Cecil Coffee wrote: ↑12 Feb 2026, 13:51
I think Boxing News has hit an all time low by publishing an article by Ben ‘the Doyen’ Doughty.
To think we had the likes of Donald McRae and Elliott Worsell writing for the magazine not so long ago and now we have to put up with a pathetic fan boy who cosplays being a boxing man. I mean, he even squashed his own nose to try and make himself look like a boxer.
For £11.99 a month, I expect better than to have to read crap from some bloke that wears scruffy shoes.
they published the doyen??????!?!?
the doughty thread (which forum is it on again?) probably the funniest thread ive ever read. he is like the walt mitter of boxing, i can only imagine how his ego has swelled being published by bn now
this is a man who was already writing a memoir at 30 having accomplished absolutely nothing
Cecil Coffee wrote: ↑12 Feb 2026, 13:51
I think Boxing News has hit an all time low by publishing an article by Ben ‘the Doyen’ Doughty.
To think we had the likes of Donald McRae and Elliott Worsell writing for the magazine not so long ago and now we have to put up with a pathetic fan boy who cosplays being a boxing man. I mean, he even squashed his own nose to try and make himself look like a boxer.
For £11.99 a month, I expect better than to have to read crap from some bloke that wears scruffy shoes.
ffs they published the doyen??????!?!?
the doughty thread (which forum is it on again?) probably the funniest thread ive ever read. he is like the walt mitter of boxing, i can only imagine how his ego has swelled being published by bn now
For some reason he pops up in my Facebook feed now and then.
I’ve seen him commenting on his own posts, berating people for not having ‘true knowledge’ like him.
What’s his story? Wasn’t there something about ticket money going on a while back?
oh man, you gotta see the doughty thread, im thinking it was on doghouse boxing?
he is basically a wannabe boxing whiz who hilariously overinflates himself, lies constantly about his own achievements, and just continually says and does ridiculous stuff. the 'memes' about him are some of the funniest things ive seen. like he had one series online where he'd take some poor embarrassed chap and have them hit the pads in various public places (e.g. on transit) which led to some fantastic photoshops
he has written poems about himself and how amazingly knowledgable he is about boxing, started a memoir years back having accomplished nothing, gushes about how boxing legends have told him he's so amazing.....just in general thinks hes the specialist flower of the bunch
ya he had a case some years back where he took a bunch of money for tickets, didnt deliver them, then instead of facing the music he ran off. eventually he scuttled back and i think he started repaying people, not sure how that all rolled out
Miles Temperton’a article in the history section where it covers the development on the area councils and also the Turpin brothers is brilliant. Simon Eubanks Smith’s passion for the EBAs is great and the republished classic articles is a great addition to.
Enjoyed the Fennell article, jealous his first live fight was Eubank v Malinga!
Cecil Coffee wrote: ↑12 Feb 2026, 13:51
I think Boxing News has hit an all time low by publishing an article by Ben ‘the Doyen’ Doughty.
To think we had the likes of Donald McRae and Elliott Worsell writing for the magazine not so long ago and now we have to put up with a pathetic fan boy who cosplays being a boxing man. I mean, he even squashed his own nose to try and make himself look like a boxer.
For £11.99 a month, I expect better than to have to read crap from some bloke that wears scruffy shoes.
I don’t know anything about the author…., but I did think the article was pretty good to be fair
Cecil Coffee wrote: ↑12 Feb 2026, 13:51
I think Boxing News has hit an all time low by publishing an article by Ben ‘the Doyen’ Doughty.
To think we had the likes of Donald McRae and Elliott Worsell writing for the magazine not so long ago and now we have to put up with a pathetic fan boy who cosplays being a boxing man. I mean, he even squashed his own nose to try and make himself look like a boxer.
For £11.99 a month, I expect better than to have to read crap from some bloke that wears scruffy shoes.
I don’t know anything about the author…., but I did think the article was pretty good to be fair
Yeah I thought it was a decent article too, wrapped into the recent movie which I have yet to see.
