Alexander Reynolds
John Conteh: The Pin-Up Boy Boxing Champ From Liverpool
He was rich, good looking and a world boxing champ in the 1970s. What could possibly go wrong?
When Manchester Was Mecca for Muay Thai
In the old days, you didn't go to Thailand to work your strikes, you went to Master Toddy's in the north of England.
RIP Nampon: The Knee Flogger of Buriram Province
From rural farm boy to big city kickboxing champ, we look back at the life, career and untimely death of Nampon Nongkeepahuyut.
The Rise and Fall of Rompo Gym
With kickboxers from every corner of the globe, Rompo Gym was once the best Muay Thai gym in Bangkok. Here's the sad story of its decline and fall by someone who witnessed it happen.
RIP Nokweed Davy
The world of Muay Thai is in mourning for the loss of one its own—the fearsome leg kicker Nokweed Davy, a gentleman boxer of the old school with a film noir back story.
Buakaw’s Iranian Manager Is Making Waves in Bangkok
We talk with journeyman kickboxer Sasan Ghosairi about trumping the odds and reinventing himself as a Bangkok based fight promoter.
Photos from One of the Most Notorious Underage Parties of the 1980s
Alexander Reynolds, party photographer at Eddie Davenport's infamous Gatecrasher Balls, remembers what it was like to snap the children of aristocracy while they threw up and fingered each other.
Britain's Prisons Are on the Brink of Exploding
The UK's prisons are overcrowded, understaffed, and underfunded. And everyone from an ex-con to the former lord chief justice think they're close to boiling over.
My Time at London's 'School of Jihadis'
Before Britain's right-wing press gave my alma mater a nickname because six former students have joined the Islamic State, it was a notoriously dangerous public school.
The Seedy Underworld of Muay Thai Kickboxing
In my years as a British fighter in Bangkok, I saw fixed matches, gambling debts and child exploitation.
I Went Undercover in America's Toughest Prison
I didn’t believe that a concentration camp could exist in America until, in Phoenix, Arizona, I saw one with my own eyes. Maricopa County is a fuzzy-lawed place where sentenced and un-sentenced inmates alike do hard time together.