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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 […]
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Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxing Champion Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson
January 20th, 2020 
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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 RoldanRingside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Calvin Grove
December 5th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “I set out to do something that very few people on this Earth have ever done, and I did it.” There is a cast of character in this man’s life that could be held to come straight out of a cross between Disney and the Sopranos… Picture the scene as you […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Calvin Grove Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Champion Calvin GroveNigel Benn: A True Warrior, but One That Needs to Stay Retired!
November 26th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In the end sense prevailed. Or rather a shoulder injury intervened. Benjamin Button has gone back to his bed and the derision that flowed towards former world title holder, Nigel Benn, 42-5-1, 35 KO’s that came from his announcement that his comeback fight was off was unfortunate and unwarranted. Benn just […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: but One That Needs to Stay Retired!, Nigel Benn: A True Warrior Comments Off on Nigel Benn: A True Warrior, but One That Needs to Stay Retired!Ringside Report Looks Back at WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie Hide
November 13th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart About a year or so ago, I looked back over the career of one Herbie Hide, and given the fact that Nigel Benn has tried a comeback, we are inundated with sons of boxers making their way – Chris Eubank, JR., Conor Benn, even Steve Collins, JR. I thought it might […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie Hide Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie HideRingside Report Looks Back at the Late Boxer Scott LeDoux (1949-2011)
November 5th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart His final fight was against a British heavyweight legend but his progress to that last fight was littered with the types of names that make legends of the people who fight them. With names like Foreman, Spinks, Norton, Holmes, Lyle, Coetzee and Weaver on the resume you would think there should […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Boxer Scott LeDoux (1949-2011) Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Boxer Scott LeDoux (1949-2011)Ringside Report Takes a Closer Look at Boxer Alex Dilmaghani
November 3rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart You have trained hard for weeks. You have managed to make the weight. You have rehydrated, eaten well and are ready. The warm up is done. The shadow boxing, pad work and final pep talk is all over. The gloves are on and the wraps have been witnessed being put on. […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Takes a Closer Look at Boxer Alex Dilmaghani Comments Off on Ringside Report Takes a Closer Look at Boxer Alex DilmaghaniRingside Report Looks Back at Female Boxing Champion Jane Couch, MBE
October 16th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “I wish I hadn’t been the first in the boxing … I’ve been damaged.” 5 -time world champion boxer, Jane Couch MBE, 28-11, 9 KO’s, in 2019, quoted in an interview with the Guardian Newspaper. “…many women suffer from premenstrual tension which makes them more emotional and more labile and accident-prone. […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: MBE, Ringside Report Looks Back at Female Boxing Champion Jane Couch Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Female Boxing Champion Jane Couch, MBERingside Report Looks Back at Tough Former Champion Scotty “The Bulldog” Olson
October 7th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart With a nickname like “The Bulldog”, you might have expected that he would embody the true English spirit of Churchill, the man with whom that dog is largely associated with, but this guy was as Canadian as they come. Scotty “The Bulldog” Olson, 34-4-2, 25 KO’s, was an active flyweight between […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough Former Champion Scotty “The Bulldog” Olson Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Tough Former Champion Scotty “The Bulldog” OlsonRingside Report Looks Back at the Late Former World Title Challenger Patrick Ford (1955-2011)
October 3rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Growing up in Scotland Africa had an exotic ring to me. I never thought I would ever visit but occasionally we had visitors from that beautiful continent to our shores. As a child I was taught not about the truth of the United Kingdom’s shameful colonial past but the myth of […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Former World Title Challenger Patrick Ford (1955-2011) Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at the Late Former World Title Challenger Patrick Ford (1955-2011)Ringside Report Looks Back at World Title Challenger Johnny “Super D” Duplessis
September 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart It’s been a week where we have seen, once again, people who think it is OK to insult fighters on our forums on Ringside Report – fear not they have lifetimes on them as short as their attention spans. My Facebook timeline has seen “Bad” Brad, my patient friend and editor, […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at World Title Challenger Johnny “Super D” Duplessis Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at World Title Challenger Johnny “Super D” DuplessisRingside Report Tribute to Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Jose Napoles (1940-2019)
September 16th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart At the age of 79, 10 bells have rung out for the legendary Jose Napoles. “Mantequilla” was a former champion at welterweight who fought no fewer than 88 times with a remarkable 81 wins, 54 of those by knockout or stoppage. Now that’s a record that most modern fighters would scrap […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Tribute to Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Jose Napoles (1940-2019) Comments Off on Ringside Report Tribute to Our Fallen “Brother In Boxing” Jose Napoles (1940-2019)Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion John Conteh
September 15th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Many boxers struggle after their fighting career to find something worthwhile to do. They can end up trying to use their brawn rather than their brains and become “muscle” or use their experiences to give back to the sport by opening gyms or becoming trainers/managers. With the advent of such riches […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion John Conteh Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion John ContehRingside Report Looks Back at former World Title Challenger Johnny Davis
September 6th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Johnny Davis, 15-11, 5 KO’s, was no knockout specialist, despite coming from a knockout part of the world and growing up on a farm. Idyllic though it might have been, for the man who became the Hempstead Hammer, when he left the farm at 18 years of age it was to […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at former World Title Challenger Johnny Davis Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at former World Title Challenger Johnny DavisHeavyweight Danny Williams Must RETIRE!
