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By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The bald facts are that Shaun Cummins, 22-6-1, 14 KO’s was born in Leicester in 1968. He boxed as an amateur at the Belgrave Amateur Boxing Club in his home before turning professional in 1986. In 1992 he fought and won the WBA inter continental super welterweight title, defended it and […]
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Looking Back at the Tragic Death of Boxer Shaun Cummins
February 12th, 2019 
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February 4th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Every so often that Brad is awfully bad… Sending me the name of a boxer from yesteryear that does not have much of a trail online sends me off on a big Ringside Rescue Research mission… Without the benefit of a Thelma, a Scoobie or even a Louise off I go! […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Contender Stan Ward Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Contender Stan WardRemembering the Legendary Writer Hugh Mcllvanney (1935-2019)
January 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “Nothing meant more than reporting on Muhammad Ali.”–Hugh McIlvanney This is a sad task and one that I feel far less than qualified to do, but it would have been very remiss of me not to write it. Towards the end of this week a Scottish writer of some renown, a […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Remembering the Legendary Writer Hugh Mcllvanney (1935-2019) Comments Off on Remembering the Legendary Writer Hugh Mcllvanney (1935-2019)Ringside Report Looks Back at Former World Title Challenger Johnny De La Rosa
January 17th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Over the last year or so, my good friend & the CEO/Publisher of Ringside Report “The Heart of Boxing & Entertainment”, “Bad” Brad Berkwitt has sent me a number of yesteryear fighters that I should take a look at. Mixed with my own love of both history and British based fighters […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former World Title Challenger Johnny De La Rosa Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former World Title Challenger Johnny De La RosaA Fond Farewell to Former Champion Tony Bellew
December 26th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart 2018 gave us lots to talk about and discuss in British boxing but there was one rebirth, of a man who was a fighter, thanks to his retirement that was not unexpected. In January 2018 he entered the fray as Tony Bellew, 30-3-1, 20 KO’s, heavyweight contender and the man most […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Heavyweight Title Challenger Leroy Jones
December 17th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Lost when he was just 60 years old, in 2010, Leroy Jones, 25-1-1, 13 KO’s, is possibly best known for challenging Larry Holmes, in 1980 for the WBC heavyweight crown. But like most boxers, though, the headlines don’t always fit the story of the man who got into the ring. His […]
Ringside Report Looks Back At Heavyweight Contender George Chaplin
December 12th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart 1976 was a very good year in the United Kingdom. It was a heat wave. We all thought summer was going to last all the way into 1977 it was just so good. The Olympics that year was a classic – at least that is what my memory is telling me. […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Vilomar Fernandez
December 5th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Vilomar Fernandez, 30-11-2, 9 KO’s made his professional debut in 1971 and went on to have a 14-year career that was halted in 1985 in New York when he lost to Ricky Young. Simple journey along the way? Not a bit of it… An elusive fighter who never ducked out of […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Claude Noel
November 29th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Former 3 time Commonwealth and World Champion Claude Noel, 31-10, 15 KO’s, cuts a curious figure. A native of Trinidad and Tobago he was born in Roxborough, Tobago on the 22nd August 1949. His rise from selling fruit as a teenager to making waves in boxing is as simple and as […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough Heavyweight Steve Zouski
November 19th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He fought a Foreman, a Tyson and a Frazier. He was in the ring no fewer than 49 occasions in a career that spanned from 1978 to 1991. During that time, again he may not have gathered many baubles – he never fought for them – but he was a tough […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough Former Ranked Heavyweight John Dino Denis
November 14th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart I was 7 in 1972. It was the year of the Munch Olympics and Mark Spitz. It was the year of the attack on Israeli athletes. Many suggest it was a more innocent time, but it never felt like that. We had attacks in Ireland and there were concerns that these […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Blaine Dickson
November 6th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart 6 years might not seem a long time in which to have a distinguished career, but I suppose it is all about what you pack into it… From 1979, a year when the world in the UK got turned upside down because we got our very first female prime minister – […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Junior Middleweight Champion Ayub Kalule
