IT’S Christmas time and there’s no need to be afraid, especially as we are celebrating with a frankly huge 80-page issue to warm up those cold winter nights and tide you over the festive period. As befits the BN Christmas tradition, we have a bunch of special features for you to enjoy, exclusive interviews with two of the standard-bearers for British boxing, David Haye and Carl Froch, leading the way.

We also have some great Don King anecdotes from the people who know him best, and a special Our Night with Aaron Pryor, Alfonso Gomez and Sergio Mora all discussing their memorable bouts with three men who tragically left us last year, Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti and Vernon Forrest respectively.

Our State of the Game subject is Super Six innovater Ken Hershman, our Hot Prospect is Northern Irish hope Carl Frampton and Commonwealth title challenger Carl Dilks takes the 60-Second Interview.

If by some miracle that’s still not enough, we have the up-to-date British ratings (every UK fighter ranked), a very special six-page column from Claude Abrams (if you want to know why it’s so momentous, you will have to read it) and interviews in the News section with Danny Williams – on Sam Sexton – and Amir Khan – on (the separate issues of) racism and Zab Judah.

Don’t miss a truly historic issue of Boxing News.