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(Publisher note: Ryan O’ Neal is a long time supporter of Ringside Report and a huge boxing fan. He told me personally he is in deep mourning for the loss of his beloved friend Hedgemon Lewis. Ryan, on behalf of RSR, I send you our condolences as well to the Lewis Family in their time […]
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Ringside Report Remembers Talented Boxer Hedgemon Lewis Who Lost His Life to Covid-19 (1946-2020)
May 16th, 2020 
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May 12th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart 1972 was a dark year for sport. It was the year that the Olympics became less about just taking part and more about surviving the worst terrorist massacre in living memory. For those of us too young to know what it was all about we just saw on our screens the […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxer George Turpin Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxer George TurpinRingside Report Readers: Can You Figure Out the Fight From These Facts?
May 7th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart 3 minutes of madness – a round that stopped hearts, traffic and captured the imagination… But which fight was it? Build up It was the time for the heavies to weigh in and match up. This time, both the challenger and champion were the first to publicly say, we shall not […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Readers: Can You Figure Out the Fight From These Facts? Comments Off on Ringside Report Readers: Can You Figure Out the Fight From These Facts?Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Julian Solis
May 6th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He is a former world champion at bantamweight from the backwaters of Puerto Rico who retains his popularity there through the generosity of his spirt, but this former WBA champion had a tough pathway outside the ring, and a not so easy ride in it. Julian Solis, 41-13-1, 22 KO’s, was […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Julian Solis Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Julian SolisHappy Double Nickel (55) Birthday to RSR’s Feature Boxing Writer Donald “Braveheart” Stewart – Boxing News
May 6th, 2020 Bad Brad RSR Press Release RSR’s very own Feature Boxing Writer Donald “Braveheart” Stewart turns the big double nickel (55) today on his birthday.
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Happy Double Nickel (55) Birthday to RSR's Feature Boxing Writer Donald "Braveheart" Stewart - Boxing News Comments Off on Happy Double Nickel (55) Birthday to RSR’s Feature Boxing Writer Donald “Braveheart” Stewart – Boxing NewsRingside Report Looks Back at “The Gifted One” Kirkland Laing
April 29th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In boxing, rags to riches stories are done pretty damn well. I am not sure that there are better examples of how one individual out of poverty can rise in such a way to gain prominence, attract fame, get rich and be a hero whilst using the one thing that would […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at "The Gifted One" Kirkland Laing Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at “The Gifted One” Kirkland LaingRingside Report Looks Back at the First IBF Super Middleweight Champion Murray Sutherland
April 19th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart From one Scot to another would be quite sublime but this is one who hails from the East, I come from the West, he fought, I never and he left to pursue his career, but I never did. There are no likelihood of statues being built for either of us but […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at the First IBF Super Middleweight Champion Murray Sutherland Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at the First IBF Super Middleweight Champion Murray SutherlandRingside Report Looks Back at Former World Titleist Luigi Minchillo
April 7th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “He didn’t make his first defense of the WBC junior middleweight title until February ’84, when he outpointed Luigi Minchillo of Italy in Detroit.” From George Kimball’s FOUR KINGS, the seminal boxing book on the rivalry and the top of their time stories of Hearns, Leonard, Hagler and Duran. Close to […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former World Titleist Luigi Minchillo Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former World Titleist Luigi MinchilloRingside Report Looks at the Career of Scott Quigg
March 31st, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart When the towel landed in the ring in the 11th round, the curtain fell on Scott Quigg’s 35-3-2, 26 KO’s, career. And what a career it was. The decision taken by trainer Joe Gallagher was a tough one: tough on him, tough on his fighter and even for some, tough to […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks at the Career of Scott Quigg Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks at the Career of Scott QuiggRingside Report Looks Back at Former Super Welterweight Contender David Braxton
March 24th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Forty-three fights from 1978 to 1987 and of those only 4 were lost but you may search in vain for much about the career of one David Braxton, 39-4, 27 KO’s. In 2008, the Detroit Free Press even headlined that with his career crashing there appeared to be no one around […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Junior Middleweight Contender David Braxton Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Super Welterweight Contender David BraxtonRingside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Scott Harrison
March 20th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Five children might seem like enough to keep you busy. But not for one man, who has an artistic temperament that sees you draw for calm therapy along with the endorsement of Tommy “Hitman” Hearns it clearly isn’t. Add into that an ongoing dispute with the British Boxing Board of Control, […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Scott Harrison Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Scott HarrisonRingside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Luis Acosta
March 10th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Argentinians, much to our shame, don’t always feature highly on the radar when it comes to anything in Britain. The 1982 war between the United Kingdom and the regime of General Gualtieri is still one that resonates badly due to the many veterans that still suffer from its effects. It is […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Luis Acosta Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Luis AcostaRingside Report Looks Back at Audley Harrison to Bestow Credit Where It Hadn’t Been Before
March 8th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “Bad” Brad has a rule in his Ringside Report FB Forum. Nobody calls a boxer a bum or insults him – or her. It’s a decency rule. Sometimes it is hard to enforce or police due the volume of traffic we get to the forum with almost 23K in members, but […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Audley Harrison Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Audley Harrison to Bestow Credit Where It Hadn’t Been BeforeRingside Report Remembers Our “Brother In Boxing” 80’s Boxer Wilbert “The Vampire” Johnson (1956-2019)
