Ben Thomsett
27 articles · Boxing.com
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O Lord, save us from the Boxing Promoter……
By Ben Thomsett
They are an important piece of the boxing machine. They are powerful figures in the backrooms of our greasy sport. Their natural habitat is sitting in an office across from people they…
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Wilder—Goodbye Emperor.
By Ben Thomsett
“Give me horror,” he said. The designer was nervous, and the seamstress waited with her phone on vibrate in a small and hot office in a town with no fire station. She…
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Tyson Fury—The Boxing Superhero
By Ben Thomsett
“Just reading through some of the tweets regarding potential AJ/ Fury not being in UK because of money on offer from Saudi … Tweets containing ‘why does a boxer need all that…
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Karma rides forth
By Ben Thomsett
Prisons are full of just deserts. People who got a Karmic whack in the scrotum. I never met an ex-con who said they got a fair deal, but then I never met…
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Everyone Loves Dave Allen
By Ben Thomsett
Outside on the street a Mercedes G-Wagon had just mounted the sidewalk and jerked to a stop right on the ?No Parking? area. A police car dragged on by but the officers…
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Miller/Joshua. One Good/One Bad
By Ben Thomsett
Caveat Emptor. Rack em up. Do whatever it takes. Wise words, eh? At least, two of them are. Latin para-garble they might be, but when the net is closing and your options…
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AJ to fight Miller?spread the news
By Ben Thomsett
?Why don?t they just listen to us?? said my friend. ?Joshua needs to fight Wilder to save the division. Flying over to the US to punch that fool Miller around is ridiculous…
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Up on the downside (Warrington/Galahad)
By Ben Thomsett
?Some days you wonder what it?s all about. And on others you find out.??Commonly perceived wisdom. Abdul-Bari Awad is better known by the nickname ?Kid Galahad.? Elvis was many things to many…
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DeGale/Eubank?Purchase Power
By Ben Thomsett
The McLaren 720s is a fast and expensive car. Sometime on Sunday, Chris Eubank Jr. will be driving his new one, with a favorite mixtape jammed into the USB port inside its…
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Floyd?s airline meal
By Ben Thomsett
Floyd invited us to ?spend a day? in his world, via Instagram. How could anyone resist? One minute you?re cleaning up cat shit from the litter tray, the next you?re wondering what…
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AJ?Line ?em up
By Ben Thomsett
Wait long by the river and the bodies of your enemies will float by.??Sun Tzu How?s that for wisdom? Not bad, eh? A little optimistic, in my view, but I guess the…
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Freddie Roach?s Experience
By Ben Thomsett
Never blindly side with Freddie Roach. Or fate. And take your position as a carer with seriousness. Those were the lessons I?ve learned this week. Some via reading the boxing news feeds,…
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Special Processed Heavyweights
By Ben Thomsett
?Without Spam we wouldn?t have been able to feed our army.??Nikita Khrushchev For whatever reason, the heavyweight division always seems to have the weirdest behavior on-camera, and the most cutthroat off of…
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Usyk/Bellew?Retirement Plan
By Ben Thomsett
Once upon a time, Tony Bellew had a plan. He?d hinted widely about it. He looked as though he even believed it. Tony was going to ?Take Usyk?s soul.? The way he…
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Usyk and Bellew dance for us
By Ben Thomsett
?Fans think Bellew will KO Usyk after seeing embarrassing training clip.? Or so the headline read. ?What fans?? I thought. Not me. What possible clip, short of seeing Usyk drinking heavily from…
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Pat Barrett?s Italian punch
By Ben Thomsett
My old barber was a guy named Dean Bramhald. He was the one holding up the mirror behind me when I realized I was going to have to part company with my…
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Chemical reactions
By Ben Thomsett
One thing about chemistry: it?s complicated. Nothing is ever really static. Chemical academia is advancing all the time. I?m not a chemist, though I do have a fairly minor qualification in neuro-pharmacology.…
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Oil Money buys you Sport
By Ben Thomsett
So, here we are. The enormous wealth of the Gulf States is drawing a serious eye from those most pragmatic of money-getters: the boxing promoter? Somewhere, in a science fiction film that…
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AJ vs. Povetkin?Direction KO
By Ben Thomsett
Post-fight, AJ thanked the crowd, DAZN, and asked for a round of applause for Eddie Hearn (he received loud and heartfelt boos)? Anthony fought Alexander Povetkin on the night of the 22nd…
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Billy Joe Saunders?Clown?
By Ben Thomsett
?Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has limits, while stupidity has none.??Claude Chabrol A good introduction to base-level stupidity is watching clowns at the circus. Forced stupid. Mocking stupid. Big…