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The age of the asterisk • Sometimes a result is only confirmed weeks or months after the final bell

‘THE ROSE OF SOWETO’ PASSES • Tribute to a South African great

EFFORTS APPRECIATED

LOMA MAKES YOUR JAW DROP • Anber will be with Lomachenko again this weekend and ponders why the Ukrainian’s greatness has been overlooked

ONE DAY IN PARIS • Recalling a glorious visit to the French capital when a magnificent Stracey and Finnegan toppled local superstars

We need to talk about Ezra • Ezra Arenyeka is proof that doorstepping actually works

THE WEEK • What’s been going on in the boxing world over the last seven days

the BIG ZHANG THEORY • Chinese man-mountain underestimated the in-form Joseph Parker but insists he won’t make the same mistake when he returns to Riyadh to take on Deontay Wilder next month

THE LUCKY ONE • Brought up by her grandparents after her mother gave her away as a three-day-old baby, the inspirational Lauren Price could be the star to lift the status of Welsh boxing

MAJOR FIGHT SCHEDULE

Another roll of the dice • Mark Butcher wonders if George Kambosos’s seemingly relentless fortune will be in force again as he meets Ukrainian maestro Vasily Lomachenko this weekend for the IBF 135lbs crown

Price Returns • Welsh boxing expects as Lauren Price seeks to become the 14th ‘world’ champion in the nation’s rich boxing history, writes Elliot Worsell

STAR PUPIL • Wise beyond his years, displaying an almost eerie maturity, Puerto Rico’s great boxing hope Xander Zayas does not feel the pressure of expectation

The odd couple • A year ago, they weren’t on speaking terms, now they are boxing’s most unexpected promotional double act, even finishing each other’s sentences, the unlikely Frank Warren-Eddie Hearn alliance seems set to change boxing as we know it

Saul supreme • Suggestions of Canelo’s decline prove premature as he drops and repels game pretender to the throne Jaime Munguia in this ‘Battle of Mexico’

Force of nature • Japanese icon Inoue shrugs off a first-round knockdown to destroy Nery before a rapt, 40,000 crowd at the Tokyo Dome, writes Shaun Brown

SUNDAY SERVICE • Evans makes short work of Bulgarian

Credit due • Abubaker breaks resistance of tough Iranian, writes Andy Whittle

HODGSON PROVES A HIT • North Shields man clinches Area crown, writes Roy Kelly at ringside

Fraser sharp • Wilkinson puts McGivern to the sword

STAKES ARE HIGH • Matt Bozeat weighs up a make-or-break encounter at York Hall this weekend between former sparring partners

First class • Bradford boxing stalwart reflects on a glass-half-full career, writes Shaun Brown

Moving on up • Emerging stars Jones and Hegarty advance to Welsh ABA honours at the first time of asking, Gareth Jones...