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Drug-free sport? • Another failed test, another drug testing agency, and another difficult week for Eddie Hearn

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LARGER LADIES • Ahead of this weekend’s IBF female heavyweight title fight, we look at 10 women who’ve fought in the highest division

A DIFFERENT BREED • The case of Michael Mooney, as he goes from hangovers to marathons to boxing tournaments, illustrates the unique qualities of a boxer

AT HOME WITH THE FURYS • Depending on your expectations, this hugely popular docuseries about Tyson and his family might surprise you, writes George Gigney

A Positive Test • An attempt to write about boxing’s positives without using the phrase “adverse analytical finding”

The Deep End • Elliot Worsell wonders if Dubois might come to regret his impetuousness

HEAVY HOPES • American prospect Anderson tops the bill in Tulsa, while two other young heavyweights collide in the co-feature

MAKING DYNAMITE • Days before ‘Dynamite’ Daniel Dubois flew to Poland to challenge Oleksandr Usyk, Declan Warrington watched one of his final training sessions with his new training team of Don Charles and James Ali Bashir

“I know Oleksandr Usyk better than anybody” • Bashir has the inside track on a fighter who once said he was like a father to him

THAT’S THE WAY TO DO IT • A brief history of British heavyweights winning big on their travels

Cutting deep • McCann and Baluta draw as a nasty wound appears to change course of fight, writes Matt Bozeat from ringside

Home sweet home • Yafai is a man in a hurry as he pummels Frank to submission inside a round, writes Andy Whittle from ringside

BIG GIRLS DO CRY • Lani Daniels is the world’s only female heavyweight champion, but she’s beaten some even bigger opposition outside of the ring

When Barker beat the count • It is 10 years, almost to the day, since Darren Barker recovered from a dramatic knockdown to record the cathartic victory over Daniel Geale that represented his finest night. Barker, his trainer Tony Sims and his promoter Eddie Hearn revisit it with Declan Warrington

FACING THE HURRICANE • In the summer of 1939, a British underdog dared to challenge the finest fighter in all of boxing.

Olaore gets Olympic chance • The Wallsend heavyweight will represent Nigeria at the African qualifiers

DECISION TIME • Litwin dedicated his win to Tenny Turner – and now he’s considering retirement

The first Nordic Nightmare • Heavyweight Gunner Barlund put Finnish boxing on the map, and it wasn’t long before the whole world took notice

SANIGAR JOINS EBA • London’s meeting on August 5 spawns a noteworthy new recruit

TYLER RIVERS • Andrew Fairley talks to a boxer who believes that anything is...