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2021 Boxing Knockout Of The Year Nominees

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end boxing awards, continuing over the course of a week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. For each category, we give five finalists, with video and/or relevant info, as well […]

Mid Year After Action Report and Round Table Discussion

July kind of drags. For most of us, it’s hotter than Satan’s taint, and everything tends to find itself in a bit of a holding pattern. Typically there aren’t a lot of fight cards either. So, in what has been a surprisingly entertaining year to date, now feels like the exact right time to take […]

Kid Galahad, One Of Britain’s Most Promising Boxers, Fails PED Test

British tabloid The Daily Star broke a story on Tuesday regarding Kid Galahad – real name Abdul-Bari Awad – who, depressingly, failed a performance enhancing drug test in September after outclassing Brazilian Adeilson Dos Santos. Galahad, 18-0 (9 KOs), a former British, Commonwealth and European champion, tested positive for banned substance stanozolol — an anabolic […]

British Beat: Kid Galahad And Derry Mathews Favoured For Weekend Honours

Sheffield junior featherweight Kid Galahad, 16-0, 8 KOs, will attempt to sew another badge on his rucksack this weekend when he vies for Commonwealth honours against imported Aussie wildcard Fred “The General” Mundraby, 15-1-1, 7 KOs. Having already secured British and European awards in successive fights (he has since discarded the Lonsdale belt), the tricksy […]

Kid & Play: Rising Star Kid Galahad Masters Sergio Prado

Sheffield prospect Kid Galahad, 16-0, 8 KOs, roundly outboxed Spanish import Sergio Prado, 9-4-1, 3 KOs, to claim the European junior featherweight title, Saturday, live on terrestrial TV. The Qatar-born 24-year-old — who secures an alphabet world ranking with the win — wasn’t as much as scuffed throughout 12 rounds of adept technical boxing at […]

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