Author: Jerry Iboh

I was deeply saddened to learn last night of the death from cancer of former Middleweight and Super Middleweight Champion, James Cook MBE, a fine champion and, more importantly, a fine human being. Starting in 1982, he won all the domestic titles possible except the Commonwealth Title, firstly the Southern Area Middleweight Title in 1984,…

  The world of boxing this week mourns the passing of two of its most well-known figures, one inside,one outside the ropes.GEORGE FOREMAN, by anyone’s standards, is one of the sport’s ‘greats’.He first came to international prominence for those of us outside the USA when he won the OlympicGold Medal in the Heavyweight division in…