Since being established by the major sanctioning bodies in the mid-80s, the super middleweight class has produced some classic contests. I was fortunate to grow into an avid ...
On June 1, 2020 / By Matt O'BrienTalent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete, but at the same time it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. ...
On January 23, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskeyThere are still many months left in 2019 but the discussion and debate is already heating up as to who are the front-runners for Fighter Of The Decade. ...
On March 6, 2019 / By Lee WylieOne of the more negative aspects of boxing in the modern age is the way in which defeated fighters are cast aside, while those who have assiduously protected ...
On November 15, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskeyThere was a time when few people took Chris Eubank Jr seriously, but it’s fair to say that time has passed. You only have to watch the sinewy ...
On February 13, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskeyAs 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 DhaimishThe central premise of this article — that Andre ‘S.O.G’ Ward is a smarter, more obdurate fighter than Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, meaner, dirtier, surpassingly vicious, constituted by sturdier ...
On June 22, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickHere’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 CroseThe narrative has never been easier. This Saturday, London’s Anthony Joshua will fight Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium for a triumvirate of heavyweight titles. He will draw over ...
On April 28, 2017 / By Eliott McCormickThe date with destiny is rapidly approaching for Kell Brook, and if he’s to have any hope of toppling fearsome middleweight ruler Gennady Golovkin, he must live up ...
On August 17, 2016 / By Ronnie McCluskeyIn boxing, football stadium fights have a certain dizzying appeal. Funnelling an army of 20 000 or more diehard fight fans into an open-air stadium creates an electrifying ...
On May 27, 2016 / By Ronnie McCluskeyWhile the match is not nearly as momentous on this side of the Atlantic, the fact remains that for serious boxing fans, Carl Frampton vs Scott Quigg is ...
On February 26, 2016 / By Lee WylieOkay, there’s been a change of plans. No longer are you to say that Wladimir Klitschko is an all-time great. I realize you may have been saying that ...
On December 2, 2015 / By Sean CroseThe Event An intriguing match-up in several respects, DeGale vs Bute pretty much guaranteed an interesting outcome of some kind. This was a contest between two unanswered questions: how ...
On November 29, 2015 / By Michael CarbertFor manager Chris Ganescu, boxing is a passion. Which is not surprising considering his father competed in the squared circle back in his native country of Romania. Chris ...
On November 27, 2015 / By Michael CarbertBoxing, it is said, is “the theater of the unexpected,” but this statement naturally applies more to some fights than others. In the case of this Saturday’s clash ...
On November 26, 2015 / By Robert PortisIt takes a little time for this writer to identify the peculiar element in the atmosphere at the final press conference for the Premier Boxing Champions card taking ...
On August 12, 2015 / By Michael CarbertSam Eggington wanted to be a journeyman. The Birmingham welterweight wasn’t looking for anyone to mould him into a contender; he was just a teenager looking to earn ...
On July 22, 2015 / By Shaun BrownLucian Bute is far more comfortable communicating in his native Romanian, or in French, the official language of his adopted home city of Montreal, but during his talk ...
On July 14, 2015 / By Michael CarbertThere’s room for all different styles and techniques in boxing. Not everything has to be a blood-stained brawl, or “boxing’s Super Bowl,” or even a highly-cerebral, tactical chess ...
On May 24, 2015 / By Patrick ConnorSomewhere online or in print between now and next Monday there will be an article headlined ‘Frampton Comes Alive,’ a 1970s musical reference to the IBF Super-Bantamweight champion Carl ...
On February 25, 2015 / By Shaun BrownGennady Golovkin is, without question, the best middleweight in the world. Miguel Cotto may be the lineal champion, but he will be a huge underdog if that match ...
On February 22, 2015 / By Michael CarbertMonte Carlo, known for its extravagant displays of wealth, will see a different form of pageantry when Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin fights Martin Murray tomorrow. Golovkin is a fighter ...
On February 20, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickGood riddance to the cesspool of mismatches, robberies, and lack of appealing fights that was 2014! The new year is here and well underway so it’s time to ...
On January 13, 2015 / By Rafael GarcíaLast 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 McCormickSome boxers can only dream of what it would be like to fight in front of nearly 80,000 people in one of the most iconic soccer venues in ...
On November 4, 2014 / By Shaun Brown“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show,” wrote Samuel Johnson, perhaps during a rare respite from anxiety. When, on Saturday, ...
On May 28, 2014 / By Eliott McCormickLast 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 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 Carbert“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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