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Ringside at the Fight of the Century Alan Hubbard explains what it was like to be a ringside reporter at The Fight of the Century WE were strangers in the night exchanging glances when the guy with the trilby standing next to me in a men’s urinal at Madison Square Garden enquired: “How ya doing fella?” “Fine thanks, Mr Sinatra.” I stuttered. “Who d’ya fancy?” he enquired. “Well… Ali,” I replied hesitantly. “Nah, Frazier’ll destroy him,” came the snapped response. End of conversation. We returned to the press seats – Sinatra was accredited as a photographer for L...

Desert Island Fights: The 1990s So far BN readers have voted Frazier-Ali I as their favourite fight of the seventies and Hagler-Hearns from the eighties. What will be the choice for Desert Island Fights from the nineties? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one – and only one – fight from each of the last five decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s) to watch while you’re there. Which five fights do you take? For many fans, the 1990s was the last true golden era. The decade began when...

Hagler vs Leonard: The narrative of a superfight Supreme sports writer Brian Doogan reveals how his fascination with the timeless Hagler vs Leonard rivalry led to him writing one of the best boxing books of recent years DARKNESS was Ray Leonard’s light during his years away from boxing. Denied the stage he had illuminated as his sport’s most celestial exponent in the immediate aftermath of Muhammad Ali’s sad decline and exit, he descended into an abyss. “I discovered alcohol and cocaine mix very well together, very easily, and I nearly lost it, I really did,” he acknowledged. “I w...