I don't know anything about the author either, other than a few things that pop up on my Facebook feed, but other than some cringe photos where he's trying to look moody, I speak as I find, and the article was a good read.
of course, the doyen's a living boxing legend, poems and books have been written about his boxing knowledge (by him)
he even had a very successful fake amateur career. lots of titles, national champ. of course there is no record of this and his only filmed match he looked awful and was beaten easily.
tbf i havent read the article. i get it, judge the work and not the person. but i still really have to lol at such a corny conman getting in BN, whether the article is good or not. if you dont know anything about doughty of course you wont know the lore that makes this hilarious
At one point during the show last Saturday, John Conteh was talking to a friend of mine on the stage behind the ring. The friend in question, an ex-pro boxer, was proudly showing John one of his own career highlights - a first round KO - on this phone. John watched patiently and politely until it was over at which point I whipped out my phone and put on the conclusive round of John’s final world title defence vs Len Hutchins. It seemed like the least I could do under the circumstances.
I asked John what it felt like in 2026 to watch his younger self flatten an opponent with a devastating left hook in front of his delirious home fans in an era when he was as famous as David Beckham?
a big bulk of his stories are just totally made up nonsense. people have called him out on the stars of his anecdotes being in totally different locations or having never gone near him when he's claimed to have engaged them in these little adventures. some guys he's mentioned have personally responded like 'wtf you on about mate?'
i see above that his london boxing tours were mentioned. he has shown up drunk and also asked multiple tour-ees if they can spare him some money during those tours. he also opened one of them by reciting some of his poetry he wrote about himself.
so much ben doughty lore that you dont know if you only read that one article. based on the positive feedback here, i'd guess it was a much better piece of writing than his self indulgent poetry or his memoir that he anticipated would be picked up by a major publisher. fair play if he's improved his writing and isnt just an ego writing thesaurus machine any more
the doughty thread might be the greatest thread in boxing internet history
My BN landed on Thursday, I am really impressed with it. It is a quality copy in terms of paper feel and layout. Oscar Pick the young reporter writes extremely well. Buncey being there is class, having Houston writing is like having the OG there. Fennell knits it all together well and his insight and writing is so good, his article on PEDS is brave I think, BN always has a backbone with stuff like this. I am happy the interviews on the backpage are back, enjoy those. Miles Temperton and the history section is all excellent, I think it's great VFM.
Latest edition through the letterbox today, it’s bloody brilliant. Nice tribute to Darkie Smith, they’ve covered the arrest of Kinahan, the Ali piece is excellent and the young lad Oscar Pick’s article on Denzel Bentley is very well written.
I’m definitely old when I refer to grown men as young lads.
bigped wrote: ↑08 May 2026, 14:14
How comes no preview for the Dave Allan fight next week?
They always previewed the main fights I used to
Enjoy reading the predictions
No idea mate.
I read it backwards as I love all the retro and history stuff. That Simon Euan-Evans is an absolute gem. Those EBAs do a lot and they all do it for free, it’s great. I’d love it if they got some of all the dosh in boxing to support them. Miles posts on here sometimes he’s a proper historian on the sport.
Must admit my heart sank a bit when I saw they'd pulled the Ali card for the cover and theme but the articles are a fresh take and I really enjoyed them.
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The Springs Toledo piece about the comic was superb and there's a quirky story by Geoff Cater about the Rumble of the Jungle in the social media age that I thought worked really well. I hope they have more original stories like that in future.
Still reading the rest but a big hit so far.
One pet peeve I do have is the composition of the cover. I don't think the masthead is big enough. When I go in Smiths, it's hard to spot (I'm a subscriber but thinking of ad hoc buyers). It could be much bigger in its current placement. Also, there are no other plugs for anything else so if you saw the current cover you'd just think it was Ali but there's also a brilliant story about Sugar Ray Leonard, plus Chisora, all the history, the amateurs and fight lab and lots more I haven't got to. You could put some of that in tickers at the top or bottom to sell it better.
bigped wrote: ↑08 May 2026, 14:14
How comes no preview for the Dave Allan fight next week?
They always previewed the main fights I used to
Enjoy reading the predictions
They email them out to subscribers every week now as a bonus to the print mag. Really good value when you take that into account.
Still preferred it weekly. I'm a subscriber. I just don't read it like I did the weekly ones. After a quick glance I normally forget about it and before you know it the new ones through the door. I'm not going to unsubscribe. I can afford it, I love boxing and I enjoy the previews email but weekly it was all in one place and as I get older I find it hard to concentrate on a very long article but that's my problem not theirs. As the poster said previously, I saw the cover and thought ' not Ali again ' but that's marketing I guess. It's never going back to weekly so I'd better get over it. Lucky to still have it, I suppose.
its worth it, f@cking hilarious thread