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Fight Report: Usyk vs Gassiev

The Event: Since Marvin Camel became the first man to win the cruiserweight championship of the world in 1980, only one man has ever fully unified the division: ...
On July 22, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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Kovalev vs Alvarez: Atlantic City Comeback

Everyone loves a successful sports comeback and on August 4th, in more than one way, that’s exactly what we’re going to see. In fact, that particular date has ...
On July 20, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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Usyk vs Gassiev: The Fight City Picks

It’s getting repetitive, but at the same time it bears repeating: 2018 is proving to be an excellent year for professional boxing. The number of high-calibre, high-stakes matches ...
On July 19, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Matthysse

The Event It is easy to forget that Pacquiao vs Matthysse is a match that fight fans have been waiting for since 2013. Before Lucas Matthysse’s trail of ...
On July 15, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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Salvation In The Underground: BKB On The Rise

“Professional fighting is a paradox. It appears dangerous and yet it saves lives.” So says Seamus Devlin, a bare-knuckle fighter based in northwest England. In the spirit of ...
On July 14, 2018 / By Sherif Dhaimish
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The Golden Door

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I ...
On July 8, 2018 / By Daniel Attias
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Nine Fights In Greensboro

Local pro boxing cards where I come from are a chance to watch young fighters hone their craft and gain valuable experience in the hopes of one day ...
On July 3, 2018 / By Jeffrey Fuss
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Fight Report: Taylor vs Postol

The Event When Cyclone Promotions announced that their fast-rising star Josh Taylor was to fight Viktor Postol, few could believe it. Not because Taylor was not considered capable, ...
On June 24, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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The Best Is Yet To Come (Part 2)

We continue our in-depth look at some of the possible, if not probable, high-stakes matches which may happen before the end of 2018, a year which is already ...
On June 22, 2018 / By Rafael García
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The Best Is Yet To Come (Part 1)

As we approach the halfway point of the year, the World Cup has taken center stage, attracting the undivided attention of a large majority of sports fans around ...
On June 21, 2018 / By Rafael García
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The Weekend That Was

Terence Crawford demonstrated again what a superb talent he is as, with power, strength and skill, he methodically broke down and dispatched Jeff Horn in the ninth round ...
On June 10, 2018 / By Ralph M. Semien
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Four To Watch

While last weekend offered slim pickings in terms of ring action, this weekend is something else. On tap, a number of relevant matches involving some of the sport’s biggest ...
On June 7, 2018 / By Rafael García
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Fight Report: Inoue vs McDonnell

The Event It was always going to be a tall order for Britain’s Jamie McDonnell. Defending away from home and competing against one of the world’s best boxers, ...
On May 25, 2018 / By Matt O'Brien
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Shiro vs Lopez: Rematch In Tokyo

Inside the gym his father owns in Kyoto, Japan, Ken Shiro prepares for his upcoming defense of his WBC light flyweight championship, a rematch against Ganigan Lopez. It ...
On May 23, 2018 / By Nick Skok
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Fight Report: Stevenson vs Jack

The Event Stevenson vs Jack represented one of the best and most interesting match-ups to be made in the light heavyweight division for some time, not to mention ...
On May 20, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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Stevenson vs Jack: The Fight City Picks

It’s an intriguing match-up featuring two of the very best in a stacked light heavyweight division. Adonis Stevenson and Badou Jack are, without question, elite-level pugilists and this ...
On May 17, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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The Weekend That Was

This edition of my semi-regular weekend recaps is late and is going to be a bit on the random side because your friendly scribe here tripped over a ...
On May 14, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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McCluskey’s Dozen: 30 Years Of Talent

Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete but it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. It can manifest itself ...
On May 9, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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The Future Is Now: Charlo Brothers Ready To Take Over Boxing

And then all of a sudden, it was here. The future. Jermell and Jermall. The Charlo brothers. Clearly poised to be the next big thing in boxing. Brothers, ...
On May 2, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The Weekend That Was

Khan vs Lo Greco Amir Khan finally returned to the ring yesterday–following a high-profile KO loss to Canelo Alvarez, a bone-graft surgery on his right hand, and appearances ...
On April 22, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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Remembering The Kronk

Six months ago the boxing world received some regrettable and disheartening news: the original Kronk Gym in Detroit, Michigan, the legendary place where brilliant trainer Emanuel Steward developed ...
On April 13, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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“An Elemental Sport”: Interview With Paul Beston

Every year there is a new crop of boxing books and without question one of this past year’s stand-out titles is The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled The ...
On April 12, 2018 / By Will Kohler
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Boxcaster: Murata vs Blandamura

With all the disappointment surrounding the scuttled rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, it would seem the middleweight division is a frozen wasteland: so much talent, ...
On April 12, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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“A Moment I Will Never Forget”: Interview With Ray Leonard

Thirty-one years ago it was one of the biggest fights in boxing history and one of the most controversial. Sugar Ray vs Marvelous Marvin. Hagler vs Leonard. Few fights ...
On April 7, 2018 / By Thad Moore
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Joshua vs Parker: One Step Closer

In one week, in Cardiff, Wales, a major battle goes down between two of the three belt-holders in the heavyweight division, a fight that brings us one big ...
On March 24, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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When Thunder and Lightning Struck

One of my earliest boxing-related memories happened when I was seven. On a warm Saturday night my parents took me to my favorite restaurant, the one that served ...
On March 20, 2018 / By Rafael García
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Glory Does Stay

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James ...
On March 18, 2018 / By Patrick Connor
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Beyond The Sky

For Brin-Jonathan Butler I didn’t have ten dollars to spend on event parking, so I drove up and parked on the hill below Maine Medical Center. Then I ...
On March 15, 2018 / By B. A. Cass
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, And The Round That Went On Too Long

“My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything.” So said the one and only Ernest Hemingway, one of the 20th century’s most captivating and revered writers. Literary titan. Best seller. ...
On March 14, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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The Executioner’s Greatest Victories

To state the obvious, fight fans have always been attracted to thunderous power punchers. The sheer violence of a sudden, dramatic knockout is a major part of boxing’s ...
On March 13, 2018 / By Jamie Rebner

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The Fight City

Montreal is The Fight City. Known in years past as "Sin City" and "Babylon on the St. Lawrence", it saw more than its share of ring legends over the decades. A metropolis where hundreds of young warriors train and battle each day in its many gyms, it is where Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Bernard Hopkins all found greatness. It is a city of fights and fighters, of hockey and heroes, of broken dreams and immortal glory, a city unlike any other. Montreal is The Fight City.

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