November 2nd, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Great Britain has an uncertain past. There is a word that conjures up certain negative values when said out loud and no matter how much we have done to assuage guilt over our past, no matter how much of a revamp or retitling happens, the conduct of our forefathers in purist […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBC & IBF Welterweight Champion Maurice Blocker
October 19th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He sent Marlon Sterling into retirement from his hospital bed, with his own retirement coming after two wins against Hector Lopez in 1994 and Bobby Butters in 1995. Along the way, “The Thin Man” managed to fight no fewer than 40 times, beating 36 of his opponents and came away with […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Contender Noel Quarless
October 8th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart His final fight was in 1990 and up against the man we believe was the best heavyweight, so far, that was associated with the United Kingdom, Lennox Lewis. He began as a professional some 9 years earlier in 1981 and in 31 professional fights, Noel Quarless, 19-12, 11 KO’s managed to […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Lightweight Champion Charlie “Choo Choo” Brown
October 2nd, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Philadelphia has the reputation, within the boxing world, in the US and all the way over here in the UK, of making em tough. Master’s Street Gym in North Philly is one of the oft quoted arenas where craft is honed and toughness taught. It began on the back and the […]
Ringside Report Remembers the Late Heavyweight Boxer Monte Masters
September 24th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In 1980 he was in the ring with Charles Atlas. In 1984 he divorced his wife and his father in law stripped him of his championship belt. By 1981 and in his mid 20’s the 6 foot 5 fighter was supposed to go to war with Joe Frazier; at the time […]
Ringside Report Remembers Legendary Movie Actor & Our “Brother In Boxing” Burt Reynolds
September 12th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Anyone who would pass up a role opposite his girlfriend in a movie because his wife would probably poison him, whose father waited until his 95th year to tell him he was proud of him, his son and who once turned down the advances of Greta Garbo has a tale to […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBC Junior Middleweight Champion Maurice Hope
September 10th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has a rich history of immigration. For us Scots we delight at the ice cream, the haggis pakora and the sweet and sour sounds of our cities when we go wandering round markets and shops with the air of the East, the […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former World Title Challenger James “Bubba” Busceme
September 5th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart I was 9 years old. In Ayr we were all going Dutch or German due to the World Cup that was playing out across the sea in West Germany and we, Scotland, had been unbeaten in our group stages; like Scotland always do, they got thrown out because they didn’t do […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough Former Heavyweight Contender John L. Gardner
August 27th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Somewhere in the back of my mind, like at the corner of my eye I can remember as a kid watching John L. Gardner, 35-4, 29 KO’s, fight. I could pretend I knew when or against who but it serves to remind me just how on the periphery of the world […]
Looking Back at Former WBC Cruiserweight Champion ST Gordon
August 20th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He had 27 fights in 10 years that stretched from 1977 to 1987. S T Gordon, 20-7 17 KO’s, flashed large and then faded but for that period at the first end of his career there were some fights that mean he is remembered fondly as someone who got more than […]
Remembering the Tough Brawler Frank “The Animal” Fletcher
August 9th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Opening emails from my erstwhile Publisher, brings both a sense of trepidation and excitement. The first is often because he wants something done and the next is because it is usually exactly what I love doing. This time round… I found a boxer I knew little about! Step forward Mr Frank […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough Former World Title Challenger Tony Sibson
August 7th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The boxing world is littered with fighters who were once considered prospects but did not quite manage to get from the desire to achieve the ultimate realization; a world title. You would have though that any fighter who fought 63 times, winning 55 of them, most of them at a very […]
Remembering the Fan Favorite Welsh Boxer Colin Jones
July 30th, 2018 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In the United Kingdom right now we have a heatwave. People are confused by the sight of the sun in July and fear it may linger into August… There have been forest fires in Greece fears such things may engulf us as we don’t do well with extreme weather… Some of […]
