On Friday afternoon at 4pm, inside the Grand Hall at Alexandra Palace, the first of nearly 500 boxers from 14 countries will try and become the 2026 Haringey Box Cup champion. It is the world’s most prestigious tournament of its kind.
There is a magnificence and wild ambition about the Haringey Box Cup and it has been there since it launched in 2008. The numbers grew to a ridiculous 550 boxers at one point, which made it the biggest boxing tournament to ever take place in the UK; far bigger than the Olympics, the European championships, the Commonwealth Games and the world championships.
