Legendary showman Fred Brophy has tried to win the Birdsville Cup for four decades, and there will be wedding bells if he can end the curse on Saturday. Brophy, 73, is staging his famous boxing tent ...

To play the titular Aussie tent boxer in “Kid Snow,” British actor Billy Howle spent six months physically training, then learned bits of obscure Australian history. A versatile stage-screen-TV ...

The two gladiators stare off across the dusty arena as the crowd bays for blood. Unfortunately for me, I AM one of those gladiators and the blood the crowd is likely to see is mine. I'm at Birdsville ...

Fred Brophy is a fourth generation traveling showman and heads the last surviving tent boxing troupe in the world. To many, Fred is an outback hero. He is friend, counselor and savior to the rural ...

Brophy, 73, is staging his famous boxing tent at Birdsville for the last time but there is also another important reason he is back at the remote town on the edge of the Simpson Desert. He part-owns ...

It takes a brave soul and maybe a pint or two for Jeremy Pierce to don his boxing gloves and have a go in Birdsville's famous Fred Brophy boxing tent. The two gladiators stare off across the dusty ...