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Articles by Oliver Goldstein

About Oliver Goldstein
Oliver Goldstein is a writer based in London. In recent years, his work has appeared in Boxing News, Boxing Monthly, and Inside HBO Boxing. Oliver has also worked as an Associate Producer for Showtime Boxing. He is currently writing a PhD at Cambridge.
Iran Barkley v Nigel Benn
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Dark Star: Nigel Benn in America

January 10, 2019 Oliver Goldstein

Wherever Nigel Benn went in the 1980s, chaos followed. Five years in the military and eighteen months in Northern Ireland had prepared him poorly for post-institutional life. That he was already angry, confused, powerful, and […]

Boxing History

Episodes in the American Berserk: Mike Tyson vs. Razor Ruddock I

December 20, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

This is the ninth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - SEPTEMBER 27,1986: Lloyd Honeyghan (R) lands a punch to Donald Curry during a bout at Caesar's Hotel & Casino on September 27, 1986 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Lloyd Honeyghan won the WBC welter weight title, WBA World welter weight title and the IBF welter weight title. (Photo by: The Ring Magazine/Getty Images)
Boxing History

Honey Nasty: The Night Lloyd Honeyghan Ruined Donald Curry

December 13, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

“The brief, harsh dramas that change the lives of fighters are often enacted in memorably peculiar places,” as Hugh McIlvanney once wrote. So it was for Donald Curry, when a little-known welterweight from South London […]

LAS VEGAS - MARCH 11,1989: Michael Dokes (R) lands a punch against Evander Holyfield during the fight at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Evander Holyfield won the WBC Continental Americas heavyweight title by a TKO 10. (Photo by: The Ring Magazine/Getty Images)
Boxing Profiles

Earn It: Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes Go to War

November 27, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

This is the eighth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]

Roy Jones Jr, in his tuxedo before his "coming out" fight vs Glenn Wolfe at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV February 13, 1993 (Photo by V.J. Lovero/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)
Boxing Profiles

The Future Now: Roy Jones Breaks Through

November 2, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

This is the seventh piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 22: Billy Joe Saunders is pictured in front of a photograph of himself during an Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders Head to Head Press Conference at the Landmark Hotel on October 22, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
Boxing Profiles

The Infernal Machine: On Billy Joe Saunders

October 26, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

That Billy Joe Saunders was the enfant terrible of British boxing has been known ever since a suppressed YouTube clip resulted in Saunders being hastily moved on from the amateur ranks to the professional when […]

Oleksandr Usyk and Tony Bellew pose for a photograph during their press conference at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel on September 24, 2018 in Manchester, England.
Fight Previews

Hollywood Ending: Tony Bellew Finishes Up

October 8, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

No contemporary fighter’s manner of self-presentation more obviously repeats the depiction of boxing in popular cinema than the British cruiserweight Tony Bellew. Every account that Bellew gives of his life as a boxer is sodden […]

Boxing Analysis

The Acceptance World: Anthony Joshua Flattens Alexander Povetkin

September 24, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

On a pouring Saturday night in London, Anthony Joshua suffered strife and delivered drama before triumphing at last via seventh-round knockout against Alexander Povetkin at Wembley Stadium. All of Joshua’s bouts since his coming-of-age against […]

Michael Watson falls after Chris Eubank delivers the final punch in their WBO super-middleweight fight at White Hart Lane, 21st September 1991. The fight ended Watson's career but lead to safety procedure changes. (Photo by Chris Smith/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Lost in Boxing: Inside Donald McRae's Dark Trade

Idyllic Masquerading: The Night Chris Eubank Beat Michael Watson

September 7, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

This is the fourth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]

Prince Naseem Hamed stands over Kevin Kelley
Lost in Boxing: Inside Donald McRae's Dark Trade

The Edge of Derision: On Prince Naseem Hamed

August 23, 2018 Oliver Goldstein

This is the second piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]

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