February 29th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart I believe that in December of 2019, boxing lost a character, someone who lit up the fraternity with personality and no less boxing skill. Wilbert “The Vampire” Johnson, 29-8-2, 18 KO’s was someone with promise, that was not wholly met but he ended up with a disposition that belied any feeling […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers Our "Brother In Boxing" 80’s Boxer Wilbert “The Vampire” Johnson (1956-2019) Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers Our “Brother In Boxing” 80’s Boxer Wilbert “The Vampire” Johnson (1956-2019)Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Ibar Arrington
February 25th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart You have to hand it to “Bad” Brad. Every so often I get a name from him to research which acts as a great opportunity for my own education as well as an opportunity to highlight people we may have forgotten. Most of the time he turns up a real cracker […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfyS-S-IJs Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Ibar ArringtonRingside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Jimmy Thunder (1966 – 2020)
February 22nd, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Being a Scot and a proud one at that, the things that allows us to puff out our chest with pride is when we do a sport well. Although it is not often, the one thing we tend to do well is organization. With the memory of a hugely successful Commonwealth […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Jimmy Thunder (1966 – 2020) Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Jimmy Thunder (1966 – 2020)Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Charlie Magri
February 19th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He had the look of a boxer, of a fighter with a nose that knew too many fists. As he retired and grew older, the hair left him, but the rugged looks did not. During the 1970’s and 80’s he was “Champagne Charlie”, the guy who fought with his heart on […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Charlie Magri Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Charlie MagriRingside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” WBA Super Lightweight Champion Johnny “Bump City” Bumphus (1960-2020)
February 10th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart A professional debut in 1980, a super lightweight champion and a welterweight title challenger twice, Johnny “Bump City” Bumphus, 29-2 20 KO’s, who has recently passed graced the ring with more than simply guile, and grace. “Bump City” added in, according to his nephew in a local news report, being “…a […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” WBA Super Lightweight Champion Johnny “Bump City” Bumphus (1960-2020) Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” WBA Super Lightweight Champion Johnny “Bump City” Bumphus (1960-2020)Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Dwight Davison (1955-2020)
February 9th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart With a history that includes a fight against an Ali Mohamad, another fight in Kalamazoo and 28 professional fights before tasting defeat Dwight “Dynamite” Davison, 44-8, 33 KO’s had what could have been claimed to be quite a topsy turvy career. Now that he has recently passed, it gives us the […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Dwight Davison (1955-2020) Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Dwight Davison (1955-2020)Ringside Report Looks Back at Two Time Heavyweight Title Challenger Alfredo Evangelista
February 2nd, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart When the first thing that you read tells you that he was in the worst heavyweight fight ever, you would be forgiven for closing the laptop and giving up. Nothing to see here would be the clarion cry as you move onto something far more interesting. It would be a mistake. […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Two Time Heavyweight Title Challenger Alfredo Evangelista Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Two Time Heavyweight Title Challenger Alfredo EvangelistaRingside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Title Challenger Andrew Golota
February 1st, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart One of the joys of looking back is to reflect upon long forgotten events that should have stuck more firmly in your memories. There is the sight of a heavyweight boxer in tears, of a heavyweight boxer taking on the best of the time and coming up short, the sight of […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Title Challenger Andrew Golota Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Heavyweight Title Challenger Andrew GolotaRingside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson
January 20th, 2020 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Born into a place where there was gang culture all around him, weighing 45 pounds at the age of 5, asking to enter a tournament where the minimum weight was 55 pounds, putting on ankle weights and filling his pockets with coins to bring his weight up, won that tournament, with […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Mark “Too Sharp” JohnsonRingside Report Looks Back at Irleis “El Cubanito” Perez
December 29th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart He is a man who, like many, has his career shrouded by a couple of notable fights – one for a world title and the other with a legendary boxer. As always it is only part of a story but an important aspect of it. Fighters often do the 5am runs […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Irleis “El Cubanito” Perez Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Irleis “El Cubanito” PerezClaressa Shields: A Bright Light In Boxing or a Disgrace?
December 23rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In the United Kingdom we have the recently retired Nicola Adams who was the first woman to win an Olympic Gold, Ireland has the woman that they claim is the first woman of boxing in Katie Taylor. In Norway a woman who has not had the riches in her career she […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Claressa Shields: A Bright Light In Boxing or a Disgrace? Comments Off on Claressa Shields: A Bright Light In Boxing or a Disgrace?Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough As Nails Juan Domingo Roldan
December 17th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Memories can be tough things to shift and anyone who lived through the 1980’s in the United Kingdom with a forces background or know people who “served” through that time are aware of why it is that Argentinians cause issue. In the early 1980’s in a bid to stave off unpopularity […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough As Nail Juan Domingo Roldan Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough As Nails Juan Domingo Roldan