September 2nd, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart We all know the dangers of being hit consistently in the head right? We have all read what happens when a boxer leaves the ring and is not well – OK? We do realize that this is one of the most dangerous sports and as soon as you can, you […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Heavyweight Danny Williams Must RETIRE! Comments Off on Heavyweight Danny Williams Must RETIRE!Ringside Report Remembers Former World Title Challenger Lottie Mwale (1952-2005)
August 21st, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Being a hero in your own country can be a bit of a burden. For the likes of Anthony Joshua, in a rich homeland where there are choices for heroes, it may seem less so but the scrutiny under which you are put can be more problematic. Having an entire nation, […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers Former World Title Challenger Lottie Mwale (1952-2005) Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers Former World Title Challenger Lottie Mwale (1952-2005)Ringside Report Takes A Closer Look at Nathan DeCastro
August 17th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart If you look up his BoxRec record, it’s 7-0. His last fight was in 2016 and he has not boxed since. His actual professional record is 15-0 and his last fight was in 2019 in a unified world title fight at super middleweight. Nathan DeCastro, 7-0, 5 KO’s, is a world […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Takes A Closer Look at Nathan DeCastro Comments Off on Ringside Report Takes A Closer Look at Nathan DeCastroRingside Remembers the Late Boxer Andy Ganigan (1952-2012)
August 8th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Hawaiian Punch might sound to us like an exotic cocktail but a blended mix of fast and furious was what made Andy Ganigan, the original Hawaiian Punch, 34-5, 30 KO’s, someone whose nickname fitted his approach to boxing. It is now 7 years since his passing but the effect he had […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Remembers the Late Boxer Andy Ganigan (1952-2012) Comments Off on Ringside Remembers the Late Boxer Andy Ganigan (1952-2012)Remembering British Boxer Bradley Stone
July 31st, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In recent weeks, we lost three boxers from ring fatalities, I had already planned to look at Bradley Stone,17-2-1, 7 KO’s,. The circumstances around anyone losing their life at such a young age are simply tragic. To do so for a sport leads to all sorts of questions that arise from […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Remembering British Boxer Bradley Stone Comments Off on Remembering British Boxer Bradley StoneRingside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Cruiserweight Champion Ossie Ocasio
July 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Growing up Jaws was a film for me. Scott Blacklock and his family took me to see it when I think I was far too young to be able to appreciate the subtleties of the genius onscreen. All I remembered afterwards was the fright when the shark appeared below water. I […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Cruiserweight Champion Ossie Ocasio Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former WBA Cruiserweight Champion Ossie OcasioRingside Report Takes a Closer Look at Tommy “Boom Boom” Coyle
July 9th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart If world championships were given out for heart, guts and effort, Tommy “Boom Boom” Coyle, 25-5, 12 KO’s would be a triple world champion in three areas, a superstar and widely admired. For many UK boxing fans, given his career he is all three. His last fight, against Chris Algieri in […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Takes a Closer Look at Tommy “Boom Boom” Coyle Comments Off on Ringside Report Takes a Closer Look at Tommy “Boom Boom” CoyleRingside Report Remembers the Late Willie “The Worm” Monroe (1946-2019)
July 1st, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The boxing fraternity has lost yet another boxer with a tremendous record and in his wake, many memories for the fighting fans and a fantastic number of rounds in a tank through which we can trawl and be impressed. 22nd June 2019 saw the passing of the original Willie “The Worm” […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Remembers the Late Willie “The Worm” Monroe (1946-2019) Comments Off on Ringside Report Remembers the Late Willie “The Worm” Monroe (1946-2019)Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Cruiserweight Champion Leroy Murphy
June 26th, 2019 Bad Brad By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “Solid Gold” is some nickname. It suggests someone of real substance and it was nice to find that, rather than being some fancy nonsense, the man who owned it, seriously owned it! Leroy Murphy, 30-4, 23 KO’s who held the IBF cruiserweight title from 1984 to 1986 holds the character and […]
Posted in BOXING NEWS, COLUMNS BY DONALD "BRAVEHEART" STEWART Tags: Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Cruiserweight Champion Leroy Murphy Comments Off on Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Cruiserweight Champion Leroy Murphy
