John Conteh has praised Callum Smith’s victory over Joshua Buatsi as “one of the best of his career” and urged him to follow it by winning a light-heavyweight world title. At the age of 34, Smith ...
Scouse superstar John Conteh stepped inside the ring for 39 times, including seven world title fights, during a career which transcended his generation. His career took him from the Commonwealth Games ...
TONY BELLEW can legitimately replace his idol John Conteh and claim to be Liverpool’s greatest fighter if he can beat Oleksandr Usyk at Manchester Arena on Saturday night. But it is a seemingly ...
Tony Bellew has paid a heartfelt tribute to his idol John Conteh, after the Liverpool boxing legend received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Conteh, who reigned as WBC light-heavyweight ...
YOU didn’t have to be Angelo Dundee to realise you were watching an immense talent when John Conteh won the middleweight gold medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. But I had no idea as I saw him ...
"He had to talk down agun-toting S.W.A.T. team after AceFrehley accidentally shot himself" ...
Long before Eastern Bloc exiles, émigrés and Russia’s boxing geniuses dominated, a square-jawed brute of a man called Mate Parlov, from Yugoslavia, was the first professional world champion from ...
IT’S THREE decades since John Conteh ruled the world as the best light-heavyweight on the planet. Yet the former WBC champion believes that Liverpool has unearthed another big hitter capable of ...