TONY BELLEW can legitimately replace his idol John Conteh and claim to be Liverpool’s greatest fighter if he can beat Oleksandr Usyk at Manchester Arena on Saturday night. But it is a seemingly ...

The other night, I attended the opening of a new, serious theatre piece at the Royal Court: Conteh. It tells the life story of John Conteh, a man who rose to the pinnacle of the boxing world in 1974 ...

He sadly only realised 50 per cent of his potential YOU didn’t have to be Angelo Dundee to realise you were watching an immense talent when John Conteh won the middleweight gold medal at the 1970 ...

Tony Bellew gets advice from one of his childhood heroes, former world champion John Conteh, ahead of his fight against Oleksandr Usyk. Bellew is chasing greatness as he challenges Usyk for all four ...

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When John Conteh was in his pomp in the mid-to-late 1970s the World Boxing Council light-heavyweight was presented as a possible opponent of Muhammad Ali. Stylistically, it made the mind race. Yet ...

YOU didn’t have to be Angelo Dundee to realise you were watching an immense talent when John Conteh won the middleweight gold medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. But I had no idea as I saw him ...