Barry John Hugman (born 1941, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Middlesex) is an English sports author, statistician, and historian.
Hugman also helped establish the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Awards in 1984, and in 2011 he received their "Award of Excellence".
[1] In 1989, Hugman co-founded and was the launch editor of Boxing Monthly magazine, Britain's first colour monthly about boxing.
[2] With the growing popularity of the internet and social media becoming the popular choice for news and information, the magazine ended in 2020 after 31 years of publication.
[3] In Mike Silver's review of Hugman's The Definitive History of World Championship Boxing he described the four-volume book series as "epic" and a "monumental work – 30 years in the making" as it chronicled every championship fight from 1870 to 2016.