World heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is plotting his next move, with Daniel Dubois and Joseph Parker both seemingly in the running to face the king.

The chasing pack watch with interest, knowing their own futures might be at the mercy of Usyk’s choice. Derek Chisora, the IBF’s leading contender, is among them. But does the ageing warhorse really deserve a shot and, furthermore, is Chisora challenging Dubois or Usyk something the sport really needs?

There’s plenty of action to digest as Mikaela Mayer and William Zepeda marched on and the journey of Pat Brown began.

In This Week, we go back to 1990 and a fight that birthed one of the most underrated fighters of the decade, Terrible Terry Norris.

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Tributes to George Foreman, Colin Hart and Livingstone Bramble are paid this week.

Foreman was a gigantic presence in every possible way - to such a degree that we presumed he’d go on forever.

The loss of Hart, the doyen of British boxing journalists and friend of the podcast, hits particularly hard but comfort is found in the life he cherished.

There’s also time to reflect on the performances of George Kambosos and Skye Nicholson, a look ahead to the weekend’s action, and in This Week we look back on the

rematch between Matthew Saad Muhammad and Hart’s personal favourite, John Conteh.

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Should Nick Ball have been thrown out of his fight with TJ Doheny after booting him in the leg?

That question, alongside analysis of the fight, is in sharp focus this week.

We also examine the £100,000 fine dished out to Chris Eubank Jnr and explain both why it was so high and where the money goes.

And in This Week we go back to the Nineties and a Mike Tyson undercard that featured one of the most unappreciated technicians of them all - Mr Ricardo Lopez.

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