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England’s super sub praises England boss Sarina Wiegman for giving her hope ‘when she didn’t have any’
SAD but nonetheless true is the fact that when Taylor and Prograis enter the ring tonight, the recent tragic fate of fellow professional Patrick Day will follow them.
Day’s death from brain trauma sustained in his super welterweight fight against Charles Conwell in Chicago on October 12 shines a harsh light on the sport of boxing in a year in which four ring fatalities constitutes a grim and impossible to wish away toll.
Though inevitably raised at such moments is the chorus of voices calling for the sport to be banned, such talk will always be incompatible with reality.
Mary Kom’s fists made history in the boxing world. Malak Mesleh’s never got the chance. One story ends in glory, the other in grief — but both highlight the defiance of women who dare to fight, writes JOHN WIGHT
The Khelif gender row shows no sign of being resolved to the satisfaction of anyone involved anytime soon, says boxing writer JOHN WIGHT
When Patterson and Liston met in the ring in 1962, it was more than a title bout — it was a collision of two black archetypes shaped by white America’s fears and fantasies, writes JOHN WIGHT
In the land of white supremacy, colonialism and the foul legacy of the KKK, JOHN WIGHT knows that to resist the fascism unleashed by Trump is to do God’s work
