All dressed up, no place to go: that’s boxing’s light heavyweight division at the moment. So much talent, so many great matches waiting to be made, but everything ...
On June 3, 2016 / By Robert PortisWhether 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 McCormickJean Pascal appeared devastated and inconsolable and Freddie Roach was incapable of explaining what had just happened beyond stating the obvious. It was a poignant moment at the ...
On January 31, 2016 / By Michael CarbertAnd so we now hear that talks for an Adonis Steven vs Sergey Kovalev showdown (provided of course that Kovalev gets past Jean Pascal tonight) have indeed fallen ...
On January 30, 2016 / By Sean CroseOur correspondent at Saturday night’s Deontay Wilder vs Artur Szpilka event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Chris Connor, got some interesting video of Wilder’s promoter, Lou DiBella, holding ...
On January 19, 2016 / By Robert PortisSaul “Canelo” Alvarez is an enigma. Okay, the man himself may not be, but his career trajectory certainly seems enigmatic. Don’t believe me? Ponder the following: Alvarez may ...
On January 12, 2016 / By Sean CroseOn Saturday Billy Joe Saunders took a middleweight title from game Irishman Andy Lee. Credit should be given to Saunders for successfully completing a very difficult task. However, ...
On December 22, 2015 / By Sean CroseFor over seven years, pro boxing was an entertainment staple at the Cabaret in the Casino de Montreal but, for various reasons, the fights stopped. Considering that championship ...
On December 4, 2015 / By Robert PortisWhy isn’t Deontay Wilder screaming for a fight with Wladimir Klitschko? Why isn’t Leo Santa Cruz calling out Guillermo Rigondeaux? Or Vasyl Lomanchenko? Or Nicholas Walters? Why isn’t Adonis Stevenson ...
On September 23, 2015 / By Sean CroseOn 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’s easy to despise Al Haymon, I suppose. The man comes across as rather disinterested in fans and shadowy in his dealings. But sometimes you have to step ...
On September 2, 2015 / By Sean CroseLast night was a big night indeed for Montreal boxing fans, and for our own Manny Montreal who was ringside to catch every second of the action. Check out ...
On August 16, 2015 / By Manny MontrealThere’s a brutality and an ice coldness that makes Sergey Kovalev vs Artur Beterbiev a chilling prospect to look forward to. Yes, the fight hasn’t been made yet ...
On July 31, 2015 / By Shaun Brown“The times, they are a changin’.” These lyrics, so endlessly applicable, are what serenaded David Lemieux’s ring walk on Saturday night. Dylan’s poetry ostensibly heralds a changing middleweight ...
On June 23, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIt’s anyone’s guess what exactly Yvon Michel and Al Haymon have in mind for Artur Beterbiev but boxing fans have every reason to be excited whatever the master ...
On June 13, 2015 / By Robert PortisChavez Jr vs Fonfara Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions takes a break this week, but that doesn’t mean fight fans will have Saturday night off. In fact, boxing aficionados ...
On April 17, 2015 / By Rafael GarcíaThe return of boxing on live, free TV continues with more Premier Boxing Champions cards, this time in Quebec City on CBS television. For serious boxing fans this ...
On April 4, 2015 / By Robert PortisMontreal’s Adonis Stevenson, the Kronk-schooled southpaw whose pulverizing power is, at times, offset by his patience, faces Sakio Bika tomorrow in Quebec City. It is the second major ...
On April 3, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickRing TV‘s Anson Wainwright recently sat down for a Q&A with lineal light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson in anticipation of Saturday’s bout with Sakio Bika. Now it’s well ...
On April 3, 2015 / By Rafael GarcíaThis past Saturday during the Pascal vs Kovalev event at the Bell Centre in Montreal, a strange thing happened. On the huge screen above the ring, an elegantly tailored ...
On March 20, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickAfter Jean Pascal lost the biggest fight of his career — the rematch with Bernard Hopkins at the Bell Center in 2011 — Hopkins told Max Kellerman that ...
On March 14, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickPromotional veteran Kathy Duva recently said “I think light-heavyweights are the future.” The current CEO at Main Events, founded in 1978 by her late husband Dan Duva, certainly ...
On March 12, 2015 / By Shaun BrownWho will emerge triumphant from this Saturday’s big light-heavyweight battle at the Bell Centre in Montreal? That’s what’s on the minds of fight fans this week and so ...
On March 12, 2015 / By Michael CarbertYesterday saw media and champions congregate at a restaurant in Boucherville, Quebec of all places to help hype Saturday’s big light-heavyweight showdown, Jean Pascal vs Sergey Kovalev and ...
On March 11, 2015 / By Robert PortisIt’s been an exciting ride in recent weeks for fans of the Montreal boxing scene, and things are only getting better. It’s just February but already 2015 is ...
On February 18, 2015 / By Shawn W. SmithThough it’s billed as “Return to Glory”, Saturday does not signify an American heavyweight renaissance. Those of us who tasted the Tyson or Ali eras, and thus have ...
On January 16, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickLast night at the Pepsi Center in Quebec City, Showtime put on its last fight card of significance for 2014. It wasn’t even that significant, for although several ...
On December 20, 2014 / By Eliott McCormickWhile Adonis Stevenson, the lineal light-heavyweight champion, is a must-watch prizefighter for any and all serious boxing fans, tonight’s match-up against Dmitry Sukhotsky isn’t exactly premium quality. No ...
On December 19, 2014 / By Robert PortisOn Tuesday, Main Events CEO Kathy Duva confirmed that a deal is now set for Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev to face Montreal native Jean Pascal in March. The bout ...
On December 4, 2014 / By Eliott McCormickWhether it had something to do with those ridiculous knee-high socks, or if it was simply because Kovalev imposed himself and forced the older man to move much ...
On November 10, 2014 / By Lee Wylie“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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