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A move to half-back has seen Nic Martin's game excel and Essendon reaps the rewards

After being overlooked in seven drafts, Nic Martin has emerged this season as one of Essendon's brightest prospects

We delve into the BN archives for an interview with the late, great British lightweight legend Dave Charnley THERE’S a topic that gets discussed on social media and net message forums with predictable regularity. Who was the greatest British boxer never to win a world title? Answers tend to focus on fighters from the 1980s onwards, and there are lots of worthy nominees from earlier periods who get overlooked – mainly, I think, because they aren’t well known to modern fans. One name that often gets missed but should be quickly thrust into any such debate is that of Dave Charnley. Known a...

Joe Erskine too small to be great Joe Erskine was one of the most gifted British boxers of his day, but was held back by a lack of size and punch power at heavyweight THE birth of the cruiserweight division in the late 1970s and early ‘80s was a boon for boxers too large for light-heavy but too small to make it on to the world stage as a heavyweight. Spare a thought, though, for the countless ‘inbetweeners’ who predated the division’s inception and were often forced to face bigger, harder-hitting men. There are numerous small heavies from boxing’s annals who one could argue would ha...