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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 […]
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Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Super Welterweight Contender David Braxton
March 24th, 2020 
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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 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, […]
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