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Canelo Alvarez – The Mexican Masterchef In all my years watching boxing, it’s rare that I’ve seen a fighter as awe-inspiring as Canelo Alvarez, writes Ian Probert ALTHOUGH I’ve written a fair amount about boxing over the years I consider my ongoing fascination with this addictive business to be little more than a dilettante guilty pleasure. Even at the height of my professional involvement during the 1990s I was never one of those people who knew the name of every six-round fighter in the country. When access to that level of detail was required there was always someone out there will...

By Thomas Hauser, Contributor Middleweight champion John Duddy on hanging up his gloves.  In 2011, John Duddy retired from boxing. Living in New York, the popular Derry native had compiled a 29-and-2 record with 18 knockouts. He’d experienced the thrill of fighting before cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden and also in his beloved Ireland.    Now, at age 35, Duddy is pursuing a new career. He wants to be an actor. There is a long tradition of boxers trying their hand at acting. In the 1880s, John L. Sullivan realized that, as heavyweight champion, he could make large amounts of mon...

Henry Cooper was England’s most beloved fighter. Looking back on a meeting with a man whose name was synonymous with decency and courage. By Thomas Hauser ON November 10, 1970, Henry Cooper knocked out Jose Manuel Urtain at Wembley Stadium in London to reclaim the European Boxing Union heavyweight crown. Cooper, as was often the case when he fought, was cut above his left eye and below the right one. But he won every round en route to a ninth-round stoppage. It was gratifying victory and also the last triumph in a long ring career that saw Cooper become arguably the most beloved fighter in ...

What are your memories of your fight with Natasha Jonas at the London Olympics in 2012? Katie Taylor – I can’t really remember too much of the fight, to be quite honest. The fights themselves are always a bit of a blur but I do remember the atmosphere and putting my Olympic gear on before the fight and thinking ‘ohh gosh, this actually happening, my childhood dream has come to pass here’. Seeing Team Ireland, the Olympic rings, the shorts and the vest I was wearing was such a proud moment for me. Then boxing in front of 10,000 Irish people was unbelievable. After the fight I met up wi...