<description>You can’t help it feel that watching the Zuffa card was like watching a Boxxer card from 2023.
So, if you’re Ben Shalom you must be sat at home raging that the fighters you help build have just been taken from you, and put in exactly the same place you left them, and you received no compensation. 

No thank you no reward no nothing. 
That must really hurt.</description>

You can’t help it feel that watching the Zuffa ca…

You can’t help it feel that watching the Zuffa card was like watching a Boxxer card from 2023.
So, if you’re Ben Shalom you must be sat at home raging that the fighters you help build have just been taken from you, and put in exactly the same place you left them, and you received no compensation. 

No thank you no reward no nothing. 
That must really hurt.

BEYOND BOXING EP304 - JUSTICE FOR BEN SHALOM

<description>Last night’s main event had all the ingredients of a defining moment—but instead, it left us debating the referee. As Rico Verhoeven pushed himself against the elite pedigree of Oleksandr Usyk, the fight was hanging in the balance. He was under pressure, no doubt, but still on his feet and within touching distance of the bell. And that’s where the controversy begins.

Should the referee have stepped in when he did? 

Or should Verhoeven have been given the chance to make it back to his stool and reset? In combat sports, referees walk a tightrope between protecting fighters and allowing contests to reach a natural conclusion. 

Get it wrong, and the story shifts, from the athletes in the ring to the official in charge.</description>

Last night’s main event had all the ingredients o…

Last night’s main event had all the ingredients of a defining moment—but instead, it left us debating the referee. As Rico Verhoeven pushed himself against the elite pedigree of Oleksandr Usyk, the fight was hanging in the balance. He was under pressure, no doubt, but still on his feet and within touching distance of the bell. And that’s where the controversy begins.

Should the referee have stepped in when he did? 

Or should Verhoeven have been given the chance to make it back to his stool and reset? In combat sports, referees walk a tightrope between protecting fighters and allowing contests to reach a natural conclusion. 

Get it wrong, and the story shifts, from the athletes in the ring to the official in charge.

BEYOND BOXING EP303 - ITS NOT VERHOVER YET

<description>What are we just seen? 
Seriously? 
What have we just seen? 

We have seen the most dramatic world title fight we’ve seen in the UK for a long time. 
We saw two men put their bodies and literally their lives on the line, and you wonder if either Man will be the same again. In a perverse way, that is exactly why we love the sport of boxing.</description>

What are we just seen? 
Seriously? 
What have we …

What are we just seen? 
Seriously? 
What have we just seen? 

We have seen the most dramatic world title fight we’ve seen in the UK for a long time. 
We saw two men put their bodies and literally their lives on the line, and you wonder if either Man will be the same again. In a perverse way, that is exactly why we love the sport of boxing.

BEYOND BOXING EP302 - THE ULTIMATE WARRIORS

<description>Time to remove more frauds from the game.</description>

Time to remove more frauds from the game.

BEYOND BOXING EP301 - SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

<description>Doping is a serious problem in boxing. Whether the sport is dirty, or people are sailing too close to the wind, something has to change.

We also need to look at why VADA is catching everyone and UKAD is catching nobody. 
What of VADA did other sports, what would they find?</description>

Doping is a serious problem in boxing. Whether th…

Doping is a serious problem in boxing. Whether the sport is dirty, or people are sailing too close to the wind, something has to change.

We also need to look at why VADA is catching everyone and UKAD is catching nobody. 
What of VADA did other sports, what would they find?

BEYOND BOXING EP300 - WHAT GP GIVES OUT GHRP 2.

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