“My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything.” So said the one and only Ernest Hemingway, one of the twentieth century’s most captivating and revered writers. Best-selling literary ...
On December 13, 2020 / By Sean CroseAnyone familiar with American popular culture has heard the name Wyatt Earp and fans of the movie Tombstone may believe they know all about the man. But there’s ...
On December 2, 2020 / By Sean CroseBy the mid-90’s, the question was being asked by more than a few: was he the best ever? Certainly there had been no one quite like him in ...
On September 25, 2020 / By Sean CroseBack during that awful time when for five long years it seemed Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would never, ever meet in the ring, pundits and historians mused ...
On September 11, 2020 / By Sean CroseHunter S. Thompson is undoubtedly an icon of the “counter-culture” movement. He was also undoubtedly a miserable failure as a boxing writer. A motorcycle-racing, gun-loving, Nixon-hating, booze-swilling, narcotic-ingesting ...
On July 9, 2020 / By Sean CroseHe may have proven himself to be a one-man morality tale: the guy who had it all, but then made one too many bad choices and slipped into ...
On June 13, 2020 / By Sean CroseWhile the whole world, and of course that includes the sports world, is “on pause” due to the deadly pandemic we are all struggling with, the fact remains ...
On April 9, 2020 / By Sean CroseI will no doubt be revealing that I’m out of the loop, and likely over the hill, when I tell you I really have no idea who KSI ...
On September 13, 2019 / By Sean CrosePerhaps it’s just me but I get the feeling Eddie Futch , who was born 108 years ago tomorrow, wouldn’t be too comfortable in today’s boxing world. I ...
On August 8, 2019 / By Sean Crose“A rose is a rose is a rose,” writer Gertrude Stein once famously claimed. Likewise, a loss is a loss is a loss. Nothing more. Nothing less. One ...
On May 17, 2019 / By Sean CroseAmir Khan may be the nicest man I’ve spoken to in the entire fight game. If I had to consider all the people I’ve shared a few words ...
On April 22, 2019 / By Sean CroseAnd so I’ve now seen Creed II, the successful sequel to the surprisingly effective and popular 2015 film, Creed. In this second installment, Adonis Creed, son of deceased ...
On January 10, 2019 / By Sean CroseThe long and controversial reign of WBC and lineal light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson ended in brutal fashion Saturday, after an onslaught of punches from decorated Ukrainian contender ...
On December 4, 2018 / By Sean CroseHere’s the thing: No one really knows why Floyd Mayweather abruptly made it clear that he would not be facing kickboxing and MMA phenom Tenshin Nasukawa in Japan ...
On November 10, 2018 / By Sean CroseFirst things first: even as it goes through a current resurgence in popularity, boxing still doesn’t often find itself atop Twitter’s trending list very often. But that’s where ...
On July 2, 2018 / By Sean CroseIt was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most tantalizing match-ups to be made. Over the decades, ...
On June 1, 2018 / By Sean CroseAnd so Vasyl Lomachenko will once again fight a top-tier opponent when he faces Jorge Linares on Saturday for lightweight supremacy. Linares undoubtedly deserves that status, having scraped ...
On May 10, 2018 / By Sean CroseIt remains to this day one of the more controversial fights in boxing history. No, there was no long count. Nor was there the sudden appearance of a ...
On April 6, 2018 / By Sean CroseNo one saw this coming. Seriously, who really expected to the Nevada State Athletic Commission to temporarily suspend Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a man widely regarded as the favored ...
On March 28, 2018 / By Sean CroseI’ll never forget watching the Ray Mancini vs Duk Koo Kim match on live television as a child. Mancini was a favorite boxer of mine and on that ...
On March 7, 2018 / By Sean CroseSome call them “fanagers.” Others just call them annoying. I’ve always referred to them as boxing’s “new breed of fan.” No matter, it all means the same thing. ...
On January 23, 2018 / By Sean CroseNominations: James DeGale vs Badou Jack Miguel Berchelt vs Francisco Vargas Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko Roman Gonzalez vs Srisaket Sor Rungvisai I Gennady Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez ...
On January 6, 2018 / By Sean CroseYup, I’m one of them, a Guillermo Rigondeaux fan. A Guillermo Rigondeaux defender. A Guillermo Rigondeaux supporter. Not that long ago, when I was just starting off in ...
On December 10, 2017 / By Sean CroseOn Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, Miguel Cotto proved the truth of the old cliché, winning isn’t everything. After being soundly beaten by the younger, faster Sadam ...
On December 5, 2017 / By Sean CroseSergey Kovalev says he’s a new man. In a fascinating Sports Illustrated article, Kovalev makes it clear that he had a religious experience after the disastrous rematch with Andre ...
On November 23, 2017 / By Sean CroseSo, guess what: Dana White is making the move to boxing. The UFC head honcho has made it known he’s going for his boxing promoter’s license, a fact ...
On November 9, 2017 / By Sean CroseFirst, make no mistake: heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is one hell of a fighter. The guy’s not only defeated every one of his opponents inside the distance, he ...
On October 31, 2017 / By Sean CroseSomething that will always stick in my mind: a high school classmate of mine, someone I hadn’t spoken to in years, contacted me on Facebook a few years ...
On August 25, 2017 / By Sean CroseI’m not going to bullshit you. I’m going to tell it like it is. I don’t hold back. I don’t pull my punches. Here’s what I think. This ...
On July 11, 2017 / By Sean CroseHere’s the truth: the Jean Pascal vs Carl Froch fight for the vacant WBC super middleweight championship is an absolute, under-the-radar classic. Not many talk about it today, ...
On June 2, 2017 / By Sean Crose“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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