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talent, and his unique appreciation of life, the sport and its fighters, we’re delighted to bring you two previously unpublished excerpts from a book he started working on in the 1980s but never completed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 years ago.
Tributes to Coventry boxing legend who died of Covid
Peter Boddington died at the age of 78
05:00, 18 APR 2021
Peter Boddington
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Tributes have been paid to a Coventry boxing legend who died after contracting the Covid-19 virus.
Peter Boddington was much loved and highly regarded in the British boxing world.