CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2025
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DEPARTMENTS 2 OPENING SHOTS 6 COME OUT WRITING
BOXING’S BIG NIGHT THE RING’S YEAR-END AWARDS CEREMONY IN LONDON 26 FACES FROM THE GALA 30 FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: OLEKSANDR USYK 34 FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: GABRIELA FUNDORA 36 DOWN IN HISTORY USYK-FURY II PUT THE FINISHING TOUCH ON AN ERA-DEFINING SAGA By Gareth A Davies 42 SLAYING GIANTS MODERN HEAVYWEIGHTS MIGHT BE BIG, BUT THAT’S NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING IN BOXING By Anthony Cocks 48 WHO NEEDS HIM? MARTIN BAKOLE HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS TO BE A WORLD TITLEHOLDER ... EXCEPT A FIGHT By Tom Gray
54 TRUE GRIT TERENCE CRAWFORD’S TWO- DIVISION LEAP TO FACE CANELO ALVAREZ FOLLOWS BOLD EXAMPLES FROM THE PAST By Keith Idec 60 ARTUR BETERBIEV VS. ARCHIE MOORE A FANTASY FIGHT FOR THE UNDISPUTED LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP By Ron Lipton 70 MY FIRST TIME JOINING THE FAMILY BUSINESS ISN’T AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS By Mikey Garcia 76 TYSON FURY RETIRES ... AGAIN TIME WILL TELL IF THE FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION MEANS IT THIS TIME By Tom Gray
7 RINGSIDE By Doug Fischer 10 STEVE’S SOAP BOX By Steve Kim 12 BERNSTEIN ON BOXING By Al Bernstein 16 BY THE NUMBERS By Don Stradley 18 RING RATINGS PACKAGE 74 THE FACE OF BOXING By Thomas Hauser and Wojtek Urbanek 78 BEHIND ENEMY LINES
By Anson Wainwright 80 WORLD BEAT 94 FROM THE ARCHIVE 96 FIGHTLINE
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY VLADISLAV LAKSHE
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