Browsing Tag Amir Khan

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  Don’t Sleep On “One Time”

  For my money, there is no hotter and more tantalizing division in boxing today than the welterweights. Historically, the 147 pound weight class has been the home of ...

  On June 13, 2019 / By James Simpson
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  When Fighters Fought: Time for a Welterweight Renaissance

  Speaking for fans of a certain vintage, we all have a special set of boxers, the ones that forged our love for the sport, the ones on those ...

  On April 29, 2019 / By Matt O'Brien
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  A Blow To The Balls

  It was fitting that Bob Arum concluded the in-ring portion of ESPN’s Crawford vs Khan main event. There he was: a shrunken, bleary-eyed 87-year-old, howling about Al Haymon ...

  On April 24, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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  The Fight City Podcast No. 19

  Welcome to a brand new episode of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, who this week is joined by site contributor Jamie Rebner. A full slate ...

  On April 22, 2019 / By Alden Chodash
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  Enigmatic To The End

  Amir 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 Crose
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  Fight Report: Crawford vs Khan

  On Saturday night, over 14,000 fans were in attendance at Madison Square Garden to watch Terence “Bud” Crawford defend his WBO welterweight title against former 140-lb champion, Amir ...

  On April 20, 2019 / By Alden Chodash
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  Manny’s Thoughts! No. 199

  Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congrats to Amanda Serrano! Congrats to Sammy Vargas! Congrats to Shawn Porter! Major news: ...

  On September 13, 2018 / By Manny Montreal
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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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  Let’s Stop Pretending

  Sports is about passion. It’s what fills the stands and sells the tickets. I’m from West Virginia, and the University Mountaineers football and basketball games can reduce people ...

  On March 22, 2018 / By Jeffrey Fuss
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  Special K Ready To Rebound

  A major theme of recent years in boxing is fan frustration with too many elite fighters taking too few risks. Whether it’s Floyd Mayweather side-stepping a match with ...

  On March 9, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  Dangerous Enough: Canelo Must Pay The Price

  I’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 Crose
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  Manny’s Thoughts! No. 167

  Welcome back to Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! Congratulations to Oleksandr Usyk and to the World Boxing Super Series! What a fight! Manny has a question for Adonis Stevenson! Phil ...

  On January 31, 2018 / By Manny Montreal
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  Don’t Count Him Out

  This Saturday night, Lamont Peterson of Washington, D.C. will be in Brooklyn, New York to face Errol Spence Jr. for the IBF world welterweight title. While the welterweight ...

  On January 18, 2018 / By Jeffrey Fuss
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  Fury vs Joshua: It Has To Happen

  As of last week, lineal heavyweight champion of the world, Tyson Fury, has been cleared by UK Anti-Doping to fight again. News on the Furious One has been ...

  On December 18, 2017 / By Sherif Dhaimish
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  Canelo vs Golovkin: The Fight City Picks

  It’s a match we’ve been waiting for since at least November of 2015 when Saul Alvarez defeated Miguel Cotto to win the lineal middleweight championship of the world. ...

  On September 13, 2017 / By Robert Portis
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  Crawford Defeats Indongo: Case Closed

  As it was with the infamous knockout streak which defined Gennady Golovkin’s prime, the failure to revel in the present with Terence Crawford is tempting. Last night, Crawford ...

  On August 20, 2017 / By Zachary Alapi
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  Boxing Gods, We Want Some More!

  As diehard fight fans, every so often we take a long and thoughtful look at the assemblage of talent in the boxing world, all the top contenders and ...

  On July 13, 2017 / By Jamie Rebner
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  Next Step to Stardom: Spence vs Khan

  Errol Spence Jr. is now a world champion, becoming one under circumstances not common to this generation of fighters. He took on the most talented welterweight in the ...

  On June 8, 2017 / By Danny Howard
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  Brook vs Spence: The Fight City Picks

  As 2017 continues to be a stellar year for professional prizefighting, we come to one of the best possible match-ups in the welterweight division: Kell Brook vs Errol ...

  On May 26, 2017 / By Zachary Alapi
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  The Khan Conundrum

  At the Athens Olympics in 2004, the British boxing team consisted of a single pugilist: Amir Khan. The Bolton-born lad was alight with a Northern-English charm. He nonchalantly ...

  On April 16, 2017 / By Sherif Dhaimish
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  Thurman-Garcia: The Fight City Picks

  Saturday night in Brooklyn, WBA champion Keith Thurman and WBC boss Danny Garcia will unify the same welterweight titles Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fought over in ...

  On March 2, 2017 / By Zachary Alapi
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  Brook vs Spence: Boxing Moves On

  What a difference a year makes. Truly, in 2016 I was genuinely worried about the state of pro boxing. There were times last year when it just seemed ...

  On February 17, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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  Canelo vs Chavez: Why The Outrage?

  Just imagine for a second how big this fight would have been a few years ago. Julio Caesar Chavez Jr., son of a Mexican boxing icon, going head-to-head ...

  On January 19, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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  On Quitting

  There’s quitting. And then there’s quitting. After all, this is boxing, the most dangerous of sports. Only a moron would insist that a fighter should never, ever, under ...

  On November 28, 2016 / By Michael Carbert
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  The Curious Case Of Kell Brook

  Ezekiel Brook of Sheffield, England is something of an enigma. He became one of the very few British boxers to win a world title from an American champion ...

  On September 9, 2016 / By Matt O'Brien
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  Lee Wylie On Golovkin vs Brook

  Gennady Golovkin vs Kell Brook: Strategic & Tactical Considerations Kell Brook: Golovkin is renowned for his ability to hit and hurt with either hand, so Brook must utilize enough ...

  On September 8, 2016 / By Lee Wylie
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  No Quick Recovery

  Okay boxing fans, let’s step back and look at things objectively. First and foremost, many of our number are very unhappy with the state of our sport right now. ...

  On August 22, 2016 / By Sean Crose
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  Can ‘Beefy’ Shock The World?

  Demetrius Andrade. Erislandy Lara. The Charlo brothers. Julian Williams. Saul Canelo Alvarez could have chosen to fight any of these men after giving up the WBC middleweight title ...

  On August 3, 2016 / By Sean Crose
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  The Middleweight Mess Redux

  In February of last year The Fight City staffers engaged in a no-holds-barred conversation about the sorry state of the middleweight ranks. The division in which such names as Sugar Ray ...

  On July 14, 2016 / By Rafael García
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  Manny’s Thoughts! No. 85

  Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! This week congrats to Joe Duffy’s 25 seconds of fury! ! The UFC and the 4 Billion $ answer! Yellow ...

  On July 12, 2016 / By Manny Montreal