by Andrew Harrison (Safe Side Of The Ropes)

As we trundle away from the season of shorts, flip flops and rained off barbecues, solace can be found for British fight fans in the recommencement of the domestic boxing schedule and this year it’ll be slightly different. In a pretty significant move, Sky have rejigged their weekend boxing programme, switching fight nights from Friday late to Saturday prime time. British boxing not only has a crack at gaining a wider audience share, it can also shoulder barge its way onto the sports pages of the Sunday broadsheets. Happy, happy days (read more).