Due to a number of email requests for Boxing Daily to provide boxing coaching tips, I have decided to do a few articles on the basics of boxing.

Although it is probably the most basic of punches, the jab is one of the most important punches (read more…)

Photography manages to capture a variety of great moments in boxing but what is the best picture ever taken (read more…)

Thats right, Laila Ali wasted no time at all in winning her boxing fight against Gwendolyn O’Neil of Guyana, as she knocked her opponent out in round 1 (read more…)

Laila Ali, the daughter of the world famous and legendary Muhammad Ali, is set to become the first female boxer to headline a boxing event in South Africa.

She Met with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, and human right activist in Johannesburg and spoke to students at a school on Wednesday before her fight on February 3rd (read more…)

Hailed by many as the greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali celebrated his 65th Birthday on Wednesday.

I was watching some old videos of him and it made me realise, that boxing is so good that I’m probably going to be watching these videos for the rest of my life…I put one on Boxing Daily for you al to have a look at (read more…)

“Unforgivable Blackness” is a new biography about the life and times of the boxer Jack Johnson. It was written by Geoffrey C Ward and has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

Johnson, who inspired many boxers that include the great Muhammad Ali, became the first ever black heavyweight champion of the world when he won the title in 1908. He had unbelievable defensive techniques and in some of his fights he would talk to members of the crowd to show off. But he had to endure harsh racial discrimination and spent periods in jail and seven years in exile. Have a look at this short video about the man himself (read more…)

Tragically, on the 28th of October 2006, the ex-heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick was murdered at a church in Norwich. He suffered multiple blows to the head which resulted in him dying at the scene of the attack.

Many people will only ever remember Trevor Berbick as the last guy to fight Muhammad Ali or the guy that got brutally knocked out by “Iron” Mike Tyson, but this is a short biography of the late boxing legend that recently lost his life.

He was born on August 1, 1955 (although it may have been 1954) in Jamaica. When he was 16 he claimed to have had a vision from God which was the first of many colourful events in an eventful, yet troubled, life. At the age of 21, Berbick represented his Jamaica in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada as a heavyweight boxer, even though he only had only 11 amateur bouts before this. This lack of experience was clearly shown as he lost to the eventual silver medalist: Romanian Mircea Simon; even though he still showed a lot of potential as a young heavyweight boxer.

After the Olympics Berbick left Jamaica decided to fight professionally in Canada (read more…)

On Friday night Evander Holyfield continued his mission for a record fifth world heavyweight title by beating Fres Oquendo in a “warm-up” bout in Texas.

The 44-year-old crusader put Oquendo onto the canvas in the first round but the pace of the bout soon decreased and Holyfield was awarded a unanimous points decision at the end of what can only be called a very boring bout. The American legend is now targeting a world title shot in 2007 saying: “My goal is to be champion again. I feel good and I’m going for a fifth. When I achieve that I will retire (read more…)

The World Boxing Council has just publicized drastic new tactics so that the official judges’ scorecards are shown at different intervals during bouts. Under these new rules, the master of ceremonies will tell the audience who is winning after the fourth and eighth rounds.

This new system is to be used for the first time during two WBC title fights this November in Japan. WBC president, Sulaiman believes this new system will help retain the honesty of the, at the moment rather unlawful, sport of boxing. He said: “We have been doing so many clinics, basic guidelines, booklets and videos, but we still have a problem. I believe that this is gigantic in sports and will make the judges more conscientious of their responsibility. It will ensure the judges concentrate 100% and it will give them a sense of pride, because they have confidence in their scoring and themselves (read more…)

The last ever boxer to have fought the great Muhammad Ali, Trevor Berbick, was killed in Jamaica by an attacker using a hatchet or machete, claim police. He was aged between 51 and 52 – as his birth date was clarified - he was found dead near a church 90 miles east of Kingston, with serious head wounds and police are currently treating his death as murder.

Berbick, who claimed as a teenager that he had a vision of God, beat Ali back in 1981 and for a short time held the WBC heavyweight belt in 1986 prior to losing to “Iron” Mike Tyson. The great Jamaican represented his country at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, losing to the concluding silver medallist. After that he chose to stay in Montreal and fight as a professional in Canada. In the beginning he was a talented and dominant heavyweight and won his first 11 fights before losing to another growing gift called Bernardo Mercado in the year 1979. But, as he usually did, he came back from that loss to lock a world title shot against the awesome Larry Holmes back in April 1981; even though he lost the fight after 15 rounds to a unanimous decision. After whipping a worn-out Ali over 10 rounds in the Bahamas in 1981, Berbick transferred to Florida and signed up with the notorious promoter Don King.

Nearly five years after his defeat to Holmes, Berbick came back in style to trouble Pinklon Thomas to claim the WBC edition of the heavyweight crown (read more…)