6. 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 CarbertThis year boxing had a particularly busy Mexican Independence weekend, but hardcore fight fans focused on the battle for middleweight supremacy between Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. ...
On September 16, 2012 / By Rafael GarcíaAbout a mile away from the Thomas and Mack Center where Martinez vs. Chavez Jr. took place, the Knockout Kings quadruple-header at the MGM Grand Garden Arena saw ...
On September 16, 2012 / By Rafael GarcíaLast night the 8,500 fight fans in attendance at the Oracle Arena of Oakland, California expected a tough, gritty, and most likely ugly battle between two highly regarded ...
On September 8, 2012 / By Rafael GarcíaNews 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 CarbertLast night at the Mandalay Bay of Las Vegas, Amir “King” Khan and Danny “Swift” Garcia met inside the ring for a light welterweight battle that would see ...
On July 15, 2012 / By Rafael GarcíaEven 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 CarbertWould it really have been better four years ago? Back in late 2007 there were hopes in the welterweight division about a potential clash between then undefeated Miguel ...
On May 6, 2012 / By Rafael GarcíaBoxing has been plagued in recent years by rematches of great fights that, while attracting big audiences and high PPV sales, have failed to come close to the ...
On March 11, 2012 / By Robert PortisIn 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 CarbertA huge crowd filled up New York’s Madison Square Garden Saturday night while millions more tuned in, all expecting a festival of pugilistic mayhem. Thanks to one of ...
On December 5, 2011 / By Rafael GarcíaHeavyweight contender Ron Lyle, who died this past Saturday from complications arising from a stomach condition, deserves to be remembered as both one of the best heavyweights to ...
On November 28, 2011 / By Robert PortisJuan Manuel ‘Dinamita’ Márquez, who can now legitimately claim to be the greatest Mexican fighter of his generation, made use of every last bit of his skill and ...
On November 15, 2011 / By Rafael GarcíaAfter three hours of chasing the sunset on a Vegas-bound flight, even with Pacquiao-Marquez III on the horizon and about 48 hours away, one can get a bit ...
On November 11, 2011 / By Rafael GarcíaIt 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 CarbertIn boxing, as in politics, it is an unforgivable blunder to peak early. Alfredo ‘El Perro’ Angulo learned this lesson the hard way on Saturday night in Cancun, ...
On November 7, 2011 / By Rafael GarcíaPsych 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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