If The Nevada State Athletic Commission allow Canelo Alvarez to go ahead with his mega-bucks match-up with Gennady Golovkin in Las Vegas on May 5, despite the Mexican's positive dope test, it will not be the first time that a boxing superstar has got away with it in Sin City.

British boxer Muhammad Ali has been handed a two-year ban from the sport after a positive drug test in April.

The punch-perfect performance from Billy Joe Saunders, arguably the best by a Brit this year, in successfully defending his WBO world middleweight title against David Lemieux in Montreal recently was certainly the most compelling and complete victory by a Brit since Tyson Fury toyed with Wladimir Klitschko back in 2015.

More books have been written about Muhammad Ali than any other sports figure in history.

The Olympic Movement is mourning the loss of three-time Olympian and Australian amateur boxer, Tony Madigan, who has died at the age of 87.

English fighter Muhammad Ali has been suspended by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) after failing a drugs test.

Back in 1968, when a callow 22-year-old named Donald J Trump was busy building a business empire and not walls, two American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, stood on the podium at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. 

Fix, farce, fraud, fake, fiasco. There is a whole lexicon of F-words that could be added to the original four letter expletive employed so liberally by the combatants during the build-up to this weekend’s fistic vaudeville in Las Vegas.

Wembley hosted two fistic events last weekend. One was a genuine contest between Chris Eubank Jnr and German veteran Arthur Abraham, albeit for a tinpot title (the IBO super-middleweight belt) and the other - well, I’m not quite sure what it was.

There is nothing more likely to spark a verbal punch-up between sports enthusiasts than discussing who is, or was, the best-ever.

Should the forthcoming hybrid encounter between Floyd Mayweather and Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar Conor McGregor in Las Vegas on August 26 turns out to be more farce than fight, as most anticipate, then the consolation for the fans - and combatants – is that exactly 41 years ago last week, there was a precedent involving an even more celebrated fistic figure than the Money Man.

Had he lived, Muhammad Ali would have been 75 today. 

As I gazed into the bright December sunshine outside of my window and contemplated what I have watched, seen and covered over an indelible 12-month period of sport and politics, a Twitter notification popped up on my screen.

The Opening Ceremony is one of the most-watched events of the Olympic Games. 

The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has announced that the inaugural Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award will be presented posthumously to Olympic champion and boxing legend Muhammad Ali.