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Michael Watson steals the show at the seventh annual British Ex-Boxers Hall of Fame ceremony, with our fearless editor, Matt Christie, also inducted

Gunner Moir was the heavyweight champion of his country when he became the first Briton to challenge for the world crown under modern rules against Tommy Burns in 1907. Simon Euan-Smith tells the fascinating story of a fight from a forgotten era and a chance meeting with Gunner’s son, Lon Moir

In September 1973 a young Simon Euan-Smith was in his early days as a Boxing News reporter when he was handed the golden ticket – a trip to Paris and a ringside seat for Carlos Monzon’s rematch with Jean-Claude Bouttier

Harry Mullan on Billy Aird, and his Las Vegas diaries Harry Mullan, widely regarded as the greatest of all Boxing News editors, would have been 75 on April 22. To celebrate his memory, his substantial writing talent, and his unique appreciation of life, the sport and its fighters, we’re delighted to bring you two previously unpublished excerpts from a book he started working on in the 1980s but never completed IF Billy Aird had been able to inflict on his fellow heavyweights even half the damage he did to the English language, Britain’s long wait for a world champion would have ended year...