is so close to a title fight, he and his fans can taste it. On Saturday,...

FOR Omarah Taylor, the road to glory has been long and winding, the hurdles higher than expected. Unlike other former GB amateurs, she has had...

PERHAPS Ashlee Eales wasn’t kidding when the talented Nuneaton southpaw gave himself the ring nickname “Real Deal”. Eales, former Midlands light-middleweight champ, looked closer to...