Tag Archives: Boxing

Boxing and…erm…Bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

There are three plausible reasons why I’m doing a joint preview of boxing and lawn bowls. The first is that I noticed – when looking at past Games – that these two sports are the two in which Northern Ireland has most regularly won medals and I thought that was an interesting fact. The secondContinue reading “Boxing and…erm…Bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games”

Boxing at the 2020 Olympics

Boxing at the Olympic Games has always retained its amateur status, although many of the athletes who have competed – and medalled – have gone on to become household names in the professional ranks, including Lennox Lewis, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and, of course, the greatest of them all, Muhammad Ali (then still known asContinue reading “Boxing at the 2020 Olympics”