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By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart John Ryder is looking forward to a world championship title fight. Having beaten Bilal Akkawy by stoppage on the Canelo/Jacobs undercard life is beginning to look sweet for the English super middleweight as he is now the interim WBA champion. On the 30th May 2015 he was stopped in the 7th […]
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Ringside Report Looks Back At Nick Blackwell
June 19th, 2019 
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June 10th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He fought Frank Bruno in 1992 and hardly got a mention in the UK press. He was low blowed in an eliminator against Riddick Bowe for a shot at the WBA title held by Evander Holyfield. He was never far away from contention but ultimately, he was never to get in […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Pierre Coetzer Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Pierre CoetzerRingside Report Looks Back at Two Time Former WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie Hide
May 31st, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart We currently live in a world of sport and boxing where the phrase, badly behaved is gaining new meaning. The cheating of people who have been caught using PEDS or banned substances include world champions and many are questioning the validity of their performances though we are catching people – it’s […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Two Time Former WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie Hide Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Two Time Former WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie HideRingside Report Pays a Final Tribute to “Smokin” Bert Cooper & Harold Lederman
May 18th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart May 2019 saw the deaths of two giants of the boxing world which have sent more than mere shockwaves through the sporting world. One was a fighter who was much more than a scrapper, he became an institution. The other was a judge and commentator who was as well-known round small […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Pays a Final Tribute to “Smokin” Bert Cooper & Harold Lederman Comments Off on Ringside Report Pays a Final Tribute to “Smokin” Bert Cooper & Harold LedermanRingside Report Remembers Benny Lynch
May 14th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Indulge me a little as I take two loves and put them together. The most obvious is the boxing world where thanks to yet another experience with my father he was a part time lover of all things boxing and became a full time (or at least a little close to […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers Benny Lynch Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers Benny LynchRingside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Junior Welterweight Champion Gene “Mad Dog” Hatcher
May 3rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Anyone with the nickname “Mad Dog” is likely to bring with them a reputation. An amateur champion in the USA at welterweight in 1980, then at light welterweight he became the WBA world champion as a professional, Gene Hatcher 32-7, 23 KO’s was always going to be … a mad dog… […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Junior Welterweight Champion Gene “Mad Dog” Hatcher Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Junior Welterweight Champion Gene “Mad Dog” HatcherRingside Report Looks Back at IBF Super Lightweight Champion Terry Marsh
April 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Should Frank Warren ever retire, then there is one, undefeated boxer who will be unlikely to be invited to his retirement party. Given that he stood trial for attempting to murder Warren – and was acquitted – it can hardly come as a surprise that Terry Marsh, 27-0-1, 10 KO’s, will […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at IBF Super Lightweight Champion Terry Marsh Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at IBF Super Lightweight Champion Terry MarshRingside Report Looks Back Johnny “Dancing Machine” Carter
April 17th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The man known as the “Dancing Machine” was as elusive as a soft shoe shuffle in a 1950’s dance hall in my search for his history. There is little written about him and given his record – that is a very great pity – for Johnny Carter, 33-8, 21 KO’s had […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back Johnny “Dancing Machine” Carter Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back Johnny “Dancing Machine” CarterRingside Report Looks Back at the Late Beloved Henry Cooper
April 8th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart I grew up in Scotland, in the shadow of England. I was unaware as a youngster that I was reacting to the orthodoxy and the cultural empire when I found myself disliking an icon of the sport but who left me cold; he was the epitome of the sovereign brand. He […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at the Beloved Henry Cooper, Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Beloved Henry Cooper Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Beloved Henry CooperRingside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Super Lightweight Champion Gary Hinton
April 3rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Once again it was time to deep dive. “Bad” Brad had given me a mission. There is little I need in terms of encouragement as I went off in search of a southpaw, super lightweight champion of yore – a certain Mr Gary Hinton 29-5-2, 11 KO’s. Reigning as he did […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Super Lightweight Champion Gary Hinton Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Super Lightweight Champion Gary HintonDavid Haye & Derrick Chisora STUN the Boxing World! – Breaking News
April 2nd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart There was once a fence separating them in a press conference. There were German police tracking each of them down after an altercation in a post-fight press conference where both of them threw punches – not just at each other apparently. They then shared a ring and one of them got […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: David Haye & Derrick Chisora STUN the Boxing World! – Breaking News Comments Off on David Haye & Derrick Chisora STUN the Boxing World! – Breaking NewsRingside Report Looks Back at Fulgencio Obelmejias
March 21st, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart A name of Venezuelan heritage and one with which there is little doubt that for me, it is wildly exotic. Fulgencio Obelmejias, 52-5, 41 KO’s or Fully Obel was a super middleweight champ who represented his country in the amateurs at the 1975 Pan American games as well as the 1976 […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Fulgencio Obelmejias Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Fulgencio ObelmejiasRingside Report Says Goodbye to Boxing Legend Eusebio Pedroza
March 14th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart There are a few fighters whose reputation precedes them, whether they fight in the ring for your country or are coming across to fight your countryman and deny them a belt or a title. There are some you talk about with scant regard, highlighting the qualities and the strengths of your […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Says Goodbye to Boxing Legend Eusebio Pedroza Comments Off on Ringside Report Says Goodbye to Boxing Legend Eusebio PedrozaRingside Report Looks Back at Floyd Havard
March 12th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Wales has sent us many who have become eponymously named Welsh Wizards. In recent times it even gave us – though briefly – the Welsh Mayweather, in Lee Selby, as it is a country born of hardship and hard lessons in life which are given out at the nursery school door. […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Floyd Havard Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Floyd HavardRingside Report Looks Back at the Late Champion Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala (1962 – 2013)
March 11th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Being brought up in the UK during the 70’s and 80’s you would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to have heard the Afrikaner word, Apartheid. It was all over our news and spat out like the indecent idea it was from the former British colony, South Africa. We […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Champion Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala (1962 - 2013) Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Champion Jacob “Baby Jake” Matlala (1962 – 2013)Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Cruiserweight Title Challenger Eddie Taylor AKA Young Joe Louis
February 26th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart You would think that, with a nickname that hailed one of the greats that Eddie Taylor, 31-18-1, 18 KO’s, would have a biography and digital foot print the length of the longest Chicago side walk. It might surprise you if you were to hear that there was not a massive presence […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Cruiserweight Title Challenger Eddie Taylor AKA Young Joe Louis Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Cruiserweight Title Challenger Eddie Taylor AKA Young Joe LouisLooking Back at the Tragic Death of Boxer Shaun Cummins
February 12th, 2019 Bad Brad 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 […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Looking Back at the Tragic Death of Boxer Shaun Cummins Comments Off on Looking Back at the Tragic Death of Boxer Shaun CumminsRingside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Contender Stan Ward
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 […]
