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Reviewing boxing’s 2023 and previewing 2024 on the latest Fightin’ Words

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The year 2023 was an exciting one for boxing. Like Christmas, fight fans got some of the presents on their wishlist, but not the whole thing. For every Errol Spence Jr. vs. Terence Crawford, there was the lost hope of a potential Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder fight.  Did Spence vs. Crawford live up to … Read more

Chris Billam-Smith and the making of British boxing’s most unlikely world champion | ‘I’d KO Okolie in rematch’ | Boxing News

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This was never meant to be. Some fighters seem almost pre-ordained to be champion. Perhaps it’s the confidence, the style of their boxing, as well as an amateur track record. For Chris Billam-Smith, though, that was never the case. When Billam-Smith first joined Shane McGuigan’s gym, he was, as he put it, “very much the … Read more