2014 has come and gone and most boxing fans are likely happy to view it through the rear-view mirror. After all the splendid action we saw in 2013, ...
On January 2, 2015 / By Michael CarbertEverybody stop talking now. Attention! I told you! All my critics, I told you that I was the greatest of all times when I beat Sonny Liston. I ...
On November 2, 2014 / By Michael CarbertThere have been bigger, more lucrative boxing matches, but few more momentous or memorable. When heavyweights George Foreman and Muhammad Ali clashed in a country then called Zaire ...
On October 25, 2014 / By Michael CarbertThe trash talk has been confined to twitter and facebook, but word is the bad blood percolating between WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and top-rated contender Jean Pascal ...
On September 23, 2014 / By Michael CarbertAs Eliott McCormick discussed here last week, the Floyd Mayweather Jr. narrative has become tiresome and sports fans are tuning out. With the exception of his big showdown ...
On September 15, 2014 / By Michael CarbertThe weigh-in is finished; the stage is set. Tonight Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana clash again in a sequel to one of the most entertaining fights of the ...
On September 13, 2014 / By Michael CarbertIt requires a leap of the imagination to understand how different from today the sport of boxing was in the 1930s. Or how different the society that allowed ...
On June 25, 2014 / By Michael CarbertIn boxing circles, it’s repeated so often it’s almost become a cliché: the greatest boxer of all-time, regardless of weight, is Sugar Ray Robinson. It can be puzzling ...
On June 9, 2014 / By Michael CarbertThe Event Following his astonishing run in 2013, which included three knockout championship wins and made him our “Fighter of the Year,” Adonis “Superman” Stevenson started 2014 making headlines ...
On May 25, 2014 / By Michael CarbertNo new facts regarding why Adonis Stevenson has cut ties with HBO were revealed at today’s press conference in Montreal, held to officially announce his upcoming title defense ...
On March 28, 2014 / By Michael CarbertA recent article on this website about one of Ken Norton’s finest performances referred to him as “a hard-luck fighter.” It discussed the fact that Norton had the ...
On September 20, 2013 / By Michael CarbertThere is only one way to make sense of last night’s outcome at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas: Saul Alvarez is a good boxer; Floyd Mayweather Jr. ...
On September 15, 2013 / By Michael CarbertCanelo will make it interesting early but Mayweather remains too smart and too slick. Alvarez’s inability to connect will lead to him becoming increasingly passive and Floyd will ...
On September 13, 2013 / By Michael CarbertThe excitement building for this Saturday’s big fight, “The One,” is reflected in its title. The electricity has been sparked by the general consensus that this is the match, “the ...
On September 11, 2013 / By Michael CarbertThe Event Almost two years in the making, this rematch needed little build-up as it represented unfinished business for both boxers. The result of their first meeting in ...
On April 14, 2013 / By Michael CarbertThe Event No one cared about this fight; seriously, no one. And it showed on HBO as screen shots of the venue between rounds revealed row upon row ...
On March 17, 2013 / By Michael CarbertThe Event Was anyone, anywhere, asking for this fight? The Barclays Center in Brooklyn was barely two thirds full for a match that had little to offer other ...
On March 12, 2013 / By Michael Carbert6. No one is immune from the one-punch knockout. As stated, Pacquiao carried with him into the ring a battle-tested and sturdy mandible. Yet a single blow separated ...
On December 14, 2012 / By Michael Carbert1. Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez are men of their word. When Top Rank first announced this match, sports fans and even hardcore fight freaks were left ...
On December 13, 2012 / By Michael CarbertNews of the death from cancer of Michael “Dynamite” Dokes, former WBA heavyweight champion, causes one to pause and consider the terrible toll an overestimation of one’s talent ...
On August 14, 2012 / By Michael CarbertEven a die-hard fan of fisticuffs must search his memory to recall a blowout as unanticipated and surprising as what we witnessed last night when Carl Froch laid ...
On May 27, 2012 / By Michael CarbertIn the long history of boxing, few trainers have had the impact of Angelo Dundee who died of an apparent heart attack in Florida yesterday. He was 90 ...
On February 2, 2012 / By Michael CarbertIt seems we had just absorbed the saddening news that the legendary Smokin’ Joe Frazier had been recently diagnosed with terminal cancer before we were greeted today by ...
On November 8, 2011 / By Michael CarbertIt looks like the dust is finally settling after last Saturday’s bizarre fight between Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather Jr. and we’re going to take a crack at ...
On September 2, 2011 / By Michael CarbertPsych jobs are nothing new in boxing. One can go all the way back to Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915, if one wishes to rediscover ...
On May 22, 2011 / By Michael CarbertWhat a performance! What a fight! Non-stop action, both men giving it their all, hard punches and vicious exchanges, a dramatic conclusion, blood and tears: it was everything ...
On May 8, 2011 / By Michael Carbert“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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