Elliot Worsell

Twenty-five years ago, I squinted from a seat in Row Z as Audley Harrison began his professional career against a nightclub bouncer from Miami. Alongside me that night was my dad and two of my brothers and between us we passed a pair of binoculars to close the distance between our seats and the ring. Wherever we looked, we saw the same thing: 5,000 strangers each as convinced as I that Harrison, our Olympic gold medallist, was destined to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn, set to fight in Las Vegas on September 12, deserve only each other, writes Elliot Worsell

Rico Verhoeven can do a great number of things better than Oleksandr Usyk, but there is an important difference, writes Elliot Worsell

Take two: Lerrone Richards returns to Montreal hoping for a fight this time

It could be argued that Verhoeven’s success against Usyk – both in landing the fight, then nearly winning it – is, for the purist, as much a cautionary tale as a cause for celebration, writes Elliot Worsell

At just 5-foot-4, Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez doesn't look like a pound-for-pound king. But as he chases a world title in a third weight class, the fight game's smallest giant continues to make himself impossible to ignore

In June 2001, a nationally-televised fight aboard a retired aircraft carrier left one man dead and another forever scarred. A quarter century later, George Khalid Jones returns to the scene of one of boxing's most infamous tragedies to reckon with what remains.

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As Usyk, 39, searches for the perfect final chapter for his singular career, an aging Wilder, 40, has become a most unlikely object of desire for the former undisputed two-weight champion.

As Usyk, 39, searches for the perfect final chapter for his singular career, an aging Wilder, 40, has become a most unlikely object of desire for the former undisputed two-weight champion.