Kevin Mitchell
115 articles · The Guardian
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Tyson Fury all bluster and brickbat but Anthony Joshua refuses to bite
It was a nice try. “Boxing’s about less talk, more action,” an uncharacteristically wired-up Anthony Joshua barked in the immediate afterglow of his finest performance since the night three years ago when…
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Few should have the stomach for farcical fight between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones
Nobody in the history of paid fighting has used the language of violence with as much undiluted enthusiasm as Mike Tyson. Iron Mike gave credible voice to the expression “bad intentions” and,…
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I’m coming at Deontay Wilder like a raging bull, says reformed Tyson Fury
As Deontay Wilder must have imagined at various moments in their first world heavyweight title fight – memorable but inconclusive – there is more than one Tyson Fury. The most familiar is…
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Tyson Fury a winner in Wilder fight despite contested draw
Ultimately Tyson Fury did win. He could not beat the judges but he beat the odds of life. And, in one of the many interviews he gave after drawing with Deontay Wilder…
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Where does Deontay Wilder v Tyson Fury stand in boxing?s pantheon?
A surfeit of heavyweight titles and champions since the days of Muhammad Ali v George Foreman or Joe Frazier means the sport has fallen from the forefront of public attention It is…
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Manny Pacquiao?s removal of trainer just another ride on the carousel
Manny Pacquiao sounds like a confused fighter in the autumn of his career or, at the very least, the team around him are in disarray. Last week the Filipino force of nature…
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?Bad guy trying to be good? Anthony Joshua has to attack Joseph Parker
When Anthony Joshua said he wanted to clean up the heavyweight division, he surely did not intend to be mistaken for the Dalai Lama. Yet, in the months, weeks and days leading…
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Joseph Parker: ?I was blessed with a talent and the talent is boxing?
Joseph Parker?s big brown eyes light up with childlike intensity when he is asked about Samoa, where his fighting heart was forged and where it will remain. The WBO heavyweight champion for…
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Daniel Jacobs shows his class and puts Billy Joe Saunders fight in the frame
Eddie Hearn?s invasion of America was not quite on a par with that of Colin Welland, who led the Chariots of Fire charge at the 1982 Oscars with his ?The British Are…
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Deontay Wilder gives hope of new heavyweight era with Anthony Joshua
The good news is that Deontay Wilder is making all the right ?Bomb Squad? noises about putting his WBC belt up against the IBF and WBA ?super? titles owned by Anthony Joshua,…
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Anthony Joshua ?needs to have a thrill ? and boxing fans need it too?
Anthony Joshua, who may one day rank alongside Lennox Lewis as Britain?s greatest heavyweight, admits he ?needs a thrill? to inspire him on a journey that could have a decade and a…
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Golovkin v ?lvarez: the real deal after the Mayweather v McGregor sideshow
It is time for boxing to fix its house. Two weeks after Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor did each other a mutual favour in a cross-discipline public spar that delivered them an…
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Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather the only ones enriched by this fight
A bar is, on reflection, the best place to watch a bar fight. Ultimately, for Conor McGregor, there was time for neither much thinking nor a lot of what the Irishman would…
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Canelo ?lvarez v Gennady Golovkin ? finally the fight we all want to see
Finally boxing has the fight the industry badly needed and the fans have loudly craved for the past couple of years: Sa?l ?Canelo? ?lvarez against Gennady ?GGG? Golovkin on 16 September, probably…
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Anthony Joshua wants 10 more years, says Hearn after Klitschko fight
Anthony Joshua is about to embark on what he calls phase three of his journey and, whatever his repeated declarations that he is in boxing for fun not money, over the next…
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Cracks in Gennady Golovkin?s armour give hope to ?lvarez and Saunders
In most sports that matter ? cricket, rugby, tennis, golf, football, tiddlywinks ? fans get what they want. In boxing, such moments are rare enough to stand alongside listed buildings as crumbling…
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Floyd Mayweather fails to pay fans the courtesy he affords Trump
Floyd Mayweather deserves to be regarded as the finest defensive boxer of his time and one of the best welterweights in history, although, contrary to his own repeated assertions, not greater than…
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Michael Conlan: ?After five years I want to be out of boxing, having made enough money to retire?
Michael Conlan can hardly believe what has happened to him since he stepped out of the ring at the Rio Olympics eight months ago, leaving the amateur sport and some toweringly incompetent…
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Nicholas Walters stuns boxing by committing the sport?s ultimate sin
The ugliest word in boxing is ?quit?. Muhammad Ali wouldn?t do it when he fought all the way to the finish with a broken jaw against Ken Norton. Danny Williams wouldn?t do…
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Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher
Muhammad Ali is dead. That is a sentence as difficult to write as it is to comprehend. At his loudest and most beautiful, he seemed, illogically, beyond destruction. Even in his palsied…