After an impotent end to a one-sided fight, it was an exasperated bunch that filed out of Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The main event, which concluded ...
On December 12, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickAuthor and director Brin-Jonathan Butler is an expert on Cuban boxing. A former amateur fighter, Butler traveled to the island nation more than once and even trained under ...
On December 7, 2017 / By Eliott McCormick“I’m trying to be the best boxer there ever was. Ever. Ever.” – Adrien Broner, being interviewed by Roy Jones in 2012 “It’s time to take boxing more ...
On July 27, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickThe central premise of this article — that Andre ‘S.O.G’ Ward is a smarter, more obdurate fighter than Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, meaner, dirtier, surpassingly vicious, constituted by sturdier ...
On June 22, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickHe was still upright when the referee signalled his end. As Anthony Joshua launched himself at Wladimir Klitschko late in the eleventh round of their battle at Wembley ...
On May 10, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickThe narrative has never been easier. This Saturday, London’s Anthony Joshua will fight Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium for a triumvirate of heavyweight titles. He will draw over ...
On April 28, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickOn Monday, a judge sentenced Montreal boxer Dierry Jean to 15 months in prison for violently robbing a woman in search of drug money. In the incident, which occurred ...
On April 7, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickJudging by the reaction to his win over Daniel Jacobs this past Saturday night, one might think Gennady Golovkin had failed in his obligation to boxing fans. Rather ...
On March 23, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickLast night at Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec, Artur Beterbiev took one round to drown Isidro “El Guerrero” Prieto in some very deep water. What was meant to be a ...
On December 24, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickLast Thursday, promoter Yvon Michel held a press conference at Casino Lac Leamy in Gatineau to announce a December 23 card featuring Artur Beterbiev and Custio Clayton. Both fighters ...
On November 3, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickMontreal super featherweight Golden Garcia is a born fighter. His professional career, still in its infancy, has begun with a suitably concussive boom for someone who steps into the ...
On September 3, 2016 / By Eliott McCormick“Joël Thériault, he’s probably the toughest guy I’ve ever seen. NHL, AHL, it doesn’t matter. He’s not only a good fighter, he’s intimidating, with his eyes, with everything. Everybody’s ...
On September 1, 2016 / By Eliott McCormick“I took a chance,” Dwayne Durel says, describing the move he made five years ago when he left his native France and brought his wife and young family ...
On August 29, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickThe travelling roadshow known as Premier Boxing Champions came to Quebec City’s Videotron Centre last night, the main attraction a showdown for the lineal light heavyweight crown between ...
On July 30, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickThe Event Last night at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex in Montreal, Eye of the Tiger Management staged a pro-am card comprised of six amateur and four pro ...
On July 8, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickThe Montreal Casino’s Cabaret Room was awash in dark tones last night. The violet, blue, and fuchsia pouring from the stage lights were offset by a constellation of flickering white on both ...
On May 25, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickWhether in Canada or elsewhere, there are few welterweight prospects whose talents match those of Custio Clayton. The Dartmouth, Nova Scotia native, who trains out of Club de Boxe de ...
On May 23, 2016 / By Eliott McCormickA heavyweight match of serious implication goes down at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York tomorrow when Luis “King Kong” Ortiz faces Bryant “Bye Bye” Jennings. The winner ...
On December 18, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIn Essex, just outside of London, there lives a boxing promoter prone to the most fantastic commentary. The scion of a sports empire forged in billowy snooker halls, ...
On December 9, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIn September Tyson Fury showed up late to a press conference with Wladimir Klitschko dressed as Batman. After circling the room to awkward laughs, he then scuffled with someone ...
On November 26, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIf boxing were an organism, talent would be the marrow strengthening its bones. Beneath the pageantry, in a place untouched by politics and careerism, a firm structure exists without which boxing ...
On November 20, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickSphinx-like and solitary, Guillermo Rigondeaux sits in repose on his desert throne. Despite his bleak environs he has ample supplies and is impressively ornamented. In one sense, Rigondeaux ...
On November 4, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickThe fights went as we expected, but optimism holds that Saturday was but a brief glimpse of the future’s promise. Headlining on pay-per-view for the first time, Roman Gonzalez and Gennady ...
On October 20, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickOnce Floyd Mayweather decided to ‘retire’ this September and retreat further into his sealed bubble of self-exaltation, Nicaragua’s Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez gained widespread recognition as the world’s best boxer, pound for pound. On Saturday night ...
On October 15, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick“I never thought that something like this would happen between me and Artur,” Montreal boxing manager Anna Reva says over the phone. She is speaking, of course, about ...
On September 19, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickPremier Boxing Champions, that prizefighting cruise ship steered by an invisible captain, docked on the shores of Lake Ontario Friday night. It was the first card of significance ...
On September 12, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickOn Friday night, Madoc, Ontario’s Dillon “Big Country” Carman will defend his Canadian heavyweight title against Donovan “Razor” Ruddock. The fight, which will occur on the Adonis Stevenson ...
On September 9, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIt was inevitable that somewhere in ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series there would be a film on Mike Tyson. But instead of a conventional documentary on Tyson’s life, which ...
On September 1, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickKeith Thurman defended his WBA welterweight title in his home city of Tampa, Florida, last night, retiring Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo on cuts after the seventh round. It was ...
On July 12, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIt’s official: on October 24, Tyson Fury, the heavyweight division’s ‘Gypsy King’, gets the chance he’s longed electioneered for. He will fight Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf for WBO, ...
On July 9, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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