The boxer’s recent remarks represent everything that is wrong with attitudes towards gender and sexuality in professional sport.
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Southpaw looks set to be a fairly familiar boxing movie. So what can we expect?
Unlike the Women’s World Cup in Canada, in Baku no one will see the strides forward for women’s sport.
A perfect storm of personalities, demand and money has created unprecedented hype. How should the media respond?
How the five-year wait for a Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao boxing match could result in $400m in revenues.
Boxing is big business but can come at a cost with severe health risks, even death. So what’s being done to reduce those risks?
The death of a 23-year-old boxer and the lifting of cage-fighting bans in every state but Western Australia raise the question of why we allow violence that would be criminal outside a ring or cage.
The death of a 23-year-old boxer has prompted a call by the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association for the sport to be banned in Australia.
The Six Nations tournament has put the sport’s handling of head injuries into an uncomfortable spotlight.
“Can you love your neighbor as yourself, and at the same time knee him in the face as hard as you can?” American Christian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion Scott “Bam Bam” Sullivan wonders in an interview…
In the 1920s American sports became big business, a billion dollar industry with “stars” created by the media and represented by professional agents and promoters. One of the pioneers of this new industry…
Amid all the flashing lights, it was a moment of sheer exhilaration when the winner was finally announced: “By a majority decision, the new IBF welterweight champion on the world – Kell Brook.” Now if…
There are many people who would like us to believe that sport and politics should never mix. The reason for this is sport is seen as the pure and noble practice where champions arrive after hard work and…
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